Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 15th, 2010: Foreign Policy: David Rothkopf charges that Roger Cohen’s recent New York Times op-ed totally disregards the threat posed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Instead, Rothkopf...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 13th, 2010: The Hill: Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies writes on The Hill’s Congress Blog that Iran owns 15 percent of a uranium mine...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 7th, 2010: National Review Online: Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ president Cliff May writes that Iran and Al Qaeda are “two sides of the jihadi coin,” adding that “[s]ometimes...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 6th, 2010: Wall Street Journal: John Hopkins professor Fouad Ajami defends the whole of the Iraq War and addresses concerns that the country is subject to undue Iranian influence. He acknowledges...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 4th, 2010: New York Times: Though details are not available, William Yong writes that Iranian authorities have arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with the Stuxnet...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 1st, 2010: Weekly Standard: On the Standard’s blog, Jamie Fly, the foreign policy programs director of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative, warns that Russia’s decision to deny Iran...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

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

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 28th, 2010: 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...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 24th, 2010: Washington Post: In an article focused on President Barack Obama’s address to the UN, Scott Wilson leads with Obama’s reaction to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 23rd, 2010: 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...

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