Archive Regime Change Iran: Must Read Reports

[9/10/06 - 9/16/06]

NDTV reported that French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that Iran had "made itself into an outlaw nation" and must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported on the attack on the US embassy in Syria.
The New York Sun reported that historian Bernard Lewis warned that the U.S. may lose the war on terror. He said during the darkest days of the fight against Nazism he "had no doubt that in the end we would triumph." But he does not "have that certitude now."
The Independent reported that Ahmadinejad's exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust, some suggesting it was fabricated or exaggerated, has been a flop in Tehran. It attracts just 50 people a day.
The Telegrah reported that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's government had authorized the release from jail of 2,500 Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters caught fighting coalition forces in Afghanistan.

[9/03/06 - 8/09/06]

Power Line commented on NRO's Corner yesterday, Michael Ledeen drew attention to an article by Steven Knipp on Knipp's two-week visit to Iran. " The bottom line is that the Iranian people love America, and they do not, not, not, like Ahmadinejad."
President Bush, The White House in a major speech at the Capital Hilton Hotel outlined the National Strategy For Combating Terrorism and said "America will not bow down to tyrants."
Newsweek International reported on Ahmadinejad: How Popular Is He Really?
John Pohoretz, The New York Post reported that President Bush just delivered what may be the most important speech of his presidency. The time has come, the president all but said yesterday, to take the gloves off with Iran.
The Wall Street Journal reported that in a major speech President Bush quoted extensively from recent threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad such as his call for "a world without the United States and Zionism."
Reuters reported that a major transatlantic opinion survey showed most French and Americans would support military action against Iran as a last resort if other means fail to stop it acquiring nuclear weapons.
The Boston Globe reported on the visit of Khatami to the US and argued that when it comes to Iran, the Bush administration has been consistent only in its inconsistency. Time and again it has condemned the Tehran regime and time and again it has failed to back up those condemnations with action.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Bush administration is seeking to isolate a network of European and Middle Eastern banks and companies controlled by the Iranian government that U.S. official's suspect Iran is using to acquire sophisticated weapons technology.
Marc Sumerlin, The Weekly Standard reported how the new Treasury Secretary can help in a showdown with Iran.

[8/27/06 - 9/02/06]

Rachel Makabi, Newsweek International interviewed Reza Pahlavi to get his thoughts on the standoff, the effectiveness of U.S. policy toward Iran and his ongoing work with Iranian dissidents. Reza described Iran's standoff with the West as a "Race against time."
Stanley Kurtz, The National Review Online argued that American politics is about to undergo a sea change. Our lives are going to be transformed on a more personal level as well. Sometime between now and five-to-ten years from now we’re going to be forced to choose between preemptive war with Iran, and living in a post-proliferation world. A must read.
The New York Sun argued that the world, it seems, has passed this way before. The summer's events in south Lebanon, Iraq, London, Afghanistan, North Korea and, above all, Iran, have filled the air with a sense of foreboding that few except the very oldest among us have ever felt. We appear to be teetering on the edge of a catastrophe.
David Frum, National Post reported that the US dollars Hezbollah has been handing out to Lebanese whose home were destroyed in the conflict are counterfeit.
Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post reported on the failure of the mainstream media to critically report the news and lauded the growing role of the blogosphere to correct the record.
Zaman.com reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld indirectly warned Iran that the U.S. army was capable of waging another war somewhere else. “We are capable of dealing with other problems, were they to occur.”
The Boston Globe reported that Iranians have NOT been flocking to the museum in Tehran where 204 winning entries in the ``Holocaust International Cartoon Contest" are on exhibit.
Asian Tribune, in a report published August 12th, claimed that a Voice of America correspondent, Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, called reports that the British foiled a mega terror plot a "game of the British government." Chowdhury made his comments in a local TV interview. Chowdhury went on to accuse "western governments," and in particular the United States and the United Kingdom, of deliberately fabricating the terror plot to deflect world attention from what he called "Hezbollah victories."
The Washington Times reported that Newt Gingrich in an impromptu speech said "I am opposed to a military strike on Iran because I don't think it accomplishes very much in the long run." Instead he argued "we need a strategy to replace the regime."
The New York Sun reported that while the West's war on terror is going tactically well enough, with its mission to put out fires here and there before they start. But it sorely misses the larger strategy that must be implemented. Just like the war on communism, the war on terror must combine the force of arms with the power of ideas.
Govindini Murty, FrontPageMag, a conservative film critic reported that she attended an advance screening of ABC’s epic miniseries "The Path to 9/11" (airing this September 10-11), and came away enormously impressed.

[8/20/06 - 8/26/06]

Alan Peters, Anti-Mullah published his response to a common criticism of the Iranian people by Americans which he considers a total disconnect of the American mind from reality in Iran.
Tariq Alhomayed, Asharq Alawsat argued that what we are witnessing today is not a by-product of the issue of Iran's nuclear activities, but rather something more important which is Iran’s resumption of exporting the "Islamic revolution."
John R. Thomson, National Review Online wondered when will the United States and its allies to take action against a founding member of the Axis of Evil?
Iran Press News reported that the brother of Hassan Rowhani, the Islamic regime’s ex-nuclear negotiator is now the Islamic cultural attaché in the United States. But some are alleging his job title is just a "cover."
Masood Faruvar, The Wall Street Journal examined the question of whether a Sunni-Shia war will soon engulf the new Middle East.
Michael J. Totten, Reason reported that in Iraqi Kurdistan, the war is already over. There are no insurgents in Kurdistan. Nor are there any kidnappings.
Ann Leslie, The Daily Mail argued why Ahmadinejad should give us all nightmares.
A. Yasmine Rassam, Los Angeles Times argued that if the antiwar crowd and Democrats have their way, the United States will be Iran's hostage once again.
Bloomberg reported that the Iranian military forces handed back control of an oil rig seized yesterday in the Persian Gulf to its Romanian owners. But then...
Dow Jones Newswires reported that lawyers for Romanian oil services company GSP, are on their way to Tehran to negotiate a release of an oil rig that has been taken over by Iranians.
FrontPageMagazine.com in an interview with Regnar Rasmussen discussed: How the Soviets gave the Mullahs the bomb.
Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post argued that the conventional wisdom about President Bush is that the cowboy has been retired. Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is King. American diplomacy on Iran has, up until now, been defensible.
The Times Online reported on the Secret war being waged in Iraqi Kurdistan’s isolated Kandil mountain range. Since April Iran has been bombing the area, an attempt by the Islamic republic to curry favour with Turkey.

[8/13/06 - 8/19/06]

Roger Scruton, The Wall Street Journal examined the term "Islamofascism" and that the word provides a convenient way of announcing that you are not against Islam but only against its perversion by the terrorists. But this prompts the question whether terrorism is really as alien to Islam.
Amil Imani, Persian Journal argued that "useful idiots" are Islam's best soldiers and that this new generation of "useful idiots" also lives in liberal democracies but serves the cause of Islamofascism.
The Detroit News reported that 58 percent of Americans in the poll think Iran is now the "main promoter of Islamic fascism in the Middle East," and 76 percent believe Iran must be prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons "at any cost."
Sydney Morning Herald reported on the changing face of Iran. A very interesting report.
Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post provided evidence of the coming wars she fears soon will come to the Middle East and warns that Israel is not yet prepared for it.
Michael Slackman, The New York Times provided an important lesson for Americans in the fine Iranian art of hiding what you mean to say. A must read.
Amil Imani, The Family Security Matters untangled facts from myth in understanding the Muslim mindset.

