Epstein Secrets

oute to producing weapons-grade plutonium in the installation now being built at Arak. Not surprisingly, the Iranian negotiator, upon his return to Tehran, described the agreement as giving Iran its long-claimed right to enrich and, in effect, eliminating the American threat of using force as a last r

Green was the opposition research counsel to the George H. W. Bush campaign in 1988, and served in the Department o

hreats over the horizon, technology investment and deployment are "must-dos" for both countries. Lloyd Green was the opposition research counsel to the George H. W. Bush campaign in 1988, and served in the Department of Justice between 1990 and 1992. Article 3 Washington Post Ousting Assad may be only the beginn

e 1979. When Gulf circles expressed their fears at this level, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry clarified that "Cairo is seeking normal relations with Tehran, essential and normal relations, that is all." This statement was followed by more than one confirmation issued by Egyptian officials, stressing th

ference, which helped start Nixon's late-career return to respectability, but the two men eventually fell out over Reagan's Soviet policy. In 1989, George H. W. Bush recruited Jimmy Carter to help with policy toward Panama; that helped revive Carter's reputation, but the relationship soured in 1991, when Carter

stody, President Barack Obama stuc= to his State of the Union script last and made no mention of the incident, ins=ead touting his nuclear deal with Tehran. Press reports said that one of the vessels experienced a mechanical problem, losing propulsion and drifting into Iranian territorial waters and th

with Ronald Reagan, I have vot=d Republican in every presidential election since I first became eligible to vote in 1980. = worked in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations and in the White House for George W. Bush as a speechwriter=and adviser. I have also worked for Republican presidential campaigns, a

in Iran in any case. But his strategy — striking a diplomatic bargain to stop the nuclear program — also narrows his options in Syria. A deal with Tehran will require the support of Russia, which happens to be hosting the next round of negotiations. Russia, in turn, is opposed to forcing Assad, a lon

reform, and created a separate new department," that of Veterans Affairs. Obama's campaign is well aware that he may end up like Jimmy Carter or George H. W. Bush, the two most recent one-term Presidents, who were both defeated despite some notable—even historic—accomplishments, including the Camp David Accor

or attack on a Pan American airliner in the late 1980s. Or, as in South Africa, that a change in nuclear policy might come from a change in régime in Tehran. Yet realistically, we couldn’t count on either. And there was no doubt in our minds that a nuclear Iran represented a hugely serious threat. If the

a administration. I knew key figures from earlier incarnations in their public lives and mine: Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, who had been President George H. W. Bush’s deputy security adviser 1n the first Iraq war and then head of the CIA; and Hillary Clinton, now Secretary of State. During a series of early trips t

or attack on a Pan American airliner in the late 1980s. Or, as in South Africa, that a change in nuclear policy might come from a change in régime in Tehran. Yet realistically, we couldn't count on either. And there was no doubt in our minds that a nuclear Iran represented a hugely serious threat. If the

a administration. I knew key figures from earlier incarnations in their public lives and mine: Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, who had been President George H. W. Bush's deputy security adviser in the first Iraq war and then head of the CIA; and Hillary Clinton, now Secretary of State. During a series of early trips t