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Marjane Satrapi, the face behind the award-winning “Persepolis” book series and recent film adaptation, brought the same charm and sense of humor to Iowa City that helped make her books an international success.

Sister Simone Campbell, who will visit Iowa on Tuesday, met with Iraqi refugees earlier this year with a delegation of women religious. For 10 days in January, on a visit sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, she heard stories from families in Syria and Lebanon. The trip was her second to the region; in 2002, she [...]

Speaking at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson made a pitch for himself as a presidential candidate.

He challenged the other Democratic candidates on Iraq when he said: “They’ve decided to stop talking about Iraq. Their campaign strategies have shifted to other issues.  Over the last few debates and on the [...]

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney gave a presentation in Muscatine on Thursday that included a video display with graphs, statistics and bullet points. His event was billed as a talk on his “Strategy for a Stronger America: Strengthening America’s Economy.” He talked and explained slides that gave statistical projections on subjects including taxes, immigration and U.S. [...]

Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach says he is “extremely pessimistic” about U.S. relations with Iran. 

“We’ve administered a policy analogous to the same policy we’ve had towards Cuba, both attitudinally and in effect, of not talking and of basically refusing to deal on a respectful basis,” the head of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government [...]

In a speech billed as a “major foreign policy address,” John Edwards offered as much criticism for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as he did for the Bush Administration.

“Hillary is voting like a hawk in Washington, D.C. and talking like a dove in Iowa,” Edwards told a crowd of 200 on the University of Iowa campus, [...]

Iowan Jack Engstrom spent more than an hour listening to Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd speak and answer questions during a campaign stop in Fairfield. The undecided caucus-goer didn’t have much to say during the event, but nodded in agreement as Dodd made points on Iraq, recent votes in the U.S. Senate and domestic policy.
“I haven’t [...]

Iowa Independent has been covering the ongoing White House debate over Iran. Up until now, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who had argued for diplomacy, had won the president's ear. But now the Guardian reports that Vice President Dick Cheney, who supports military action against Iran, has won the day, at least for now:
The [...]

The debate over U.S. policy between toward Iran between hard-liners led by Vice President Dick Cheney and supporters of diplomacy like Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice continues apace, the New York Times reported today.
Iowa Independent previously examined this issue, noting that an unnamed Cheney aide was making the case for a hot war behind the [...]