[8/06/06 - 8/12/06]

John Batchelor, The New York Sunconsidered why is America apparently waiting to be attacked by Iran before acting on the threat?
Lee Smith, The Weekly Standard questioned whether Hezbollah is an invincible as the media is making it out to be.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Weekly Standard reviewed George Michael's new book The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right, about the unlikely alliance between Islamic radicals and the neo-Nazi far right.
Insight Magazine reported that Bush and Condi have clashed over Israel; with the president overruling her for the first time. "I've never seen her so angry," an aide said.
Nidra Poller, TCS Daily discussed "French Duplomacy" and how France is trying to impose on its American partner.
Alan Peters, AntiMullah considered the question: Will Lebanese Army sent to the south include Hezbollah fighters in disquise?

[7/30/06 - 8/05/06]

Robert Tracinski, RealClearPolitics argued that the new Lebanon War is a war in which everyone knows the enemy's strategy, in which it is child's play to see through all of his ruses and propaganda tricks--and yet our leaders, rather than devising their own counter-strategy, fall for every ruse and play along,
Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post argued that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the man to watch these days. And yet it would seem that those in positions of power are paying him little heed.
Dennis Prager, Real Clear Politics argued that whenever you hear that "world opinion" holds a view, assume it is morally wrong. He explains why.
The Times Online in an editorial argued that the West must remember what the Middle East conflict is about, a question of values.
David Warren, Real Clear Politics asked what happened to all the coverage from Qana? As usual, when the "liberal" media begin to realize they've been had, the story disappears. But it is never properly corrected. An examination of the underreported aspects of the story. A must read.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Weekly Standard explained: Why The Jihadist's Fight, in a review of Professor Mary Habeck's book Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror. A must read.
Alan Peters, AntiMullah published a retrospective on his reign on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980). He compared the Monarch to what followed.

[7/23/06 - 7/29/06]

Time Magazine reported that while Hizballah may be Tehran's client, the conflict hasn't been welcomed by many Iranians. Iranian's are saying, "We should mind our own business and concentrate on policies that are good for our economy, and our kids."
Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard reported that US intelligence has again been caught off guard by the sophisticated weapons being deployed by our enemies, this time in Lebanon.
Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard reported that al Qaeda's Zawahiri's statements: "We cannot just watch these shells as they burn our brothers in Gaza and Lebanon and stand by idly, humiliated," runs counter to the conventional wisdom of many in the intelligence community.
Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council testifying before the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress and said while there is no greater foreign policy challenge facing the United States today than the one posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, there has been little public discussion about the economic dimension of the current crisis in Iran. A must read.

[7/16/06 - 7/22/06]

BBC Arabic.com interviewed DoctorZin as part of a series on Middle East blogs.
James S. Robbins, The National Review Online reported that until last week, Hezbollah has enjoyed virtual immunity in the war on terrorism. It appears that immunity is now over.
John Batchelor, The New York Sun argued that Iran expects America to launch air attacks against Iranian command and control, air defenses and nuclear weapons-making and ballistic missile sites by winter, perhaps as early as October 2006.
Frederick Kempe, The Wall Street Journal argued why the new atomic age requires a new nonproliferation strategy.
The Washington Post reported that President Bush is facing a new and swiftly building backlash on the right over his handling of foreign affairs. They perceive timidity and confusion about long-standing problems including Iran and North Korea.
Mehdi Khalaji, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy reported that while westerners believe Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad to be popular in Iran, in no small part because of his strong support for Iran’s nuclear program. However, there is much evidence to the contrary. A must read.
The Washington Times reported that young Iranians are turning increasingly to the Internet to voice their dissatisfaction with a hard-line regime and argued that the United States could make better use of blogs, satellite television, radio and other means to communicate information that the regime withholds from its public.
The National Review Online examined the accusation that Israel is using a “disproportionate use of force.” He asked Europe, if missiles were falling on Strasbourg, Nancy, Lille, Dijon, and Paris would Chirac’s concern be to respond only in “proportion”?
Iran Press News reported that officials in Bulgaria stopped a truck carrying radio active materials to Iran.
The New York Times reported that there is a huge amount of anger in Iran about what is happening in Lebanon. In interviews in Tehran, person after person said the same thing: Iran should worry about Iran’s problems and not be dragged down by others’ battles.
Moshe Yaalon, New Republic argued that while for years, we were told that the “root cause” of the Middle East’s problems was the Israeli occupation of Arab lands. It is now time to consider whether the conflict is the result of different “root causes”: namely, Iran, Syria.
James Kitfield, National Journal argued that the United States went to war with the wrong country, Iraq and argued Iran was and is the greater threat.

[7/09/06 - 7/15/06]

Reuters confirmed our earlier report about Iran's successful effort to ban the IAEA's Chief inspector from Iran. Interestingly, this report does not mention El Baradei's role in this.
The Times Online reported on what it called the West's 'Secret War' to keep nuclear N. Korea and Iran in check.
Iran Focus reported that after the European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution accusing Tehran of obstructing freedom of expression on the internet, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported the EP resolution and listed all the states but one on the blacklist: Iran.
Slater Bakhtavar, Persian Journal reported on the ascent of the radical Hojjatieh movement in the Iranian leadership which Ayatollah Khomeini once opposed for being too radical.
Bill Samii, Radio Free Europe reported that a banned and clandestine religio-political group in Iran, the secretive Hojjatieh Society, is making a comeback and the public might never know just how pervasive the Hojjatieh Society's activities really are.Zogby International released a survey which reports that Iranians (41%) said reforming their national economy so it operates more efficiently is more important than nuclear capability. I also made a few observations.
Mehran Riazaty reminded us of the history of Hezbollah of Lebanon, its ties with Iran and how this explains the recent crisis in the Middle East.

[7/02/06 - 7/08/06]

Joel Mowbray, The Washington Times reported that in a stunning move, Karen Hughes sided with the Democratic members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors earlier this month in shooting down the Republicans' preferred candidate to head up U.S. radio services who would like to return to the principles that proved so effective during the Cold War, namely targeting key decision makers with serious programming laced with the values and ideals inherent to free societies. What's up with Karen?
The Wall Street Journal reminded us of the history of North Korea efforts to sell missile technology to Iran and the problem our these nations developing nuclear weapons.
Bruno Schirra, writing for the German website Die Welt just published a report that the IAEA tried to stop entitled: Atomic Secrets: The man who knew too much. This is the first time the IAEA’s Chief Inspector, Chris Charlier, has spoken out publicly. We have just translated the report.
Rooz Online reported that while Ahmadinejad claims to be battling corruption in the Iranian regime, his brother has been accused of embezzling $2 Million dollars in contracts with the IRGC. His brother is currently the head of the president’s inspector's office whose responsibility is to track and investigate government corruption and fraud.

