UPI: Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister of Iraq, took a page from Vladimir Putin’s playbook and published an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday. Maliki sets out to appeal to Americans by focusing on the issue of terrorism and the struggle against al-Qaida, as well as the war in Syria.
Maliki’s no partner for peace
Iraqi forces ‘behind camp attack’
MSN NZ News: A German rights group working with a Washington-based lawyer claimed their 70-page report “confirms the direct involvement of the government of Iraq in the attack” on September 1 in which 52 people were shot dead.
Obama admin presses for delay in Iran sanctions
AP: Vice President Joe Biden and senior Obama administration officials convinced a number of senators on Thursday to hold off on another round of Iran sanctions as Western powers test Tehran’s willingness to scale back its nuclear aims.
Iran: Is it too late?
Washington Post: President Obama, we can only hope, reads USA Today. Since most information at odds with his convictions apparently is not related by aides but picked up by perusing the morning paper, that is where the president might learn that his Iran approach is at odds with reality.
Iran and big powers end expert talks without comment
Reuters: Iran and six world powers ended an expert-level meeting over Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities on Thursday, but there was no immediate word on whether they had come any closer to an elusive breakthrough deal.
Lord Clarke of Hampstead condemns Iranian president as a “butcher”
Ham & High: Life peer Lord Anthony Clarke, a former Labour Party chairman, joined a panel of cross-party MPs and political organisations to speak out against the Iranian government at a conference held by the British Parliamentary Committee of Iran Freedom.
Action needed to save Iranian dissidents in Iraq
UPI: Imagine if seven British citizens had been taken hostage in a foreign land and couldn’t be located, that’s exactly what has happened to seven members of an Iranian opposition group but there has been little news coverage of this affair.
Confront al-Maliki with the massacre of Iranian dissidents
The Hill: On Nov. 1, al-Maliki will come dragging the sack to collect more of our taxpayers’ money as he meets with the president. The U.S. must do a better job of holding the government of Iraq accountable.
Major report implicates government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in crimes against humanity
Herald Online: At an event at the National Press Club this morning, a human rights NGO released an Independent Report of a massacre of 52 asylum-seekers and abduction of seven asylum-seekers in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, on September 1, 2013.
Iran denies halt to 20 percent uranium enrichment
New York Times: Iran has never stopped 20 percent uranium enrichment, Iran’s top nuclear official said on Wednesday, contradicting an influential lawmaker who last week said the country had voluntarily halted its production.
