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am. But neither is there any sign of new thinking in the White House. "I don't see how what didn't work last year is going to work this year," says Vali Nasr, who served in the Obama State Department before becoming dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He might not get much
current rate. As for the sanctions, they may hurt ordinary Iranians but this regime is famously indifferent to the suffering of its own people. The Ayatollah also doesn't seem to take the Administration's talk about "all options being on the table" seriously. Mr. Obama's nomination of Iran dove Chuck Hag
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 letters and delivered a conciliatory speech for the Persian new year of Nowruz. Mr. Khamenei's answer: "They chant the slogan of change
d to ever-tougher sanctions - and without promising Iran that sanctions will be lifted as part of a deal - then negotiations are unlikely to succeed. Vali Nasr, another former Obama administration official with expertise on Iran, suggested recently that there's not much more the world can do to sanction Iran
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029735 →n said, "We have made it clear at the outset that... we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership" when Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is serious about negotiations. Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi responded favorably and said, "I am optimistic, I feel this new
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029735 →d to ever-tougher sanctions - and without promising Iran that sanctions will be lifted as part of a deal - then negotiations are unlikely to succeed. Vali Nasr, another former Obama administration official with expertise on Iran, suggested recently that there's not much more the world can do to sanction Iran
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029822 →n said, "We have made it clear at the outset that... we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership" when Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is serious about negotiations. Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi responded favorably and said, "I am optimistic, I feel this new
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029822 →: Subject: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] 2/11 2013 5:45:09 PM Larry Summers prep for dinner, israel pres briefing / The Wall Street Journal The Ayatollah Always Says No Editorial February 8, 2013 -The Farsi word for "no" is na h, which is easy enough to remember. Maybe even Joe Biden won't forget it th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028728 →y were going to succeed on the theory that Tehran desperately wants relief from the supposedly crippling pressure of economic sanctions. Why does the Ayatollah keep saying no? The conventional wisdom is that previous U.S. offers weren't generous enough, or that the wrong President was in the White House, or
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028729 →gram. But neither is there any sign of new thinking in the White House. "I don't see how what didn't work last year is going to work this year," says Vali Nasr, who served in the Obama State Department before becoming dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He might not get much o
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028731 →were going to succeed on the theory that Tehran desperately wants relief from the supposedly crippling pressure of economic sanctions. Why does the Ayatollah keep saying no? The conventional wisdom is that previous U.S. offers weren't generous enough, or that the wrong President was in the White House, or
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027103 →gram. But neither is there any sign of new thinking in the White House. "I don't see how what didn't work last year is going to work this year," says Vali Nasr, who served in the Obama State Department before becoming dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He might not get much o
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027105 →Entities connected to both Vali Nasr and Ayatollah

Barack Obama
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Lebanon
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Joe Biden
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George W. Bush
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Jeffrey Epstein
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White House
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Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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Tehran
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Damascus
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Hosni Mubarak
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Donald Trump
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Cairo
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Yemen
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Department of Justice
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Baghdad
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