Category Archives: Iran

Hooray! Grey Lady Does Front Page Exposing Another Secret Operation

Simple wonderful. The Times has a story ripe with anonymous sources who discussed a secret operation allowing strikes against Al Qaeda in countries around the world without permission by those countries, and includes all sorts of “no comments” by people who are named. Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries The United […]

Will Iran Be Obama’s Test?

In the comments, Dave points out that the crisis that Joe Biden was referring to will probably be Iran and an attack on Israel, and the “unpopular response” will be Barry ignoring the situation and doing nothing, except, perhaps, some strong words and a complaint to the the United Nations, which has been oh so […]

Where’s The ACLU When U Need Them? Mo And Iran

Think the ACLU, and the other civil and human rights groups, will rush to get involved? U.S. student arrested in Tehran while working on thesis project Officials in the United States are looking into the recent arrest of an Iranian-American student in Tehran who was working on a research project on women’s rights in Iran. […]

Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Iran Getting The Bomb

There is certainly some anxiety about Iran developing a nuclear bomb creation ability of their own. What would they do with it? Would they use it responsibly as a deterent, like France has always done with its tiny nuclear weapons stockpile? Or, will they use them against Israel? Or another Middle Eastern country? Europe? America? […]

Iran: Bribing Iraq And Snubbing “That One”

Well, I can find this story in international papers, and small U.S. ones, but, none of the big U.S. news sources, other then the Washington Post. I wonder why? The commander of US military forces in Iraq has accused Iran of trying to bribe Iraqi legislators into rejecting a security deal with the US. Gen […]

What’s Happening With The Religion Of Peace Today?

Hey, don’t worry about Iran, cause Obama will take care of it through his one on one chats with Ahmadenijad Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president, has warned the West that its support for Israel will backfire. As thousands of Iranians rallied on al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, Rafsanjani said supporting Israel was dangerous and that […]

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