Showing posts with label Diplomatic Relations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diplomatic Relations. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Uh, 'cuz a terror state a nuke is not good?

January 28, 2015 Barack Obama , CNN 0 Comments
Why The Iran Sanctions Fight Is A Big Deal

Jeremy Diamond, Jan. 26, 2015, CNN

If talks fall apart, the U.S. and the international community would lose the access it's gained to monitor most of Iran's nuclear facilities and Iran would no longer be constrained to a uranium enrichment threshold, as it has under the terms of the current negotiations.

That's why many argue that even if negotiations don't result in a deal, the status quo is better than the alternative. Failed talks would send Iran's nuclear program underground, so to speak, and sound alarm bells in Israel, the U.S. and other Western countries.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Was Bibi supposed to stay home?

January 13, 2015 Benjamin Netanyahu , Diplomatic Relations 0 Comments
Erdogan Blasts Netanyahu For 'Daring' To Attend Paris Rally

AFP, Jan. 12, 2015

The comments, at a press conference in Ankara with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, were the latest verbal assault against Netanyahu by Erdogan under whose rule Turkey's relations with Israel have steadily deteriorated.

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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Trust--without verification?

January 04, 2015 AP , Diplomatic Relations 0 Comments
Iran, 6 Powers Move Closer To Nuke Talks Deal

AP, Jan. 2, 2015, Fox News

Iran denies it wants nuclear arms, but it is negotiating with the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany on cuts to its atomic program in hope of ending crippling sanctions. The talks have been extended twice due to stubborn disagreements.

The main conflict is over uranium enrichment, which can create both reactor fuel and the fissile core of nuclear arms. In seeking to reduce Iran's bomb-making ability, the U.S. has proposed that Tehran export much of its stockpile of enriched uranium -- something the Islamic Republic has long said it would not do.

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Saturday, January 3, 2015

But sanctions won't stop nuke!

January 03, 2015 Al Arabiya , Diplomatic Relations 0 Comments
Iran Says New U.S. Sanctions Violate Spirit Of Nuclear Talks

Mehrdad Balali, Dec. 31, 2014, Reuters

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who leads the country's nuclear negotiating team, said on Tuesday low-level talks on its nuclear activities would resume in Geneva on Jan 15, with wide gaps remaining in their positions.

Iran says its program is peaceful; the West fears it may lead to developing nuclear weapons. Zarif has repeatedly urged the United States and its Western European allies to drop "unrealistic" demands to make it possible for the 12-year dispute to be resolved.

Read more: english.alarabiya.net

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

And what's her opinion of Hillary?

December 28, 2014 Argentina , Diplomatic Relations 0 Comments
Hillary Clinton Questions Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's Mental Health

Rory Carroll, Nov. 29, 2010, The Guardian

Clinton's preoccupation may stem partly from the fact that Kirchner's career has mirrored her own: both are lawyers and tough political operators whose husbands became president and campaigned for their wives to inherit the sash after they left office. Before being elected in 2007 Kirchner welcomed the comparisons and called the then New York senator an inspiration.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Not Nat'l News

December 17, 2014 Benjamin Netanyahu , Diplomatic Relations 0 Comments
How Peace Negotiator Martin Indyk Cashed A Big, Fat $14.8 Million Check From Qatar

Lee Smith, Sep. 17, 2014, Tablet

But people in the Middle East may be a little less blasé about this kind of behavior than we are. Officials in the Netanyahu government, likely including the prime minister himself, say they’ll never trust Indyk again, in part due to the article by Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea in which an unnamed U.S. official with intimate knowledge of the talks, believed to be Indyk, blamed Israel for the failure of the peace talks. Certainly Jerusalem has good reason to be wary of an American diplomat who is also, or intermittently, a highly paid employee of Qatar’s ruling family.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Was it American made gum?

November 12, 2014 Barack Obama , Beijing 0 Comments
Gum-Chewing, Limo-Eschewing Obama Riles Some Chinese

Calum MacLeod, Nov. 11, 2014, USA Today

Ahead of an economic summit in Beijing, billed as the biggest international event in the Chinese capital since the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, authorities demanded that residents brush up their typically brusque manners. The Communist Party launched a six-month campaign to make Beijingers behave in a more civilized fashion to welcome the world.

