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White House, Israel: There Are No Iran Talks

NSC spokesman walks back report, says administration is open to talks

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 21, 2012 8:34 AM CDT

(Newser) – Contrary to the New York Times' popular belief, both the White House and Israel say there is no deal for one-on-one talks between the US and Iran, reports Bloomberg, citing a National Security Council spokesman. While the US remains open to such talks, “It’s not true that the United States and Iran have agreed to one-on-one talks or any meeting after the American election,” says Tommy Vietor in a statement. Meanwhile, Haaretz adds that Israel says it knows nothing of any such deal.

The Times had reported that the two sides had agreed "in principle" to talks after the US presidential election, citing anonymous administration sources. The hot topic of Iran and its nuclear ambitions raises its head just before the final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney tomorrow night; the focus is foreign policy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens during a news conference after addressing the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 26.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens during a news conference after addressing the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 26.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Sekjr
Oct 22, 2012 12:00 PM CDT
'yeah but he's such a good-looking man...  so I'm going to vite for him" remember THAT??? THAT's the american mentality!!!  What else would keep electing the doofers in Congress!!! It's time to overthrow all this rot and zero in on rebuilding the USA -- the HELL with Israel - the Middle East - -HAITI!!!!  and if the European community is not worried about Iran - WHY SHOULD WE!!!!!  I don't see THEM stepping up to the plate!!! makes me sick!!!
Plato
Oct 21, 2012 4:38 PM CDT
This close to presidential election day neither Obama or Romney can afford to do, say, or indicate anything that might some how not agree with Israels adgenda.  That is how powerful the Israeli lobby is in our country, a lobby that is largely funded by American tax payers dollars, that via the flow of over three billion American tax payers dollars to Israel every year and its flow back to AIPAC.  I do not want our country in a war with Iran, because Iran is not a threat to our country.  It would be a good thing for our country and Iran to have diplomatic discussions, without Israel's permission or presents.  Will someone explain why our country should go to war because Israel wants it that way ?
char
Oct 21, 2012 11:41 AM CDT
Incredible how Mitt the Twit can flip-flop on his positions on the issues DAILY, even to the extent of TOTALLY changing his policies during the last weeks before the election, in an effort to gain the undecided votes, and sheeple still BELIEVE and hang on every word he says.  He lies every time he opens his mouth, totally contradicting things he's said previously (examples of it are caught on video), you can show the sheeple these examples, and yet they're so gullible they persist in believing he can say and do no wrong.  We don't even know who this guy is, but they want him to be our next President!!  Amazing, the naivete' of Republicans, who take in and bank on every word out of the mouth of the RNC's CHOSEN one.  (Yes, CHOSEN.  Wake up!)  He wasn't "nominated"; he was chosen by the RNC well before the primaries ever began, and your votes didn't have a thing to do with it.  The corporate-owned mainstream media reported exaggerated numbers for him, but the reality was that he didn't have anywhere near the numbers reported, even just prior to the Republican National Convention.  Meanwhile, the actual numbers were being reported by honest reporters, and Ron Paul was doing much better than the mainstream would have us know.  That's why, just prior to the Convention, the RNC had to change the rules of the federal law stating that in a meeting for the purpose of electing a President or Vice President of the United States, federal law must be adhered to, which states that no delegate is bound but all are free to vote their consciences, and federal Ninth Circuit Court Judge Carter agreed with the prosecution that the law applied in this case.  But the RNC had the audacity to tell the federal court judge that they would make their own rules and change them if and when they choose.  By then changing the rule and binding the delegates, they were able to get Ron Paul's delegates and reach the required number for their chosen man's nomination.  Those are the facts, but you didn't hear them from the lying mainstream media.  Look it all up on YouTube, where you'll see instance after instance of evidence caught on video of Romney's and his operatives' rampant election all across the nation, against Ron Paul and his voters and delegates...a mountain of evidence in addition to hundreds of signed affidavits of delegates Romney and the RNC had defrauded, taken to court and presented to the Judge.  Apparently, he was either bought off, or he and the delegates were threatened by Romney and his operatives.  Having succeeded to get the "nomination" without any consequences, now, of course, he's trying some of the same illegal tactics to get the election.  We now have the matter of his son Tagg Romney's OWNERSHIP of voting machines to be used in Ohio, which will possibly be coming under investigation shortly.  Please tell me HOW IT IS that a private citizen can OWN voting machines to be used in an election?  And for what purpose?  To program them, as they did during the primaries, to translate votes for another candidate into votes for Romney--that's how, and why!!  We, the voters, have had our Constitutional rights to choose our leaders violated during the Republican primaries, and it's about to happen again to the voters of the nation.  With Romney in the White House, our government will eventually become an oligarchic dictatorship.  Don't say you were never warned.
 

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