Obama’s Team Doesn’t Buy the 2007 NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Program
The New York Times reports:
Mr. Obama’s top advisers say they no longer believe the key finding of a much disputed National Intelligence Estimate about Iran, published a year before President George W. Bush left office, which said that Iranian scientists ended all work on designing a nuclear warhead in late 2003.
After reviewing new documents that [...]
Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders of 2009
2009 was the worst year for American foreign policy since the Carter administration. At the Telegraph, Nile Gardiner reminds us of Barack Obama’s top ten foreign policy follies of the year. It promises to be the most depressing of the many top-ten lists we’ll read between now and New Year’s. Gardiner provides [...]
How Serious is the Administration about Iran Sanctions?
Yesterday, the House passed the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), which imposes sanctions on companies that sell refined petroleum to Iran or support Iran’s refining sector.
This comes as President Obama’s self-imposed year-end deadline for progress with Iran approaches with little to show for the administration’s repeated efforts to engage [...]
Iran to World: Drop Dead!
All those harsh measures that the “international community” has been threatening have really taughtIran’s mullahs a lesson:
Iran’s Government today announced plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants and said work would start within two months.
Each site will be the size of the existing Natanz plant with the aim of producing between 250-300 tonnes of [...]
That’ll Show ‘Em!
You almost have to laugh at the way the media cover the “international community’s” kicking of the Iran can down the road. The board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which a few days ago acknowledged that its policy toward Iran had “reached a dead end,” has passed a resolution criticizing Iran for flouting [...]
Barack the Magic Statesman
Thank goodness we have such an eloquent spokesman for America’s foreign policy! At last, we see the brave new world of hope and change wrought by Barack H. Obama. (And it has such people in it.)
Now that he has, for all practical purposes, taken off the table any military action against Iran — [...]
