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...MAHMOUD ABBAS, Palestinian Authority President, after saying he would not seek re-election...
...message has come from Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the exiled revolutionary filmmaker turned dissident who claims to speak on behalf of the Green Movement, during a Washington visit last week. He told U.S. officials and Iran experts Thursday that the military action would only strengthen the hard-line regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. "Dialogue is definitely better than war," said Makhmalbaf. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
...whole point - the proposed deal was negotiated weeks ago with Iranian representatives in Vienna, and Iran's government was asked to endorse it within a couple of days. But the plan faced a firestorm of criticism from across the political spectrum in Tehran, prompting the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to backtrack. The aspect of the plan that most appeals to the West - removing from Iran most of a uranium stockpile that could hypothetically be turned into a weapon, and returning it in the form of harmless fuel rods - is the one that has caused Tehran to balk. Many Iranian...
Shmatko cited "technical reasons" for the Bushehr delay, but no one in Iran missed the signal. "The Russians are insincere and very unreliable and de facto using the Bushehr case as a political tool for realizing their interests with the West," Mahmoud Ahmadi-Biqash, spokesman of Iran's parliamentary foreign policy and security commission told an Iranian news service...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to stand for re-election in January casts a pall over U.S. hopes to broker a two-state peace agreement with Israel. But it could also have dire consequences for the security situation in the West Bank. That's because Abbas' possible resignation threatens the future of the U.S.-funded Palestinian security forces that have begun to play a key role in preventing militants from launching attacks on Israel...