State Department in diplomatic full court press against Iran (FPCable)

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State Department in diplomatic full court press against Iran
Posted By Josh Rogin Wednesday, October 12, 2011


Top officials in the State Department are going to extensive lengths to coordinate international pressure on Iran in the wake of the alleged assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir, although it remains unclear exactly what the Obama administration's next retaliatory steps might be.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Deputy Secretary Bill Burns have been calling leaders around the world to discuss the indictment against a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen and an Iranian member of the notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps al-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), which alleges that they hatched an elaborate plan to kill Jubeir by bombing a restaurant in Washington, possibly Café Milano in Georgetown.

Clinton has personally spoken with Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal al-Saud, her Mexican counterpart Patricia Espinosa, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and will be making several more calls today. Burns hosted a meeting of dozens of foreign diplomats this morning at the State Department on the plot, urging foreign ambassadors to convey a message back to their capitals that the United States is seeking more international pressure and condemnation of Iran.

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In New York, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is holding individual meetings will all 14 other countries on the U.N. Security Council on the issue today and tomorrow.

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http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10/12/state_department_in_diplomatic_full_court_press_against_iran



Yet the government’s sensational charges depend largely on one unknown informant’s credibility.

Read that sentence over again.

Are the Iranian terror charges a Mexican “Curveball”?

Sensational allegations from an unknown informant justify talk of war in the Middle East. Sound familiar?

Jefferson Morley
Thursday, Oct 13, 2011

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/13/is_the_iran_terror_case_informant_a_mexican_curveball/singleton/#comments

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2107956&mesg_id=2110342

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1. what economic disaster home? Look over there. Iran nt

[NightWatcher]

2. I had picked Syria in the Who We Gonna Bomb Next pool at work

The PNACers win again. Damn this shit's depressing

[chill_wind]

3. Give us time, man.

We'll try to work it in between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya.
And maybe a quick little detour into Uganda.

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