Hard to tell if this New York Times story is supposed to calm nerves or simply give neo-cons the excuse to bomb Iran sooner: The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete…
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Not every “serious” analyst wants to destroy Iran
Despite a push by some Zionists in the US and beyond to strike Iran, Noam Sheizaf blogs from Israel that there’s hardly consensus inside his country to bomb the Islamic Republic. Some sanity still remains.
The non-Ahmadinejad Iranians
We so rarely these days read accurate reports about life inside the Islamic Republic. A rare exception (via the ABC): While in the West some might associate Iran’s restrictions on freedom with the religion of Islam, it’s over-simplistic to assume that this mass dissatisfaction with the state of the country necessarily signifies dissatisfaction with the…
Australia still loves everything about Israel
Surprise, surprise: The diplomatic relationship between Australia and Israel has resumed on its normal course, less than three months after Stephen Smith expelled an Australian diplomat from Canberra. And despite a frosty few months, the two countries – which both share a desire to see Iran’s nuclear weapons program halted immediately – never ceased to…
Will the real please Hoder please stand up?
I’ve long followed the case of famous Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan – even meeting him at a conference in Budapest in 2008 – but this latest news adds yet more layers of mystery to a man with a confused past, tough present and uncertain future: Hossein Derakhshan, the Iranian Canadian who helped launch a blogging…
Floating towards war with Iran, via Israel and Zionists
I constantly write about Iran because I both fear what Israel and/or America may do to the nation and the profound human rights abuses occurring inside the country. But these days the threat of military action against the Islamic Republic is growing. Many of the same figures who pushed for war against Iraq have now…
Iranian leader pushes bogus September 11 claims
No “Zionists” were in the World Trade Centre on 9/11, according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The man does himself no favours with such blatant untruths.
Why should Iran bow to America when it’s treated like a dog?
Nobody reads the New York Times without their irony gene being firmly removed. Here’s today’s editorial on Iran and the Obama administration. It wonders what Washington is really offering Tehran to somehow induce the Islamic Republic back into polite company but the tone is one of hectoring; “we” have the right to bully Iran. Australia…
War with Iran may have to wait a few more minutes
Leading American Zionist and hawk Jeffrey Goldberg is upset in his meeting with Barack Obama that the US President wasn’t more threatening towards Iran. Diplomacy will supposedly fail, we’re told, despite the fact that Washington has its foot on Tehran’s face.
Let the post Wikileaks leaking begin
This piece didn’t get the attention it deserves. Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg (a clear inspiration to Wikileaks and Julian Assange) told the Washington Post last weekend what documents or information should be leaked and freely available. A truly free society would depend on it: 1. The official U.S. “order of battle” estimates of the…