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...senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. The piece lays out a multistep plan to resolve the nuclear standoff. Officially, the Bush Administration rejected Tehran's purported attempts to start a direct dialogue. "It's not a serious diplomatic overture," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. Instead, Washington signed on last week to a European-backed package of proposed incentives and penalties for Iran, aimed at winning the support of Russia and China, which have veto power on the Security Council. But U.S. officials concede that they still haven't persuaded those countries to agree to impose...
...last-minute attempt by Iran to divide members of the U.N. Security Council, who are considering whether to impose sanctions on Iran. "This letter is not the place that one would find an opening to engage on the nuclear issue or anything of the sort," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
...Iran is playing games," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had said last week, in response to an Iranian offer to restore snap inspections of its nuclear sites if the West called off its drive for U.N. action against Tehran. And Rice dismissed the latest letter as doing nothing to solve the growing nuclear crisis - hardly surprising, since it reportedly consisted mostly of a rambling, philosophical scolding of the Bush administration. Still, the very fact that Ahmedinajad sent the first public communication by an Iranian leader with Washington since 1979 suggests Tehran may be starting to intensify its diplomatic game, seeking...
...Iran is unlikely, after all, to maintain a static posture of defiance while Washington seeks to build pressure for international action. Instead, it is likely to accelerate its own diplomatic efforts - ?playing games,? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it on Sunday, after Iran offered to restore the IAEA's right to conduct snap inspections at sites not designated as part of the nuclear program, which would give the watchdog the ability to follow intelligence leads on suspected illegal nuclear activity. But "playing games" may actually be effective, for if Iran uses the deadlock to advance new compromise proposals...
...Eyes on 2008 Joe Klein stated that senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton "have taken courageous positions on important issues, especially the war in Iraq" [April 10]. Give me a break. To anyone not living in some type of bizarre world alongside George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, it is apparent that what is going on in Iraq is a murderous disaster. Kenneth R. Weinberg New York City...