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White House Googles Kerry’s Record on Iran

From On December 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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By Charles Davis
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is rumored to be President Obama’s next pick for secretary of state, but the web history of one White House staffer suggests the president’s team may be concerned about his defense of Iran’s right to enrich uranium.

In June 2009, [...]

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WaPo on the “disposition matrix,” the CIA’s next-generation kill list

From On October 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Washington Post‘s Greg Miller has begun a three-part series on the future of the Obama Administration’s counterterrorism drone strike program, which will include a “next-generation targeting list” (aka “kill list”) in the form of a “dipposition matrix”.

Though the White House, CIA, JSOC and ODNI declined comment requests, the article cites [...]

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Decision to Delist MEK was Multi-faceted

From On September 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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By Wayne White

It is probably inaccurate to take the State Department to task in isolation as having made the decision to delist the Mujahadeen-e Khalq (MEK) from the US foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) list. State is the cabinet department that must officially announce (or take formal action related to the [...]

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Mark Fitzpatrick on new IAEA Iran Report: Situation Not Yet Hopeless

From On August 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Writing in Al-Monitor, Mark Fitzpatrick, an expert on Iran’s nuclear program, explains why the International Atomic Energy Associations’s new report on Iran isn’t good, but doesn’t amount to disaster either:

In a pre-emptive move of their own, White House officials gave their own spin to the latest developments several days [...]

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White House Spox on "taking sides" in Iran

From On February 18, 2011 · 1 Comment

The new White House Spokesperson Jay Carney too questions on Thursday about the Middle East. This exchange ensued, regarding whether the U.S. was “taking sides with the people against the government” in Iran:

Q    And on Egypt [President Barack Obama] made very clear and Robert Gibbs made very clear that we can’t dictate, we [...]

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Noah's Bark, No Bite: RJC's Chanuka START Attack Falls Flat

From On December 3, 2010 · 2 Comments

There’s no better way to commemorate a civil war among Jews 2,275 years ago, memorialized by the Jewish festival of Chanuka, than by a little intra-tribe squabbling.

Perhaps that’s why, just in time for the holidays, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) launched a scathing attack on some of the most prominent — and pro-Israel– [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On October 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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 in Namibia, the third largest uranium mine in the world. Iran has owned [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On August 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 6th, 2010:

Washington Post: Robert Kagan attended the White House briefing on Iran sanctions and writes that a large number of journalists in the room simply got the story wrong by concluding that the sanctions might result in a new diplomatic initiative with Tehran. [...]

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