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	<title>Iran News Digest &#187; US Policy</title>
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		<title>CIA Iran specialist to head Treasury intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/cia-iran-specialist-to-head-treasury-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/cia-iran-specialist-to-head-treasury-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran: So long as this regime has access to Iran&#8217;s oil income, all other sanctions, although may be necessary, are band-aid solutions at best &#8211; if not just feel good measures.  America needs to focus on the source of the regime&#8217;s strength, its oil income, and not waste so much time and effort on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House and Congress to clash on Iran sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/white-house-and-congress-to-clash-on-iran-sanctions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/white-house-and-congress-to-clash-on-iran-sanctions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration and Congress are gearing up for a battle over sanctions against Iran, with Capitol Hill resisting White House pressure over measures the administration says could antagonise allies and complicate its foreign policy.
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		<title>Supporting Democracy By Standing Firm</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/supporting-democracy-by-standing-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/supporting-democracy-by-standing-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no reason why the White House and the State Department can&#8217;t speak up for broad principles, such as democracy, justice, free speech, and free association.
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		<title>Waffling on Muzzling the Mullahs</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/waffling-on-muzzling-the-mullahs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/waffling-on-muzzling-the-mullahs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — The United States’ notions of U.N. sanctions on Iran have devolved over the past months from crippling ones to ones that bite to the currently described smart ones, which although packaged with the words tough and strong might not be hard-nosed enough to give the mullahs a half-hour’s lost sleep.
Is this a descending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Did Iran Go So Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/how-did-iran-go-so-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/how-did-iran-go-so-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;The Bush and Obama policies toward Iran, at least since 2005, have been remarkably consistent — and largely an extension of the Clinton policy of carrot and stick. Play ball with us and the international community, successive secretaries of state have told the Iranians, and don’t build any nukes, and we’ll extend the carrots of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Anger Rises Over Obama’s Revised Nuclear Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/iranian-anger-rises-over-obama%e2%80%99s-revised-nuclear-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/12/iranian-anger-rises-over-obama%e2%80%99s-revised-nuclear-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A large majority of Iranian lawmakers, angered over the Obama administration’s new nuclear weapons policy that conspicuously makes Iran and North Korea possible targets, urged their government on Sunday to formally complain to the United Nations in a petition that called the United States a warmonger and threat to world peace.
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		<title>A link to break: Iran and Mideast peace talks</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/a-link-to-break-iran-and-mideast-peace-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/a-link-to-break-iran-and-mideast-peace-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the recent U.S.-Israeli tumult, a curious conventional wisdom is starting to evolve. A Washington that cajoles Israel on its settlements and resumes the peace process in earnest may finally garner Arab support for dealing with Iran&#8217;s nuclear menace. Although pressuring Israel to restrain its settlements may be a sensible means of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Shipper Evades U.S. Blacklist</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/iran-shipper-evades-u-s-blacklist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/10/iran-shipper-evades-u-s-blacklist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  Preventing the regime from selling Iran&#8217;s oil should be America&#8217;s #1 priority.  So long as the regime has access to Iran&#8217;s oil income, it can repress the Iranian people, pursue its nuclear ambition and interfere in Iraq &#38; Afghanistan.  The Obama administration needs to focus on the source of the regime&#8217;s strength , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Run an Empire</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/09/how-not-to-run-an-empire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/09/how-not-to-run-an-empire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran: An article for those who favor realpolitik and claim that promoting human rights is a luxury America cannot afford &#8211; like those who advocate engaging the regime in Tehran.  Realpolitik has its own set of unintended consequences.
Ignoring human rights in favor of stability is backfiring not just in Kyrgyzstan, but all over Central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of Iranian Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/08/the-price-of-iranian-sanctions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/08/the-price-of-iranian-sanctions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary Guards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Associated Press
As U.S. President Barack Obama intensifies his efforts to garner international support for fresh U.N. sanctions against Iran, Tehran is quietly putting its own measures in place for renewed confrontation with the West. Watching how a conventionally armed Iran manages to destabilize the entire region only serves to underline how dangerous a nuclear-armed Iran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why give an inch to this regime?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/07/why-give-an-inch-to-this-regime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/07/why-give-an-inch-to-this-regime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  The old saying: &#8220;Give an inch and they&#8217;ll take a mile&#8221; applies to this regime.  Given the response below, why negotiate with them?  Why Compromise?  Oil income is the Achilles’ heel of this regime.  Without its petrodollars, the regime would be hard pressed to pursue its nuclear development, interfere in Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/06/obama-limits-when-u-s-would-use-nuclear-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/06/obama-limits-when-u-s-would-use-nuclear-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By DAVID E. SANGER and PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.
But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setback for Obama’s hopes of swift Iran sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/setback-for-obama%e2%80%99s-hopes-of-swift-iran-sanctions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/setback-for-obama%e2%80%99s-hopes-of-swift-iran-sanctions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Security Council on Monday failed to include Iran’s nuclear programme on its agenda for April, underlining the likely slow road to sanctions that Barack Obama, US president, had hoped to have in place “within weeks”.
