What's the shift in US-Iran relations?
Just a little notice here that the US Iran tensions over Iraq appear to be dialing down. Yesterday the US said it would soon release 9 of the Iranians its been holding for several years.
Today, the Iranians reopened two embassies in Arbil and Sulaimaniyah.
This is happening at the same time Iran has announced that Iran has its entire 3,000 centrifuge cascade working.
Has the US delinked the nuclear and Iraq portions of the Iranian relationship?
(PS. (AFP) The US plans a new assault on Shia Diwaniyah.)
Today, the Iranians reopened two embassies in Arbil and Sulaimaniyah.
This is happening at the same time Iran has announced that Iran has its entire 3,000 centrifuge cascade working.
Has the US delinked the nuclear and Iraq portions of the Iranian relationship?
(PS. (AFP) The US plans a new assault on Shia Diwaniyah.)
posted by mikevotes at
8:37 AM
5 Comments:
Maybe somebody made the connection between sabre-rattling and high oil prices?
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Anonymous, at 11:22 AM
Has the US delinked the nuclear and Iraq portions of the Iranian relationship?
Has the US finally come to its senses?
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Praguetwin, at 12:21 PM
Maybe, anon. There have been reports that supposedly less Iranian arms are going inot Iraq, but I don't have any idea how the US would come to a verifiable conclusion on that.
How do you know about the weapons you don't know about?
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Praguetwin, that's my hope (perhaps coloring my perception.)
It would be a remarkably sensible thing to do, but it would also take out the "killing americans" part of the justification for attacking Iran.
So I wonder if this administration would really do it.
Just as a weird unsubstantiated thought, what if the Iraq part is now being handled by the military and crocker in Iraq?
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mikevotes, at 1:24 PM
In the back room political drama of this White House -- in the tabloid world of Cheney vs. Rice and the struggle for W's ear -- I wonder if Condi read her man the riot act. That she told him to put the Cheneyites in a box and get serious about actually DOING something other than trying to impress Ahmadinejad with what a bad ass tough guy he is.
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-epm, at 3:50 PM
That's exactly the kind of tea leaves I'm wondering about. In connection, did Cheney work with the Israelis to torpedo her mideast peace conference?
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mikevotes, at 5:05 PM
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