4th December, 2013
The White House warns that a fresh effort by some US senators to impose new sanctions against Iran will send the signal that Washington negotiates in bad faith.
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White House warns against new Iran sanctions
Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2013
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Nasrallah says American monopoly on power is over
Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2013
3rd December, 2013
Speaking on Lebanese OTV Tuesday night, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah praised the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers as signaling the end of the US monopoly on power and for preventing war in the region
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European envoys move to resume Syria contacts
Posted by seumasach on November 30, 2013
30th November, 2013
European ambassadors and intelligence officials are making discreet trips to the Syrian capital, Damascus in a bid to resume diplomatic contacts with the government of President Bashar al-Assad, diplomats say.
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Britain mediating between Hezbollah and the U.S
Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2013
Britain mediating in secret talks between Hezbollah and the U.S as relations between Washington and Iran improve
28th November, 2013
Britain is mediating in secret talks between the United States and Iranian-backed Hezbollah with a view to paving the way for Tehran’s return to the international community, it was claimed today.
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Turkey and Iran call for a cease-fire in Syria
Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2013
La Turquie et l’Iran appellent à un cessez-le-feu en Syrie
28th November, 2013
En visite à Téhéran pour une réunion ministérielle de l’Organisation de la coopération économique (ECO), le ministre turc des Affaires étrangères, Ahmet Davutoğlu, et son homologue iranien, Mohamad Javad Zarif, ont tous deux énoncé une position commune en faveur d’un cessez-le-feu en Syrie. Selon eux, il ne faut pas attendre la conférence de Genève 2, le 22 janvier 2014, pour cesser les hostilités.
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Syrian govt, opposition agree to Geneva peace talks
Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2013
This will be a disappointment to the British “anti-war” left who have seen fit to shun all contacts with Assad and anyone suspected of supporting him i.e. most of the Syrian population. However, Obama’s retreat from empire is gaining unstoppable momentum. After reaching a deal on Syria he will move onto the thorny question of an Israel-Palestine settlement. The left’s hopes in a new front against China are also likely to be disappointed as Obama is merely involved in a sort of rough-wooing: invest in America or we’ll bomb the hell out of you! The Chinese, however, are already only to eager to invest in America. Obama is also keen to trumpet the charge as he retreats on all fronts.
Jason Ditz
25th November, 2013
Geneva II, the peace talks scheduled for June and repeatedly delayed, finally have a date, and both the Assad government and opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) have agreed to take part on January 22.
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A windfall Afghan exit strategy for Obama
Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th November, 2013
The tough-talking, no-nonsense US National Security Advisor Susan Rice met her match at the presidential palace in Kabul Monday evening over a “working dinner”. One would have loved to be a fly on the wall. But there was no need, because no sooner than the pomegranates and grapes were eaten after the rich meal of pilav and kebabs and Rice reported back to Washington her conversation with President Hamid Karzai, which lasted several hours, the White house released a curtly worded readout on what transpired.
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Iran deal gains traction
Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2013
Jim Lobe
26th November, 2013
WASHINGTON – Despite strenuous objections by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and mostly Republican lawmakers here, the new accord between the Iran and the US and five other major powers on Tehran’s nuclear program appears to be gaining support here and abroad.
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Hague rejects Israel’s ‘mistake’ moan on Iran deal
Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2013
25th November, 2013
It would have been a “grave error” for western countries to walk away from the negotiating table with Iran, William Hague has told MPs.
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Mother Agnes and the Manichaeans
Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
25th November, 2013
It’s not clear why Britain’s Stop the War group invited Mother Agnes of the Mussalaha initiative (Reconciliation) to their annual conference. They must have known that any viewpoint other than that of Aljazeera, the BBC and Human Rights Watch would stir controversy in its ranks. Two luminaries of the left duly decided to boycott the conference if she was present on the grounds that she was an agent of the Assad “regime” and that she had questioned, some might say debunked, the official account of the the chemical weapons attack at Ghouta implicating the Syrian government.
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Iran’s principled position versus P5+1’s unprincipled bloc
Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2013
by Abbas Edalat (interview with Kourosh Ziabari) (source: CASMII)
23rd November, 2013
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