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The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them," he said. "Direct talks will not solve any problems." This isn't the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to President Obama's infatuated Apollo. Just after becoming President in 2009, Mr. Obama sent the Ayatollah two private lett
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027102 →e Munich Security Conference. The U.S. offer of direct bilateral talks, he said, "stands, but it must be real and tangible." Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, who was also at the conference though he refused to meet with U.S. officials, called Mr. Biden's comments "a step forward." Mr. Salehi's remark set
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027102 →"The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them," he said. "Direct talks will not solve any problems." This isn't the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to President Obama's infatuated Apollo. Just after becoming President in 2009, Mr. Obama sent the Ayatollah two private lett
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028728 →e Munich Security Conference. The U.S. offer of direct bilateral talks, he said, "stands, but it must be real and tangible." Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, who was also at the conference though he refused to meet with U.S. officials, called Mr. Biden's comments "a step forward." Mr. Salehi's remark set
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028728 →fense minister. Moreover, Alfoneh pointed out that Soleimani's relationship EFTA_R1_00537950 EFTA02029069 with a mid-level cleric and student of Khamenei's in the late 1970s may have been the catalyst for his own proximity to the current supreme leader and his subsequent rise. But Soleimani's alread
an officials "to think a few times before making such comments." Davutoglu's statement came a day after he held talks with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi, who paid a surprise visit to Ankara to discuss Syria and seek Turkish help for the release of 48 Iranians abducted by members of the Free Syrian A
ceive back 20 percent fuel for its Tehran research reactor, supposedly to make the isotopes. That earlier deal collapsed because of opposition from Khamenei, who apparently is now ready to bargain. Jalili struck the same upbeat tone in comments printed in the Tehran Times. "We witnessed progress," he sa
r a deal that limits enrichment while preserving the right to enrich. In an interview Monday with the Iranian student news agency, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi explained that "making 20 percent fuel is our right," but that "if they guarantee that they will provide us with the different levels of enriched f
Entities connected to both Khamenei and Ali Akbar Salehi

Barack Obama
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Tehran
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Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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George W. Bush
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Damascus
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Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
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Tunisia
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Bill Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Fatah
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Saddam Hussein
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Ali Khamenei
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Marc Rich
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Baghdad
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Middle East
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