Japan’s Yukio Takasu, this month’s president of the 15-member council, said no meeting had been scheduled because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Sanctions Yield Little</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/iran-sanctions-yield-little/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/iran-sanctions-yield-little/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In its latest proposed set of tougher United Nations sanctions on Iran, the U.S. is again relying on asset freezes as one tool to pressure the country not to build nuclear weapons.
But a close look at how much Iranian money has been frozen to date in the U.S. under existing sanctions shows that the total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unserious About Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/unserious-about-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/unserious-about-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  Although it makes some good points, the conclusion of this essay is a typical neocon one &#8211; that military strikes are in order.
&#8216;Our aim is not incremental sanctions, but sanctions that will bite.&#8221; Thus did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seek to reassure the crowd at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of U.S.-Iran Relations</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/the-future-of-u-s-iran-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/05/the-future-of-u-s-iran-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Proponents of Obama’s initial approach were ignorant of the fact that enmity with the U.S., hostility in foreign relations and challenging the international order are among the tenets of the Islamic Republic’s strategic approach.  Just as U.S. policy makers and researchers think that relations with the U.S. would cause an inevitable change in the essence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. delays report on alleged China currency manipulation</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/04/u-s-delays-report-on-alleged-china-currency-manipulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/04/u-s-delays-report-on-alleged-china-currency-manipulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reza S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reza S.: Is Obama administration delaying publication of this report in return for China&#8217;s support with tougher sanctions on Iran?
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has delayed a scheduled April 15 report to Congress that many lawmakers had hoped would publicly admonish China for allegedly manipulating its currency to the detriment of the United States. Lawmakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the U.S. Help Iran&#8217;s Green Movement?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/04/can-the-u-s-help-irans-green-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/04/can-the-u-s-help-irans-green-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;There are things the US can do to help the Green Movement. Things that would not only help the Green Movement, but at the same time won&#8217;t be direct interference in the internal affairs of another state. Here&#8217;s a shortlist of some immediate steps the U.S. can take to help:
- Thousands of Green Movement activists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karzai delivered extraordinarily harsh criticism of West</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/02/karzai-delivered-extraordinarily-harsh-criticism-of-west/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/02/karzai-delivered-extraordinarily-harsh-criticism-of-west/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=21048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  Like many, many  times in the history of the US foreign policy, today in Afghanistan, we are thinking and acting based on short term tactics and not long term strategic vision.  So long as the regime&#8217;s money and agents which are backed up by its money flow to Afghanistan, most of the US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama wants to increase pressure on Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/02/obama-wants-to-increase-pressure-on-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/02/obama-wants-to-increase-pressure-on-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) –  President Barack Obama intends to &#8220;ratchet up pressure&#8221; on Iran over its nuclear program and believes Tehran is becoming increasingly isolated, he said in an interview aired on Friday.
Obama&#8217;s interview with CBS was taped earlier this week.
&#8220;The idea is to keep turning up the pressure,&#8221; Obama said.
He reiterated that if Iran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Sanctions Are Failing. What&#8217;s Next?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/31/iran-sanctions-are-failing-whats-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Iran:  Another neocon analysis blaming most of the problems on President Obama.  This myopic, childish partisan bickering in light of what&#8217;s at stake is absurd.  Bombing Iran won&#8217;t solve anything and most probably would create a series of terrible unintended consequences.  Neocons are simply blind to their disastrous policies in Iraq.
Has the U.S. abandoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West softens proposed Iran sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/26/west-softens-proposed-iran-sanctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting from Washington and Moscow &#8211; U.S. and European officials considering new sanctions against Iran have decided to set aside some of the harshest of the measures as they seek broader international agreement in United Nations Security Council negotiations, said diplomats involved in the talks.
In particular, U.S. officials and their allies have decided to drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Softens Sanction Plan Against Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/25/u-s-softens-sanction-plan-against-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/25/u-s-softens-sanction-plan-against-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VIENNA—The U.S. has backed away from pursuing a number of tough measures against Iran in order to win support from Russia and China for a new United Nations Security Council resolution on sanctions, according to people familiar with the matter.
Among provisions removed from the original draft resolution the U.S. sent to key allies last month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death Spiral of the Iranian Regime</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/25/the-death-spiral-of-the-iranian-regime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/25/the-death-spiral-of-the-iranian-regime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday night in the city of Karaj, a car blew up.  It was carrying several members of the Revolutionary Guards’ “foreign legion,” non-Iranian Arabs being trained for operations against Americans and our friends and allies in the region.  The explosion was enormous.  “They used too much explosives,” an Iranian friend commented.  Neither he nor I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington&#8217;s Shrinking Options on Iran Nuke Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/24/washingtons-shrinking-options-on-iran-nuke-sanctions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/24/washingtons-shrinking-options-on-iran-nuke-sanctions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;The actual level of progress on the Iran sanctions front, however, has not yet caught up with Clinton&#8217;s tough talk — and there&#8217;s little sign that any of the pressure being mustered will realistically stop Iran from slowly acquiring the means to create a nuclear bomb (though the U.S. believes Tehran has not yet decided [...]]]></description>
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