Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It really gets on your nerves, sometimes.
At a checkpoint this morning, the soldier took my passport, then barked: “Where are you from?” he asked.
“You mean where was I born? That’s different than where I am from. It’s written on my passport — New York”, I said.
[Huda reported that she was stopped at [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The story AFP story that I quoted in my post yesterday was apparently wrong. It was not an IDF Colonel who boasted about Israel having total control of the West Bank, it was a Brigadier General. And not just any Brigadier General, at that. He is in charge of Israel’s [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, International Law, Iran, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Some people actually expected a breakthrough.
One reason was the presence of the “number three” ranking U.S. State Department official, William Burns — which the State Department spokespersons explained as “underscoring the U.S. commitment to diplomacy”, showing that the U.S. “is commited to finding a diplomatic solution”. The State Department spokespersons also said, however, that [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Journalism and Journalists, Switzerland
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz on Saturday 21 June:
(1) Oil prices jump after report of Israeli drill for Iran attack
Iranian cleric: Israel to receive ’slap in face’ if it strikes; IAEA chief ElBaradei: I will resign if Iran is attacked.
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“Friday’s spike was not the first caused by tensions between Israel and Iran. Oil prices soared $11 on June [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The text of IAEA Director-General Mohammed ElBaradei’s remarks to the Agency’s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna today, as released to journalists and reported by the Associated Press, also says that “Iran has not provided the agency with all the access to documents and to individuals requested … nor has Iran provided the substantive explanations [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board will be considering yet another resolution, on Monday, castigating Iran for questions about its past, present and future nuclear programs, as the Associated Press’s veteran writer in Vienna, George Jahn, reported in a dispatch filed earlier today.
Jahn writes that the growing pressure is aimed at wresting concessions from [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A Guest Post from Aletheia Kallos/MD:
from
http://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical_diary/geopolitical_diary_syria_and_israel_hint_peace_talks
Geopolitical Diary: Syria and Israel Hint at Peace Talks
April 24, 2008 | 0154 GMT
The morning of April 21, we woke up to a report in the Syrian media saying that Israel had agreed to hand the Golan Heights back to Syria in exchange for a peace agreement. The Syrian [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A GUEST POST FROM ALETHEIA KALLOS/MD:
With a later UPDATE from the comment below by ALETHEIA KALLOS/ MD to clarify — i repeat the actual iranian position was in iranian territorial waters by any reckoning & it seems to me the mod should still like to know the real truth of this
rather than just the latest [...]
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Filed under: International Law, Iran, Law of the Sea Convention
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Marian Houk
On Iran’s “National Nuclear Day” or “Day of the Atom”, former nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian was given a two-year suspended jail sentence, and a five-year ban on being named to foreign policy or diplomatic positions, on the grounds that he had harmed national security.
Mousavian was a former Iranian Ambassador to Germany, and to the International [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The U.S. State Department announced today that “At the request of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott has agreed to serve as Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation. In this capacity, Ambassador Wolcott will work with counterparts in other countries to develop international cooperation to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Consistent with the priorities [...]
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Filed under: Conference on Disarmament, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons
