Archives for the 'Iran' Category
Then There’s The Iran Bit
Published on 8 Oct 2009 at 11:14 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Iran, Obama.
Lara Logan at CBS on the Iran-Taliban connection:
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Nuke News
Published on 4 Oct 2009 at 10:19 am.
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NYT cites an IAEA draft report that Iran has the data to produce a workable A-bomb.* NYT seems to be of the opinion that United States intelligence agencies thought Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, and that they are now re-evaluating to allow that perhaps those activities had resumed. Which is a bit of [...]
It’s A Small World After All!
Published on 3 Oct 2009 at 2:59 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, dhimmi.
I love it when this happens … though some Jews might not be too crazy about the kinship. Guess who’s eligible to immigrate to Israel. It’s big news, even bigger than Letterman turning out to be the butt of his own jokes …
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Jaw Jaw
Published on 30 Sep 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under Iran, Obama.
No shortage of it with Iran over the past 30 years, as detailed by Ledeen at the Wall Street Journal. Talk talk talk. Carter, Reagan, Clinton, even George W. Bush … who modern myth holds didn’t … talk talk talk. Talk and sanctions. And as Ledeen notes, channeling SecDef Gates, it’s never worked. He suggests something that might work. He [...]
Partner For Peace!
Published on 27 Sep 2009 at 11:22 am.
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Test fires short-range missiles, with a long-range missile test in the offing! Nothing says “We’re scared of santions” like an idle Sunday afternoon’s rocketry. Wall Street Journal on the latest show of ballistic goodwill by the mullah regime, which apparently was greatly impressed by President Obama’s threat that he’s really serious now. Speaking of which, NYT: US to [...]
About That Iran Business
Published on 26 Sep 2009 at 9:17 am.
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Filed under Iran, Obama.
Here’s a little behind the scenes from Politico on Obama’s Iranian panic moment the other day, “Obama’s Unplanned Iran News.” I guess we can set aside that Bush-Lied NIE myth that the Iranians stopped their nuke program in 2004. Looks like, considering at what had just happened to Iraq, they decided the best expedient was essentially to build [...]
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No Kidding
Published on 25 Sep 2009 at 9:56 am.
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NYT: “Iran Said To Have Covert Nuclear Facility.” Obama’s talking tough.
Partner For Peace
Published on 14 Aug 2009 at 9:00 am.
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Rapes, tortures dissenters to death.* BBC. Meanwhile, Khatami urges the regime to “resist the bullying of European countries” and ignore the West’s demands that they let dissenters go. NYT. Sadly, it doesn’t seem that the senior mullah felt it necessary to chide the United States.
At the risk of sounding preachy, this holds several important lessons for President [...]
Pawn Swapping
Published on 10 Aug 2009 at 9:42 am.
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Filed under Clintons, Iran, Kim, Korea, media, moronocy.
The UK Daily Mail offers a version of the back story on Bill’s North Korean rescue mission from assorted unnamed insiders, as well as details on the captured journos’ capitalization plans and a depiction of embarrassingly amatuerish behavior that is said to have got them in this mess in the first place.
Meanwhile, in Iran, the mullahs are [...]
Pax Iranica
Published on 3 Aug 2009 at 9:21 am.
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Filed under Iran, Obama, nukes.
Great news for the Obama admin on the Iranian front. The Iranians are ready to build a nuke. But the top mullah hasn’t given them the nod yet. Also, his partner for peace has been officially re-installed. By the same top mullah. Times of London:
Which Part Of “Great Satan” …
Published on 27 Jul 2009 at 12:30 pm.
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… don’t they get? NYT, Gates says the U.S. overture to Iran isn’t open-ended:
JERUSALEM—Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned Monday that the American overture to engage Iran in talks about its nuclear program “is not an open-ended offer” as Ehub Barak, the Israeli defense minister, expressed impatience that the Americans were willing to talk to [...]
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Iranian Jokes
Published on 21 Jul 2009 at 9:41 am.
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Roger Cohen at NYT, in “Iran’s Tragic Joke,” recounts the string of tragic one-liners that is the Iranian election, but bungles the punchline on the big one and misses another kneeslapper entirely:
Absolute Green Light Deniability
Published on 7 Jul 2009 at 2:15 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Obama.
Defense Ministry Command Bunker, Tel Aviv.
