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By Bret Baier Source: FoxNews April 30, 2010 Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: U.N.Fortunate Choice The United Nations is taking some criticism for putting Iran on its commission on the status of women, enabling that country to help set U.N. policy on gender equality and the advancement of women. More than 200 [...]
Some traders bet a recovery will strain supply by yearend By Mark Shenk, Stanley Reed and Alaric Nightingale Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek April 29, 2010 // ‘); } // ]]> // • “Slower rates of…growth mean that OECD demand has peaked” Riding on the blue-green waters off the tiny emirate of Fujairah is a growing fleet [...]
By Lucy Hornby Source: Reuters/The Washington Post April 30, 2010 BEIJING – European talks with Chinese leaders over Iran have moved toward how to target sanctions rather than whether they should be applied at all, the European Union said on Friday. EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said she told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sanctions [...]
Source: CNN April 30, 2010 As the United States prepares for a visit next week by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned his regime in some of the Obama administration’s strongest language to date in a speech Thursday night. “Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, also continues to [...]
By Chip Cummins Source: The Wall Street Journal April 30, 2010 Iran’s opposition leaders, struggling to reignite their movement after the government quashed street protests earlier this year, reached out Thursday to workers and the economically disaffected before international Labor Day commemorations this weekend. The appeal, made through a series of statements posted on opposition [...]
Hezbollah says can strike deep inside Israel Source: Al Arabiya April 30, 2010 Iran will “cut off Israel’s feet” if the Jewish state attacks Damascus, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Rida Rahimi vowed on Friday at the end of a two-day visit to key regional ally Syria, as Hezbollah said it can strike deep inside Israel [...]
Rules out swapping nuclear fuel abroad Source: Reuters/Al Arabiya April 30, 2010 Tehran – Iran will never accept swapping its low-enriched uranium with nuclear fuel abroad, a senior adviser to the country’s top authority said on Friday, making clear Tehran’s continued defiance in a row with global powers. Some countries, such as Turkey, have offered [...]
Etching from the Qajar era on stoning women * * Below: On April 25th Iranian residents of Vienna protest the presence of Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. * * Below: Video of the April 27th meeting of Karoubi and Mousavi * * Below: Firebrand Mullah [...]
By Patrick Barry Source: Foreign Policy Magazine April 29, 2010 “When your adversary is making a fool of himself, get out of the way.” So said Pat Buchannan last year in response to conservative hawks pushing for U.S. intervention in the wake of Iran’s controversial Presidential election. At the time, those words made a lot [...]
