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Iran: A Nation in Turmoil
The government of Iran today blamed the US and Europe for growing unrest and staged counter-demonstrations to reassert its authority. What changes might be in store? Does the US have a role? What about the nuclear buildup? Also, the President acknowledges intelligence warnings about Umar Abdulmutallab, and the President has ordered years of secrets to be revealed. How committed is he to "open government?"
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThe government of Iran today blamed the US and Europe for growing unrest and staged counter-demonstrations to reassert its authority. What changes might be in store? Does the US have a role? What about the nuclear buildup? Also, the President acknowledges intelligence warnings about Umar Abdulmutallab, and 400 million pages of government records will be declassified. We look at the President's commitment to open government.
Banner image: An Iranian police officer (2nd-L) is taken away by people after allegedly being beaten by opposition supporters during an anti-government protest in Tehran on December 27, 2009. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
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President Obama said yesterday there were warning signs that could have averted the near-disaster on Christmas Day. He branded the government's failure to share and act upon information about "known extremist" Umar Abdulmutallab "totally unacceptable." Evan Perez covers the Justice Department for the Wall Street Journal .
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While on a Hawaiian vacation, President Obama met a December 31 deadline with a sweeping executive order to declassify some 400 million pages of documents, going back to the wars in Vietnam, Korea and World War II.
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