The Bush administration plans to announce an unprecedented package
of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the designation
of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass
destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism,
according to senior administration officials.
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Facing
U.N. resistance to a resolution that seeks international
support in Iraq – but encouraged by signs that at least a few allies
may be willing to help even without one –
U.S. officials are
weighing whether to simply drop the draft resolution.
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President Bush on Monday firmly backed Israel’s right to defend
itself against the “needless murder of innocent civilians,” but said
he had cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon against actions
that would escalate tensions in the Middle East after Israel’s bold
attack on what it said was a Palestinian camp inside Syria.
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Despite a quarter-century of tension with Iran, the United States has
reached out to the Islamic Republic for help in the postwar
reconstruction of Iraq – and is getting it, according to
U.S. and
Iranian officials.
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After supporting Ahmad Chalabi for years, the United States has grown
disenchanted and made a serious effort during the past two weeks to
rein in the former Iraqi exile leader, pressing him specifically to
stop embarrassing President Bush with calls for a speedy handover of
power in Baghdad, according to senior
U.S. officials.
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Despite
U.S. charges implicating Syria in the Guantanamo Bay spy
case, the State Department has no information about Syrian government
involvement and has not been asked to protest to Damascus, senior
State Department officials said Wednesday.
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The United States informally circulated a new draft resolution on
Iraq to key Security Council members Wednesday that includes changes,
among them an unofficial timetable for Iraqi self-rule, designed to
win more troops and money for rebuilding the country.
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The United States and its partners, in the latest bid to revive a
faltering Middle East peace plan, Friday called on both Israel and
the Palestinians to do more “immediately and simultaneously” to
address each others’ concerns, but emphasized that the cycle of
violence must end as a first step.
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Secretary of State Colin
L. Powell expressed optimism Thursday that
Iraqis could clear a key hurdle in the reconstruction of their
country and develop a constitution within six months, even as the
United Nations announced that security conditions were so bad in Iraq
that it was pulling out most foreign staffers.
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