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News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for January 26:
The Washington Times: American Enterprise Institute fellow and former UN ambassador John Bolton denounces the EU and White House’s commitment to P5+1 negotiations with Iran, writing, “There is not, and has not been from the outset of these tortuous negotiations, even the slightest chance Iran will renounce [...]
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News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for December 28, 2010:
The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies‘ Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz write that the Obama administration’s sanctions against Iran have “assiduously avoided punishing any major European, Russian, or Chinese transgressor of U.S.-mandated sanctions,” and that they must now “ratchet up significantly the [...]
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News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for December 1, 2010:
The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin, in her first day on the job blogging on her new Right Turn blog, interviews former UN ambassador and current American Enterprise Institute fellow John Bolton. Bolton tells her that “Arab states don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons any more [...]
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Elliot Abrams, FDD, FDR, Foudation for Defense of Democracies, Jennifer Rubin, John Bolton, PNAC, Project for the new American Century, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Right Turn, The New Republic, TNR, Wall Street Journal, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Wikileaks
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News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for November 23, 2010:
The Wall Street Journal: The WSJ’s Jay Solomon writes on North Korea’s reported upgrades to its nuclear-fuel production capabilities and the increasing fears among lawmakers that Pyongyang may provide Iran with assistance in its nuclear program. “One has to assume that Iran either has the P-2 [...]
Tags: AEI, Afghanistan, American Enterprise Institute, foundation for defense of democracies, Gambia, Green Movement, iran, Jay Solomon, John Bolton, LA Times, Michael Ledeen, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Nigeria, Wall Street Journal, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, WINEP, WSJ
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The National Security Network has issued another of their short, timely reports. And this one starts out by dispelling some hyperventilation about Iran starting to load nuclear fuel into its power plant at Bushehr, which is operating under IAEA safeguards.
Über-hawk John Bolton took to the op-ed pages of the Washington Times in August to call [...]
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News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 16.
Reuters: Louis Charbonneau reports on calls from the U.S., British and French envoys to the UN to expedite the formation a UN panel to monitor Iran’s compliance with sanctions. “We are concerned by the delay in setting up the panel, and we urge a renewed focus [...]
Tags: American Foreign Policy Council, Andrea Mitchell, China, Forbes, IAEA, Ilan Berman, iran, John Bolton, Los Angeles Times, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, NBC, NBC News, sanctions, Susan Rice, Venezuela
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In his monthly column for the Forward, “When Would Israel Attack Iran?”, Yossi Alpher lays out seven conditions that must be fulfilled for Israel to commit to an attack on Iran. Only one — that the regime in Tehran calls for Israel’s destruction — has been met so far. His piece is a largely a summary of [...]
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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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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 [...]
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