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lost face after a disastrous meeting in Geneva in October 2009, when he tentatively agreed to a nuclear-fuel swap, only to see the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, bat the deal down from Tehran. So no matter how well rehearsed, Jalili would need time for his boss to digest what was demanded and offered. In an
hed by Transaction in 2012. Anklc 3. The Weekly Standard Negotiations That Matter Reuel Marc Gerecht April 30, 2012 -- Since we don't know what Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, said at the recent confab in Istanbul, we can't be sure that Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu was right to d
scribe their actions not as concessions to the West but as "confidence-building" measures, aimed at demonstrating the seriousness of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's public pledge in February not to commit the "grave sin" of building a nuclear weapon. And the West would describe its easing of sanctions not as
-building exercise aimed at facilitating a constructive dialogue on the basis of reciprocity and a step-by-step approach." The Iranian negotiator, Saeed Jalili,responded that because the West was willing to recognize Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy, "our talks for cooperation based on step-by-step
vetted by the regime. Is there EFTA00686810 really a difference between forces loyal to Ahmadinejad's group and those close to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's leadership? It is not really true that reformist candidates or candidates who identify themselves as reformists are not running. In fact, many of
st likely pragmatic conservative presidential candidate. Much less clear at this point is who will be the favorite hardline candidate. The name of Saeed Jalili, Iran's current nuclear negotiator, has been EFTA00686812 mentioned, but generally there are few hardliners with national exposure. Other names m
Entities connected to both Ali Khamenei and Saeed Jalili

Barack Obama
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Tehran
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Bashar al-Assad
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Khamenei
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Middle East
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Saddam Hussein
PERSON
the Persian Gulf
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Tunisia
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Sudan
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Fatah
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Baghdad
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