Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse than the Second

Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant. I dismissed his claim as a wild boast last...

A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse Than The Second -- A Commentary

War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday

Israel - Hezbollah War 2006. Photo from The L.A. Times From Commentary Magazine: Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport,...

Another Vast Jewish Conspiracy - British media and society are gripped by lies about a "secret" Israel lobby controlling foreign policy

Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

From the Wall Street Journal : Here is a small selection of events that have taken place in Britain since the end of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza earlier this year. The government has imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel and failed to vote against the Goldstone report in the U.N . The charities War on Want and Amnesty International U.K. have both promoted a book by the anti-Israeli firebrand...

• 'The Lobby' in Britain - Solomonia

Abbas, Lula hold talks on Mideast

France24 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday received Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas here Thursday for the first in a series of discussions on forging peace in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Abbas' travels here come as Brazil steps up its peacemaker role in the Middle East. Brazil last week hosted Israeli President Shimon Peres for a four-day visit, and next week...

• Abbas launches South American tour in Brazil - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Abbas launches South American tour in Brazil - Earthtimes - Oslo City

Obama's Ego vs Real World Politics

Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

...Obama evidently expected that his election would change not only America's image in the world but the policies of nations both friendly and unfriendly. In saluting the fall of the Berlin Wall, on videotape, he made no mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev or Vaclav Havel, but cited as a world-changing event his own election in the United States...

• The Sally Field Presidency - Gay Patriot

Talking tactics for the US on Iran | Massoumeh Torfeh

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Separating Iran-US talks from the nuclear issue would drive engagement on other key topics such as Iraq or Afghanistan As Iran continues to play hide and seek in its response to a nuclear deal supposedly agreed in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency demands more clarity on Iran's nuclear plans. The IAEA said in its report that it was still not sure if "there were any other facilities...

Ahmadinejad demands US release Iran assets

France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Thursday that world powers respect Iran and release its assets if they want to engage with Tehran, in an apparent reference to archfoe the United States. "If our nation sees they have changed their behaviour, dropped their arrogant attitude ... and return Iranian nation's rights and assets the nation will accept that," Ahmadinejad said in a televised...

Ahmadinejad: Iran to go its way despite Western warnings

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Tehran - Iran will go its way despite Western warnings, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, brushing off international warnings after the Islamic state apparently rejected a compromise deal on its controversial nuclear programme. Th...

Ahmadinejad deems Iran, Venezuela ties 'necessary'

France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

An alliance between Iran and Venezuela is a necessity at this point in time according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan officials said here Wednesday. The Iranian leader made the comment during a visit to Tehran by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, the foreign ministry said. "Collaboration between revolutionary nations like Iran and Venezuela is necessary during this...

Oil wealth clouds vision of Chavez, Ahmadinejad, says Peres

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Buenos Aires - Oil wealth has clouded the vision of leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said Israeli President Shimon Peres in comments published Wednesday by Argentine newspaper Critica. There ar...

And They Criticized Bush's Foreign Policy

From On High (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

What a mess we've gotten ourselves into: Hit the Reset Button on Obama's Foreign Policy Agenda By Lauri B. Regan, American Thinker To Barack Obama, human rights abuses only occur in Guantanamo Bay and by CIA interrogators, not in the gulags of North Korea or work camps across China. To Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earns the respect of an open hand without preconditions, yet Bibi Netanyahu must...

Iran sentences 5 to death over post-election protests

ProgressiveIslam.info - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Rights groups and opposition figures in Iran have criticized the court proceedings, calling them a "show trial" and saying confessions are coerced. Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday. The five apparently include three death...

Election protesters sentenced to death in Iran

KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Five people have so far been sentenced to death and 81 have received jail terms in connection with post-election unrest in Iran. Prosecutors in Iran have confirmed the figures, with the Tehran Justice Department saying those facing the death penalty were members of so-called terrorist or opposition groups. The prosecutors released a statement on Tuesday to say the cases had been legally done in the...

• Iran sentences 5 to death in post-election turmoil - Islamization Watch
• Five sentenced to death over post-election unrest in Iran - The Irish Times
• See the 5 articles on the same subject

Iran sentences 5 to death in postelection turmoil

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

TEHRAN - Iran has sentenced five people to death over the unrest that followed the country's disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday. At least three others caught up in the turmoil have received death sentences previously. Iran began a mass trial in August of prominent opposition figures and activists, accusing them of a range of charges from rioting to spying and plotting...

Iran resumes trial of French lecturer, no verdict

KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

A French teaching assistant who was arrested in Tehran on spying charges after Iran's disputed election appeared before a judge on Tuesday, the French Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Clotilde Reiss, who is out of jail on bail and staying at the French embassy, is accused of taking part in a Western plot to destabilise the Iranian government after the June 12 vote in which hardline President Mahmoud...

VP Debate Leaves Questions Unanswered – Palin Still Shines

glowan77 | 10/04/2008

Squaring off with Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin shined and proved once again that she is the best choice for the GOP in today’s climate of woefulness about the outgoing administrations legacy. The big question most Americans have been waiting to have answered is whether Sarah Palin could stand

• VP debate leaves questions unanswered -- Palin still shines - RenewAmerica columns

Blacks Against Israel Praise Ahmajinedad's Defiance

ajinx | 08/04/2008

Recent GBR popularity polls find Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad out pacing 2008 presidential candiate Barack Obama in cities with strong GBR communities. “Ahmadinejad is a man all brothers should look to in admiration. He is a world role model for defiance against Western Imperialism, dictatorship, oppression, greed and racism,” says St. Louis Foot Soldier Cedishon Angelou. Angelou’s comments...