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...participation in the nuclear talks, Ross got the Europeans to help plan sanctions that would target Iranian businesses that have nothing to do with the nuclear program. The U.S. wants bans on insuring Iranian energy firms and any companies that do business with them. It also wants to stop credit guarantees for Iranian energy companies and those that work with them, and it wants to halt all investments in the energy sector. And Ross doesn't want to stop there. The U.S. has pushed Russia, a major trading partner of Iran's, to be ready to commit to sanctions...
...featured endorsements from dentists, doctors, babies and even Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. Growing evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer eventually led manufacturers to introduce cigarette filters - and while it was eventually revealed that filtered cigarettes were no safer than their regular counterparts, that didn't stop them from being advertised as lower in tar and nicotine. (Watch TIME's video "Au Revoir Cigarettes...
...freeze talk has historically been meaningless blather in Israel. The government "froze" the settlements in 2003 but has surreptitiously supported building through a network of agencies, so building approval increased at a rate of 40% between 2007 and 2008 alone, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli organization suing to stop outpost settlements. So much building has happened since the mid-1990s that the West Bank resembles a Jackson Pollock drip painting of Jewish and Arab lands, connected and disconnected by bypass roads and cement blocks. The old Green Line border, now morphing into a wall, has literally doubled in size...
...even had a nightmare scenario yesterday," a senior European diplomat said the day after the meeting with Burns and Ross in March. If a moderate were elected and negotiations with Iran still went nowhere, how would the U.S. and Europe stop Iran from going nuclear? With its centrifuges spinning, Iran could continue to amass enriched uranium while presenting to the outside world an openness to compromise, the diplomat explained. When it came time to confront a stalling Iran by dropping the carrots and applying the sticks, said the senior European diplomat, "Try to imagine how difficult it would...
...last months have made anything clear it's that there may be nothing the U.S. can do to stop the mullahs from going nuclear. "They will try to prolong the process to gain time, because prolonging time is a way for the nuclear program to move forward," says the European diplomat. The rub, says one senior Administration official, is "whether there is a willingness to do a deal...