Both houses of Russia\’s parliament ratified the START nuclear arms reduction treaty. The upper house Federation Council ratified the treaty on Wednesday, a day after the Duma, the lower house. The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty in December, overcoming resistance from a faction within the Republican Party that said its terms were too loosely defined.
The United States was advised by a German think tank to use \”covert sabotage\” to disrupt Iran\’s march toward nuclear weapons, a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable reveals.
A bipartisan slate of senators urged President Obama to increase pressure on Iran in nuclear talks.
Secret apartheid-era documents show that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa in the mid-1970s, a British newspaper reported.
President Obama expects Israel and other nations to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.\n\n\”As far as Israel goes, I’m not going to comment on their program,\” Obama said at a news conference Tuesday concluding his summit on nuclear security. \”What I’m going to point to is the fact that consistently we have urged all countries to become members of the NPT.\”\n
Even if the Iranian authorities succeed in suppressing the large demonstrations, the opposition might adopt other forms of protest – such as manifestos, strikes and mass resignations by university professors.
Israelis — including the American citizens among them, as many as half of whom hail from swing states — have been closely following the election campaign across the ocean with a mix of interest, concern, bemusement and validation
\”. . . What McCain did by supporting war in Iraq was helping Iran. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the war is Iran. He did it unwittingly because of a lack of judgment, and it made Iran stronger; they were the big winner. Now Iran is stronger and poses a bigger threat to Israel. . . \”
Voters confuse Obama stagecraft with vision. He is articulate and confident but also glib and cocky. This is not a humble man who knows what he doesn\’t know.
The U.N. Security Council reaffirmed existing sanctions against Iran but did not expand them.
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