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Daybreak: Iran Open to More Talks

Plus Kushner to be offered and accept degree, and more in the news

By Marc Tracy|May 10, 2011 9:38 AM|4comments
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The reactor at Bushehr last August.(IIPA via Getty Images)

• Iran has accepted an EU request for more nuclear talks, though it’s not clear when. [AP/WP]

• A senior Syrian official expressed confidence that the regime’s crackdown on what has been a nearly two-month-long uprising would prove sucessful. [NYT]

• CUNY will indeed offer Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate after its executive committee overturned its board, and Kushner will indeed accept it. [NYT/CUNY Graduate Center Advocate]

• President Obama wished Israel a happy Independence Day. [JPost]

• Jordan’s King Abdullah II will visit the White House later this month. [AP/WP]

• Oh, and Glenn Beck is in Israel. [JPost]
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    Perhaps in solidarity with those whose voices were silenced by the mob, Tony Kushner could read the text of the speech Martin Peretz intended to give at Harvard.

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    It is unbelievable how the West is lulled into paralysis every time the Iranians say they want to negotiate – and of course each time nothing happens – and of course in the meantime Iran continues to advance its nuclear programme.
    This is naïveté pushed to its extremes.

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