Irancove @ July 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Jim Lobe at Antiwar:
Two of Washington’s most prominent foreign policy graybeards praised Saturday’s direct participation in multinational talks with Iran by a senior U.S. diplomat but called on the administration of President George W. Bush to drop his demands that Tehran freeze its uranium enrichment program as a precondition for broader negotiations.
Retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft, […]
Irancove @ July 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Gus Bilirakis (R) sponsored House Resolution 1308 to ban Iran’s PressTV and al-Alam as terrorist organizations. PressTV has the story:
US Rep. seeks to blacklist Press TV
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:50:22
A US lawmaker is seeking to extend a previously-proposed resolution which labels several TV channels as terrorist and include Press TV.
The US House Resolution 1308 […]
Irancove @ July 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ahmadinejad according to Radio Free Europe:
“Their representative in the meeting spoke politely and in a dignified way and he kept respect for the Iranian nation and this was a positive step.”
Addressing Washington, he added, “You have taken a positive step toward recognizing the right of the Iranian nation, toward justice, toward repairing [America’s] image in […]
Irancove @ July 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Real News interviews Babak Yektafar of Washington Prism, who thinks the Iranians are viewing the negotiations in a more optimistic light with regards to future diplomacy. While acknowledging that talks are a step in the right direction, Yektafar thinks that the efforts made by Washington (appearance of Undersecretary Burns in Geneva) were mostly […]