Ex-Officials Urge Obama: Run, Don't Walk to Iran Diplomacy - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Barbara Slavin

Barbara Slavin

Apr 17, 2013

Former U.S ambassador Thomas Pickering speaks at the International Economic Alliance Global Investment Symposium in New York September 24, 2008. REUTERS/Jacob Silberberg (UNITED STATES) - RTX8VYK — Former US ambassador Thomas Pickering, Sept. 24, 2008. — REUTERS/Jacob Silberberg

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An employee of a gas station fills a car tank in Athens February 21, 2012. Oil held near $120 a barrel on Tuesday as world consumers grappled with supply disruptions ranging from Iran to Sudan to the North Sea. Oil also rose briefly after Europe's much-awaited bailout of Greece. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS POLITICS TRANSPORT COMMODITIES EMPLOYMENT)

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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the media after a meeting of the foreign ministers representing the permanent five member countries of the United Nations Security Council, including Germany, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York September 26, 2013. U.S. and Iranian officials emerged upbeat on Thursday from a meeting on Iran's nuclear program but both sides also sounded a cautionary note, with the United States saying there was more work to do and Iran insisting on quick sanctions relie

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