Mark Landler Nyt News Service

The United States fears that Iran is drifting toward a military dictatorship, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton came to the Persian Gulf emirate on Sunday to plead for patience, conceding that the Obama administration had not yet delivered on some of its signature foreign-policy goals.

Declaring that an attack on one nation's computer networks "can be an attack on all," Hillary Clinton said that the United States would defend itself from cyber attacks.

President Hamid Karzai's concession of the need for a runoff election in Afghanistan appears to have prevented his country from slipping into paralysis.

The United States fears that Iran is drifting toward a military dictatorship, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton came to the Persian Gulf emirate on Sunday to plead for patience, conceding that the Obama administration had not yet delivered on some of its signature foreign-policy goals.

Declaring that an attack on one nation's computer networks "can be an attack on all," Hillary Clinton said that the United States would defend itself from cyber attacks.

President Hamid Karzai's concession of the need for a runoff election in Afghanistan appears to have prevented his country from slipping into paralysis.