[6/25/06 - 7/01/06]

RIA Novosti reported that Tehran is prepared to assist in releasing four Russian diplomats abducted by Al Qaeda insurgents in the Iraqi capital. By making this statement, Iran has admitted it's over Al Qaeda.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported that Iran is to hold its controversial proposed conference on the Holocaust in October.
Alan Peters, AntiMullah believes he knows why Iran Chose Mid-August to respond to the Perm-5 nuclear offer.
The Telegraph reported the belief amongst most intelligence agencies is that a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) attack, using a so-called dirty bomb, is now inevitable.
Potkin Azarmehr, Azarmehr Weblog said the Islamic Republic think tank units expertly target the Western newspaper journalists who have the potential of opinion making. Through their "officials" they feed these "experts" with their "sources" of information. A must read.
Rooz Online reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran spent $350 million to equip and arm 2 brigades of Baseej mass-mobilization forces with heavy weapons. These two brigades had been involved in crushing the student protests. (This is just the latest investment, but the US Senate still can't seem to approve the White House's request for $75 million to support the Iranian opposition.) A must read.
RIA Novosti reported that Russia's defense minister confirmed a Ukrainian firm supplied China and Iran with six long-range cruise missiles in 2000-2001. The missiles were the Soviet Kh-55 Granat missiles (NATO reporting name AS-15 Kent) with nuclear capacity.
Reuters reported that as many as 30,000 Iranian exiles affiliated with the NCRI/MEK rallied near Paris on Saturday, calling on Western powers to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb and urging democratic change in Tehran. The NCRI/MEK is considered a terrorist group by the US government.

[6/18/06 - 6/24/06]

Middle East Report Online published a historical analysis of the Iranian women's movement. An interesting read.
Jonathan Paris, Prospectives explains how Iranian President Ahmadinejad is seeking to galvanize Muslims throughout the world behind a radical vision of puritanical Islam that rejects the liberal democratic model to become the next "Nasser" of the Islamic world.
Peter Brooks, New York Post argues that given that the United States has given Pakistan $700 million a year in aid, Islamabad should be pressed to give us access to A.Q. Khan - the only outsider with insider knowledge of Tehran's nuclear program.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the division inside of Iran between the Iran/Iraq war revolutionaries and the Iranian youth.
Richard Miniter & Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Weekly Standard reported that nearly every major media outlet has fallen for at least one of the three major myths concerning Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel said his family might have escaped death under Hitler had they listened to the warnings of what was coming back in 1942. He feels compelled to warn the world about what is coming with Ahmadinejad.
FOX News reported that a growing chorus of Bush's critics on the right wants a tougher U.S. approach to Iran.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Adam White, The Weekly Standard reviewed the circumstances behind the administration's decision not to kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2002.
CNET News reported that internet web surfers frustrated by government censorship in search engines are increasingly turning to a little-known Internet browser with a big following, Maxthon.
The New York Times reported on the Iranian and Syrian governments, and their people, are tightening relations on several fronts as power in the region shifts away from the once dominant Sunni to Shiites, led by Iran. But it is creating concerns inside Syria.

[6/11/06 - 6/17/06]

Iran Focus reported that several key agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security operating in countries bordering Iran have gone on the run from their terror masters in Tehran.
The New York Post reported that New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly warned that Iran has an "aggressive" spy program targeting New York City, "they are not going to other cities to do it. They are doing it here in New York. They are aggressively surveilling us."
The Christian Science Monitor reported that Hamas or Hezbollah are now in the awkward position of having to decide whether to bend to popular opinion and end their drive to eliminate Israel.
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online discussed the US offer of direct talks with Iran and the confusion it is causing among the Iranian opposition movement who fear President Bush may be selling them out for a nuclear deal.

[6/04/06 - 6/10/06]

Alan Peters, AntiMullah considered what group will fill the power vacuum left after the regime falls.
Rooz Online reviewed the past year since Ahmadinejad came to power and the two-pillar approach taken by the Iranian hardliners.
The Economist reported on Iran's uppity minorities.
Reuters reported that U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said the world economy could handle any theoretical cutoff of Iranian oil exports "for a while."
The Washington Post reported on the legal case against Iran.
Ian Bremmer, RealClearPolitics examined the question: Are there limits to the Iranian leadership's resolve?
Vali Nasr, The New Republic examined Iranian Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi's troubled history.
Simon Henderson, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy reports on the Iranian supreme leader's recent threat on the shipment of oil through the Persian Gulf and raises questions about the strength of the Iranian military and how the United States could counter it, using military power, alternative export routes, or a combination of both.
Asia News reported on the significance of the November 17th election of 86 “Experts” will take place in Iran.
The Guardian published a movie review of "Offside" a football comedy about Iranian female football fans.

[5/28/06 - 6/03/06]

The New York Times reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to consolidate power in the office of the presidency in a way never before seen in the 27-year history of the Islamic Republic.
The Financial Times reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad will need to spend an extra 5 Billon Dollars this year to pay for subsidies on sales to motorists of imported petrol.
Spiegel published its aggressive interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussing the Holocaust, the future of the state of Israel, mistakes made by the United States in Iraq and Tehran's nuclear conflict with the West.
Alan Peters, AntiMullah said publishing of the names and addresses of these radicals is a one way of reducing the violent suppression of the Iranian opposition.
Mehran Riazaty sees a connection between the deadly traffic accident Monday involving U.S. troops sparked the worst rioting in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban government, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai's trip to Iran.
The American Thinker criticized the New York Times and its recent positive treatment of Ahmadinejad.
Iraq The Model provided evidence that CNN mistranslated a statement by an Iraqi minister defending Iran's nuclear program.
Asia Times argued that the regime wants nothing short of ironclad guarantees that the US would not now, or in the future, attempt to destabilize its government.
Marinka Peschmann, Western Standard reported that Iran's democrats are furious that former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark is protecting the mullahcracy he helped install. A must read.
Allister Heath, The Spectator provides historical insight into why the Neo-Nazis are rallying to Iran's President.

[5/21/06 - 5/27/06]

The Financial Times reported that David Jackson, director of Voice of America said VOA is not in the business of persuading Iranians to overthrow their government.
Lee Smith, Weekly Standard asked: Who's Really Afraid of Iran? Hint, it's not Israel.
Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard reported that there appears to have been little progress made by the U.S. intelligence community in learning more about the information brought to light by the 9/11 Commission report, despite commissioners having argued that it deserved more attention. Particularly so since most of Al Qaeda's senior operatives operate freely inside of Iran.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy exposed the myth of Iranian-Turkish amity.
Mehdi Khalaji, The Washington Institute evaluated the impact outside pressure would have on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration and its ability to overcome internal political and economic challenges.
PrayForIran.org reported that in response to the current crisis surrounding Iran, over 120 Iranian church leaders have pledged to 40 days of prayer and fasting.
Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com published it's Symposium: Iran: To Strike or Not to Strike?
Amil Imani, The American Thinker argued that while the world views Iran's President as a zealot, fascist, fanatic, anti-Semitic, lunatic and more, he is far from unhinged.
Richard Miniter, Investors Business Daily reported that the proof of Al-Qaida's links to Iraq are just too strong to be dismissed.
MEMRI published Iraqi News Agency Aswathura's Exclusive interview with Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. A valuable read.

[5/14/06 - 5/20/06]

Rooz Online reported that Dr Hassan Rowhani, the former chief of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and current advisor to ayatollah Khamenei, recently "met a group of American strategists who can convince the American government of their views. They are the same strategists who succeeded in resolving the 1986 nuclear crises between the US and the Soviet Union.”
Fouad Ajami, US News & World Report argued that Iran's "revolution" is not in a "final phase" but has instead entered an "apocalyptic phase," as Bernard Lewis, the great historian of Islam, recently warned.
ASUCLA Student Media reported that Shirin Ebadi at UCLA was met with as much opposition Monday night. The 2003 Nobel Peace laureate came to UCLA to speak of her new book, but several protesters interrupted her speech claiming Ebadi is a spy for the Iranian regime.

