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Daybreak: Iran Back on Track?

Plus assaulted Logan was called ‘Jew,’ and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
February 16, 2011
The reactor at Bushehr, Iran.(IIPA via Getty Images)
The reactor at Bushehr, Iran.(IIPA via Getty Images)

• A forthcoming report from international inspectors is expected to relay that Iran’s nuclear scientists quickly recovered from Stuxnet’s damage and are enriching uranium at Natanz regular levels. [WP]

• Meanwhile, President Obama praised Iranian protesters while stopping short of calling for regime change; some Iranian legislators pushed for the death of two top opposition leaders. [WP]

• The people who sexually assualted CBS News reporter Lara Logan in Tahrir Square were reportedly shouting, “Jew! Jew! Jew!” (So far as I can tell, Logan is not Jewish.) [NY Post]

• Egypt’s ruling military convened eight experts, including a Muslim Brotherhood representative and a Coptic Christian and led by an anti-Mubarak retired judge, and tasked them with revisiting the constitution. [NYT]

• An Israeli NGO has documented the systematic beatings and rapes migrant Africans receive from Bedouin smugglers in the Sinai as they try to make their way to Israel. [NYT]

• Madoff speaks, for the first time since his arrest. Says some other banks would have known what he was up to; names no names. [NYT]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.