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Archives for October 2009

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Obama pwns Bush-Cheney on Iran; First day of Talks Yields Significant Confidence-Building Steps

Obama pwns Bush-Cheney on Iran; First day of Talks Yields Significant Confidence-Building Steps

Juan Cole

For 8 years, Bush-Cheney practiced what I call “belligerent Ostrichism” toward Iran. They refused to talk to Tehran. They wanted to ratchet up sanctions on it. Bush sent 2 aircraft carriers to the Gulf to menace Iran. Bush’s spokesmen professed themselves afraid of Iran’s unarmed little speedboats in the Gulf. Aside from issuing threats to […]

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Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

Juan Cole

Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with Iran in a bid to resolve outstanding issues. Although Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier attempted to put the nuclear issue off the bargaining table, this rhetorical flourish was a […]

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Obama Meets Advisers on Afghanistan; Ismail Khan Warns against US Troop Surge

Obama Meets Advisers on Afghanistan; Ismail Khan Warns against US Troop Surge

Juan Cole

President Barack Obama met Wednesday afternoon for 3 hours with his advisers on the Afghanistan war, including VP Joe Biden and, by teleconference, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. He is said not to have made any decisions as yet about a new strategy or increased troop levels, both asked for by Gen. McChrystal. Some of those voiced […]

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Cole on KCRW and Iran and an Israeli Attack

Cole on KCRW and Iran and an Israeli Attack

Juan Cole

I was on the KCRW in Los Angeles’s “To the Point” on Wednesday discussing the Iranian nuclear program and the prospects of an Israeli attack on Iran. It was not a calm discussion. I don’t come on until 2/3s the way through: US and Iran, Face-to-Face for the First Time in 30 Years (12:07PM) A […]

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