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Obama Had Hand in Secret Talks With Iran

Worked out deal with France, Russia to process uranium

Oct 20, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama personally stepped in multiple times during the secret multinational talks with Iran that led up to the negotiations that began yesterday in Vienna, White House sources tell Time. When Iran put the word out that it needed enriched uranium plates for its aging research reactor, the Obama... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Russia • Barack Obama • France • nuclear program

OPINION

Obama Coming Up Short
on Human Rights

President's actions don't match the promises that wowed Berliners

Oct 20, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's decision to skip the celebrations of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights the gap between his rhetoric on the campaign trail and the realities of his presidency, writes Bret Stephens. Obama hailed the "dream of freedom" in his big speech in Berlin last... More »

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China • Iran • human rights • Berlin • Sudan • foreign policy • Burma • Obama administration • President Obama

 Iran Waffles on Nuke Deal 

Talks begin today as state news hints out-of-country enrichment deal won't fly

Oct 19, 09 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - State news reports coming out of Iran suggest that country is backpedaling on a possible deal to enrich partially processed uranium in Russia or France for use in nuclear power plants. State-run television reports that the government is in fact opposed to shipping partially enriched nuclear fuel outside of the... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • United States • nuclear program • uranium enrichment • negotiations • Vienna

 Iran Bomber 
 Kills 26, 5 Elite Guards 

Ahmadinejad accuses US of involvement

Oct 18, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(AP) - A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in a southeastern area that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, the official IRNA news agency reports. The commanders were on their way to a meeting with local tribal... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • suicide bomber • Sunni extremism • Iranian Revolutionary Guard

 Iran Releases 
 Newsweek 
 Reporter 



Humanitarian considerations thought to have played role

Oct 18, 09 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran set free yesterday the Newsweek journalist it had held prisoner since the disputed June elections. Maziar Bahari was released on $300,000 bail, likely because of humanitarian conditions—the magazine reports that the 42-year-old is expecting his first child October 26, and the baby's mother has had serious health... More »

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Iran • media • Newsweek • reporter • Maziar Bahari

media rare

Logical, Ethical Lapses Beset Washington Post

Op-ed page woes spread to editorial on Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 16, 09 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - The next-to-last straw was the Washington Post editorial saying Neda Agha Soltan should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, which isn't awarded posthumously. The last straw was today's op-ed raising—but not bothering to answer—the question of whether President Obama can even accept the honor without violating the Constitution.... More »

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Iran • Washington Post • journalism • Constitution • George Will • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama • William Kristol • Neda • Neda Agha Soltan • Fred Hiatt • Anne Applebaum

charles krauthammer


 Obama's 
 Foreign Policy 
 Amateurish 
 and Naive 

Krauthammer finds the Nobel not premature, but ridiculous

Oct 16, 09 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's Nobel prompted Charles Krauthammer to review the administration's foreign policy moves to date, and from Iran to Russia to China, he finds nothing but failure. "It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity," he complains. "In short, the very stuff of Nobels." Obama gets... More »

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Iran • Russia • foreign policy • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 Iran May Be 
 Ready for 
 Nuke Deal 

Nation may have reached its goal

Oct 15, 09 1:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has likely taken its nuclear program as far as it wants to and the nation may be willing to make a deal with the US and its allies this month, analysts say. The country has developed the capability to create and deliver a nuclear weapon without actually making it,... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • uranium enrichment • nuclear energy

 Clinton Praises Russia on Iran 

Hails cooperation, but no deal on potential new sanctions

Oct 13, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US isn’t seeking further nuclear sanctions against Iran, at least not for now, Hillary Clinton said today, after meeting with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. The pair professed unity on the Iranian issue, with Clinton praising Russia for its “extremely cooperative” work. Clinton added that... More »

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Iran • Russia • Hillary Clinton • diplomacy • foreign policy

 Clinton: 
 Taliban 
 Threat to 
 Pakistan 
 Is Rising 


But secretary, on European tour, sees no danger of nukes falling into terrorist hands

Oct 11, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(AP) - An audacious Taliban attack on Pakistan's army headquarters shows there is a growing terrorist threat to the nuclear-armed US ally, Hillary Clinton said today. The secretary of state, speaking at a joint news conference with British counterpart David Miliband, added that while extremists were "increasingly threatening the authority of... More »

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Iran • Hillary Clinton • Taliban • Pakistan • David Miliband • Pakistan militants • nuclear arsenal

