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Actually, Arab leaders don’t want a strike on Iran

Marc Lynch at the Atlantic, responding respectfully to Jeffrey Goldberg's piece promoting a strike against Iran, makes me wonder who is out of control here, Ahmadinejad or Netanyahu? Which is the rogue state? The "Israeli clock" is a major disruptive factor in the administration's strategy, as Goldberg's article makes clear, with the U.S. needing [...]
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Ahmadinejad says Iran Ready for Nuclear Talks: Report

TOKYO - Iran is ready for immediate talks with world powers over a nuclear fuel swap deal, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published in Japan on Friday.Iran is "ready to resume in late August or in early September" talks wi...
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Meir Javendanfar worries about war, now

After noting that he usually tries “not to get worked up about reports of imminent war in the Middle East”, Iranian-born Israeli analyst Meir Javendanvar has just written, on the Real Clear World website, that “this time I really can’t shake the feeling that something ominous is about to happen, involving Hezbollah.  It will either [...]
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Meir Javendanfar worries about war, now

After noting that he usually tries “not to get worked up about reports of imminent war in the Middle East”, Iranian-born Israeli analyst Meir Javendanvar has just written, on the Real Clear World website, that “this time I really can’t shake the feeling that something ominous is about to happen, involving Hezbollah.  It will either [...]
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Rattling the saber on Iran

The Atlantic magazine is one of the slightly subtler stalwart supporters of Zionism in the American media, taking a gentler approach than, say, the New Republic or its conservative doppelganger Commentary or The Weekly Standard. (It's also, in terms ...
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Rattling the saber on Iran

The Atlantic magazine is one of the slightly subtler stalwart supporters of Zionism in the American media, taking a gentler approach than, say, the New Republic or its conservative doppelganger Commentary or The Weekly Standard. (It's also, in terms ...
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Push for confrontation with Iran (sometimes) bears a Jewish stamp

This is at the Council for the National Interest blog under the heading, "Full-page ad in New York Times in April demonstrates who is pushing for war against Iran." I wish I could say it's a canard. But I can't. Couldn't they have gotten some non-Jewish groups aboard? Oh and yes the organizers say they're [...]
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It’s what’s going on inside Iran that matters

Interesting piece by Gary Sick on Iran: The key question about Iran today is not whether it will be attacked or collapse under sanctions. It is whether Iran is capable under its present leadership to take a sober decision about how to deal with the ou...
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Bromwich: Passionless Obama is letting ideologues push ‘fantasy’ of Iran war

David Bromwich has a devastating essay up on Huffpo, called "One More War, Please" that begins with the question, "Will the summer of 2010 be remembered as the time when we turned into a nation of sleepwalkers?" and then goes through the devastations of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, showing how they are corrupting [...]
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Feeling pre-war uneasiness

I wonder how much the last bullet has to do with the all the others:The unending spy drama in Lebanon The farcical Hariri Tribunal  Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's 7/16 and  7/22 speeches The Sayyed's upcoming 8/3 speech  (he is supposed to tell [...]
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