[5/07/06 - 5/13/06]

Congressman Jim Saxton, The Washington Times argued that given Iran's huge oil and gas resources, Iran has no need for its much more costly nuclear program. However, support for terrorism and economic mismanagement have damaged oil and gas development in Iran.
Charles Krauthammer, The Chicago Tribune wrote that for the first time in 1,871 years there are once again more Jews living in Israel than anywhere in the world and given that Iran is seeking the nuclear bomb it makes Israel is a tempting target for those who would finish Hitler's work.
The New York Times reported that Iranian exiles in 'Tehrangeles' are split on how the U.S. should sway Iran.
FOX News released the finds from a new poll in which 85 percent of Americans say they do not trust Iran to tell the truth about their nuclear technology program.
Amil Imani, The Persian Mirror said Noble Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, instead of becoming the voice of the voiceless and using her Noble status to speak about the atrocities of the Islamic Republic has used her platform to speak against the war on terror, and to criticize the United States.
Leon Aron, Yevgeny Bai, American Enterprise Institute in an interview said the G8 Summit could be canceled if the West forms a united front on Iran, while Russia refuses to cooperate. He added: Moscow is praying the conflict doesn't get out of control before the summit.
Iran Press News reported that a German newspaper revealed that Tehran's regime had dispatched 12 terrorists to Denmark sent to expressly kill a Danish cartoonist responsible for the Mohammad cartoon.
ET, A View from Iran published a few useful tips and tricks for negotiating with Iranians. A must read for our policy makers.
Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post finds it worrisome that the day after Ahmadinejad wrote his war letter to Bush, Rice was meeting with her associates figuring out a way to give the Hamas-led Palestinians millions of dollars of US taxpayers' money, in spite of the fact that Hamas has agreed act as Teheran's client.

[4/30/06 - 5/06/06]

Joshua Muravchik, Bitter Lemons International an AEI scholar argued that the confrontation between Iran and the United States over Iran's nuclear program is likely to end in US air strikes against Tehran's nuclear facilities.
Joshua Muravchik, IslamOnline.net mapped out the various foreign policy schools of thought inside the United States, and offers a historical description of the various schools of thought.
Nile Gardiner and Joseph Loconte, Boston.com see parallels between Germany in 1938 and Iran of 2006.
The Washington Times reminded us that every US administration has been burnt in negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
BBC News visited "Tehrangeles" where around half of estimated 1.65 million Iranian diaspora live in the US.
The New York Times sees parallels between Iran's radical's use of the 1979 taking of the US Embassy in Tehran and its current effort to create a new crisis with the US over its nuclear program.
David Horovitz, The Jerusalem Post published an excellent report on what Iranian opposition groups are seeking to bring down the ayatollahs of Iran.
MEMRI.org reported that a Saudi Cleric claims: 'America is Now Disappearing From the Hearts [of the Middle East] ... Whereas Islam is Growing Even Within America.' A response.

[4/23/06 - 4/29/06]

The Guardian published anti-Iraq war columnist who argued that Iran does pose a threat in every way Iraq did not.
The Herald reported that three former Iranian national footballers warned Iran may try to exploit the World Cup.
Anne Bayefsky, The National Review reported that the UN honored with a 2006 "Champion of the Earth" award, the former spokesperson for the US Embassy hostage takers in Tehran.
Walid Phares, LebanonNewsWire warned that Syria and Iran still control Lebanon.
Richard Miniter, The New York Sun reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America's chief nemesis in Iraq, boldly emerged from the shadows in an unprecedented videotape released yesterday.
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi is reporting that the controversial Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi is going to be on Oprah Winfrey. Iranian opposition groups are organizing efforts to stop the broadcast.
The Guardian reported that the Simon Wiesenthal centre called on Germany to ban the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from attending the World Cup.
Middle East Newsline reported that the Center for Strategic and International Studies said the Iranian military has failed to procure the platforms or weapons required to block the Straits of Hormuz.
The Guardian reported that the US State Department branded Iran public enemy number one, calling it one of the world's most active sponsors of terrorism.
The Independent reported that some in Iran fear that Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi (Ahmadinehjad's radical mentor) aspires to become Supreme Leader himself.

[4/16/06 - 4/22/06]

Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times argued that our policy on Iran Nukes seems to be off-target.
Richard Clarke, The New York Times argued that bombing Iran will backfire on the US.
AsiaTimes reported that Iran will become full member of China and Russia's "Shanghai Cooperation Organization." The SCO's enlargement move would frustrate the entire US strategy in the region. The SCO is a security organization which will provide Iran with access to technology, increased investment and trade.
CBS News reported that Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah of Iran says "This regime is not trying to avoid confrontation, on the contrary; it needs confrontation in order to survive."
The Washington Post reported that the Iranian government has intensified efforts to illegally obtain weapons technology from the United States.
Rooz Online reported that Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, the head of Iran’s Experts Assembly on Leadership which is responsible for choosing a new leader, is in coma. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi is said to have ambitions to head the Assembly.
Haaretz reported that Republican Senator Norm Coleman is calling on the United States to withhold funds from the UN Disarmament Commission over Iran's election as vice chairman.
New York Post reported that last week the U.N. Commission on Disarmament elevated Iran to the vice-chairman post and his first act was to demand that Israel sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and open all of its nuclear sites to international inspection.
Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard challenged a recent statement by former National Security Council staffers Richard Clarke and Steven Simon that the U.S. intelligence community scared Iran out of the terrorist game.
Alan Peters, AntiMullah.com argued that a limited strike on Iran would not bring down the regime and that what is required is to eliminate the most radical elements of the Iranian regime. A must read.

[4/09/06 - 4/15/06]

Ha'aretz asked what will come more quickly on the Iranian clock: the nuclear capability or the democratic revolution?
AlJazeera reported that Iran is planning to launch a second satellite.
Mark Steyn, City Journal argued why our lives depend on facing down Iran.
Iran Press News reported that a Swiss judge issued an international arrest warrant for ex-Minister of Intelligence and Security of the Islamic regime. A must read.
Mark Bowden, Atlantic Online published an excerpt from his new book: "Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam."
MosNews reported that Iran wishes to send a man into space and Russia is not opposed to the idea.
Howard Fineman, MSNBC reported that a generation ago, the Iranian hostage crisis cost Jimmy Carter and the Democrats the White House. Now, 26 years later, another Iranian hostage crisis threatens to do the same thing to George W. Bush and the Republican Party.
The New York Times reported that one of President Bush's most senior foreign policy advisers said "The problem is that our policy has been all carrots and no sticks... and the Iranians know it."
William Kristol, The Weekly Standard sees parallels between how the west failed to deal with Hitler early on and how the west now appears headed to do the same with Iran.
Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House appropriations panel are resisting administration efforts to fund independent Iranian broadcast efforts into Iran and instead want to solely fund Voice of America and Radio Farda. But Iranian opposition groups claim VOA and Radio Farda are undermining pro-democracy efforts inside of Iran.
The Los Angeles Times reported on their poll which claims that Americans are divided over the prospect of U.S. military action against Iran.
John Podhoretz, New York Post argued that the president should invite leading Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill, sooner rather than later, to Camp David for a major policy summit to create a bipartisan consensus on what to do about Iran.
Matthias Küntzel, The New Republic produced a detailed examination of Ahmadinejad's roots in the Bassij in a report: Ahmadinejad's Demons. A must read.
Los Angeles Times reported on the messianic fervor growing among some of Iran's Shiites.

