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...saying don't cut. But at some point, you hit a tipping point, and it becomes dangerous to the future of our state," Granholm said. (See how boosting Detroit's graduation rates will boost its economy...
...allies point to signs in the Qom facility of what they say is Iran's military intent: first, the project's secrecy and partially underground location on a military base, and second, the fact that its limited capacity (3,000 centrifuges) makes it unsuitable for supplying reactor fuel but potentially capable of slowly amassing weapons-grade material. Iran continues to insist that it is simply exercising its right to develop nuclear-energy infrastructure as a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But on Sept. 28, Tehran also test-fired a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel...
...engage in a way that offers hope of progress, but ambiguously and on terms more limited than those sought by the West. Its goal will be to avert confrontation and divide the Western powers from Russia and China. As Ray Takeyh, former adviser to Obama's Iran point man Dennis Ross, wrote in the Washington Post on Sept. 27, "At this week's talks, Iran's representatives are likely to subtly hint of cooperation to come - but only if talks continue. However, such gestures do not mean Iran is prepared to offer meaningful concessions and impose any restraints...
After last year's war between Russia and Georgia, which left at least 250 people dead and parts of Georgia in ruin, each country was eager to point the finger of blame at the other for starting the conflict. On Wednesday, an independent investigating team issued a highly anticipated report saying that neither country can escape fault...
...Russia received its fair share of blame. The attack by Georgia was "the culminating point of a long period of increasing tensions, provocations and incidents," the report says. In the run-up to the war, Russia issued passports to South Ossetian citizens, which the investigators say "runs against the principles of good neighborliness and constitutes an open challenge to Georgian sovereignty and an interference in the internal affairs of Georgia." More ominously, the report notes that there seemed to be an "influx of volunteers or mercenaries" from Russia to South Ossetia in early August 2008. (See pictures of the Russians...