Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Revolution Day and hear President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proudly declare the country is now a “nuclear state.” Its Natanz plant successfully produced 20% enriched uranium, capable as fuel for nuclear power plants but also as atomic weapons. Guess which purpose Ahmadinejad has in mind?
‘We have the capability to enrich [...]
Iran goes nuclear (but we already knew that)
Ignored Iran moves up in nuclear and space clubs
President Obama has done absolutely nothing concrete to rein in rogue Iran with its human rights violations, constant public threats against our ally Israel, and nuclear development. And now it moves up in the space club, with an expansion of its space program:
Iran test-fired a new satellite rocket and unveiled a series of what it [...]
Latest Iranian protest crackdowns
The leaders of Iran are definitely scared of losing power. How else would you explain their latest crackdown of protesters by detaining relatives of activists?
Authorities in Iran intensified their drive to snuff out the opposition movement overnight by arresting the relatives of prominent activists, including the sister of the Nobel laureate and human rights campaigner [...]
It’s OK to meet with Iranian officials but not the Dalai Lama
Since 1991 the U.S. president has always met the Dalai Lama whenever he’s in town, but looks like President Obama will break the streak. The obvious reason? China.
Beijing has got the White House by its you-know-what because we depend on China’s buying of American debt to finance our skyrocketing spending. It’s apparent that aids have [...]
Ahmadinejad a Jew?
What. The. What?!
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
This Holocaust-denying man clearly has a big ethnic chip on his shoulder.
You have [...]
What to do about Iran’s second nuclear plant?
The revelation of another uranium enrichment facility by Iran should not shock anyone. The question to be asked to world leaders is, What will we do about it, especially when Britain, France, and the U.S. have known about it for years.
But why did Iran choose to reveal this plant to the IAEA now?
Iran acknowledged the [...]
China learns lesson from Iran in dealing with Xinjiang protests
Tweets about the Iran election continue to pour in, making #IranElection still a top Twitter trend. But you’re not going to see many tweets about, say, the deadly protests in China’s remote Urumqi, Xinjiang province where 140 have died.
Communist China, the operator of the world’s largest firewall (often dubbed the “Great Firewall of China”), learned [...]
To Israel, Obama says no, Biden says yes?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wisely chooses to remain silent on the matter of Israel-Iran while President Obama and V.P. Biden continue to make conflicting statements:
Asked by CNN whether Washington had given Israel a green light for such an attack, Obama answered: “Absolutely not.”
And from the veep:
In an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program, Biden [...]
Obama had sent letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
The Washington Times is reporting that President Obama had sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in May seeking improved relations with the nuclear nation. Obviously Khamenei isn’t too interested in the President’s overture and ordered a crackdown on the recent post-election protests which claimed the lives of nearly 20 people and [...]
Obama presser: coordinated question from HuffPo?
During yesterday’s press conference on Iran, President Obama had an exchange with Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney that seemed to be pre-arranged:
“Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran [...]
Huckabee’s message on Iran is clearer
Mike Huckabee is definitely a better communicator than President Obama in terms of commenting on the unrest in Iran.
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In Iran, revolution and crisis
On Friday Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Iranians of dire consequences should they continue anti-government street protests. His warnings were heard, of course, but as today’s events illustrate, Iranians are ready to give their lives for a better future.
Reports of violence and death keep coming from Iran via Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. It’s confirmed [...]
On Iran, Obama cannot think beyond the vote
President Obama is avoiding release of stern statements regarding the civilian uprising in Iran after the election a week ago. Yes, it has been a week, and brave Iranians are still risking harrassment, injury, and death to protest on the streets. But President Obama is afraid of offending Tehran by condemning violence against civilians. In [...]
Will the Axis of Evil be further reduced?
President Bush in his January 2002 State of the Union address, labeled North Korea, Iran, and Iraq the “Axis of Evil” for their role in sponsoring global terrorism. Iraq is now a young democracy after the U.S. invasion which topped Saddam. Now with the recent mass protests in Iran, are we about to witness a [...]
Politico on Iran: Get over it
And those were the exact words in a Politico article by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. A voice of reason or missing the point?
Some “Iran experts” argue that Mousavi’s Azeri background and “Azeri accent” mean that he was guaranteed to win Iran’s Azeri-majority provinces; since Ahmadinejad did better than Mousavi in these areas, fraud is [...]



