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Vienna Talks Test Obama Diplomacy

By | 10.20.09 | 2:22 pm

Seated across the table in Vienna from the United States and its allies, the Iranian regime is considering an ambitious diplomatic offer to ship its uranium out of the country, a move designed to tamp down years’ worth of nuclear tensions. It isn’t clear if the Iranians will take the More…

Obama Speaks, Again, on Iran’s Nuclear Concealment

By | 09.25.09 | 5:13 pm

This morning the president emphasized the years of concealment of the as-yet-unfinished nuclear enrichment facility at Qom as the most serious problem posed by the Iranian nuclear file. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad parried that he wasn’t in any specific violation of Iran’s international obligations. A day’s worth of cable chatter More…

SFRC: ‘Multilateral Sanctions’ Will Result From Continued Iran Nuke Secrecy

By | 09.25.09 | 5:01 pm

In response to some of the talk about Iran sanctions coming from the Hill — like from the House Foreign Relations Committee’s chairman, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) — Frederick Jones, communications director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a warning that everyone needs to have a clear goal: More…