Building on his previous noncommittal statement about Iran’s declared deal to send most of its uranium to Turkey for enrichment, Robert Gibbs was a human dose of Ativan during his press briefing this afternoon when asked if the move scuttles the United States’ delicately cobbled sanctions effort at the United More…
There’s one up high in this morning’s New York Times piece on the Iran/Turkey/Brazil uranium enrichment deal:
According to a Western diplomat who spoke in return for anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, the amount of low-enriched uranium that Iran was prepared to ship to
It’s difficult not to be skeptical here, but the Iranian regime is announcing that it’s reached a deal, brokered by Brazil, to send the majority of its uranium to Turkey to be enriched into a state unsuitable for nuclear weapons. On the face of it, that would revive a More…
Officially, today marks “Armenian Remembrance Day,” set aside to honor the roughly 1.5 million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915. But in the eyes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), it’s misnamed. From the statement just out of her office:
Today, we commemorate the 94th Anniversary
Former wrestling coach and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will lobby on behalf of Turkey as part of a $35,000 per month contract with his K Street firm, Dickstein Shapiro, The Hill reported this afternoon.
The agreement is a subcontract between Hastert’s firm and the Gephardt Group, founded
Last year, the Obama campaign promised to deliver a major speech on U.S.-Muslim relations in a Muslim capital during the president’s first year in office. Today, President Obama fulfills that promise by addressing the Turkish parliament. It’s a clever, multi-layered statement: Obama visits a capital in a majority-Muslim country as More…
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