The White House Agenda on Iran
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PM Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The White House Agenda on Iran
The New York Times reports: "The [UN] Security Council is expected to vote
in the coming days on a third resolution to tighten sanctions against
Iran... [Iranian ambassador Mohammad] Khazaee ... brought up a new report
released by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on Friday,
which said that suspicions about many Iranian activities had been laid to
rest but that questions still remained about the program's ultimate purpose."
STEPHEN KINZER, via Chelsea Mozen, che...@justforeignpolicy.org,
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iran/stephen.html
Kinzer is a former New York Times foreign correspondent and author of
the recently re-issued "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots
of Middle East Terror." He is on a 22-city tour speaking about the danger
of U.S. military confrontation with Iran and the urgent need for real U.S.
engagement with Iran. (Upcoming events in Philadelphia, New York,
Baltimore, Washington; schedule: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iran)
Kinzer said today: "Continuing to argue over details of whether Iran is
or is not complying with each of its commitments to the IAEA leads us to
miss the larger point. The more concerned the outside world is about Iran's
behavior -- whether about Iran's nuclear program, its support for militant
groups in the Middle East, its repression of civil society or other issues
-- the more urgent the case for negotiation becomes. Direct, comprehensive
and unconditional negotiations could produce results that would not only
reassure Iran's neighbors and help stabilize the Middle East, but also
contribute decisively to strengthening American national security. These
countries are not only not fated to be enemies forever. They actually have
many long-range security interests in common."
ROBERT NAIMAN, nai...@justforeignpolicy.org,
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/about/r_naiman.html
Naiman is senior policy analyst and national coordinator at Just Foreign
Policy, which is organizing the 22-city tour with Stephen Kinzer and other
experts. Naiman edits the Just Foreign Policy daily news summary and writes
a blog on Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman).
Naiman said today: "The surge of support for Barack Obama, who pledged
to engage Iran through diplomacy without pre-conditions, is an indication
that Americans want greater emphasis on diplomacy. But the Bush
administration continues policies toward Iran that accomplish the opposite
of what most Americans say they want: the administration sets
pre-conditions for diplomacy that Iran will almost certainly not meet,
making real diplomacy impossible. This is a prescription for further
escalation and confrontation."
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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