New York Times: If Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed especially fired up in criticizing Iran during her visit to the Persian Gulf this week, there was good reason for it: President Obama’s Iran policy is beginning to look a lot like candidate Clinton’s Iran policy. Iran policy now more in sync with Clintons views
New York Times: If Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed especially fired up in criticizing Iran during her visit to the Persian Gulf this week, there was good reason for it: President Obama’s Iran policy is beginning to look a lot like candidate Clinton’s Iran policy. Iran has designs on Iraq
Wall Street Journal: Vice President Joe Biden recently told Larry King that Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this administration." Mr. Biden's transparent attempt to take credit for Bush administration policies aside, it's worth asking how exactly does the Obama administration define success in Iraq? Pressure on Iran increases from U.S.
Wall Street Journal: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's accusation this week that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship run by elements of the militant Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the public expression of conclusions privately drawn by U.S. officials and administration advisers for months. US general accuses Iraqi politicians of links to Iran
AFP: The US commander in Iraq on Tuesday accused two Iraqi politicians at the center of a dispute over blacklisting electoral candidates of having ties to an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. 3 world powers criticize Iranian enrichment
AP: Russia, the U.S. and France have urged Iran to stop enriching uranium to higher levels and suggested the project reinforces suspicions that Tehran is seeking to make nuclear weapons. Iran says will respond to any new sanctions
Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday any country that tried to impose new sanctions on Iran would regret its actions, as the United States and Russia voiced shared concern about Tehran's nuclear program. Over 65 reporters face spying charges in Iran: rights group
AFP: More than 65 journalists, bloggers and writers have been detained in Iran since last June's disputed presidential polls and could be tried on charges of "spying" for the foreign media, a New York-based media rights group said Tuesday. Britain fuelled unrest in Yemen: Iran
AFP: Iran's foreign ministry charged on Tuesday that Britain fuelled the military showdown since last August between Shiite rebels and the Yemeni government but was trying to pin the blame on Tehran. U.S. encounters limits of Iran engagement policy
New York Times: For two days this month, Gen. James L. Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, and Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, were in the same place at the same time, attending a high-level security conference in Munich with a number of high-ranking officials from around the world. And yet the two made no plans to meet with each other. New US sanctions will target Tehran dictatorship
The Times: Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, Hillary Clinton said yesterday, as the US prepared fresh sanctions against the Islamic republic that would specifically target the Revolutionary Guard. 