Warning Signs (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Alan Caruba On November 4, 1979, some Iranian “students” took 53 American diplomats hostage. This iconic act broke every international law ever set to page or parchment. As this is written thirty years later, the Iranians are holding three American tourists who wandered across a border between Iraq and allegedly into Iran’s Kurdistan province. They were seized in...
Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The Washington Post 's David Ignatius today notes the irony that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being criticized by his country's "hard-liners" for supporting a deal with the U.S. over nuclear issues: The prospect of a deal with the Great Satan produced a political frisson in Tehran. . . . Critics chided Ahmadinejad for giving away the nuclear store. . . . Khamenei joined...
Freespace (Free subscription) | yesterday
... oppressive ideology, and who are willing—if not, indeed, eager—to kill for it. (And the brutish Iranian mullahs secured the first great-power endorsement of their election theft from Vladimir Putin's Moscow, which, these days, is the seat of an aggressive, chauvinist, militarist, and clerically influenced regime.) So we still have our duties of solidarity with movements of transformation,...
Curtains... (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... seams. President Obama has been dithering for too long. His policy of ignoring the truth about the Iranian regime in order to foster dialog with them is angering Iranians who long for freedom. As the Iranian Mullahs kill Americans in Iraq, fosters instability in the Levant, oppresses its citizens and stalls efforts to prevent its nuclear proliferation… Obama does...
i Own The World (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Fox News. Maybe Obama will even invite them to the next 4th of July celebrations like he did the Iranian Mullahs. Then again, maybe not. Fox News never shot people dead in the street in cold blood.
