11 hours ago
Iran says it will build 10 nuclear plants, beef up military
— The nation announces its plans despite international pressure and domestic dissent. — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a ceremony in Tehran. The flurry of pronouncements hailing national achievements comes ahead …
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11 hours ago
Iran's Nuclear Move Prompts New Calls for Sanctions
— PARIS — Officials from the United States, France and Russia called Monday for stronger measures against Tehran after Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency that it would begin enriching its stockpile of uranium for a medical reactor in Tehran as early as Tuesday.
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yesterday
Clinton defends Obama's engagement strategy on Iran, N. Korea
— Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's strategy of engaging both Iran and North Korea has shown positive results by starting to bring together the rest of the world to act jointly against their nuclear ambitions, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
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3 days ago
The Ontology of Miranda Rights
— One tick I've noticed in conservative discourse on the Underpants Bomber case is the idea that Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and the FBI somehow decided to “give” the suspect his Miranda rights, as if they'd somehow created the right to remain silent out of whole cloth.
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4 days ago
China Renews Opposition to Iran Sanctions
— PARIS — Reflecting a growing catalog of disputes between Washington and Beijing, a senior Chinese official said Thursday that pressure for tighter sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could block chances of a diplomatic settlement to the dispute.
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5 days ago
Iran Says It Sent Animals Into Space
— PARIS — In what seemed designed as a display of advancing missile technology, Iran said on Wednesday that it had test-fired a rocket into space carrying living organisms — a rat, two turtles and worms, according to the official Press TV broadcaster.
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6 days ago
A Landmark Statement - In my judgment, the most important event ...
— In my judgment, the most important event of 2009 was the Green Revolution in Iran. But I think it is important to grasp that it was more than a simple event. It is a continuing process. It is far from over and it is gaining strength.
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7 days ago
Officials OKd Miranda warning for accused airline plotter
— At least four U.S. agencies were involved in a decision to read Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his rights, sources say, after it was clear that he had stopped sharing information. — Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair …
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3 days ago
US in line of fire as China gets tough
— • Retaliation threatened after arms sales to Taiwan — • Beijing ready to stand alone over Iran sanctions — China signalled its intent to pursue a more assertive foreign policy, saying “a fifth of mankind” had a right to be heard …
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4 days ago
Holder in '02: It's "Hard to Interrogate" ...
— In a letter today to Senator Mitch McConnell, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to have FBI agents read Miranda rights to Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and to charge him in civilian court.
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6 days ago
During visit, Berlusconi draws parallel between Ahmadinejad and Hitler
— Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi drew a connecting line yesterday between his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, the Iranian nuclear program, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial …
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6 days ago
Shoe bomber was read Miranda rights
— Republicans may have a hard time keeping up their talking point about how reading Miranda rights to the Christmas Day bomber represented a dangerous new direction under President Barack Obama. — It turns out that that back in December 2001 …
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6 days ago
Iran, With Opposition Protests Continuing, Executes More Prisoners
— Every Thursday since last April, Davoud Rahmanipour traveled to the notorious Evin prison in northern Tehran for a weekly visit with his son, Arash, 19, who was being held there while his lawyer appealed his death sentence.
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7 days ago
Axelrod: "We Have Not Lost Anything" by Giving Abdulmutallab Miranda Rights
— Another White House official says a 50-minute interrogation of the Christmas Day bomber was good enough. — Top White House adviser David Axelrod believes the U.S. government properly handled the Christmas Day bomber …
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7 days ago
The Age of Obama: Anno Domini 2
— Abstract: In the real world, as opposed to what French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls President Barack Obama's “virtual world,” America faces the reality of Iran's intransigence and aggressiveness; China's headlong pursuit of its own national, regional …
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7 days ago
Ahmadinejad: Iran will deliver a telling blow on February 11
— Considering all the action the UN — action being nothing but UN sanctions and letters saying to stop, pretty please — has taken against Iran, shouldn't this have been taken care of already? Shockingly, it looks like the all-talk-no-action approach is failing.
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27 days ago
Iran Nuke Physicist, Opposition Supporter Killed in Motorcycle Bomb
— TEHRAN, Iran — A nuclear physics professor who publicly backed opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the June presidential election was killed Tuesday when a bomb-rigged motorcycle blew up outside his home.
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