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Their writings, statements, and votes evidence that the majority of them embrace these great principles for the basis for a civilized nation. As might be expected ped godgecal tests americas providential history written in 1989 has its list of seven principles of liberty in the conclusion. The list is not original but rather is taken from a widely cited and circulated work by slater teaching and learning americans christian history. If we try to sum up the principles that appear across all of these different texts and distill them into a common core conservative christians generally agree that the principles, the true meanings lessons and motivators of the founding era were high level of protestant devotion and strong protestant institution gods covenant with the american people, the powerful flowering of an undefined liberty. This can be personal or economic liberty. And the faithfulness of the founding fatsers. Because they motivated the economiccal event of the American Revolution t
Weeks, the congress actively moving forward with its proposed sanctions bill could have an unpredictable effect on leadership opinion public opinion, in tehran. Just to set the scene then ill ask simon gas who is leading our delegation in the direct talks with the iranians to say something, but just to set the scene, there has been some movement over the last few weeks. We have seen some movement. There is reason for cautious optimism, signals coming out of tehran there is a desire to try to find a deal. But there is still difficult issues in which there is no movement at all. And you have to make heroic assumptions to get to the point where it is all agreed in the next two or three weeks. But i think compared to where we were when we left vienna in november, i think actually we have made quite significant progress over the last few weeks. But still very challenging. Well, firstly on the intervention, i think it cuts in both directions. You may have seen a spirited reply to the letter
Hypnotic state where the people with guns are basically running the country are going bankrupt. I think there is calls for some moderate optimism. But i wouldnt put it any higher than that. I dont think to be an expert on libya. But those who are tell me that the principle protagonists. If people are really fighting over territory and money and oil. It is easier to find solutions which divide the riches. And this is a rich country. So i would be moderately optimistic, but no more than that. Cautiously optimistic but there could be a chance of the government of national unity. I do think that the presence of isil in the country, the inevitability that there will be continued intervention that is able to deal with the problem itself. I do think those are helpful points of oppression on the sides of the civil war to think very hard about whether its in their collective best interests to try and resolve their differences and work together. Foreign secretary, can we turn to iran and the Nuc