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fice of Terje Rod-Larsen ‹ > Subject: November 18 update Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:39:27 +0000 18 November, 2013 Article 1. The Washington Post Barack or Bibi? David Ignatius Article 2. Bloomberg Kennedy Showed How to Contain Iran Kenneth M. Pollack Article 3. Politico Obama's Fight with Isr

EFTA00707074 minister was dubbed "Reagan or Begin." This week, the showdown on Iran negotiations might be described as "Barack or Bibi." Despite Obama administration opposition, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been lobbying Congress to enact a new round of sanctions to squeeze Iran f

Israel: This Time It's Serious Robert Satloff November 17, 2013 -- America and Israel are in uncharted waters. Just eight months since President Barack Obama visited Israel on the first foreign trip of his second term in an attempt to patch things up with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two close

n in a peaceful manner," Netanyahu said Sunday. President Obama disagrees. He thinks that if Congress imposes add

Although Iran is often caricatured as a nation of irrational, would-be martyrs, its behavior has been ruthlessly rational for the most part. Even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -- a far more committed ideologue than his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- agreed to end the Iran-h War in 1988 when his subordinates told hi

ing in Syria Doyle McManus December 15, 2013 -- Here's how feeble U.S. influence on the outcome of Syria's dreadful civil war has become: For the Obama administration's diplomacy to succeed, it now needs help from an armed group with the unpromising name of the Islamic Front. That wasn't where the

litics, beyond the support of a few oilmen and arms manufacturers. The Saudi royals do not even enjoy the warm personal relationship with President Barack Obama that they once had with Presidents George Bush (both father and son) and Bill Clinton, who managed bilateral relations directly. Perhaps the most

wasn't where the administration hoped to be. When President Obama first got interested in Syria back in 2011, his

oy the warm personal relationship with President Barack Obama that they once had with Presidents George

, and Bahrain. Although Iranian-Saudi enmity dates back many decades, it became acute after the 1979 Islamic Revolution when Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, began to spread his revolutionary brand of Shia Islam across the region. The impact was not immediately evident. Iran's war with Iraq in the 1980

ed militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, whom Indian and U.S. authorities blame for the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In separate statements, both U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Congress Party chairman Sonia Gandhi condemned the attacks; Obama indicated that the U.S. would cooperate with India's search for the pe

008 Mumbai attacks. In separate statements, both U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Congress Party chairman Sonia Gandhi condemned the attacks; Obama indicated that the U.S. would cooperate with India's search for the perpetrators. On its face, the incident looks much more like the serial blasts

cks. In separate statements, both U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Congress Party chairman Sonia G

e of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad should be understood in the context of Iran's internal rivalries. Since the death in 1989 of the revolution's father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — whose austere nature and anti-Americanism set the tenor for Iran's post-monarchic order — Tehran's political elite has been broadly divided into

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Sent: Mon 8/26/2013 4:45:44 PM Subject: August 26 update 26 August, 2013 Article 1. The Daily Beast Obama's New Syria Options Leslie H. Gelb Article 2. The Wall Street Journal Syria's Gas Attack on Civilization Andrew Roberts Article 3. The Washing

he most recent use of chemical weapons in Syria, President Obama is sheltering his next moves even from his close

ood. And in Iran in 1979, individuals who were ardent secular nationalists donned Islamic garb and supported the Islamic Revolution and its leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. For them, Islam became a more potent outlet for nationalist ambitions than the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had lost political legitimacy. Th

g for Al-Qaeda's caliphate. Al-Qaeda is not Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia or Mao's China. Today it is under unprecedented stress from the strategy Obama has developed. We should be vigilant but not panic. We don't need torture to defeat Al-Qaeda; we need respect for Islam and a determined effort to

ran's opposition leaders are limited in their ambitions: they remain committed to the Islamic Revolution and the principles of its leader, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but they want to reform the establishment within that framework. "The Green opposition is not questioning the foundation of the system as happene