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...Iranian leader’s Harvard speech comes as the United States is seeking punitive action against Iran for failing to meet a United Nations deadline on suspending its uranium enrichment program...
...turns out, was merely closed for remodeling. But a general sense of suspicion still hangs in the air, and Tehran probably can't ignore it. To the outside world, the Iranian government projects an image of national resolve as it defies U.N. Security Council demands to stop enriching uranium. But the regime's ability to withstand international pressure may depend on how forgiving Iranians are about the sluggish economy. The rate of inflation is at least 19%, and unemployment has edged up to 15%. At a press conference last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fended off criticism of his economic program...
...were sold everywhere, women wore skimpy veils, and couples held hands in the street. But the long, libertine honeymoon is over. The hard line now seems to begin at home for the Ahmadinejad regime (which last week inaugurated a new reactor project, defying a U.N. demand to end its uranium-enrichment work by Aug. 31, and gave only a tepid response to the West's offer of incentives). Over the past few months, various branches of the government have stealthily rolled back freedoms with moves like the reinstatement of gender segregation in public institutions. Because the Iranian system comprises ministries...
...counts. Plame and Wilson contend, for example, that the Administration violated their free-speech rights by taking ?retaliatory action? after Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to several nations, wrote an op-ed piece questioning a central reason for attacking Iraq: President Bush?s claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. Presumably, the retaliation was the outing of Plame as a CIA official, but there?s room to debate how much harm came of that act. She didn?t lose her job or get demoted or suffer any other obvious damage. And even...
...ship was built. The world's biggest cruise ship was built in Finland; it took about 7 million working hours to complete, in a nation of about 5 million people. Raikko Hytonen Helsinki Get Tough with Tehran "The isolation of Iran" [June 19] addressed Iran's resumption of uranium enrichment. The U.S. sees Iran's defiance as new ammunition in its battle to convince Europe, China and Russia that only harsh sanctions can impede Iran's quest for the Bomb. The big question is whether Iran will take up the offer of negotiations over the future of its nuclear program...