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Archive for August, 2010

• Riedel: Israel attack on Iran a “Disaster in the Making”
  Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

  Brookings fellow Bruce Riedel has an important piece at the National Interest magazine about the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran. Riedel, who advised President Obama in the 2008 campaign and led the Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review last year, evaluates the history of Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, along with the current threats facing the U.S. [...]

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• Pastor Hagee Cites Int’l Law Against Ahmadinejad
  Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

  and Ali Gharib
  John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel (CUFI) has just sent out a petition demanding that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the crime of incitement to genocide.
  “The next time that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears before an international tribunal, it must not be as an honored guest at [...]

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• Boehner Shares His (Hawkish) Views on Israel and Iran
  Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

  In advance of tonight’s Oval Office address marking the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, House Republican leader John Boehner (R-OH) delivered his own speech addressing a wide-ranging set of issues, ranging from the economy to Iran. On Iran, Boehner, who could become Speaker should the GOP take the House in November, warned [...]

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• English Neofascist Group to be Featured at 9/11 Anti-Mosque Rally
  Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

  Earlier this week, I noted that Newt Gingrich and John Bolton, both of whom had been scheduled to appear at Pamela Geller’s Sept. 11 rally in Lower Manhattan against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” now appear to be getting cold feet — Gingrich has pulled out entirely, while Bolton will deliver a videotaped message rather [...]

  Tags: English Defense League, Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, Park 51, Robert Spencer
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• The Daily Talking Points
  Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

  News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 31, 2010.

  The Wall Street Journal: News columnist Gerald Seib has a convoluted piece on Mid East and Central Asian policy where he says that almost all the U.S.’s regional policy is directed at Iran. Seib writes that Obama’s policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine all aim [...]

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• Israeli Gov’t-endorsed ‘Public Diplomacy’ Site Pushes Iran Attack
  Monday, August 30th, 2010

  Give Israel Your United Support (GIYUS) has sprung to life again — and it’s promoting a U.S. attack on Iran at beyond the scale discussed by any respected analysts.
  The “online public diplomacy platform of Israel” is promoting an interview with an “ex-Mossad expert on Iran” conducted by IsraeliGirl, a woman who also happens to be [...]

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• Israel Still Trades With its “Existential Threat”
  Monday, August 30th, 2010

  It’s not often that an article about a commodity manages to capture a moment in current events, the political and economic realities of the Middle East, and a case study in globalization. Without waxing too Tom Friedman, a simple story about Israeli marble dealers highlights the realities of trying to impose international sanctions in an [...]

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• The Daily Talking Points
  Monday, August 30th, 2010

  News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 30th, 2010:

  Haaretz: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling for Lebanon’s resistance groups to stand together with Iran.  Ahmadinejad’s comments come after last week’s announcement from Iran’s defense minister that Tehran was prepared to sell weapons to Lebanon’s government.  Tehran’s overtures to the Lebanese government and Hezbollah [...]

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• Gingrich and Bolton Back Away From the New Islamophobes
  Sunday, August 29th, 2010

  One interesting nugget from Josh Nathan-Kazis’s Forward article on the various Sept. 11 events going on at Ground Zero:
  In addition to Wilders, the rally [led by Pamela Geller] will feature a videotaped address by John Bolton, ambassador to the United Nations during the second Bush administration, and speeches by Republican political candidates and by a [...]

  Tags: Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller
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• The Daily Talking Points
  Friday, August 27th, 2010

  News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 27th, 2010:

  Reuters:  According to Olli Heinonen, the former chief of U.N. nuclear inspection, Iran has stockpiles of enough low-enriched uranium for as many as two nuclear weapons but will not build a weapon at this time. “In theory, it is enough to make one or two [...]

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