U.N. inspectors arrive in Iran for nuclear talks

[dipsydoodle]

(Reuters) - A team of U.N. inspectors arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, a day after the Islamic Republic ordered a halt to its oil sales to British and French companies in apparent retaliation for tightening EU sanctions.

The European Union enraged Tehran last month when it decided to impose a boycott on its oil from July 1. Iran, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, responded by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, the main Gulf oil shipping lane.

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The five-member team from the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold two days of talks in Iran, but Western diplomats have played down any hopes of a major breakthrough.

"I'm still pessimistic that Iran will demonstrate the substantive cooperation necessary," one envoy said in Vienna.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/20/uk-iran-nuclear-idUKTRE81J05B20120220

[DCKit]

1. Hope this is giving Joe Lieberman and the rest of the NeoCons a collective stroke. nt

[stockholmer]

3. they are already having 1 over the upcoming 'One State' conference at Harvard ('Jew-haters', etc)

Harvard, Jew haters, motherhood and Israel

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/02/harvard-jew-haters-motherhood.php

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Harvard to Host Conference Promoting Israel's Destruction

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=2194


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I just love how the NeoCon Caroline Glick smears Steven Walt:

"After all, the Kennedy School is home to my old professor Steve Walt. No one there batted a lash when he co-published his updated version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with University of Chicago's John Mearshimer."

LOLOL

All that hatred for their important work in The London Review of Books, "The Israel Lobby" exposing AIPAC's influence on the US government. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/john-mearsheimer/the-israel-lobby She lies through her teeth calling it the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

[DCKit]

4. They do it, because it works.

No matter how extreme the rhetoric, it appeals to a subset of their base. The entire (R) race for the nomination is based on this. It's Orly's, Rush's, O'Reilley's, Joe Lieberman's bread and butter.

We've seen that insane, insular base take the rest of them along. Question is, how to thwart it before it becomes too big.

Santorum recently said that Protestants are not Christians, Romney is a Mormon and Newt.... the Queen of England doesn't travel with that much baggage.

I guess we've just got to put their foibles out there, as best we can, right before the General Election in November, whichever one of them is the nominee.

[valerief]

2. Here we go again! nt