Epstein Secrets

cent of the popular vote. The President talked of the election breaking the "fever" in Washington. "We didn't expect the floodgates would open and Boehner would be Tip O'Neill to our Reagan," Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the President, said. But reelection, he thought, had "liberated" Obama. The

ons on Iran caused tremendous economic pain and helped Hassan Rouhani win popular support in the Iranian Presidential elections last year. Although Rouhani is no liberal—he has revolutionary and religious credentials, which is why he was able to run—he was not Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's favored candidate

was not Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's favored candidate. Khamenei is an opaque, cautious figure, Administration officials say, but he clearly acceded to Rouhani as he saw the political demands of the population shift. The nuclear negotiations in Geneva, which were preceded by secret contacts with the Irani

of constitutional standoff. Paul Kane reports: "Officially there to unveil a portrait that will hang in a venerated room just off the House floor, Boehner brought with him one last bid to get his former colleagues to embrace a style that charmed friends and enemies alike. He remains an eternal optimis

freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf — an aim that Tehran could theoretically support as well." -- Iran hinted at compromise after President Hassan Rouhani suggested that his country might release a British tanker in exchange for the return of an Iranian ship. From the Times: "Mr. Rouhani's explicit e

ident Hassan Rouhani suggested that his country might release a British tanker in exchange for the return of an Iranian ship. From the Times: "Mr. Rouhani's explicit extension of the offer on Wednesday may have been a gesture toward reducing the escalating tensions between Iran and the West. Speaking

hing terror=sts seize growing swathes of Iraq, adding: "And what is the president doing? Taking a nap!" <=p> 4 EFTA_R1_02111342 EFTA02708695 Mr Boehner chided M= Obama for failing to reach an agreement that would have allowed large num=ers of American troops to stay in Iraq after 2011. He urged the

ties and should not be allowe= to ruin the real prospect of the historic deal before us. 12 EFTA_R1_02111350 EFTA02708703 When current Presid=nt Hassan Rouhani and I were leading the Iranian nuclear negotiating team =lmost 10 years ago, just before the election of former president Mahmoud A=madinejad, I pre