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Russ Wellen, Truthout: ''When dueling narratives clash and the subject is nuclear weapons, the sparks that fly could make flashing sabers seem dim in comparison. According to conventional thinking in the West, Iran is not abiding by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and restraining itself from all nuclear weapons activities. Thus, it should be denied its right to enrich uranium. But in the view of much of the rest of the world, the West is making little more than cosmetic efforts to roll back its nuclear arsenals.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9758-wests-idea-of-nuclear-disarmament-doesnt-include-itself



Deep-Sixing the China Option

Hillary Mann Leverett and Flynt Leverett, TomDispatch.com: ''America s Iran policy remains stuck in a delusion similar to the one that warped its China policy for two decades after China s revolutionaries took power in 1949, that Washington could somehow isolate, strangle, and ultimately bring down a political order created through mass mobilization and dedicated to restoring national independence after a long period of Western domination. It didn t work in the Chinese case and it s not likely to in Iran either.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9869-deep-sixing-the-china-option



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