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AP describes one paragraph of a confidential summary of EU-Iran negotions this way: But the summary of the last meeting on the issue involving representatives of France, Britain, Germany and Iran says Tehran acknowledged what Washington and its allies have…
Reuters and AP obtained the full-text summary of the recent Iran-EU3 negotiations. The press coverage focuses on the underlying pessimism of the document, which notes: The Iranian position is obviously guided by the goal of maintaining the fuel cycle. Without…
Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire has a great article on how Bush and Rice are spinning the Duelfer Report. At least one media outlet decided the fact that the Bush Administration keeps blatantly lying is news. As an aside,…
The very image of reliability … Well now that Michael Roston’s called me out, I feel the need to say something about this Washington Times editorial about Egypt. In short, it’s bad for many of the same reasons as this…
He gets to keep the sweet view. Over the weekend, Dafna Linzer at the Washington Post reported that “all 15 countries approached by U.S. diplomats—including Britain, Canada and Australia—refused to support” Washington’s efforts to deny Mohamad ElBaradei a third as…
I was initially unimpressed a few days ago when Cheney said: Well, one of the concerns people have is that Israel might do it without being asked, that if, in fact, the Israelis became convinced the Iranians had significant nuclear…
Dan Plesch has an iconic logo (left) for his new book, The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace, that makes Arms Control Wonk feel strangely inadequate. I’ve only read Chapter 8, not surprisingly on disarmament. But I like what I…
The Sunday Times (London) reports that UK Foreign Secretary “Jack Straw has drawn up a dossier [right] putting the case against a military attack on Iran amid fears that President George W Bush’s administration may seek Britain’s backing for a…
Wow, tonight’s Nelson Report is chilling stuff. Chris warns that further investigative reporting will reveal… … covert operations sounding very much like the Phoenix Program of kidnappings (and perhaps also murder) of terrorist suspects in one country, and the transport…
Worse than Saddam. The New England Journal of Medicine will report the findings of a group of Thai epidemiologists who conclude that H5N1 strain of influenza that killed an 11-year-old girl also killed her mother. Documentation of person-to-person spread suggests…
