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...
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 vetÂeran diplomat Richard Holbrooke,...
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...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 29th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: Benoit Faucon and Spencer Swartz report on Iran’s announcement on Tuesday that it would begin exporting domestically refined gasoline. Iran has depended...
The above cartoon is from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles' sketchbook today. Folks should photocopy this cartoon and pass it around audiences when politicians give speeches prattling about their devotions to those "who made the ultimate sacrifice for their...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 28th, 2010: Washington Post: The Post picks up a report from the Associated Press about the upcoming arrival in Tehran of an Omani delegation to secure the release of the two remaining American...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 27th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: L. Gordon Crovitz opines that Ahmadinejad’s statements and interviews over the past week, which twist or deny accepted truths—such as no one is in...
As part of a sting against antiwar activists suspected of connections to terrorism, on September 24 the FBI raided six homes in Minneapolis-St. Paul and elsewhere in the country. At the Hard Times Cafe in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, The UpTake interviewed peace...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 24th, 2010: Washington Post: In an article focused on President Barack Obama’s address to the UN, Scott Wilson leads with Obama’s reaction to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s...
While most of the attention in yesterday's UN speeches was centered around the US delegation's faux-impromptu walkout on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's talk, President Barack Obama's own talk had a notably absent delegation, the Israeli one. Officially the...