Turns out the rude one, in the eyes of some Chinese Internet users, was the most prominent guest.

Live television coverage on China's top state-run channel Monday night showed the leaders of the 21 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member states arriving in iconic socialist limousines, along red-lit avenues, at the Water Cube, the Olympic swimming venue.

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Cuz it was probably Obama!

November 03, 2014 Benjamin Netanyahu , Diplomatic Relations 0 Comments
Obama Admin Not Interested In Which Official Made Bibi Attacks

Washington Free Beacon Staff, Oct. 29, 2014

Jen Psaki made it clear that the Obama administration has no interest in trying to find out who made recent inflammatory comments about Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Is the administration trying to figure out who made these inappropriate and counter-productive comments?” Reuters reporter Arshad Mohammed asked.

“No,” Psaki said. “There are anonymous sources in all of your stories every single day. If we spent all of our time focused on that effort we wouldn’t be working on diplomacy.”

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Kerry Presses Maliki As Iraq Loses Control Of Jordanian Border--And OUR borders?

June 25, 2014 al Qaeda , Diplomatic Relations 0 Comments
Secretary of State John Kerry and
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad
Credit:  AP / Pool
By Lesley Wroughton and Ahmed Rasheed, Jun. 23, 2014, News.msn.com

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Iraq's prime minister in Baghdad on Monday to push for more inclusive leadership, as Nuri al-Maliki's forces abandoned the border with Jordan, leaving the entire Western frontier beyond government control.

Sunni tribes took the Turaibil desert border crossing, the only legal crossing point between Iraq and Jordan, after Iraqi security forces fled, Iraqi and Jordanian security sources said.

Tribal leaders were negotiating to hand the post to Sunni Islamists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who took two main crossings with Syria in recent days and have pushed the Shi'ite-led government's forces back towardBaghdad.

Ethnic Kurdish forces control a third border post with Syria in the north, leaving government troops with no presence along the entire 800-km (500-mile) western frontier which includes some of the most important trade routes in the Middle East.

Photos: Iraq siege: Cities fall to militants

For the insurgents, capturing the frontier is a dramatic step towards the goal of erasing the modern border altogether and building a caliphate across swathes of Syria and Iraq.

Washington, which withdrew its troops from Iraq in 2011 after an occupation that followed the 2003 invasion which toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, has been struggling to help Maliki's administration contain a Sunni insurgency led by ISIL, an al Qaeda offshoot which seized northern cities this month.

U.S. President Barack Obama agreed last week to send up to 300 special forces troops as advisers, but has held off from providing air strikes and ruled out redeploying ground troops.

But Washington has also been sympathetic to complaints from many Sunnis, who dominated Iraq under Saddam, that Maliki has pursued a sectarian Shi'ite agenda, excluding them from power.

One of the most important Sunni leaders active in Baghdad politics, speaker of parliament Osama al-Nujaifi, agreed with Kerry that a twin-track approach was needed to defeat the threat from ISIL: "We have to confront it through direct military operations and through political reform," he told Kerry.

PRESSURE ON MALIKI

Washington is worried that Maliki and fellow Shi'ites who have won U.S.-backed elections have worsened the insurgency by alienating moderate Sunnis who once fought al Qaeda but have now joined the ISIL revolt. While Washington has been careful not to say publicly it wants Maliki to step aside, Iraqi officials say such a message was delivered behind the scenes.

There was little small talk when Kerry met Maliki, the two men seated in chairs in a room with other officials. At one point Kerry looked at an Iraqi official and said, "How are you?"

The meeting lasted one hour and 40 minutes, after which Kerry was escorted to his car by Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari. As Kerry got in, he said: "That was good."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday accused Washington of trying to regain control of the country it once occupied - a charge Kerry denied.

Iraqis are due to form a new government after an election in April. Maliki's list won the most seats in parliament but would still require allies to win a majority.

Read the full story:  www.news.msn.com

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