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December 14, 2007:
Rule of Law and Legacy of
Appeasement: In another blow to the policy of
appeasement toward the terror-sponsoring regime of ayatollahs,
the Proscribed Organisations Appeals Commission (POAC) today
upheld its November 30 ruling which ordered the removal of
Iran’s main opposition group, the People's Mojahedin from the
list of terror organizations. POAC struck down the appeal by the
United Kingdom’s government which is unwisely trying to preserve
a despicable legacy of former British Foreign Minister Jack
Straw. POAC ruling follows a similar judgment last year by the
European Union’s second highest court which overturned the
European Union decision to put the PMOI on the EU’s terror
blacklist. The ruling annulled the EU’s decision to freeze
European assets of the group...
December 7, 2007:
NIE on Iran: A Nuclear Pulp
Fiction: The “key judgments” of the National
Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's "Nuclear Intentions and
Capabilities" were released on Monday and we can “assess” with
“high confidence” that Tehran apologists within and outside of
the administration are spinning it as if this “estimate” – if
accurate, and that’s a big if – has overnight triggered the
metamorphism of Tehran regime into a benevolent government. Just
a quick reality check: Four days after release of this report,
the tyrant mullahs are still erecting gallows in Iranian cities,
cracking down on students and women, sponsoring a wide range of
Sunni and Shiite terrorist groups in Iraq and the region,
masterminding and carrying out a bloody and destabilizing
sectarian proxy war in Iraq, and, yes, enriching uranium- the
fundamental component of a nuclear weapon program - at full
speed...
November 22, 2007:
The Anti-Tehran Awakening
in Iraq: As Washington prepares itself for the fourth
round of talks with Iran about the security situation in Iraq,
there are encouraging reports from Iraq indicating some huge
setbacks for Tehran in Iraq particularly in the streets of
Shiite-dominated areas where it most matters. Increasingly, the
Iranian regime is being seen as public enemy No. 1 by
non-sectarian and nationalist Iraqis of all political, social,
religious and ethnic background. To be sure there is no question
about Tehran’s innate capacity for bloodshed and savagery. This
fact was underlined again on Tuesday when a UN body passed a
resolution condemning the Iranian regime for the "confirmed
instances" of "torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment, including flogging and amputations" in Iran. Iraq
and Iraqis have been the equal opportunity recipients of the
mullahs’ export of terror and destruction....
November 1, 2007:
Iran’s Simple Math: Less
IRGC Equals Less Terror, Tyranny: The president of
Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger, criticized by some for
his treatment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and depicting him as a
“petty and cruel dictator”, has found new allies where it most
matters: Iran’s university campuses. In at least three student
protests in college campuses of Iran since Ahmadinejad’s return
from his disastrous trip to New York, he has been called “a
petty and cruel dictator” who lacks spine to face dissident
students and their pointed questions....
October 19, 2007:
Countering Tehran:
The Right Way: Ideologically and politically, expansion of
freedom and democracy is the only strategic answer to the
increasingly existential menace of Islamic fundamentalism. Thus,
a meaningful and effective campaign to neutralize this threat
must hinge on the broadening of secular democracies and siding
with indigenous anti-fundamentalist, democratic forces who are
working toward such a goal. Since 1979, Iran under ayatollahs’
rule has emerged as the epicenter of Islamic fundamentalism and
it is where this menace must first be defeated. Iran's democracy
movement is bent on accomplishing such a goal by working to oust
the clerical rule...
October 5, 2007:
Sending the Right Signal to
Tehran: Earlier in the week, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice told the New York Post’s editorial board that a
stable Iraq will act as "a block" against Iran's growing
regional ambitions, whereas an unstable Iraq will serve as
"bridge" for Tehran. Secretary Rice's accurate observation was
reflected in the President’s remarks later in the week when he
told an audience in Lancaster, PA, that standing firm in Iraq
would send a crucial signal to ayatollahs while chaos and
timidity “would embolden Iran."...
September 24, 2007:
Ayatollahs' Thug in New
York: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the ayatollahs’
thug-turned-president is in New York to once again showcase his
belligerent fangs to the world. While he was departing Tehran
for New York and in the midst of controversy about his
disgraceful invitation to Columbia University, the state-run
Mehr news agency reported that the trial of three Iranian
students jailed on charges of acting against national security
and insulting Islam has started in Tehran...
