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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 28:
Washington Post: The Post picks up a report from the Associated Press about the upcoming arrival in Tehran of an Omani delegation to secure the release of the two remaining American hikers, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, detained by Iran under suspicion of [...]
Tags: American Foreign Policy Council, Benjamin Weinthal, Foreign Policy, foundation for defense of democracies, Ilan Berman, Nationa Review, Raja Karthikeya, reverse linkage, Washington Post, Washington Times
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On Fox News Sunday, a bellicose Bill Kristol predicted President Obama “will end up a year from now using force against Iran,” but Obama just doesn’t want to signal that now.
Kristol believes that during this phase of diplomacy and sanctions, President Barack Obama should be talking about a military strike on Iran in order to force the [...]
Tags: Akbar Ganji, Bill Kristol, Fox News, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Matt Duss, Think Progress, Weekly Standard
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A computer virus that appears aimed at Iranian nuclear facilities and other Iranian industrial installations is making headlines around the globe as the malware leaps borders and cybersystems. Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation’s excellent progressive national security blogger, rounds up some reports in a post on the subject.
He speculates while President George W. Bush’s covert war [...]
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 27:
The Wall Street Journal: L. Gordon Crovitz opines that Ahmadinejad’s statements and interviews over the past week, which twist or deny accepted truths—such as no one is in prison for participating in protests—makes him “an information pariah” needing to be taken seriously. “A leader who [...]
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Prisoners of War
Bob Woodward and All the President’s Men (2010 Edition)
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Once a serious journalist, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward now makes a very fine living as chief gossip-monger of the governing class. Early on in his career, along with Carl Bernstein, his partner at the time, [...]
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A familiar neoconservative talking point reared its head again yesterday. Jonathan Tobin, the executive editor of Commentary magazine, attacked the P5+1’s outreach to Tehran and their renewed interest in reviving the Geneva nuclear fuel swap proposal as “appeasement.”
He wrote:
Thus, just when it seemed as if he were making some real progress on isolating Iran, Obama [...]
Tags: Benjamin Weinthal, Bill Kristol, Commentary, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, FDD, foundation for defense of democracies, Fred Barnes, John McCain, Jonathan Tobin, Weekly Standard, William Kristol
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U.S. President Barack Obama maintained his stance of pursuing a dual-track of engagement and pressure on Iran in his address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday morning.
“The United States and the international community seek a resolution to our differences with Iran, and the door remains open to diplomacy should Iran choose to walk through [...]
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 23.
The Wall Street Journal: Jay Solomon and Richard Boudreaux (with Farnaz Fassihi) write that while Iran hints it might be ready to resume talks on its nuclear program, U.S. and EU officials remain skeptical of any breakthrough. They note criticism [...]
Tags: Bret Stephens, Foreign Policy, iran, MEK, New York Times, Patrick Disney, Russia, Wall Street Journal
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