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...players in Iran's power struggle...
...does, however, have a last-ditch move that it can make with France and Britain, or even alone. Legislators on Capitol Hill are preparing a tough bill that would impose sanctions on third-country companies that supply the gasoline imports on which Iran relies for about one-third of its consumption. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Howard Berman, a California Democrat, has said he will mark up his bill next month. But the fewer allies that sign on for such tough sanctions, the more those sanctions are likely to hurt the U.S. rather than Iran...
...Read "Iran Sanctions: Why Pakistan Won't Help...
...moment, the country only spends 2.5% of its GDP on health and education combined.) Pakistan also faces chronic electricity shortages. On his last visit, Richard Holbrooke, the Obama Administration's envoy to the region, pledged support. But that effort, along with proposals for a gas pipeline from Iran and Chinese-funded nuclear-energy reactors, will not bear fruit for some time...
...easy to miss the most important development in Iran on Sept. 18: the fact that the much harassed opposition was still turning out immense crowds. For one thing, international media coverage had turned to the geopolitical intrigues of President Barack Obama's policy shifts on missile defense, signifying a possible new round of sanctions against Iran, coupled with signs of engagement that the U.S. would sit down with Iran for talks. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sending his usual supply of mixed signals to the world, supports negotiations but is outwardly defiant on budging on Iran's nuclear policy, which Iran claims...