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The Obama administration announced penalties today against Naftiran Intertrade Co., a Swiss subsidiary of Iran’s national oil company but avoided any mention of Chinese or Russian companies who continue to trade with Iran.
Neoconservatives have called on the Obama administration to sanction Russian and Chinese companies—despite the likely political and economic backlash which would follow—as well [...]
Tags: Benjamin Weinthal, FDD, Foundatio for Defense of Democracies, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Iran Energy Project, Mark Dubowitz, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard
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Buried deep in the New York Times article about the Stuxnet virus apparently infecting computers at Iranian nuclear facilities was a peek at Israel’s assessment of Iran’s alleged drive towards a nuclear weapon. In the piece, mentioned in today’s Talking Points, John Markoff and David Sanger wrote:
Yossi Melman, who covers intelligence for the newspaper Haaretz [...]
Tags: 2014, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Sanger, earth years, Howard Berman, iran, israel, Joe Lieberman, John Markoff, Meir Dagan, Mondoweiss, Mossad, New York Times, Philip, Stuxnet, Yossi Melman
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At Think Progress’s The Wonk Room, Matt Duss has a post up about Joe Lieberman (I-CT)’s speech yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations about the next steps for the U.S. regarding Iran, namely, that the military option is a “real and credible alternative policy” to diplomacy and sanctions.
Duss writes that Lieberman ignores a central question [...]
Tags: air strikes, cakewalk, Council on Foreign Relations, invasion, iran, iraq, Joe Lieberman, Matt Duss
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 30:
The Washington Post: Thomas Erdbrink reports that sanctions imposed against Iran by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have resulted in the Iranian rial dropping in value against the U.S. dollar (by 15 percent) and the Euro since Sunday. With hard currency scarce and exchange rates [...]
Tags: Benjamin Weinthal, FDD, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Lee Hamilton, Mark Dubowitz
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The War Addicts
2016 and Then Some
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Sometimes it’s the little things in the big stories that catch your eye. On Monday, theWashington Post ran the first of three pieces adapted from Bob Woodward’s new book Obama’s Wars, a vivid account of the way the U.S. high command boxed [...]
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For the first time, the Obama administration has issued an Executive Order sanctioning a list of individual Iranians on the basis of their alleged participation in Iranian human rights violations. There are eight people who perform various duties for the government on the list and all of whom, said a release from the State Department, [...]
Tags: Hillary Clinton, iran, iran elections, sanctions, State Dept., timothy geithner
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 29:
The Wall Street Journal: Benoit Faucon and Spencer Swartz report on Iran’s announcement on Tuesday that it would begin exporting domestically refined gasoline. Iran has depended heavily on imported gasoline in the past. Yesterday’s announcement sends a message of defiance about international sanctions as well [...]
Tags: Bill Kristol, Council on Foreign Relations, Joe Lieberman, Joseph Lieberman, Weekly Standard
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Tom Ricks has posted an excellent piece by Zachary Hosford, Best Defense nuclear warfare correspondent, on his Foreign Policy blog. Hosford’s critique of Bruce Riedel’s National Interest article, “If Israel Attacks,” addresses key questions on what it might take for the U.S. to persuade Israel, through enhanced military aid and security guarantees, to accept a deterrence strategy [...]
Tags: Bret Stephens, Bruce Riedel, Elliot Abrams, Foreign Policy, National Interest, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Tom Ricks, Weekly Standard, Zachard Hosford
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Israel’s mostly-for-show settlement moratorium has expired, over the objections of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, and the usual suspects on the right couldn’t be happier. More revealing, however, is the sight of Jeffrey Goldberg’s scarcely-concealed gloating over the fact that J Street “lost” the battle over a settlement freeze.
Why revealing? Because Goldberg is perhaps [...]
Tags: Alan Dershowitz, israel, J Street, Jeffrey Goldberg, liberal Zionism, Palestine, settlements
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