What's really going on with Iran?
Fascinating piece on the spin gap with Iran:
Yesterday morning I was watching a streaming English-language news broadcast from Russia. [snip] The lead story was the press conference of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the main points hit by the Russia Today correspondent were Ahmadinejad's renouncing nuclear weapons as contrary to Islam and his reiteration of Iran's 30-year commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, though Iran reserved the right to revisit its commitment if adherence to the treaty imperiled its sovereignty.
It was an unexpectedly optimistic piece. Ahmadinejad was allowed to speak at length and appeared relaxed and informed while fielding questions. If the excerpts were representative and the translation accurate, he appeared to be credibly attempting to defuse the crisis.
posted by $!# at 4/26/2006 07:32:00 PM
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Rosa Brooks in the Los Angeles Times claims that Russia is trying to foment a war between Israel and Iran to drive oil prices up even further and weaken the U.S.
That makes a lot of sense -- I mean, who's giving them uranium? Russia. Who's refining the uranium? Russia. But for whatever reason, it seems like we can't criticize russia for it all in public.
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