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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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 5th, 2010: Bloomberg: Raj Rajendran reports that recent Japanese sanctions against Iran may reduce oil exports from Iran by 25-percent, a reduction of 500,000 barrels per day. The sanctions,...

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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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Dicking Afghanistan: Where Obama Went Wrong

Washington Post ace Al Kamen has an outtake from Woodward's new book that shows how Obama was on the wrong foot on Afghanistan from his first days in office: "It wasn't until well into the Obama presidency," Woodward writes, that vet­eran diplomat Richard Holbrooke,...

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Seattle Protest Against FBI Intimidation (Thursday)

Protest Against FBI Intimidation of the Peace Movement Greater Seattle Veterans For Peace (VFP 92) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) are working together to organize a Thursday afternoon rally outside of the FBI offices in downtown Seattle. Many...

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