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  • Embassy Row: Pressure on Iran

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    The House and Senate this week advanced bills to broaden sanctions against Iran because of its suspected nuclear weapons program and continued abuse of human rights, as the theocratic regime in Tehran took steps to manipulate its June 14 presidential election. Published May 23, 2013

  • Embassy Row: 'Preaching to the choir'

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    The U.S. ambassador to India is urging business executives to press politicians to lift trade barriers and encourage foreign investment to raise the country out of the grinding poverty that infects most of its 1.2 billion people. Published May 21, 2013

  • Embassy Row: 'Cognitive disconnect'

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    Pakistani Ambassador Sherry Rehman doesn't mince words. She rolls them out like fresh dough, pounds them into heaps and injects them with a "cognitive disconnect" or a "bilateral trajectory." Published May 19, 2013

  • Embassy Row: After Afghanistan for NATO

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    "In together, out together," Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende explained when asked how long his country's combat troops would stay in Afghanistan after U.S. forces leave next year. Published May 16, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Pakistani ambassador quits

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    Pakistani Ambassador Sherry Rehman resigned Tuesday, citing her party's loss in parliamentary elections as she plans to return to her South Asian nation where she faces a police investigation on charges of blasphemy. Published May 14, 2013

  • Embassy Row: 'War' on Bahrain

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    Lawmakers in the tiny but strategic nation of Bahrain are outraged with the United States and accuse the U.S. ambassador — apparently a mild-manner professional diplomat — of waging "war" against the Persian Gulf kingdom, home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Published May 12, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Former ambassador says Benghazi debacle will hurt ability to recruit diplomats

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    A former U.S. ambassador with extensive knowledge of terrorist operations in North Africa warned Thursday that the Benghazi debacle will hurt the State Department's ability to recruit diplomats for dangerous duty if they fear Washington will ignore their concerns about security. Published May 9, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Ambassador at risk

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    Frank Duggan is worried about the fate of Libya's ambassador to the United States, after reading the latest news from Libya and recalling the adage that no good deed goes unpunished. Published May 7, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Grave situation

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    A leading member of Congress is accusing the Iraqi government of failing to protect unarmed Iranian dissidents from terrorist attacks in a refugee camp near Baghdad. Published May 5, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Drugs and terror

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren is warning about the links between Latin American drug lords and Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorists. Published May 2, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Dutch treat

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    With his home festooned with peonies, orchids and, of course, tulips, the Dutch ambassador treated Washington journalists Tuesday to an elegant luncheon to celebrate the investiture of the first king of the Netherlands in 123 years. Published April 30, 2013

  • Embassy Row: The Seventh Floor

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is faulting a flawed bureaucratic system for the State Department's failure to blame top U.S. officials for ignoring pleas for more security before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. Published April 28, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Shadow democracy in Africa

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    A small but stable democracy lies in the shadow of Somalia in the volatile and terrorist-infested Horn of Africa. Published April 25, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Pipeline and protests

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer is traveling the United States to promote the Keystone XL project as U.S. environmentalists threaten President Obama with civil unrest if he approves the proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas. Published April 23, 2013

  • Embassy Row: Czech condolences

    By James Morrison - The Washington Times

    The Czech ambassador is repeating himself: The Czech Republic is not absolutely not Chechnya. Published April 21, 2013

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