Bibi: Look, Ehud, Obama himself as confirmed it. It is chjust as Shlomo from Mossad said.
Ehud: ChHuh? ChWhat are you chtalking about?
Bibi: About Biden greenlighting us for an attack on the mullahs’ nukes. Obama has chconfirmed it. We are chgood to chgo. It’s all here in the Jerusalem Post.
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Good Stuff Done
Published on 7 Jul 2009 at 8:33 am.
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Filed under Bush, Iran, Iraq, Obama, dummkopf!.
By he who must not be named or even indirectly referenced. Not without dismissive derision.
Christopher Hitchens, who was for liberating Iraq before he was for the guy who wanted to abandon it, comes out for the liberation of Iraq and subsequent elections there as the inspiration for the pro-democracy movement in Iran.
Hey, whose idea was [...]
The Biden Option
Published on 6 Jul 2009 at 9:37 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Obama.
Defense Ministry command bunker, deep under Tel Aviv:
Bibi: … the vice president of the United States said chwhat?
Ehud: Well, Bibi, according to the New York Times, Joe Biden said if we want to chwhack Iran, that’s our business.
Whack Now
Published on 2 Jul 2009 at 8:43 am.
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That’s the advice from John Bolton, who explains on today’s Washington Post op-ed page that President Obama’s mullah-coaxing plans make less sense now than ever. It’s time to greenlight Israel, if Israel isn’t already greenlighting herself. There’s a couple of other ways that could work, though. Theoretically. If someone else was president. Bolton first:
Good News For Obama!
Published on 28 Jun 2009 at 10:44 am.
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And his anti-nuke foreign policy plans! NYT reports despair in Tehran as the anti-regime protests that threatened Obama’s peace plans sputter out, thanks to violence, arrests, tortured confessions and the threat of executions. Victorious Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, by showering Obama with insults, has signaled that the terms under which he is open to a partnership for peace have not [...]
Burying The News
Published on 27 Jun 2009 at 9:31 am.
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Which is that the mullahs would like to bury the opposition.
I’m trying to figure out why this CNN report would leave out Khatami’s “worthy of execution” remark.
Here’s the remark, from a WPost/AP compilation by the Dallas Morning News:
TEHRAN, Iran – An influential cleric told worshippers Friday that those stirring unrest in connection with the recent election [...]
RealHotdogPolitik Seriously Reconsidered
Published on 24 Jun 2009 at 1:31 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Obama.
UPDATE: RealHotdogPolitik abandoned. Fox: No hotdogs for murderous mullah regime.
“As you all know many weeks ago the administration extended an invitation to celebrate the freedom that this country enjoys. not surprisingly based on what we see in Tehran, no one has RSVP’d,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
“Understand that July 4th allows us to celebrate [...]
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High School Mootical
Published on 24 Jun 2009 at 10:56 am.
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Or maybe more of a Dust Side Story. Greased. Ahmadineo and Obamiette. Obama’s love that wasn’t supposed to be doesn’t look like it’s going to have a happy ending. Reading Jonah Goldberg’s description of the trainwreck that is Obama’s Iran policy, I just kept getting a heavy pall of adolescent stubborness, teen angst and puppy love gone badly, tragically wrong off all of it:
BYO Sharia
Published on 23 Jun 2009 at 9:14 pm.
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Filed under America, Iran, Obama.
By special request of American Neocon, as our president prepares to celebrate our nation’s independence by inviting a lot of backward, murderous, Koran-thumping religious extremists to eat U.S. taxpayer-subsidized hot dogs, here’s Angie Harmon. You remember Angie. What a sweetheart. I’m guessing she’d have no problem looking hot, looking All-American and telling off mullahs all at the same time. [...]
Disgust-Blogging The Press Conference
Published on 23 Jun 2009 at 1:22 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Obama.
The president of the United States just kicked off his press conference with a stalwart speech that almost made it sound like he stands with the people of Iran. For all the words of bravery and historical right, though, he stopped short of even saying he stands in awe of them. He’s been trying to avoid making [...]
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Hot Dog Diplomacy
Published on 22 Jun 2009 at 1:42 pm.
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Filed under America, Iran, Obama, food.
