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...talking about behavior that is unbecoming of a diplomat." ZEHAVIT BEN-HILLEL Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson, on Tsuriel Raphael, Israel's ambassador to El Salvador, who was recalled after reportedly being found by police drunk, naked and wearing bondage gear in the yard of his embassy residence...
...soldiers who, it argued, could do the job. It wasn't long before Prince was offering a broad range of services, from protection by bodyguards to aerial surveillance, for the State Department, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. In 2003, Blackwater landed its first truly high-profile contract: guarding Ambassador L. Paul Bremer in Iraq, at the cost of $21 million in 11 months. Since June 2004, Blackwater has been paid more than $320 million out of a $1 billion, five-year State Department budget for the Worldwide Personal Protective Service, which protects U.S. officials and some foreign officials...
...yielded more conciliatory signals from the Iranians on the nuclear issue. The chemistry between U.S. and Iranian diplomats at a March 10 conference about Iran's future in Baghdad suggests that those favoring a resolution may be seeing some opportunities. Both sides agreed the meeting was "constructive," and U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad termed the exchanges "frank and sometimes jovial...
...Iranian regime had used it to finance weapons of mass destruction, and now the U.S. hopes to use the Security Council resolution to hamper its access to global capital markets. But in a sign that not all the Security Council powers share the U.S. agenda, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told Reuters, "The main objective is our concern about Iranian nuclear and missile activities, so there is no need to expand beyond that area" - and quoted Bank Sepah as an example where the resolution would have to be narrowed to exclude affecting transactions unrelated to those activities...
...Washington's position is that none of these ideas should be discussed until Iran again suspends enrichment. But given the pressure Iran now clearly feels, which may account for its eagerness to talk, it may be time to take Ambassador Zarif's plan seriously - and try one last time to see if all sides can agree on what a comprehensive and verifiable final deal could look like...