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Daybreak: Obama Talks of Urgency on Iran

Plus West Bank statehood edifice collapsing, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
March 15, 2012
President Obama (with Prime Minister David Cameron) yesterday.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Obama (with Prime Minister David Cameron) yesterday.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

• THE “WINDOW FOR DIPLOMACY IS SHRINKING,” President Obama warned Iran yesterday. He maintained that there is still room and time, however. [Haaretz]

• THE PROSPECT OF WEST BANK STATEHOOD IS HAMPERED by economic slowdown and lowered aid, the World Bank reported. A year ago, the same institution said that economic growth helped make the case for sovereignty. [Haaretz]

• SYRIA’S MAIN OPPOSITION GROUP IS WEAKENING, with several key members leaving, accusing it of being dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. [NYT]

• PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD SUBMITTED TO UNPRECEDENTED PARLIAMENTARY GRILLING, in one sign of how power relations at the top are not so clear-cut in the Islamic Republic. [NYT]

• IRAN FUNDED, TRAINED, AND ORDERED 22 OPERATIVES to attack Jewish, Israeli, and Western targets in Baku, Azeri police reported. [Haaretz]

• DETERRENCE IS BEST, argues Fareed Zakaria (quoting a young Charles Krauthammer). [WP]

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