Still on, as the Great Satan extends an invite to mullah diplomats on the Fourth. O admin’s Strategic Mullah Hotdog Initiative looks like a pretty dumb idea but that doesn’t mean patriotic American diplomats can’t make it work. Mullah-Proof Your Fourth field guide below. News first from AFP:
Brilliant Gem
Published on 22 Jun 2009 at 8:31 am.
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NYT UPDATE: Revolutionary Guards warn protestors of “revolutionary confrontation” if they take to the streets again. Odd choice of words. Be careful what you warn against, RG. … From the mouths of corrupt, violent oppressors.
NYT: Mullahs allow there may have been excessive electoral exuberance to the tune of 3 million votes, thanks to +100 percent [...]
No Happy Ending …
Published on 20 Jun 2009 at 9:11 am.
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… Not without a lot of pain. Iranians were shouting from the rooftops and dying in the streets for the man they say was voted in. The other man chosen by the mullahs. Reasonable people can disagree about whether President Obama should be saying more, doing more, or whether he should have had a realistic approach to Iran [...]
Ha!
Published on 17 Jun 2009 at 9:20 pm.
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Two examples of cruel clarity. First, Robert Kagan at the Washington Post:
The turmoil in Iran since last week’s election has confused the foreign policy debate here in the United States in interesting ways. Supporters of President Obama, who until very recently had railed against the Bush administration’s “freedom agenda” and who insisted on a new “realism,” [...]
History Lesson
Published on 16 Jun 2009 at 9:51 am.
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Filed under Iran, Obama, history.
Hey Obama, it’s 3 a.m. Do you know where your foreign policy is?
Roundup and deep thot kicks off with Michael Ledeen at PajamasMedia, always good on Iran. This great backgrounder that is pretty good on America, too:
Punting For Peace!
Published on 15 Jun 2009 at 10:49 am.
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Filed under Iran, Obama.
Great news for Obama! Word is emerging that the Iranian election may not have been stolen! Ahmadinejad may just be a victim of bad PR. He may yet be a partner for peace. And it’s Carter-approved! But first, about that election …
Happy Day!
Published on 14 Jun 2009 at 8:57 am.
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Filed under Iran, Obama.
In Iran, as the people begin to figure out they are living under a vile dictatorship, those who might not have previously noticed the exclusion of candidates, closing of newspapers, arrest of dissidents, crackdown on protesting schoolteachers, etc.
Happy day in the United States, too. Theoretically. The president hoped the Mullah-A’jad regime would change, and it did! Into [...]
Also-Ran Slams Geo-Political Special Olympics
Published on 8 Apr 2009 at 8:37 am.
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Filed under Iran, nukes.
What is it with world leaders and jokes about the disabled these days? From Ahmadinejad this time, who says that for maintaining a nuclear stockpile, the United States is “mentally handicapped in the game of politics since they have failed to realize that the era of bombs, military actions and threats is long over.”
It’s the effort that counts, [...]
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Do Lunch?
Published on 31 Mar 2009 at 10:28 pm.
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USA Today: Holbrooke meets with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister on the sidelines at the Afghanistan conference in The Hague. Hillary calls it “a promising sign that there will be future cooperation.” They “did not focus on anything substantive. It was cordial, it was unplanned and they agreed to stay in touch.”
Promising for mullahs, maybe. Great [...]
Axis Of Evil
Published on 29 Mar 2009 at 10:43 am.
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Filed under Iran, Korea.
Speaking of mythological stuff that wowed peasants in the past, Times of London: Iranian missile experts in North Korea to help with the launch.
IDF Has a Whack At Sudan
Published on 27 Mar 2009 at 9:08 pm.
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Israel hit weapons smugglers in Sudan three times this year, reportedly targeting Iranian shipments headed for Gaza. ABC.
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Reach-Across
Published on 20 Mar 2009 at 11:22 am.
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Obama tries some with the mullahs. His special videotaped, Farsi-subtitled holiday message to Iran goes on about our “common humanity.” The Iranian people, many of them huge fans of banned, underground American culture, are already good with that. Mullahs, not so much. Message falls down in the part NYT buried:
Shoe Bait
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 7:42 am.
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Ahmadinejad takes a Brogan. Shoe tossed at Iraqi loudmouth’s convoy in the provinces. It’s making its rounds of the Web and news outlets, but we’ll take it from still-on-the-map Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz:
More Tests
Published on 9 Mar 2009 at 7:51 am.
