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Posted on December 29th, 2009 under Ahmadinejad, Apocolypse, Armageddon, Axis of Evil, Beijing, China, Chávez, Cold War, Communism, Jingoism, Korea, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Oval Office, President Hu, Putin, Russia, john mccain. Comments: None

Posted on December 16th, 2009 under 12th Imam, Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khomeini, Christian, Christmas, Chávez, Fidel Castro, Putin, israel. Comments: None

The Middle East – and Iran issue specifically – lies at the center of so many foreign policy hurdles for the United States. The pursuit of peace in the Middle East and the reestablishment of a legitimate U.N. entity can only start with a proven warming of relations between the U.S. and Iran.
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Posted on March 21st, 2009 under Ahmadinejad, Amanpour, Americans, Arab Americans, Axis of Evil, Ayatollah Khomeini, BBC, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Bushehr Reactor, Defense Security Service, Espionage, Global Policeman, Great Satan, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Iran Attack, Islamofascist, MEK, Mullahs, Muslim, NeoCons, New York Times, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, OPEC, Pentagon, President, Presidential Election, Revolutionary Guard, Robert Gates, Russia, S-300, State Department, Terrorism, U.S., US Dollar, United Nations, Venezuela, War on Terror, Washington, counter-intelligence, gasoline, gates, israel, oil. Comments: None

The scent of blood is in the water. The U.S. is on its knees and its enemies are taking bite-sized chunks out of the perception of the invincibility, stability, and confidence that has been the United States of America circa 20th Century.
In the nine years that have passed since the millennium, the ‘beloved’ Bush administration [...]

Posted on March 18th, 2009 under 9/11, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Americans, Apocolypse, Axis of Evil, BRIC, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, China, Chávez, Cold War, Communism, Crazy Ivan, Defense Security Service, Dmitry Medvedev, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Globalizm, Great Depression, Homeland Security, Hugo Chávez, Jingoism, Medvedev, Moscow, Multipolar, NeoCons, Nuclear Weapons, OPEC, Obama, Oval Office, Pentagon, Politics, President Hu, Putin, Recession, Rosoboronexport, Russia, Thatcher, U.S., WTO, War on Terror, Washington, World Trade, Zhirinovsky, climate change, gorbachev. Comments: 1

With the daily avalanche of doom and hideous gloom battering us from every angle – it’s very difficult (neigh, almost impossible!) to find any silver lining strong enough to tug on with reasonable focus and interest. So when you trip over the odd headline here and foreign-correspondent article there (in quiet corners of the [...]

Posted on February 18th, 2009 under Ahmadinejad, Alternative Energy, Axis of Evil, BRIC, Bolivia, Brazil, Chechnya, Chávez, Cold War, Corruption, Czech Republic, Dmitry Medvedev, EU, Emerging Markets, Global Policeman, Globalizm, Gulag, India, Iran, Jingoism, Mullahs, NATO, Natural Gas, OPEC, President, Refineries, Russia, Security, Senate, State Department, Syria, São Paulo Forum, UN, United Nations, Venezuela, War, War on Terror, World Trade, Zhirinovsky, counter-intelligence, gasoline, gorbachev. Comments: 1

Have just finished reading an eighty page report by Dr Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher entitled, “Considering a war with Iran: A discussion paper on WMD in the Middle East.”
It is a compelling read full of assumptions – yes – but balanced, and disturbing.
If the U.S. is truly contemplating a unilateral attack on Iran then [...]

Posted on August 30th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Bush Administration, Dr Dan Plesch, Iran, Iran Attack, Martin Butcher, Unilateralism. Comments: 2

Reports today in the Jerusalem Post of fresh new sales to Iran by Russia of cutting-edge military hardware lends support to the notion that a frigid new Cold War is emerging between Russia and the West.
The JPost article, entitled “Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia”, suggests Russia is to sell 250 ‘advanced long-range [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, China, India, Iran, Middle East, Putin, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, israel. Comments: 3

Yesterday the Persian Journal published a very succinct but insightful article on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, who helped to end it and how.
You can understand the not wholly misplaced distrust the Iranians hold against the United States and the United Nations. Whilst the U.S. aggressively sought to mediate an end to the bloody conflict – [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Basra, Chemical Weapons, Iran, Saddam Hussein, United Nations. Comments: None

I probably sound rather silly and melodramatic when I state my longing for credible and agenda-free news coverage that focuses on the real issues facing the U.S. and the world. Perhaps extremely silly! So yes, there is indeed a wonderfully diverse news universe out there … but you have to know where to look [...]

Posted on June 28th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Iran, NeoCons, UN. Comments: 2

The energetic French presidential race concluded yesterday with the election of moderate conservative Nicolas Sarkozy. But even as Sarkozy reaffirms France’s close relationship with the United States, the French will continue in their role as a diplomatic counterweight by reminding the U.S. of the challenges to be faced in the likely multi-polar world of the [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Brazil, Bush, China, France, IMF, Iran, Jean-David Levitte, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, Russia, UN. Comments: 3

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is literally running out of time – politically, militarily, and rather frighteningly, spiritually! Iran is teasingly close to an all-out war with the United States and the consequences for Iran, the U.S., and the world are enormous and potentially cataclysmic.
Politically:
Conservative Ahmadinejad was swept into power in August 2005 on a [...]

Posted on April 2nd, 2007 under 12th Imam, Ahmadinejad, Bush, China, Iran, Iraq, Mahdi, Qods, Russia. Comments: 2

Russian News & Information Agency (RIA Novosti) – a state run media outlet – published a report last week in which retired Russian General [Leonid] Ivashov proposes a detailed report on U.S. plans to strike Iran on Friday April 6.
General Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces during the September 11, [...]

Posted on March 29th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, British Sailors, Iran, Iraq, Russia, U.S.. Comments: None

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued a thinly veiled threat to Iran over the 15 sailors snatched by Iran last Friday. AP reports Tony Blair as saying Britain is prepared to move to a “different phase” if diplomacy fails to deliver the British sailors.
Blair is expected to resign as Prime Minister in May after [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Ali Askari, Iran, Iraq, Irbil, Revolutionary Guard, Sailors, Tony Blair. Comments: 1

Have the stars sufficiently lined up for a U.S. attack on Iran’s insidious nuclear program? Iran’s continued disregard for the United Nations; increased domestic civil and political within Iran; a moderate Arab world united against a growing Shia sphere of influence; and renewed efforts for a Saudi-backed peace accord with Israel. These perfect storm conditions [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Bill Clinton, CIA, Hillary Clinton, Iran, McConnell, Project Merlin, Putin, Russia, Wesley Clark, israel. Comments: 2

When the American mainstream media does throw a quick glance at Iran it paints such an abstract simpleton’s view of the problem as to be completely void of merit. Now is not the time for jingoistic bravado and bull-headed pride. The Iranian ‘problem’ impacts the stability of the middle east and pretty much everything wrong [...]

Posted on March 21st, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Albania, Bushehr Reactor, Iran, Mullahs, Russia, UNSC. Comments: 1

If only the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was obliged to give the Iranian parliament an annual ’state of the union’ address. That would certainly help us build a better understanding of what the hell he’s thinking. Unfortunately the current sources of information are somewhat skewed; the Western press or Israeli news sources. Not necessarily the [...]

Posted on January 24th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Condi Rice, Iran, Iraq, King Abdullah, North Korea, Nuclear Bomb, President Moshe Katsav, Syria, israel, saudi arabia. Comments: 5