"Bush's Iran diplomacy is a sham; admits US Defence Secretary" UPDATED

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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 3:34 PM PDT

2008/05/17 · 15:34

In a carefully worded and referenced Press Release, CASMII, The Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, cited the assessments of high-level American leaders and as well as foreign experts who appear to converge on the judgment that the Bush administration is as intransigently fixed on a course headed to disaster in Iran as it was and is undeviating on its disastrous, belligerent strategy in Iraq.

The complete CASMII Press Release is below the fold:

UPDATED to include information about the Iran Policy Committee mentioned in a comment by OhCanada (thanks, OhCanada).

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Monday May 12, 2008 · 9:10 AM PDT

2008/05/12 · 09:10

The Council on Foreign Relations announced on Friday, May 9, that Dr. Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council and author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, received the Silver Medal for his "unique and important book [that] takes a closer look at the complicated triangular relations between Israel, Iran, and the United States that continues to shape the future of the Middle East."

The peripatetic Dr. Parsi emailed friends and colleagues, including Pittsburgh's World Affairs Council, of this good news on Friday; distributed the analysis quoted below the fold of the latest "secret dealings between Iran" and others regarding Iranian nuclear plans on Saturday morning; then discussed his award winning book before a rapt Pittsburgh audience on Saturday afternoon.

On May 2, Pittsburgh radio KQV/ World Affairs Council featured Dr. Parsi in a Global Press Conference interview.

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Sunday May 11, 2008 · 3:55 PM PDT

2008/05/11 · 15:55

I was in Iran when Hillary Clinton told the world that my country, the USA, would obliterate Iran.

I may have been in Yazd, Iran, on that day, or on the day when Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic candidate to become the leader of the "free world," of democratic, freedom-loving, rule-of-law, founded-on-the- principles-of-the-Enlightenment United States of America, did a passing fair imitation of Ann Coulter and told a crowd that roared with approval when a Code Pink protester was removed by an imposing black man (how is it we always sends black men to do our dirty work?): "I hope he didn't step on anybody's cookies or cake."

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