Dave Siavashi writes for EA: According to The Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration has quietly drawn up plans to provide a key Persian Gulf ally with thousands of advanced “bunker-buster” bombs and other munitions, part of a stepped-up U.S. effort to build a regional coalition to counter Iran. An interesting announcement in itself, but [...]
Radiation Sickness
Dissected News – Iran makes a deal with Turkey and Brazil, so Obama and Clinton push for sanctions. What the heck happened? Exploring America’s newest conundrum.
Iran in Its Intricacy
(The New York Times) | March 4, 2010 By Roger Cohen PARIS — A year has passed since President Obama’s groundbreaking Nowruz offer to Iran of engagement based on mutual respect. Iran is now a different country, its divided regime weaker and confronted by the Green movement, the strongest expression of people power in the [...]
Israelis feel chill as US sets out new ground rules
But now officials in his [Barack Obama's] administration are openly using Israeli anxiety at Iran’s nuclear program as a bargaining chip to force its hand on giving up control of the West Bank Palestinian territory.
No less a figure than the White House chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuel, was quoted this week laying down the law: if Israel wants US help to defuse the Iranian threat, then get ready to start evacuating settlements in the West Bank, he was reported to have told Jewish leaders in Washington.
Obama’s back door to Iran ties
Obama officials are playing cat-and-mouse these days with Iran’s envoys.
The new administration is eager to catch a meeting in any international forum that might lead to one-on-one talks. Issues range from Iran’s nuclear program to an American journalist charged by Iran with spying.
If US diplomats do snag a secret negotiation, they’d be smart to start with the one issue in which Iran and America share a strong common interest: Afghanistan.
Iran willing to build new relationship with US
“The Iranian nation is a generous nation. It may forget the past and start a new era, but any country speaking on the basis of selfishness will get the same response the Iranian nation gave to Mr. Bush,” Ahmadinejad told thousands in the southeastern city of Kerman.
U.S. May Drop Key Condition for Talks With Iran
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions.










