- Obama picks Ross as Mideast envoy, Financial Times
- Obama’s Peace Offensive, Newsweek
- Clinton Is Moving to Fill Senior Posts at State Dept, The New York Times
- Max Boot: Whatever Happened to Preemption?, Foreign Policy
- Iran’s Larijani meets Hamas in Damascus, Reuters
- Muslim govts failing to stop Gaza bloodshed –Iran, Reuters
- Iran bans activists from fighting Israel, Jerusalem Post
- Iran denounces BBC’s new Persian channel, Telegraph
- Iranian Aids doctors tried in closed hearing, Amnesty International
- Russia arms to Iran: A mistimed gambit?, Asia Times
January 8, 2009