 Iranian Election Protester 
 Sentenced to Death 

Capital sentence is first since June crackdown

Oct 9, 09 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Iranian political dissident has become the first person arrested during June's post-election protests to be sentenced to death. Muhammad-Reza Ali-Zamani is a member of the Kingom Assembly of Iran, which seeks to undo the Islamic revolution and restore the shah to power. News of the sentence, which was handed... More »

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Iran • death sentence • dissidents • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • election

Yahoo Gave Iran Names
of Dissidents: Blogger

Reportedly met with officials after Yahoo.com was shut down

Oct 9, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A ZDNet blogger says Yahoo gave up the names and emails of 200,000 Iranian subscribers so the government would lift its block of the site during post-election violence. Yahoo turned over information on all Iranian users who publish blogs, writes Richard Korman, citing anonymous sources and a blog post... More »

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Iran • Yahoo • Tehran • email


 CIA Knew of 
 'Secret' Iran 
 Facility: 
 Panetta  

Once agency was certain this spring, Obama kept info as leverage for talks

Oct 8, 09 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA knew about Iran's recently revealed uranium-enrichment facility and had been collecting intelligence on it since 2006. The US, the UK, and France had been on the lookout for a new secret plant since the 2002 revelation of the Natanz facility. When intelligence and covert operations uncovered a new... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • CIA • nuclear program • uranium enrichment • Leon Panetta • Obama administration • President Obama • Qom • Central Intelligence Agency • Qum • secret facility

Iran Fingers
US in Scientist's Disappearance

Researcher, AWOL in Saudi Arabia, rumored to work at Qom facility

Oct 8, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran’s foreign minister has accused the US of conspiring with Saudi Arabia in the disappearance of Shahram Amiri, a scientist thought to be involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Amiri disappeared four months ago on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia—around the time President Obama asked for a report... More »

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Iran • Saudi Arabia • nuclear • disappearance • scientist • Manouchehr Mottaki

OPINION

Iran Not Nearly as Crazy as Neocons Claim

Its leaders aren't stupid—and deterrence can work: Greenway

Oct 6, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has no nuclear bomb, but already the old Bush-Cheney chorus has returned to insist it's time for another war in the Middle East. It's true that sanctions may not stop Iran from ramping up its nuclear program, but that doesn't mean that deterrence and diplomacy can't help, writes Boston ... More »

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 Ahmadinejad Is Not Jewish 

Iranian president's family is about as Muslim as can be

Oct 5, 09 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The bombshell claim that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's family is Jewish is false. The assertion was based on the fact that the family changed its last name from Sabourjian shortly before the Iranian leader's birth, and the "fact" that Sabourjian means "weaver of the sabour," which the Telegraph said... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Jews • Mohammed • Koran • Muhammad • Jewish • Daily Telegraph

 Iran to Allow 
 Inspectors 
 at Qom Site 
 on Oct. 25 

IAEA head says Tehran is moving toward 'transparency and cooperation' on nuclear issue

Oct 5, 09 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran will allow UN inspectors into the newly-disclosed nuclear facility near the city of Qom on October 25, the head of the IAEA said yesterday, a day after arriving in Tehran. Iran and the West seem to be “shifting gears from confrontation into transparency and cooperation," he added... More »

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Iran • IAEA • uranium enrichment • nuclear enrichment • nuclear sites • Mohamed ElBaradei • Qom

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Jones: 
 Afghan Troop 
 Level Is 'Robust'

Says situation 'much more complex than just about 'X' more troops'

Oct 4, 09 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - As debate about Afghan policy rages, President Obama's national security adviser took to the airwaves today, telling CNN that the US troop presence there is "robust" and emphasizing that the situation hinged on more than sheer numbers. Although Afghanistan's disputed election was destined to be "imperfect," Gen.... More »

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Afghanistan • Iran • James Jones • Lindsey Graham • Susan Rice • Anthony Zinni

 UN Report: Iran Able 
 to Make Nuclear Bomb 

Nation has sufficient data, says 'tentative' IAEA conclusion

Oct 3, 09 6:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran may be closer to making a nuclear weapon than thought: A controversial report by the UN nuclear agency concludes that Tehran has "sufficient information to be able to design and produce" such a device. What's more, Iran has gone beyond just acquiring information from rogue experts and has... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • International Atomic Energy Agency • atomic bomb • uranium • nuclear arsenal

Ahmadinejad: Obama Made 'Big Mistake' Over Nukes

Tehran didn't hide
new facility, he insists

Oct 3, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(AP) - Iran's president hit back today at President Obama's accusation that his country had sought to hide construction of a new nuclear site, arguing that Tehran reported the facility to the UN even earlier than required. "The US president made a big and historic mistake," said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • enriched uranium • nuclear arsenal • Qom

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