President Hassan Rouhani, who is visiting New York to speak at the UN general assembly next week, said at a meeting with journalists and media executives on Friday that "conditions were ripe" for his administration to start implementing the agreement, struck in Vienna in July, by the end of the year.
The civil rights division, which had been reshaped in a conservative direction under President George W. Bush, is ripe for sharp change, administration officials said.
WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday.
But he has made clear to associates that while he believes the time is ripe for solving the Sudan conflict, the administration must be unified and clear in how it wants to go about it.
Because of the Snyder administration, Detroit is ripe for a George Wallace style populism that brands Kevyn Orr and Mike Duggan as proof that poor black citizens remain segregated, invisible and locked out.
Antiquities is very ripe for that," he added, using the Obama administration's preferred name for the Islamic State.
The timing is not ripe for such a deal, and the Obama administration cannot be blind to this reality.
The administration viewed it as an area ripe for economic development if the 225 existing businesses could be cleared.
With a new U.S. administration in power, the time is ripe for one or the other to push for American action in its own interests.
The administration's new forest policies also seem ripe for legal challenge.
But underscoring the differences with Europeans and other allies, a senior administration official said yesterday that the time is not yet ripe for a diplomatic solution.
