Defiant Iran
Rick Santorum on The Gathering Storm
Iran remains defiant in its development of its nuclear capacities. This week, the country's deputy foreign minister said that 4,000 centrifuges are in operation with 3,000 more currently being installed at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility. Ali-Reza Sheikh Attar told Iranian television, "Had the Westerners become certain that the resolutions would bring us to our knees, they would have definitely intensified them." And in other news, the Russian company constructing Iran's nuclear plant has renewed its commitment to completing the project despite the U.N.'s opposition to the effort. [Read More]
Obama on the Surge: Nonsense and Nonsense on Stilts
"Presidential Candidate Obama's statements in and about Iraq in the past 24 hours have been nothing less than shameless and disgraceful."
So says Steve Schippert at http://www.threatswatch.org/. I couldn't have said it better myself. [Read More]
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Our Man in Havana?
The Democrats' far-left foreign-policy guru.
Chávez Sees Cuba as a Model
The End of Ahmadinejad?
A fool's road to the end.
The End of Nuclear Diplomacy
Iran to the West: Drop Dead
Hugo Chávez's Jewish Problem
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Chávez Threatens to Expel American Ambassador
Hezbollah presence in Venezuela feared
Iran-Israel arms race heats up, both boost naval capabilities
Left behind by the U.S., Honduras turns to Chavez
Chávez acknowledges Cuban cooperation
Events
Audio recordings and transcripts for all three lectures on religious freedom are now available for download:
3.20.08 Diplomacy in an Age of Faith: Religious Freedom and National Security (Thomas F. Farr)
2.29.08 Islam and the Fate of Europe: Eurabia or Islamic Assimilation? (George Weigel and Philip Jenkins)
1.25.08 Religious Freedom for All? A Critique of A Common Word between Us and You (Patrick Soohkdeo and Andrew Saperstein)
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, established and directs EPPC's Program to Protect America's Freedom. He is writing a book on the "gathering storm" of the 21st century -- the challenges posed by radical Islamic fascism and its growing alliances around the world.
Mr. Santorum served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. As a United States Senator, he was a champion of efforts to counter the threat of radical Islam, to protect victims of religious persecution, and to promote democracy and religious liberty around the world.
RICK SANTORUM
THE GATHERING STORM
CFR Backgrounder
Timeline: U.S.-Iran Contacts
U.S.-Iranian relations after the 1979 Islamic Revolution have been sporadic and marred by mutual distrust and debacles like the Iran-Contra affair. Iran's alleged support for terrorists, lingering resentment over the Iranian hostage crisis as well as America's 1953 overthrow of the Iranian government and installation of the shah, and Iran's nuclear program have cast a long shadow over any efforts at direct talks. But with U.S. envoys set to sit down with their Iranian counterparts during a regional conference on Iraq, there is a fresh hope among some American foreign policymakers that this may mark the beginning of, if not a beautiful new friendship, then at least an era of mutual cooperation. There have been a handful of attempts and near-attempts from both sides at striking a dialogue in both bilateral and multilateral forums on a number of issues. Here's a look at post-1979 U.S.-Iranian official contacts.
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Santorum and Wofford Join for a Global Cause
Rick Santorum and Harris Wofford, combatants in a bitter and high-profile U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania during the 1990s, are joining together in common cause. And their doing so isn't quite as strange as it might seem at first glance. Republican Santorum and Democrat Wofford, both former senators now, are to serve as state cochairs of ONE Vote '08, which is seeking to raise issues of extreme poverty and global disease during the presidential campaign.
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