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Archives for January 2015

Iran’s emerging empire gets a pass from inattentive White House

National Post

Charles Krauthammer | January 23, 2015 1:30 PM ET

WASHINGTON — While Iran’s march toward a nuclear bomb has provoked a major clash between the White House and Congress, Iran’s march toward conventional domination of the Arab world has been largely overlooked. In Washington, that is. The Arabs have noticed. And the pro-American ones, the Gulf Arabs […]

Argentine Phone Calls Detail Efforts to Shield Iran

The New York Times
By JONATHAN GILBERT and SIMON ROMERO
JAN. 21, 2015
BUENOS AIRES — Intercepted conversations between representatives of the Iranian and Argentine governments point to a long pattern of secret negotiations to reach a deal in which Argentina would receive oil in exchange for shielding Iranian officials from charges that they orchestrated the bombing of […]