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http://lawhawk.blogspot.com [A Blog For All] He said the Iranians have not yet mastered enrichment and still "have a lot of tests to do."What does China think it can gain from siding with the mad mullahs? Oil certainly comes to mind, but have the Chinese thought of the long term costs of letting the Iranians have the wherewithall to produce nuclear weapons on its own.

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http://lawhawk.blogspot.com [A Blog For All] A North Korean Blockbuster?: One senior Asian official who has been briefed on the administration's discussions about what to do next said, "There is a sense that they can't leave Korea out there as a model for what the Iranians hope to become ”” a nuclear state that can say no to outside pressure." Getting North Korea off the table would be a huge diplomatic win for the Administration, which sorely needs positive news. The problem is that North Korea isn't exactly trustworthy on these matters - and the key to any deal with North Korea isn't Pyongnang, but Beijing.

http://stoptheaclu.com [Stop The ACLU] Peace Talks With North Korea?: That stance later softened, and the administration said some benefits to North Korea could begin to flow as significant dismantlement took place. Now, if the president allows talks about a peace treaty to take place on a parallel track with six-nation talks on disarmament, it will signal another major change of tactics.

[Strategic Outlook Institute - Weblog] Iran Update: The EU’s carrot and stick approach has not just failed, but failed miserably, while Iran continues enriching uranium unabated. Iran has succeeded in buying more time for its program, while the EU has allowed Iran to get a couple steps closer to its final goal.

Hot Airhttp://hotair.com [Hot Air] Flash: North Korea no longer evil: In fact, it so happens that Debka has a new item tonight alleging that, “[f]or the first time, the Bush administration has embarked on serious preparations for military action against Iran.” I don’t put much stock in it, but surely there are some contingency plans afoot;

http://www.republicworldnews.com/robertsblog [Robert’s Blog] Ahmadinejad and the Hidden Imam: Our present predicament with Iran revolves around the Twelfth Imam, or Hidden Imam, believed by Shiite Muslims to be the last in the line of spiritual/political rulers. The Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, ascended to his position upon the death of his father, the Eleventh Imam, in 874 AD.

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James Landrith is”¦Taking The Gloves Offhttp://jameslandrith.com/wordpress [James Landrith is”¦Taking The Gloves Off] Permanent Link to Next Target: Iran?: If the United States can negotiate with the erratic Kim Jong Il in North Korea, it can certainly do so with the authoritarian mullahs in Iran. The secret in both sets of negotiations might be to recognize that these “rogue states” might be genuinely frightened of a U.S. invasion and willing to accept a non-aggression pact with the United States in exchange for a verified elimination of their nuclear weapons.

[Activistchat.com] FREE IRAN NEWS [In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great & The First ...: The election of Ahmadi-Nejad consolidates, in a undisguised manner, the power of "Supreme Leader" Ali Khamene`i, and - given Ahmadi-Nejad's background as a hard-line Islamist and Pasdaran security official, a participant in the 1979 seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran, known for his torture and assassination of opponents - streamlines and accelerates the movement of the leadership in (a) the quest for a strategic victory for the Islamist-jihadist trend over the US through the war-by-proxy in Iraq, (b) the construction and deployment of an indigenous military nuclear capability as the guarantor of the mullahs survival in power, and (c) the destruction of all formal semblances of political strength of so-called "reformist" politicians.

Iranian.wshttp://www.iranian.ws [Iranian.ws] Mullahs of Iran forging alliance with China - Persian Journal Iran ...: Last month the two countries signed a preliminary accord worth $70 billion to $100 billion by which China will purchase Iranian oil and gas and help develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field near the Iraq border. Earlier this year, China agreed to purchase $20 billion in liquefied natural gas from Iran over the next quarter century.

[Austinbay.net] Austin Bay Blog » UPDATED: Iran’s nuclear mullahs and the UN ...: I suspect that the consequences of the Iranians closing the Straits of Hormuz would be a rather harsh lesson in real-world economics for the mullahs. Yes, the west would hurt economically from this, but the US has a very robust that can withstand a lot of hammering before we face anything like a true depression.

Timesonline.co.ukhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk [Timesonline.co.uk] Mullahs versus the bloggers - Comment - Times Online: A blogger may be arrested, but once his words are out there and replicable, they are effectively immortal and invulnerable. The bloggers have proved so wily and hard to censor that the Government has even considered removing Iran from the internet entirely, by creating a national intranet that would seal off Iranians from the contaminating freedom of the world wide web.

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