Earlier today on National Review‘s The Corner blog, Foundation for Defense of Democracies head honcho Cliff May wrote:
I’m now hearing from more than one source on the Hill that the Obama administration has just added a new argument in favor of lame-duck ratification: failure to adopt START will “hurt Israel.”
May demurs, naturally [...]
In a move on Wednesday that some analysts consider a concession to Iran ahead of the upcoming negotiations on its nuclear program, the U.S. State Department labeled the Iranian Sunni militant group, Jundullah, a “Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.”
The catch? For years the United States has been accused [...]
Recent revelations by Think Progress concerning the contributions of foreign corporate donors to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which are helping to fund American political advertisements are not deterring the Chamber from expanding and reinforcing its efforts to shape US politics and policies in the interests of foreign corporate entities.
The newest addition to the US Chamber’s secretive web of potential election donors : a new joint US-Israel “business council.”
News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 26, 2010:
Politico: Laura Rozen reports on Dennis Ross‘, a top Obama adviser on Iran and the peace process, presentation to an AIPAC conference earlier this week. Ross addressed the administration’s efforts to pressure Iran, prioritize sanctions and conduct the “creative and persistent” diplomacy [...]
Laura Rozen and Reuters are reporting that the P5+1 — the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany — have invited Iran to resume talks over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
The invitation is for talks to be held in Vienna for three days in mid-November, according to a [...]
A new poll by 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair shows that Americans are very hesitant to go to war with Iran — with a quarter of respondents saying that “nothing” could make them “support a war with Iran.”
CBS News conducted a phone survey of 906 randomly selected participants in September, asking for the first [...]
News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 22.
Politico: Former Amb. Stuart Eizenstat and Mark Brzezinski, a former Clinton NSC official and Obama campaign adviser, write an opinion piece raising the curtain on the upcoming National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran. They call the 2007 NIE, which said Iran had halted [...]
En Español
The Latest
From IPS News
- Portable Ginnery Could Revive Kenya’s Ailing Cotton Industry
- Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 5
- Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 4
- ‘Living in Fear’: Landowners in Uganda’s Oil Field on Brink of Eviction
- Better Incentives Needed to Expand Solar Energy in Cuba
- Africa Pushing Limits To Boost Renewable Energy Supply Chain, Security
- Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 3
- Trade Deception Returns in Pan-Africanist Guise
- Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil
- Migration in the Americas: A Dream That Can Turn Deadly
- Online fundraising for IPS Inter Press Service at Razoo
The Daily Talking Points
News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 1, 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 S-300 anti-aircraft missiles could change at any time. Fly picks up on a post [...]