
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal at a a Gaza Strip donors conference. Clinton also met privately with the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates and spoke about Iran
"Reporting from Sharm El Sheik, Egypt -- The Obama administration has already concluded that a diplomatic overture to Iran, one of the central promises of the president's election campaign, is unlikely to persuade Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates in a private meeting Monday that it is "very doubtful" a U.S. approach will persuade Iran to relent, said a senior State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under customary diplomatic rules."
LATimes
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) visits the Natanz uranium enrichment facilities 200 miles (322 km) south of the Tehran, Iran on April 8, 2008. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran started installation of some 6,000 new centrifuges on Tuesday.
"WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has sent President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia a letter suggesting that the proposed U.S. missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic may not be necessary if Moscow can convince Iran to curtail its nuclear aspirations.
The Moscow newspaper Kommersant and The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Obama's message Tuesday.
These latest developments will come as no surprise to those who have followed our coverage of the issue at UPI. For the past three months we have predicted that the Russian government would make such an offer -- either offering to negotiate a new strategic arms-reduction treaty with the United States or folding the offer in with another one of mediation with Iran -- and that the new Obama administration would take it."
UPIWTF is going on with this administration? Two separate stories saying completely opposite things. Isn't Hillary supposed to take her lead from 0Bama?