U.S. ponders how to pressure Iran

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration plans to force charges that Iran plotted to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States into a new global campaign to isolate the Islamic republic.

U.S. officials stated that the administration will lobby for the imposition of new international sanctions as well as for individual nations to increase their own penalties against Iran based on charges that Iranian agents tried to recruit a purported member of a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy on American soil.

The Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stated in an associated press interview, "this really, in the minds of many diplomats and government officials, crosses a line that Iran needs to be held to account for”. She also said she and President Barack Obama want to "enlist more countries in working together against what is becoming a clearer and clearer threat" from Iran.

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Senate GOP poised to scuttle Obama's jobs plan

President Barack Obama's jobs bill, facing a serious test in the Senate, appears likely to fail because Republicans oppose its spending components and its tax supplement on millionaires obama has been waging a campaign style effort to rally public hold behind the $447 billion measure, which was expected to be the subject of a Senate vote Tuesday.

The plan combines payroll tax cuts for workers and businesses with $175 billion in expenditure on roads, school repairs and other infrastructure, as well as unemployment support and help to local governments to avoid layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers.

The key elements of the jobs package reprise parts of Obama's $800 billion-plus 2009 stimulus determine and a Social Security payroll tax cut enacted last year unlike the notorious stimulus bill, the jobs measure would be financed by a 5.6 percent surcharge on income more than $1 million, raising more than $450 billion over a decade.

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SPIN METER: Obama disconnects rhetoric, reality

In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two version of actuality the one in his speeches and the one really unfolding in Washington when Obama accuse Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignore the fact that his own party has struggled to unite following the proposal.

When the president says Republicans haven't explain what they oppose in the plan, he skips over the fact that Republicans who control the House really have done that in detail and when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats organize the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities senators are predictable to vote Tuesday on opening debate on the bill, a month after the president unveil it with a call for its immediate passage.

To be sure, Obama is not the only one attractive in rhetorical excesses but he is the president, and as such, his constant remarks on the bill draw the most concentration and scrutiny the disconnect between what Obama says about his jobs bill and what stands as the following reality flow from his broader aim to rally the public following his cause and get Congress to act, or, if not, to pin blame on Republicans.

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