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Category Archives: Iran
May 14, 2013
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Guess Who’s Leading the UN Disarmament Conference
Following its ballyhooed success as host of the 2010 International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been selected to chair this month’s UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament. The 65-member forum, previously chaired by such arms control … Continue reading
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IEA Predicts More Trouble for OPEC
It’s only Tuesday, yet it’s already shaping into a rough week for OPEC. Yesterday we heard that the American shale boom was hurting the petrochemicals industries of OPEC’s Middle Eastern members. Today a new International Energy Agency report suggests that the US … Continue reading
May 13, 2013
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Iran’s Reformists Get Their Candidate?
Iran’s looming elections in June got a bit more interesting over the weekend. First, a criminal complaint was opened against President Ahmadinejad by Iran’s Guardian Council, a committee of powerful clerics who interpret Iran’s constitution and supervise the elections. The … Continue reading
May 8, 2013
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Iranian Arsonists Warn of Middle East Fire Hazard
Iran’s Foreign Minister, of all people, has warned the world that bedlam and chaos will sweep the Middle East if the Syrian rebels defeat the forces of Butcher Assad. So, if we understand that correctly, Iran’s line on the Middle … Continue reading
May 7, 2013
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More Failure Through Neglect: Iraq Edition
The Obama administration hoped it could walk away from Iraq without consequences. Unfortunately, this has been far from the case. Nouri al-Maliki’s ever closer ties with Iran have pushed him to support Assad in Syria despite Assad’s earlier support for … Continue reading
May 6, 2013
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Change: The Establishment Cools Toward Obama’s Middle East Policy
As Syria burns and Egypt seethes, the biggest foreign policy story is unfolding right here at home. The establishment is rapidly losing patience with President Obama’s Middle East policy. For some time, the left of the MSM has been attacking … Continue reading
May 5, 2013
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Syria: Obama’s Own ‘Problem From Hell’
The Syrian civil war exploded over the weekend, with mass murder and sectarian cleansing along the coast, Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, and confusion, frustration and paralysis in Washington to the point where the New York Times described President Obama as trapped “in a geopolitical box, his credibility at stake with frustratingly few good options.”
Foreign policy, it turns out, is hard. Samantha Power, President Obama’s special advisor on the national security council, author of a very influential history of genocide (A Problem from Hell) that criticized the US failure to save Rwandans under President Clinton, and possible future US ambassador to the United Nations, announced earlier this year that she was leaving the administration to focus on her two young children. It’s an honorable and understandable decision, but it leads to a disturbing truth. Bashar Assad has outlasted Professor Power, and the country’s most influential advocate of the right to protect left office having failed to a make any headway against the greatest mass slaughter since the Rwandan genocide. Continue reading
May 3, 2013
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Bunker Buster Bombs Ratchet Up Pressure On Iran
The US has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” bomb to be even bigger and smarter, Pentagon officials said today. ”Hopefully we never have to use it,” a US official told the WSJ. “But if we had to, it would work.” The … Continue reading
April 30, 2013
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Iranian Cleric Exposes Global Jewish Sorcery
Clever Iranian sleuths have cracked the secret ingredient of the Jewish plan for world domination: sorcery. Mehdi Taeb, a well-known cleric and close confidante of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, disclosed to a group of students recently that “the Jews” … Continue reading
April 25, 2013
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Qatari PM: Assad “Used Chemicals, and There Is Evidence”
Qatar joined France, the UK, and Israel to officially state that Butcher Assad has used chemical weapons during Syria’s civil war, something that the Obama Administration threatened was a “red line.” Blake Hounshell reports for Foreign Policy: “Chemicals? He used … Continue reading
April 23, 2013
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Credible Threat? US Sells Weapons Package to Israel and Gulf Allies
The Obama administration seems to be trying a new tactic in its negotiations with Iran: using Israel as a credible military threat without having to threaten Iran itself. That’s the official read on yesterday’s $10 billion weapons sale to Israel, Saudi Arabia, … Continue reading
April 21, 2013
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Ahmadinejad’s Embarrassing Flop Puts Khamenei in Catbird Seat
Azadi stadium in Tehran can hold 100,000 people, but barely half the seats were filled when Iran’s president Ahmadinejad hosted a rally there on Thursday. The president, who will step down after elections in June, gave a rousing speech in … Continue reading
April 19, 2013
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Obama Losing Control of Middle East Policy
The Obama administration is losing control of its Middle East policy and with it, Washington’s credibility. Yesterday the State Department and Pentagon gave conflicting accounts of the administration’s Syria policy before a bewildered Senate Armed Services Committee. While Secretary of … Continue reading
April 10, 2013
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No More Mr. Nice Ahmadinejad
If anyone needed further evidence of Iran’s contempt for the negotiations over its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was happy to provide it yesterday. Speaking on the occasion of National Nuclear Technology Day (a holiday he created several years ago), … Continue reading
April 8, 2013
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White House Bamboozled as Talks with Iran Break Down (Again)
Surprise, surprise: talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France, UK, and Germany) broke down over the weekend with no agreement and no plan to meet again. The NY Times reports: Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy … Continue reading
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