[4/02/06 -4/08/06]

AxisGlobe reported that a former CIA undercover agent claims: KGB and GRU former intelligence operators are assisting Hezbollah to penetrate the US.
Iran Press News reported that a special clerical court of the Islamic regime sentenced a Mullah who recently shot and killed a young man, in the back, to only 3 years in prison because "he will not tell us" why he did it. The government argued it may have been an accident.
David Frum, Il Foglio examined three possible reasons why the Iranian regime, who seem determined to obtain nuclear weapons at the earliest opportunity, brags and boasts and taunts the West--before they have actually have a nuclear bomb.
Ilan Berman, AFPC reported that the House of Saud is moving forward with its own clandestine nuclear program, with the help of Pakistan.
Mehran Riazaty produced a collection of Iranian press reports that Ahmadinjead is being directed by the invisible power of the 12th Imam will return in 2 years.
Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post reported on the dangerous rise of the Islamist axis under the leadership of Iran.
Rooz Online argues that there is no evidence that the US wants to break Iran into smaller nation states as some Iranians fear.
NewsMax reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld predicted that the saber rattling by Iranian President Ahmadinejad will backfire, ultimately weakening his hold over the Iranian people.

[3/26/06 -4/01/06]

Rooz Online published an interview with Hassan Abbassi, Ahmadinejad's chief strategic guru, who said: "We are able to endanger both, US security and its economic interests anywhere in the world."
Charles Krauthammer, Time Magazine sees the end of civilization, if we fail to prevent an Iranian regime run by apocalyptic fanatics from going nuclear.
Anne Bayefsky, The National Review argued why the latest action by the UN Security Council is a a win for Iran.
The Washington Post reported that U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes with attacks against U.S. targets worldwide.

[3/19/06 -3/25/06]

The LA Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials are claiming that the Iranian regime is playing host to much of Al Qaeda's remaining brain trust and allowing the senior operatives freedom to plan future attacks.
The Times Online reported on Dr Wafa Sultan, whose appearance on Al-Jazeera where she denounced the teachings and practice of Islam as “barbaric” and “medieval” has caused an unholy stir in the Muslim world.
Colin Rubenstein, The Age argued why we must stop the Mullahs of Iran.
Adnkronos International reported that an Iranian source close to the reformists confirmed that "With the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad relations with al-Qaeda have been resumed and strengthened."
The New York Sun published the season's top 10 conspiracies in the Arab and Iranian press.
Joseph Klein, FrontPageMagazine.com argued that Iran has four aces in its hand to avoid any meaningful action by the UN Security Council.
The New York Sun reported that while Iran helped to invent modern-day terrorism, sometimes called asymmetrical warfare. Now the mullahs are engaging in asymmetrical diplomacy.
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported that the US Treasury Dept. dealt a major blow to Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV designating it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity.
Vital Perspectives reported that California State Controller Steve Westly called on state agencies to examine their pension holdings for investment in companies with ties to Iran.
Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that a former Democratic senator and 9/11 commissioner says a recently declassified Iraqi account of a 1995 meeting between Osama bin Laden and a senior Iraqi envoy presents a "significant set of facts," and shows a more detailed collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

[3/12/06 -3/18/06]

Eli lake, The New York Sun reported that the Tehran regime has already started cracking down on democracy activists in the country who have received aid from the West.
Azarmehr reported that the Islamic Republic is now using the Washington Post instead of State TV for propaganda against Iranian dissidents.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, FrontPageMagazine.com examined the Mullah-Hamas Axis.
The Christian Science Monitor reported a new romance between US and France.
Alex Alexiev, Center for Security Policy examined the transition of Iranian totalitarian theocracy to messianic Islamofascism and suggestions towards a strategy for regime change.
BBC News reported that a group of exiled Syrian opposition leaders has announced they are to form a common front to oppose President Bashar al-Assad's government.
William F Buckley, The National Review considered the question: What do we intend to do about it if Iran proceeds noiselessly to nuclear armament?
Phyllis Chesler, The Family Security Matters warns of the coming Islamization of America.
News Max reported that Rep. Curt Weldon said that Osama bin Laden has died.

[3/05/06 -3/11/06]

Natan Sharansky, Los Angeles Times responded to his critics, who point to recent elections of hard-liners in the Middle East as evidence of the failure of efforts to bring democracy there. A must read.
Simon Wiesenthal Center reported that the Iranian government has published a book that gives an academic’s justification for its anti-Jewish stance.
The Weekly Standard reported that Iran secretly agreed to assist the Taliban in its war against U.S. forces in October 2001.
ABC News examined the U.S. military options against Iran.
Iran Democracy Monitor debunked Iran's need for nuclear energy and more.
Ian Bremmer, The Daily Star asked: Is Myanmar the next Iran?
Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard reported how Bush wants to release the Saddam files but his intelligence chief stalls.

[2/27/06 -3/04/06]

Roya Hakakian, The Wall Street Journal argued that the Iranian regime is using the nuclear crisis to divert global attention to the country's many domestic problems, giving the ruling clerics free rein to devastate opposition with all the brutality they can muster.

[2/20/06 -2/26/06]

Kenneth R. Timmerman, News Max reported that a top Pentagon official, responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs, provided the first-ever account of how the Russians "cleaned up" Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction stockpiles.
John Patrick Quirk, RealClear Politics examined Iran's defensive strategy.
Salena Zito, The PittsburgLive.com said we are at a defining moment in our history when Islamic fascists are determined to end Western culture and we must act decisively.
Ronald D. Asmus, The Washington Post argued that it is time to offer Israel membership in NATO.
Marvin Olasky, World Magazine provided a review of the threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorist regimes.
Henry Sokolski, The Wall Street Journal argued that the US must resist making a proposed civilian nuclear cooperation deal the primary theme of future relations with India.
Lionel Beehner, The Council on Foreign Relations examined Condoleezza Rice's new strategy on Iran.
The Financial Times reported that the Pentagon was examining the depth and nature of grievances of Iran’s ethnic minorities against the Islamic government.
Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post examined how Ahmadinejad tough talk and actions have unified the west against him.
Ze'ev Schiff, Ha'aretz examined: What is spurring Ahmadinejad?

[2/13/06 -2/19/06]

Opinion Journal argued that a better response to Iran's threats is to invite Israel into NATO.
William R. Hawkins, The Washington Times thinks that in referring Iran to the UNSC, the US is walking into a trap.
USA Today reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to USA TODAY's Barbara Slavin in an hour-long interview.
USAToday reported on a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll which found that Americans are deeply worried about the possibility that Iran will develop nuclear weapons and use them, they also fear that the Bush administration will act prematurely, but also that the United States won't do enough.
The Wall Street Journal argued that as Iran plays a growing role in Iraq, it is complicating Bush's strategy for the Middle East.
Mort Kondracke, RealClear Politics argued that Iran, Iraq, and Hamas make 2006 the year of crisis for President Bush.
The Christian Science Monitor reported that once Iran masters the difficult technique of uranium enrichment, a nuclear bomb is not far away.
Radio Free Europe reported on an interview with Dr Mohsen Sazegara who argued that Iran's return to revolutionary values is temporary.
Ha'aretz reported that while the Iranian government appears confident, all is not well with the regime.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the Iranian threat to the international financial sector is finally getting the world's attention.
Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard published a must read review of the ties of Iran and Al Qaeda, based on the 9/11 Commission Report and major mainstream US and European sources.
DW-World.de reported that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks calling the Holocaust into question have disappointed Muslims in Germany who remind us that at Auschwitz, 200,000 Muslims were also murdered there.

