Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 7th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs that U.S. senators “have reached a breaking point” with Germany’s “recalcitrant...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 4th, 2011: The Washington Post: Foundation for Defense of Democracies board member and Project for the New American Century letter signatory Charles Krauthammer opines on the unrest in Egypt and...

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Day of Departure Dawns

As the "Day of Departure" dawns in Cairo, many thousands are gathering in Tahrir Square, and the crowd swells by the minute. Rumors of secret negotiations behind the scenes, with various factions of the opposition trying to make a deal with Mubarak regime, amid news...

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Obama’s Egypt Plan: Mubarak-ism Without Mubarak

With the Obama administration trying to impose Mubarak-ism with Mubarak, easing the old lizard-headed dictator out and ushering in Omar Suleiman -- recently appointed Vice President and formerly Egypt's top intelligence official and torturer-in-chief --  there may...

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Huffpo Headline Helps Hosni

I see the Huffington Post has another one of their over-sized screaming headlines: "'Day of Departure -- Will Massive March Force Mubarak's Hand?" Yes, that's right, Arianna -- you airhead -- Mubarak will be "forced" to kill, jail, and repress the protesters in Tahrir...

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Take the Frum Test

Former Bush speechwriter David "Axis of Evil" Frum, the neocon who today poses as a "moderate" Republican, writes: "There’s a lot of heady talk in the US media right now, from both liberals and conservatives, about the possibilities in Cairo. We all share those...

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Egypt: The Dealmakers

The New York Times and others are reporting that the Obama administration is working on a plan to get Mubarak out and usher in his Vice President, Omar Suleiman, the former head of Egypt's feared intelligence service. That Suleiman is the embodiment of the torture...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 3rd, 2011: National Review Online: Foreign Policy Initiative Executive Director Jamie M. Fly opines that the possibility of the Muslim Brotherhood taking control in Egypt is concerning “but...

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