As Iran s nuclear program has developed, the Bush administration appeared to draw a red line: a nuclear weapons-capable Islamic Republic would be unacceptable. On August 8, 2004, for example, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told NBC News
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A variety of border conflicts between Russia and neighboring countries, often over breakaway regions like Abkhazia or the Donbass, have come to be described as "frozen conflicts." The Middle East has engendered new conflicts in recent decades that are, at least, semi-frozen, lasting for a decade or longer.
While millions of Iraqis and many observers were waiting for a statement from the religious authority in Najaf about the Shiite-Shiite fights in Iraq between gunmen loyal to the Sadrist movement and their counterparts affiliated with the Coordination Framework Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani was quietly seeking to stop the violence and clear the Green Zone and the rest of