[2/06/06 -2/12/06]

The Washington Post said the good news in the vote by the IAEA is that the United States and its allies have managed to broaden the international coalition. But the coalition-building nevertheless has had a clear cost: The action taken is slow and weak.
Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Per Ahlmark, The Wall Street Journal nominated Ken Timmerman and John Bolton for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Yahoo News reported that the Pew Research Center conducted a poll in which he said: "two of three [Americans] saying Iran's nuclear program represents a major threat."
Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that a former special investigator for the Pentagon during the Iraq war said he found four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that he is sure contain stocks of chemical and biological weapons.
600 Student Activists, Rezapahlavi.org published a letter from Iranian Students to the freedom-loving people of the world. A must read.

[1/30/06 -2/05/06]

Bijan Kian, United Press International argued that in the art of diplomacy Iran is out maneuvering the West.
Alan Peters, Anti-Mullah considered the question: Can The USA Avoid Attacking Iran? Can We Attack Successfully?
William R. Hawkins, National Review Online examined China's role as protector of the two remaining "axis of evil" regimes.
Arnaud De Borchgrave, United Press International examined the ideology behind Iran's President and his belief that the world will end in two years.
The Wall Street Journal examined the question: So why is the White House so committed to the vagaries of diplomacy with Iran?

[1/23/06 -1/29/06]

Saul Singer, The Jerusalem Post examined a disturbing comment made by Senator John McCain on Iran.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Weekly Standard reported on how to understand and exploit Iran's internal fissures.
The Economist reminded us of the irony that while the Iranian president calls Israel alien to the Middle East, since several of Israel's key leaders have Iranian origins.
FOX News reported that according to their polling Americans think Iran is the country that poses the greatest immediate danger to the United States. Read the poll results.
The New York Sun reported that the man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war.
Ha'aretz reminds us that Iran is radical Islam with sovereignty seeking a nuclear capability and the ruling mullahs there take their ideas seriously and back them up with money and action.
Jeffrey Bell, The Weekly Standard suggested that the defining test of Bush's war presidency will be Iran.

[1/16/06 -1/07/22]

Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that many are beginning to look at ways to support an internal regime change in Iran.
Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post lamented the recent statement by the new chancellor of Germany that the EU3/Iran negotiations were a success because the allies stuck together!
Frederick W. Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com examined the threat of a nuclear Iran and its growing alliance with Cuba. A new Cuban missile crisis is coming.
Cliff May, The Corner reminded us that some who claim to speak for the Iranian people in Washington are in reality defending the Iranian regime.
Joe Katzman, Winds of Change.net argued why failure to support an internal regime change inside of Iran will likely lead to at least 10 million dead.

[1/08/06 -1/07/15]

The Middle East Media Research Institute published the first in a series of papers that will include translations of statements by members of the Iranian regime and Iranian leaders on various issues. Plus a cartoon.
The Economist in a special report asked: Now that Iran is crossing a clear red line, what can the world do? What should we do?
The Economist published a special report on the pschology of the Iranian leaders.
The Economist published a report warning us that Iran is often portrayed as dangerous, irrational and unpredictable. In truth, it is not irrational.

[1/01/06 -1/07/06]

Thomas Sowell, Townhall asked: when dealing with Iran are we serious or suicidal?
Steve Forbes, Forbes believes Iran will be the hot potato of 2006.
James S. Robbins, National Review Online warned us that when faced with a state pursuing an aggressive plan to achieve regional hegemony, the worst move is to seek to institutionalize the status quo.
Joseph Loconte, The Daily Standard published a valuable review of Fascism, Islamism, and Anti-Semitism. Well referenced.
Alan Peters reported thatPresident Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad's office privately leaking to the Tehran newspapers that Iran already has four nuclear weapons obtained from the Ukraine.
The Teamsters issued a Press Release which called on the President of Iran to immediately release the Iranian union leaders and members and negotiate in good faith with the Union of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, whose members have not had a wage increase in over four years.
James P. Pinkerton's, Newsday made a prediction for 2006: Iran could heat up, or start a cold war.
Austin Bay, Ventura County Star argued that the Iranian regime's greatest fear is a popular, pro-democracy rebellion.
The Intelligence Summit reported that they will reveal Saddam's personal and confidential weapons of mass destruction tapes next month.
Farah Pahlavi, The International Herald Tribune responded to Thomas Friedman's article, "A shah with a turban" and reminded readers under the late Shah, Iranians enjoyed incomparably better lives than what they have to endure today.

[12/25/05 -12/31/05]

Hossein Bastani, Rooz Online published Iran's Other Senior Leaders Threats: A Sampling.
Christopher Hitchens, Slate argued that Iran is meddling in Iraqi affairs, but maybe the influence works both ways.
Mustafa al-Ani, Al-Hayat considered Iran's leaders having learned the lesson of the "Stupid Tree."

[12/18-12/24]

Radio Free Europe reported Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel statements reflect the official line. A must read.
The Jerusalem Post criticized the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to ElBaradei.
Nancy A. Youssef, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported that many Iraqi Sunni Muslims are now diverting their anger from Israel to Iran.
Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times reported on the real Iran myths.
Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Media Services discussed Time Magazines reporting of Ahmadinejad points to a deeper issue.

[12/11-12/17]

Saul Singer, The National Review warned the Europeans that by failing to deal with Iran, and wrapping themselves most tightly in international law are actually those responsible for turning that law into a dead letter.
The Washington Times reported that an Iraqi general formerly in charge of special Interior Ministry forces said that a senior Iranian intelligence officer was in charge of a network of detention centers in Iraq where suspected insurgents were routinely tortured and sometimes killed. A must read.
Iranian.ws argued that the forces inside and outside Iran that they think they can change the political structure of Iran are wasting their time and deceiving the people of Iran.
Claudia Rosett, The Wall Street Journal reported on the murder of a brave and respected Lebanese journalist, just days after a Hebollah rally calling for his death.
The Washington Times discussed Iran's undeclared war.
The Heritage Foundation published a backgrounder report: Countering Iran's Nuclear Challenge.
Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post warns us that Iran is arming for Armageddon. A must read.
The New York Sun reported that Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom said: Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started.

[12/04-12/10]

Iran Focus reported that an effort by Iraqi officials to stop the release of an official report into the torture of more than 170 Iraqi prisoners in a secret detention centre in Baghdad by Iranian interrogators. A must read.
Eli Lake, New York Sun reported that with Ahmadinejad's ascendancy to the presidency of Iran, the country's opposition is beginning to show signs of unifying as the clerical regime wages a war against internal dissent.
Mehr News reported that Iran seeks Islamic endorsement of its strategic role in the Islamic world.
Radio Free Europe reported that as Iraq's Kurdistan region has achieved a degree of self-rule Iranian Kurds are watching closely.

[11/27-12/03]

Tulin Daloglu, The Washington Times provided some suggestions to ensure success while dealing with Iran.
Iran va Jahan published "A Word with the Nation, A Warning to the Regime." A statement dated November 2005 signed by 674 personalities including former Members of the Iranian Majles (parliament); well know academics, political and cultural personalities as well as student activists.
Gerald M. Steinberg, Jerusalem Issue Brief examined: Can Diplomacy Still Prevent Iran from Going Nuclear?
MehrNews reported that the Chairman of the Majlis Energy Commission said that preparatory measures have been taken to sell oil in euros instead of dollar, adding: the United States would soon realize that it is not the one who can always inflict economic damages.

