Saturday, September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON — It was just over two years ago that Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois with aspirations to the presidency, famously pronounced during a Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C., that he would be willing to hold direct talks, without preconditions, with the president of Iran.
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Monday, September 14th, 2009 Analysts foresee a complicated game of diplomatic chess, with Tehran hoping to delay sanctions while the U.S. tries to convince Russia and China to agree to a harsher response if the talks fail.
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Friday, July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama warned Iran on Friday the world will not wait indefinitely for it to end its nuclear defiance, saying Tehran had until September to comply or else face consequences.
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Friday, June 26th, 2009 TEHRAN — Despite new criticism from President Obama, the Iranian authorities showed no sign Friday of bending to domestic or foreign pressure, saying that the disputed presidential vote on June 12 was the “healthiest” in three decades.
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Friday, June 26th, 2009 TEHRAN — As Iran’s leaders push back threats to their authority after the disputed presidential election, crushing street protests and pressing challengers to withdraw or to limit their objections, the country’s main electoral oversight group ruled Friday that the ballot had been the “healthiest” since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009 TEHRAN — As Iran’s embattled opposition leader renewed a call for protests against the disputed presidential elections, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assailed President Obama on Thursday, telling him to stop interfering in Iran’s affairs and accusing him of striking the same hostile tone as his predecessor, George W. Bush.
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON (AFP) — President Barack Obama's administration wrote to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before the disputed elections offering to improve relations, a report said Wednesday.
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
President Obama today strongly condemned the Iranian government's crackdown, opening his news conference by saying the United States had been "appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days."
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he does not want to become a scapegoat for Iran's leadership as postelection upheaval continues, but Republicans are still saying the new president is being too cautious.
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama expressed continued concern about violence and "unjust actions" taken against Iranian demonstrators on Sunday during a meeting with advisers who updated him about developments in the Islamic Republic.
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