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JPost: Israeli general says Iran has crossed the nuclear threshold.
CNN: NKs warn against intercepting “satellite” launch. It’ll mean war if the aggressor interferes with peaceful intercontinental ballistic missile test, taking place during US-SK military exercises … kind of dangerous because those things fall short sometimes. Never mind the risk that friendlies might be under it. [...]
Cold War
Published on 6 Mar 2009 at 9:09 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Palestinians, saudi arabia.
MEMRI posits that is what has been going on, from Lebanon to Gaza, between Saudi Arabia and Iran. One caveat. While Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies, Israel is hardly Saudi’s. More a matter of enlightened self-interest in Saudi actions. And while Israel obviously considers world and Arab opinion in its actions, specifically their termination, Israel has [...]
Plausible Hilarity
Published on 3 Mar 2009 at 10:27 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Obama, Russia.
Point, Ivan. Medvedev is happy to talk about dismantling the missile defense system, but won’t “haggle” with Obama over Iran. Deutsche Welle.
выигрыш-выигрыш*
Published on 2 Mar 2009 at 10:04 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Korea, Obama, Russia, nukes.
Obama reportedly is looking at giving the Russians what they want … no missile shield … if the Russians will help out with Iran on nukes. Novosti:
This Is A Test
Published on 20 Feb 2009 at 9:00 am.
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But no pop quiz. It isn’t like Obama didn’t have time to study for this news. Financial Times: UN says Iran has enough uranium for a nuke. So, if you’re Obama, do you:
It’s Not What You Know
Published on 13 Feb 2009 at 12:24 am.
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It’s what you plan to do about it. LA Times reads Obama’s lips on Iranian nukes, notices he’s admitted Iran’s up to no good. This part is kind of funny, in a tragic, Middle East arms race, mushroom cloud kind of way:
About Iran
Published on 9 Feb 2009 at 9:26 pm.
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Leaving the economic chatter for others, Obama’s presser became suddenly fascinating when he was caught like a deer in the headlights by an Iran question, and haltingly managed to spit out that while the people of Iran are great, its government has a long history of being “unhelpful.”
Mullahs In Space!
Published on 3 Feb 2009 at 10:29 am.
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Filed under Iran, rockets.
Iran’s new presence in space is about spreading “monotheism, peace and justice.” A’jad via BBC:
Dearest A’Jad
Published on 28 Jan 2009 at 9:12 pm.
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So Dreamy!
Obama’s writing a love letter to Ahmadinejad. Well, his staff is. But they keep ripping it up and rewriting it. Because that’s the way young love is. Innocent, tentative, uncertain. (UK Guardian):
Grovel Now Please
Published on 28 Jan 2009 at 9:57 am.
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The sucking up is a good start, but Ahmadinejad wants an apology for past crimes, as well as immediate surrender and withdrawal of all Crusader forces to dhimmi lands. Reuters:
Great American War Correspondent
Published on 6 Jan 2009 at 8:57 am.
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Weighs in. Robert Kaplan pulls way back for some perspective on what the fight in Gaza is about, and counsels the destruction of Iran’s proxy army at the outer edge of the modern Persian empire. Atlantic:
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Merry Alternative X’Mas!
Published on 24 Dec 2008 at 6:04 pm.
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Filed under Britain, Iran, moronocy.
Brit twits at Channel 4 give Ahmadinejad the alternative Christmas “seasonal goodwill” message. Art via Israel Matzav who notes “these multi-culti dhimmis just won’t get it until a nuclear missile hits them in their rear ends.” News starts with UK Telegraph:
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Mideast News & Views
Published on 11 Dec 2008 at 10:40 pm.
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Quick roundup runs a gamut. MEMRI first:
World Turned Upside Down
Published on 11 Dec 2008 at 12:16 pm.
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Filed under France, Iran, Obama.
A French president does something our own president-elect isn’t likely to. Ticks off the Iranians. via Jawa:
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Know Nukes
Published on 9 Dec 2008 at 9:22 pm.
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NYT article on a couple of new learned tomes about the history and current problems of nuclear proliferation. Apparently much more difficult that Oppenheimer envisioned it would be. Heavily reliant on the spilling of secrets. France and China are singled out. A.Q. Khan is said to have been overrated. Iran … barely gets a mention and then with [...]
