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ABC’s Jim Sciutto: Team Clinton Trying to Soften Hillary’s Sharp Comments

ABC's Jim Sciutto reports from Islamabad: Tonight, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's spokesman, Assistant Secretary of State PJ Crowley, was trying hard to put her blunt comments today into some sort of diplomatic context. It was the quote of the...

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October 29, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (25)

Jim Sciutto: Obama on Iran – a Scolding and a Bone?

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports: It struck me that even as he was blasting them, Obama still referred to Iran as the ‘Islamic Republic of Iran’. When he used that phrase in his televised Iranian new year message...

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September 25, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (7)

ABC's Jim Sciutto: Major Protests Erupt in Iran

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports: It had been weeks since anti-government protesters gathered in large numbers in Iran. Today, they were out again not just in the capital Tehran but in several large cities. Eyewitnesses reached by telephone...

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September 18, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (20)

Election Day: Inside Afghan Polling Station

In Afghanistan today, votes are being counted from the country's second presidential election. Despite 73 suicide bombing and rocket attacks throughout the country, Afghans bravely made their way to the polls. Jim Sciutto has more from Kabul for the World...

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August 20, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Exclusive: Gen. McChrystal On Front Line of Defense for Afghan Elections

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports from Afghanistan: On the eve of crucial presidential elections here, we traveled the capital with the commander of US forces, General Stanley McChrystal. His mission today was to coordinate with the Afghan police...

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August 19, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Iranian Government Investigating Captured American Hikers

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports from London: Iranian state television is reporting today that the government is still investigating whether the three Americans captured along the Iran-Iraq border -- Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Joshua Fattal -- are...

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August 4, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Jim Sciutto: Riot Police Chase Neda Mourners Through Gravestones

If there was doubt that Neda Agha-Soltan’s story still has power in Iran, it faded today. Forty days since her videotaped shooting stunned Iran and the world, thousands marched to her grave to mourn her and other victims of the...

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July 30, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Is North Korea Providing Myanmar Nuclear Technology?

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports: This has to go in the worst-case scenario file. Of all the isolated, repressive, mercurial regimes I’ve covered, Myanmar's and North Korea's probably have the least -- read no -- redeeming qualities. So...

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July 22, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Jim Sciutto: Former President of Iran Demands Release of Political Prisoners

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto covered the recent Iranian election protests from the streets of Tehran: Incredible scenes today at Friday prayers at Tehran University. Delivering the sermon before thousands of worshippers, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, perhaps the opposition’s...

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July 17, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Jim Sciutto Reports: Government Guidebook for Dealing with Dissent

ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports: I’ve spent a lot of time in police states in the last couple of years -- a few trips each to Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Iran, and some more. It strikes me that each place...

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July 15, 2009 in Jim Sciutto | Permalink | User Comments (5)