A video has emerged that reveals yet more of the brutality in the Islamic Republic: A leaked video of police brutality on the Tehran University campus has rocked Iranian cyberspace. The video, shot by police officials, was mysteriously leaked to the BBC last week. Filmed in June just two days after the disputed election, there…
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Zionism means bombing Iran, says commentator
Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick loves to love Israel to death. Her latest column is a classic of extremism; bomb Iran, smear Europe and America as allies and expand settlements. Is she aware that the Jewish state wouldn’t survive without at least a few friends? Take Israel’s positions on Iran and the Palestinians, for instance.…
Iran is not an existential threat (repeat again and again)
Avner Cohen wonders in Haaretz why Israel has allowed itself to be supposedly petrified of Iran’s alleged nuclear program (discounting the possibility that it pays to keep a populace petrified of an enemy): What if Israel had treated Iran’s nuclear project as an exhibitionist, even childish, attempt by a nation mired in a deep identity…
Israel and Iran may not be friends for quite a long time
How sincere is the Islamic Republic towards Palestine? And what are some of the real reasons Tehran allegedly backs a resolution of the Middle East conflict? During a campaign speech at the University of Uroomiyeh in northwestern Iran a few months before the June presidential election there, Mir Hossein Moussavi, the main reformist presidential candidate…
It’s simply irrational that Iran wants to nuke Israel
From the National newspaper: A very important exchange took place between a top-level official from a Gulf state and the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a recent meeting in Tehran, reported Abdul Rahman al Rashed, a columnist with the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al Awsat. “How come you believe that we are intending to build a…
J Street tries to define itself as a progressive, Zionist organisation (with very mixed success)
J Street continues to walk a very fine line between pleasing the hard Right on the Goldstone report and Iran sanctions while also demanding more open debate in America about the Israel/Palestine conflict. Here’s Jeremy Ben-Ami’s latest statement: I’ve just landed in the US following an exhilarating week leading a delegation of five members of…
Chalabi continues to hinder Iraqi progress
The role of Ahmed Chalabi in the Iraq invasion is infamous. Friend of the neo-cons, feeder of false WMD stories, backer of war and close to Iran. Seven years on, nothing has changed.
How to speak to the Islamic Republic
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency: I have told many western friends that they need a training course on Iranian culture. This language of threats is the language used to animals, and therefore whoever uses it is condemned by us as uncivilised. It is a colonialist mentality. By threatening Iran…
Iranian wants to remain independent (and critics may as well)
Any decent human being should be against the outrageous online censorship employed by the Islamic Republic but do dissidents in that country really want Washington giving them a hand? The State Department says it is working furiously to increase its capabilities to confront the kind of censorship promulgated by Iran last week, bringing major Silicon…
Iran’s Trojan House failed to run
The American Islamic Congress reports on the key troubles with last week’s anti-government protests in Iran: CRIME Report sources inside Iran analyzing the events surrounding last Thursday’s protests – the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution – suggest that organizers may have been too crafty. It appears there was a “Trojan Horse” plan to attend…