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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said on Friday he views Iran as a "genuine threat" but still favors initiating a dialogue with the Islamic republic.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/01/09/63878.html



In Washington, All Roads Lead to Tehran

By Daniel Luban

As the war in Gaza approaches its third week, a chorus of influential voices in the U.S. media has cast the conflict as a proxy war in which the real enemy is not Hamas but Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21707.htm



Gaza conflict a template for US policy on Iran

The Gaza operation, quite aside from its immediate lethal brutality, is part of a larger and longer Israeli strategy: to convince the incoming United States administration that engaging Iran directly in a possible grand bargain about the future of the Middle East and Afghanistan would be a dangerous mistake.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0110/1231515461125.html


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