[11/20-11/26]

Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily reported that Newt Gingrich sees Iran threat to U.S. like Nazi Germany.
The Guardian UK provided an interesting analysis of Iranian negotiating tactics.
Mehdi Khalaji, The Washington Institute produced a concise review of Tehran's renewed war on culture. A must read.
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian UK provides insight into Iranian popular thought on the current international crisis with Iran adding that the Iranian people want western nations to stick together and gave a consistent policy on Iran. A must read.
Mehrangiz Kar, Rooz Online reports the murder religious and secular intellectuals in Iran are permitted in article 226 of the Islamic Penal Code. A must read.

[11/13-11/19]

Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported on the backlash in Zarqawi's hometown over the suicide attacks in Jordan.
Shahram Rafizadeh, Rooz Online reported that workers strikes are seen as one of the principal challenges that the new hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will have to deal with as the strikes are expected to grow in size.
Iranian.ws discussed the characteristics of the alternative to the Islamic regime of Iran.
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held hearings on Iran where Senators were shown disturbing graphics discovered by this blog. Transcripts of testimony included.
The American Thinker reported on how Ahmadinejad’s terror policy must be fought.
John R. Bradley, The Straits Times argued that with the West focused on long-term fears of Iran's nuclear ambitions, a short-term threat posed by the Iranian regime is not getting the attention it deserves.
Avigdor Haselkorn, FrontPageMagazine reported on Iran's current war on Israel.

[11/06-11/12]

Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard reported on the German magazine Cicero and the insight it offeres into Iran's ongoing support for terrorism and Al Qaeda.
Abbas Milani, The International Herald Tribune reminds us of Iran's traditional support of the Jewish people and Iran.
Rooz Online in a special report claimed that a group of former Intelligence Ministry agents are back in action to control Iran’s news media. A must read.
Vahid Sepehri, Radio Free Europe discussed how a shift in power in Iran has left the "reformists" out in the cold.
BBC News reported how Islam got political: Iran.
Michael Young, Tech Central Station discussed Richard N. Haass's proposal for a new foreign policy doctrine which he calls "integration."
The Epoch Times reported on the upcoming UN Summit to decide the future control of the Internet. Britain no longer supports the US position.
The Telegraph UK published a first person account of the recent hostage taking of two British citizens and an Australian.

[10/30-11/05]

Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post asked should Iranian President Ahmadinejad be voted the most Valuable Politician of the year? He reminds a distracted world of the true nature of Iran's regime.
Winds of Change: Here is the full English text of the recent Cicero article on Iran, "How Dangerous is Iran?" about Iran's ties with Al Qaeda.
Center for Security Policy offered three non military instruments we need to use against the regime in Tehran.
Afshin Molavi, The New York Times reminds us that we have allies in Iran.
Amir Taheri, The NY Post explains why is Paris burining?
Alan Peters, FrontPageMagazine.com reported that the Mullahs' Threat Is Not Sinking In.

[10/23-10/29]

Memri.org published an English translation of the Iranian President's speech at Tehran "World without Zionism" Conference.
George Melloan, The Wall Street Journal reported on the ramifications of the UN report on the murder of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri for Syria. PLUS we have found of the UN report.
Dan Darling, Regnum Crucis reported that a German Publication, known to have published German secrets in the past, claims Al Qaeda leaders operate freely in Iran.
Ali Nourizadeh, Asharq Al-Awsat reported that Washington is examining ways of forcing Iran to drop its Nuclear Program. A must read.

[10/16-10/22]

Glenn Reynolds, MSNBC reported that Iraq is becoming a quagmire for the terrorists.
Tim Russert, MSNBC released a transcript of his in-depth conversation Louis Freeh on Clinton, the Khobar Towers attack and Iran. Well worth reading.
Winston, The Spirit of Man asked will Iran disintegrate after the fall of the regime?
Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard reported on Mullah Chávez.
Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com published an interview with Ryan Mauro discussing the secrets of terror.
The Telegraph UK discussed bringing democracy to Syria and Iran.
New York Review of Books provided excerpts of the Soldiers of the Hidden Imam, by Timothy Garton Ash. A Must Read.

[10/09-10/15]

Con Coughlin, The Telegraph UK exposed the real story behind Jack Straw's appeasement of the Iranians.
Simon Henderson, The Washington Institute provided an analysis of Saudi Foreign Policy and the insurgency in Iraq.
Dan Darling, Regnum Crucis published Michael Ledeen's thoughts on Iran's so-called rogue elements in Iraq.
Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard reported important new evidence of the Iran/Al Qaeda connection. The al-Zawahiri Letter.
Iran Focus reported that members of Britain’s House of Commons from the country’s three major political parties took turns to lambaste Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government. Read the transcript of the debate.
Jahangir Amuzegar, Middle East Policy Council produced an appraisal of Iran's Third Development Plan. For instance, the report criticizes Iran's centralized planning of the economy.

[10/02-10/08]

Paul Owens, Orlando Sentinel quoted Ilan Berman's, author of Tehran Rising, as saying: the Islamist war against the United States" began with the Iranian Revolution, not the Sept. 11, 2001.
Iranian blogger, ET, View from Iran provided tips for journalists visiting Iran.
John Hall, Richmond Times discussing Ilan Berman's book, Tehran Rising, said one of the great ironies of the Iraq war was that Iraq's next-door neighbor, Iran, emerged as a big regional winner, at least temporarily.
Erik Sass, Foreign Policy published a report of the MEK [and its desire now to become friends of the US] and said: With friends like these...

[9/25-10/01]

Sherrie Gossett, Assyrian International News Agencyreported that Al Qaeda plans a series of spectacular terrorist strikes in October. A chilling read.
Michael Barone, The Washington Times reminds us that despite the bad news in the media we need to keep the big picture in focus saying: Mr. Bush was right - MuslimIranian blogger, Mr. Bedhi said: If you want sanctions, I am not with you.s and Arabs, like people everywhere, want liberty and self-rule.
Michael Rubin, Ha'aretz asked: Who Killed the Bush Doctrine? One example: Condolezza Rice appointed an ExxonMobil advisor who advised against aiding dissidents to cover the State Department's Iran policy planning portfolio.
Bill Samii, Radio Free Europe reported Iran's Basij Resistance Force appears to be experiencing a revival which could also be connected with preparations for possible civil unrest. A valuable report.
Michael Rubin, Middle East Review of International Affairs argued that the pessimism regarding Iraq's future is unwarranted. A long but valuable read.

[9/18-9/24]

Stefania Lapenna, Tech Central Station reported that after the London bombings, most of Europe has begun to wake up to the nature of the enemy.
Telegraph UK reported a serious rift has opened between Tony Blair and Jack Straw over whether to retain the threat of military action against Iran.
Iranian blogger, Arash Motamed, Rooz Online reports that Ahmadinejad and Larijani are taking the country towards war.
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Online argued why Iran can't become the new China.

[9/11-9/17]

Jim Saxton, The Washington Times published Jim Saxton's: Fighting Terror Four Years On.
Salman Rushdie, The Times followed up with his recent call for reform within Islam saying: Lesson One for the Modern Muslim: Remember, This is Not the 8th Century.
Roger Kimball, The NY Sun reported on the Hitchens, Galloway clash ina debate on the Iraq War. Plus a video.

