Chris Nelson included this interview with Richard Armitage from The Oriental Economist in a report last week. Read the whole thing, but here’s one of the more interesting portions: TOE:Would you clarify a controversial episode regarding North Korea policy? Early on, you testified to Congress that the Bush administration would eventually hold bilateral talks with …
Zarif UN Press Conference Webcast
by | 2006-04-05 | No Comments
This is the webcast of Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran’s PermRep to the UN) speaking after the UNSC adopted its presidential statement on 29 March. The interesting part, IMO, starts ~ 17:00 in. FYI, Zarif is also supposed to appear on the Charlie Rose Show tonight. On an entirely unrelated note, I am annoyed that Atrios …
Divine Strake
by | 2006-04-04 | 13 Comments
I’ve been a little lazy about this whole Divine Strake business. Fortunately, several of my colleagues—John Pike, Andy Lichterman, Hans Kristensen,, John Fleck and Bill Arkin—have been all over the story. Long story, short (via Hans): DOE is making a gi-normous (about 0.6 kt) conventional explosion that is probably a simulation of a B 61 …
Iran Miscellany
by | 2006-04-03 | 4 Comments
1. Bernard Gwertzman recently conducted an interview with Flynt Leverett (former NSC, now Brookings) containing another description of Iran’s efforts to engage the United States. Leverett has previously discussed this particular Iran offer. Here he says: In the spring of 2003 we received through this Swiss channel a one-page document, which basically laid out an …
