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I think that all of these

Bruce Levine — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:48:50 +0000

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I think that all of these articles are a reflection that there are real supposals (as distinguished from proposals) being referred unofficially and which allow for plausible deniability. I'd be surprised if that's not happening.

It does seem that there is exploration of what would be a major breakthrough, and that is that the U.S. may be looking for ways that will allow for Iran to continue enriching but will allow for sufficient transparency. I'd be surprised if that's not what's happening--because it's the easiest way to a deal--and perhaps the hardest thing to accomplish.

But then, there's very

artappraiser — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:05:39 +0000

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But then, there's very strange and confusing things going on with the Iranian state message machine:

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Denies Kayhan’s Report
Zarif at Hospital for Nervousness and Muscle Spasm After Reading the Report
Uskowi on Iran, Oct. 8, 2013

Misquote by Hard-line Newspaper Hospitalizes Iran’s Foreign Minister
Iran Pulse @ Al-Monitor, Oct. 9, 2013

This might turn out to be a

Aaron Carine — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:01:10 +0000

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This might turn out to be a foreign policy triumph for the Obamatron--and perhaps a rebuke to the neocons who were calling for war with Iran.

File this under "something's

artappraiser — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:17:59 +0000

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File this under "something's happening here, what it is isn't exactly clear" for now:

Larijani’s Uranium ‘Surplus’ Comment Denied
By Arash Karami, Iran Pulse @ Al-Monitor, Oct. 10, 2013

Iran’s Surplus Uranium and Halting 20% Enrichment On Negotiating Table – Majlis Speaker, Uskowi on Iran, Oct. 9, 2013

Some of the various reactions

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:22:33 +0000

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Some of the various reactions to the growing chance that there will be a deal with Iran in an article by Jim Lobe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36479.htm

The Weekly Standard, a neo-conservative publication, described Israel's position as "Standing Alone", the title of its lead editorial at week's end, although its authors, editor-in-chief William Kristol and the director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Michael Makovsky, took a far more defiant tone than Abrams. They urged Netanyahu to follow through on his latest threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities with or without US approval.

"No one likes the truth-telling skunk at the appeasement party," they wrote, asserting that President Barack Obama's "soft-headed, even desperate, desire for some sort of [nuclear] deal, any deal" with Iran comprised the kind of Western "failure of nerve and a collapse of will" that the later British prime minister Winston Churchill decried with the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.