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Cigarettes, Wrigley’s chewing gum, Louisiana hot sauce, weight-loss remedies, body-building equipment, and sports rehabilitation equipment. These are just some of the items which, thanks to a lengthy investigative article published by The New York Times, we now know are exempt from the “biting” sanctions which the Barack Obama administration has imposed against Iran.
The Times explains [...]
Tags: capitalism, globalization, Iranian Republican Guard Corps, IRGC, israel, Jo Becker, marble, mercantilism, New York Times, North Korea, popcorn, Ron Nixon, sanctions, Stuart Levey, William Yong
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(UPDATED: Below I guessed that the FDD fundraiser at the residence of an unnamed ambassador to the U.S. would be at Israeli ambassador Michael Oren’s house. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Turns out it was a Pakistani ambassador Husain Haqqani’s house. That wasn’t the end of the story, however. FDD didn’t notify the embassy either that the [...]
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On Sunday, the New York Times published an alarming piece by William Broad, James Glanz, and David Sanger claiming that Iran had acquired nearly twenty BM-25 missiles from North Korea that “could for the first time give Iran the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe or easily reach Moscow.” The article was based [...]
Tags: David Sanger, iran, Iranian nuclear program, New York Times, North Korea, Wikileaks
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News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for November 24, 2010:
The Washington Times: Ben Birnbaum reports that a leaked International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, indicates that Iran’s nuclear program “experienced a one-day shutdown last week, indicating a slowing of Tehran’s nuclear progress.” Some analysts speculate the Stuxnet virus is behind this, which [...]
Tags: AEI, American Enterprise Institute, BBC, Ben Birnbaum, Center for Defense Studies, Charlie Zrom, iran, iraq, Islamic Republic, Max Boot, New START, North Korea, Patrick Clawson, saddam hussein, START, the Enterprise Blog, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington Post, WINEP
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Prompted by the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq (at least in letter, if not in actuality), many of the hawks who pushed hardest for the 2003 invasion are coming out of the woodwork to argue once again that the war was both successful and necessary. While most hawks have restricted their rhetoric [...]
Tags: axis of evil, Daniel Henninger, David Frum, iran, iraq, Iraq War, North Korea, the surge
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