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Obama Works the Phones on Iran

ABC News' Rachel Martin reports: President Obama reached out to two key allies in the effort to curtail Iran’s nuclear program. He made calls this morning to both French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. According to the...

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October 24, 2009 in Iran, Obama, Barack | Permalink | User Comments (42)

Obama Says US Making "Progress" Against Terrorists, Warns Extremists are "Still Plotting"

President Obama traveled to the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia today to thank the 16 intelligence departments and agencies for their work which – he says - has helped make progress in disrupting and defeating al Qaeda.

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October 6, 2009 in Iran, Iraq, Obama, Barack | Permalink | User Comments (37)

Obama, Brown, Sarkozy Issue Strong Statement to Tehran

Presenting a unified front at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, President Obama, French President Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a sharp warning to Iran's government about what President Obama called "disturbing information" -- a secret uranium enrichment facility Western intelligence agencies have discovered near Qom, 97 miles southwest of Tehran.

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September 25, 2009 in Iran, Middle East Peace Process | Permalink | User Comments (53)

Today’s Qs for O’s WH – 9/18/2009

The announcement yesterday was heavily based on intelligence about Iran's missile system: what they're building with, what they're struggling with. How can you be confident, given the track record of our intelligence agencies, that that is accurate information?

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September 18, 2009 in Current Affairs, Iran, Obama, Barack, Today's Qs for Obama's WH, White House, White House Press Briefing | Permalink | User Comments (9)

VP Biden Downplays Missile Threat to US From Iran

"I think we are fully capable and secure dealing with any present or future potential Iranian threat,"

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September 17, 2009 in Iran, Joe Biden | Permalink | User Comments (18)

Whoops! Gibbs Retracts Calling Ahmadinejad the “Elected Leader” of Iran

Despite widespread reports of election fraud and myriad protests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in today as president of Iran. Asked if the Obama administration recognized Ahmadinejad as the legitimate president of Iran on Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs referred to him as “the elected leader.”

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August 5, 2009 in Iran | Permalink | User Comments (47)

Human Rights Groups Question Role State Department Nominee Played in Company Active In Sudan

Two human rights groups Monday morning sent a letter to the chairman and ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee questioning the pending nomination of a State Department nominee because of his involvement with a company that had ties to the government of Sudan.

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August 3, 2009 in Iran | Permalink | User Comments (11)

The Very Latest on the US-Russian Summit

MOSCOW -- President Obama and Russian President Medvedev are about to announce the myriad agreements the countries have reached, but the bottom line news out of today's summit seems to be the following: * The US and Russia are commiting...

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July 6, 2009 in Iran, Obama, Barack | Permalink | User Comments (34)

Iranian Leaders Blaming CIA, Protestors, for Killing Neda

Khatami also said that 26-year-old protestor Neda Agha Soltan, shot last Saturday and memorialized by protestors as a martyr for their cause, was killed by those protestors.

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June 26, 2009 in Iran | Permalink | User Comments (88)

President Obama: On Key Policies, Not Much Difference Between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi

Iran, President Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Barack Obama, Mousavi, Ahmadinejad

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June 17, 2009 in Iran, Obama, Barack | Permalink | User Comments (48)