Iran's leader sparks Western walkout at UN meeting

Apr 20, 2009 - Associated Press GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians, prompting European diplomats to walk out Monday from a speech disrupted by jeering protesters in rainbow wigs tossing red clown noses at the hardline leader. A U.N. racism conference on the eve of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day disintegrated into chaos moments after Ahmadinejad became the first government official to take the floor. - 11 Comments

Iran condemns Oxford for honoring slain protester

Nov 11, 2009 - TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the disputed June election. In Tehran, a small group of hard-line women demonstrated Wednesday against the scholarship in front of the British Embassy. The women chanted "Death to Britain," the semi-official Fars news agency reported. - 2 Comments

Iran charges three detained Americans with espionage

Nov 09, 2009 - TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has charged three detained U.S. citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a prosecutor as saying on Monday, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there was no evidence to back the charges. The three, Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, were held after they crossed into Iran from northern Iraq at the end of July. - 5 Comments

Does anyone care what Obama has to say?

Sep 25, 2009 - Iran certianly doesn't.   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092500289_pf.html   Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant By Michael D. Shear and Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, September 25, 2009 12:42 PM   PITTSBURGH, Sept. - 6 Comments

Has Obama "Cryed Havoc" in the Middle East

Sep 15, 2009 - Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War President Obama can't outsource matters of war and peace to another state. by Brett Stevens     Events are fast pushing Israel toward a pre-emptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, probably by next spring. That strike could well fail. - 8 Comments

Lt. Colonel Allen West's Position Paper on Israel

Sep 29, 2009 - By Pamela Geller http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ Much thanks to Lt Colonel Allen West, who sent this to me erev Yom Kippur. Like Sarah Palin, West is a ganser mensch. A leader in the mold of Churchill and Patton. - 5 Comments

Oh good.....Venezuela is on board

Sep 26, 2009 - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090925/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_iran Venezuela seeking uranium with Iran's help By FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press Writer Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press Writer – Fri Sep 25, 7:11 pm ET PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Iran is helping to detect uranium deposits in Venezuela and initial evaluations suggest reserves are significant, President Hugo Chavez's government said Friday. Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran has been assisting Venezuela with geophysical survey flights and geochemical analysis of the deposits, and that evaluations "indicate the existence of uranium in western parts of the country and in Santa Elena de Uairen," in southeastern Bolivar state. "We could have important reserves of uranium," Sanz told reporters upon arrival on Venezuela's Margarita Island for a weekend Africa-South America summit. - 13 Comments

The great Iranian cover-up: mannequins

Sep 23, 2009 - The great Iranian cover-up: mannequins told to lose curves and wear hijabs Iranian police have told shopkeepers that female mannequins must lose their feminine curves and be dressed in the hijab, the headscarf worn by devout Muslim women.   By Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem Published: 3:02PM BST 23 Sep 2009   An edict was issued requiring mannequins to be dressed with greater modesty.   "Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without hijabs are prohibited to be used in the shops," the official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted the edict, issued by the country's moral security police, as saying. - 8 Comments

He's Not Jimmy Carter

Sep 03, 2009 - He's Not Jimmy Carter By Quin Hillyer on 9.3.09 @ 6:09AM Conservatives are taking too much solace in the precipitous drop in Barack Obama's approval ratings, and too many of us are overconfident that his administration is merely a replay of the hapless presidency of Jimmy Carter that was easily swept out in a landslide election. Today's situation is far different, far more conducive to our political adversary's political power, than that which faced Carter. And Obama is an entirely different breed of cat. - 1 Comment

Iran supreme leader orders probe of election fraud

Jun 15, 2009 - Iran supreme leader orders probe of election fraud By ANNA JOHNSON and ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's supreme leader ordered Monday an investigation into allegations of election fraud, marking a stunning turnaround by the country's most powerful figure and offering hope to opposition forces who have waged street clashes to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. State television quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directing a high-level clerical panel, the Guardian Council, to look into charges by pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has said he is the rightful winner of Friday's presidential election. The decision comes after Mousavi wrote a letter appealing to the Guardian Council and met Sunday with Khamenei, who holds almost limitless power over Iranian affairs. - 3 Comments