[9/04-9/10]

The Mercury News reported that the most direct threat to Iran's theocracy is its expanding and restless middle class.
Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times reported that 74% of European respondents, compared with 51% of Americans, want their governments to help establish democracy in other countries.
Iranian blogger, Farid Pouya, Webgardian provided the link to the Transatlantic Trends poll on European attitudes.
Iranian blogger, Farid Pouya, Webgardian quoted Fred Halliday, Professor in London School of Economic, who said: if we look at Iranian history we see Iranian leaders always miscalculated when they faced important events.

[8/28-9/03]

Dan Darling, WindsOfChange.net responded to the claim that the evidence was pretty thin that al-Qaeda leaders are in Iran directing operations.
The Telegraph UK takes a look at Dan Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and reconsiders US efforts to support democracy in the Middle East.
F. Michael Maloof, The Washington Times sees parallels with Iran's ancient assassins and the present.
Harlan Ullman, The Washington Times suggested that if the nation is to be safer and more secure, the president must be even bolder.
The Washington File, Embassy of the U.S., London published the State Department’s Daniel Fried lecture in France on how America and Europe must work together to support democratic development throughout the broader Middle East, just as they supported the democratic aspirations of pro-democracy movements in central and Eastern Europe.
The Washington Times reported that since last February, the Bush administration and France set aside the ill feelings created by the war in Iraq and began to work together for reform in the Muslim world.
Marzeporgohar.org suggested that if there is one thing that the Western countries need to realize, it is that they best not interfere with the Persian pride.

[8/21-8/27]

Patrick Devenny, FrontPageMagazine.com argues that the new Iranian government is its most radical.
Yahoo News reported that an unmanned single-engined plane has crashed in a mountainous area of western Iran and the wreckage has been recovered by the Iranian armed forces.
General Paul Vallely, Executive Intelligence Review reported that he knew that Osama bin Laden was in Iran, and that Iran already has nuclear weapons. A Must Read!

[8/14-8/20]

Michael ware, Time Magazine published the results of their investigation which reveals the Tehran regime's strategy to gain influence in Iraq--and why U.S. troops may now face greater dangers as a result.
Ardeshir Mehrdad and Mehdi Kia, Znet published an analysis: Regime Crisis and Political Perspectives in Iran.
Hamid Namvar, Global Politican discussed the need to stop the Iranian President from coming to America.
The Christian Science Monitor reported on the military strike option against Iran.
Uriah Kriegel, Tech Central Station reported that genuine revolutions are the result of widespread dissatisfaction so strongly suppressed that it eventually erupts.
The New York Sun reported that if President Bush permits Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to come to America to address the United Nations it will dishearten the freedom fighters in Iran.
Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington Times reported that if the U.S. and/or Israel decide to launch air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities some 46 Iranian infantry and missile brigades are poised near the common border to move into Iraq.
KRSI published English translations of their famous Iranian interrogation videos.

[8/07-8/13]

Canada Free Press took issue with Jimmy Carter's statements against U.S. policy and reminded us of his contribution to our current problems with Iran.
The Washington Times in an editorial, discussed The Washington Post's dubious slant on Iran.
Rooz Online reported that Ansar-e Hezbollah called for a slaughter the Iranian opposition.
Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post delivered sobering evidence that the U.S. is retreating in the war on terror.
Ilan Berman, The Wall Street Journal reported that Ukraine's government is heading into dangerous diplomatic waters in a deal with Iran.
Stefania Lapenna, Tech Central Station writes that Iran is ripe for revolution, but the regime has so far succeeded in diverting the world's attention from this.
Iranian blog, Rooz Online remembers that Ayatollah Khomeini once told of a fable that they see parallels to Iran's current regime.

[7/30-8/06]

Post-Gazette discussed Debkafile's report that al-Qaida is shifting more than 1,000 of its operatives to Europe for terror offensives.
Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard detailed the birth of the Kurdish terrorist organization, Ansar al-Islam.
Frank Gaffney, Jr, The Washington Times takes a looks at the old games of the Saudis.
Fred Pruitt, Rantburg responded to suggestion that the U.S. should "nuke Mecca" if the U.S. suffers a major attack.

[7/24-7/29]

Opinion Journal asked, Is Old Europe finally learning that it must join the global war on terror?
Dan Darling, WindsOfChange.net reports that Al-Qaeda is not so decentralized and there are a lot of Al-Qaeda members inside of Iran.
Iran Focus: an MEK Website reported on a senior Shiite cleric's involvement in his own son’s execution for disloyalty to the regime.
The Guardian asked Is the mood in Iran fearful or defiant? Their reporter met with hardline clerics, Tehran liberals, mosque-goers, workers and the near-destitute - and finds surprising resonances with their superpower enemy.

[7/17-7/23]

Craig Whitlock, Washington Post reported that al Qaeda was involved in the recent bombings but ignores Al Qaeda Leaders Iran connection.
Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard exposed how one of Saddam's closest Baath party aides came to be an ally of militant Islamists.
Iran Focus reported that several members of the United States Congress are expected to introduce a bill on Wednesday calling on the U.S. judicial authorities to begin legal proceedings against Iranians who were involved in the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
Tim Mcgrick, Time Magazine went to Iran to learn about Hasan-i Sabbah, leader of the 12th century Middle Eastern terror cult known as the Assassins.
Detroit Free Press reported House intelligence committee chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra and Rep. Curt Weldon met secretly in Europe last week with an Iranian exile who CIA dismisses.

[7/10-7/16]

The Weekly Standard published a major report on the Al Qaeda/Iraq connection.
Jeffrey Gedmin, The Weekly Standard argued that if the United States is serious about preventing the mullahs from getting the bomb, we have two choices: either preemption or regime change.
The Financial Times reported that Curt Weldon, a senior Republican politician will ask the Central Intelligence Agency to investigate whether a former agent endangered US national security by allegedly leaking the identity of an Iranian dissident to journalists.
Council on Foreign Relations reported Henry A. Kissinger as saying, says that if Iran secures nuclear weapons, nonproliferation may cease to be a meaningful policy.
The Washington Times reported that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presence is already felt in the political circles and the streets of Tehran. Since his election, under the banner of a renewed Islamic revolution, the clerical regime hanged six people and sentenced another to death in the past week alone.
Ramin Parham, Iran Shahr Blog compares key elements in the fall of the Soviet Union and sees parallels with the Iranian regime.
Iran Focus reported that a recent survey found that the majority of Arabs believe that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will have a negative impact on stability in the Middle East.

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The Post-Gazette suggested that since Ayatollah Khameini no longer sees a need to put a "reformist" face on the regime, Iran is very close to -- or already possesses -- a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it.
Newsweek provides a serious look at Iran's nuclear lies.
Middle East Intelligence Bulletin published a few years ago a report on the Origins of Iran's Reformist Elite. A valuable read in light of recent developments in Iran.
Iran Focus reported that a clique of 300 men with family ties have been running the Islamic Republic from the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution until present.
James Lewis, Real Clear Politics thinks an Iranian bomb will split Islam.
Alan Peters, The Free Republic published: Operation "Sandblast" advocating the U.S. support a radical rethinking of U.S. policy. The following is an example of one such approach.
CNN sees Iran as a land of contradictions.
Jewish Journal lamented that during Bush’s tenure, the movement for reform and liberty in Iran has waned.