| 1 | The government is torn between principle and expediency. | |
| 2 | Others see it as the triumph of expediency over principle. | |
| 3 | Mr. Talabani will also reportedly met with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the head of Iran's Expediency Council Aly Akbar Hashemi Rafsandjani. | |
| 4 | It is scathing about short-sightedness, moral weakness and political expediency on all sides. | |
| 5 | That is why we are doing away with the poorly planned, haphazard approach that let those detainees go in the past. |