The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has claimed that Iran is not a credible threat and appears not to be working on a nuclear weapon’s program. The Bush administration are made to look like fools, as ever, hyping up the apocalyptic concerns over the Islamic Republic. But how about the mainstream media that has helped them?
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A Rudd Government – ‘passionately pro-Israel?’
My latest article for Online Opinion is about Australia’s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his uncritical love of the Jewish state: Not unlike many Jewish communities around the world, a leader’s credentials on Israel are praised if unconditional support is offered. Howard was loved for this reason – and a majority of Australian Jews…
Neo-con Ledeen praises Howard as “arguably the greatest Western leader of the past decade”
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Michael Ledeen is a key figure in the neo-con firmament, a man whose ideas about the Arab world have been thoroughly proven false time and time again. It therefore makes sense that Australia’s leading Zionist lobby, AIJAC, has invited him here on a speaking tour to…
The Islamists speak
We regularly now read Iranian bloggers to gain an insight into the more moderate voices within the country. But conservative and Islamist voices are also growing in strength. Hamid Tehrani, an Iranian blogger now living in the Diaspora, has published a fascinating report into these relatively unknown forces: Iranian Islamist blogs probably provide one of…
How about us, Mahmoud?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unhappy that many Arab nations are participating in tomorrow’s “peace”conference in Annapolis – with one leading analyst suggesting that the real agenda item will not be Israel/Palestine, but isolating Iran – though internal dissent is growing in the Islamic Republic: When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, wanted to create a…
Among the maddening traffic
Iran is constantly in the news for all the wrong reasons. As a welcome change, the following music video is from underground band, Kiosk. Filmed in Tehran, it gives viewers a taste of daily life in the Iranian capital (and sounds like Dire Straits, massively popular there):
Do not accept lollies from this man
Next time you hear somebody demanding the West bombs/invades/”liberates” Iran, make sure it’s not leading neo-con Amir Taheri. The man breaths untruths.
For and against Chavez
During my visit to Iran in June this year, I noted the unhealthy relationship between the Latin American left and the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The international Left have remained generally quiet on this issue, refusing to chastise Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for cosying up to the Islamic Republic. My friend, journalist Rodrigo Acuna, has…
The enemy speaks
Simplicity rules: A Somerville peace activist with a knack for political theater set up a display yesterday with a simple proposition: Let anyone who passed by pick up the phone and talk to Iranian citizens, giving regular citizens in both countries a chance to do what the activist said the country’s leaders have failed to…
A closing of rights
Iran, a lack of human rights: Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a Kurdish journalist accused of offering to provide the United States with information on Kurds in Iran, his lawyer said Saturday. The ruling against Adnan Hasanpour, 27, upheld his original convictions in July for taking up arms against the ruling…