<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8c09fdcf-f468-4782-ba8d-bbb6215ee522/371C5083-E61B-4845-B5E7-3BCAB2EC029E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.progressiverealist.org/blogpost/back-future-iran" href="http://www.progressiverealist.org/blogpost/back-future-iran" style="font-size: 11px;">www.progressiverealist.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressiverealist.org/blogpost/back-future-iran"><H2 class="nodetitle">Back to the Future with Iran</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressiverealist.org/blogpost/back-future-iran"><DIV>The speculation I've seen to date on the Obama administration's approach to Iran's nuclear program suggested that it was phasing out the demand for a freeze on uranium enrichment as a precondition for talks, instead making more intrusive IAEA inspections to protect against weaponization -- the so-called Additional Protocols -- the focus of any ultimate deal. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressiverealist.org/blogpost/back-future-iran"><DIV>Unless I'm missing something, I don't see anything new here on either side. As <A href="http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/11/a_better_approach_to_the_israeli_palestinian_talks" target="_blank">Marc Lynch cautioned the other day</A> with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "There's a real risk that the Obama administration will fool itself into thinking that it can do the same basic things as Bush . . . but succeed through better execution." That seems like a good description of what's happening here.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/371C5083-E61B-4845-B5E7-3BCAB2EC029E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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