September 14, 2007:
Ayatollahs and the 1988 Iran
Massacre: Nearly two decades ago this summer, Iran’s
fundamentalist regime was in the midst of mass killing of
political prisoners. In what is now known as “The 1988 Iran
massacre,” thousands of prisoners were summarily executed in a
span of three to six months, beginning in mid-summer 1988. Many
international law experts believe that this heinous atrocity
qualifies the current Iranian leadership as a perpetrator of
crimes against humanity...
September 7, 2007:
Of Gallows and Heroes in
Iran: Gallows are being erected all over Iran.
Construction cranes are used to build and develop everywhere
else. In Iran of ayatollahs, however, they are used to destroy,
to take life. Yes, in Iran, construction cranes are the main
instrument of mullahs’ industry of death and used for public
executions. This week, Iran’s clerical regime, which has
perfected the skill of staging barbaric spectacles of public
executions, could not restrain itself form another display of
savagery even while Mrs. Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights was visiting Iran....
August 31, 2007:
Rolling Back Tehran in Iraq:
In his Tuesday address to the American Legion, President George
W. Bush stressed that “America is engaged in a great ideological
struggle -- fighting Islamic extremists across the globe”
inspired by two main strains; Sunni extremism, embodied by al
Qaida; and Shiite extremism, embodied by the ruling regime in
Tehran whose “actions threaten the security of nations
everywhere.” His equally notable statement came when he outlined
the strategic cost of failure in Iraq.
Alas, President Bush's
speech writers are not in charge of formulating and executing
his administration's policy toward Iran and Iraq....
August 14, 2007:
Ayatollahs’ Playbook for
Survival: On Monday, the same day Iran’s thug
par-excellence president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sacked two of his
key ministers; two Belgian tourists were reported kidnapped near
quack-stricken city of Bam in southeast Iran; an ultra-hardliner
panel was appointed - with the blessing of the Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei of course - to monitor the next parliamentarian
elections; and Iran's notorious judiciary announced that it had
finished its investigations of two Iranian-Americans charged
with plotting to destabilize the regime...
June 7, 2007:
No Breaks for Democratic
Change Movement in Iran: It has become a national
pastime for Iranians to ridicule the outlandish, often
bombastic, policy slogans by the ruling establishment. Recently,
the modified versions of state slogans such as “Nuclear power is
our inalienable right” are making rounds in the series of
anti-government demonstrations by women, students, laborers and
teachers. The writing on many of the placards in these protests
said: “Freedom is our inalienable rights,” or “job security is
our inalienable right,” and “health insurance and equal pay is
our inalienable right.”...
May
29,
2007:
Looking for Iraq’s Security in All the Wrong Places:
The much-hyped talks between the United States and Iran over the
security of Iraq finally took place on Monday. A sober
assessment of reports from Baghdad, however, clearly confirms
the predictions that Tehran had gone to these talks to buy time
and to partially ease growing international pressure. Iran,
which had to bow to the hard realities in Iraq and to an
emerging regional alignment at odds with its hegemonic
ambitions, broke a 27- year old taboo and entered the Baghdad
talk without dealing with its core issue: Tehran’s destructive
role in the ongoing mayhem in Iraq...
April 20, 2007: IRAN:
Flipping Radio Farda:
Has Iran’s dreaded Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)
flipped the US-funded Radio Farda - the Farsi service of Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty? Are US taxpayers unknowingly funding
a radio broadcast, supposedly tasked with promoting democracy in
Iran, which has been compromised by Tehran’s intelligence
services? A recent report from Prague, where Radio Farda is
based, raises serious concerns about Iran’s manipulation of
Radio Farda personnel, warranting a full investigation...
February 14, 2007:
The Weeping Ahmadinejad:
It turns out that Iran’s belligerent president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is a softie and always in tears for the plight of
people around the world; Iranians, Iraqis, Palestinians, and
Americans alike. Why? Because he so deeply loves people wherever
they are! How is that for a demagogue? ABC News’s Diane Sawyer,
while on assignment in Iran this week, was told that Ahmadinejad
cries a lot and, as Sawyer puts it, he is “dramatically
sympathetic.”...
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