Why, oh why does the Washington Post hate America?
Four years after the United States invaded Iraq, in part to transform the Middle East, Iran is ascendant, many in the region view the Americans in retreat, and Arab countries, their own feelings of weakness accentuated, are awash in sharpening sectarian currents that many blame the United […]
As everybody knows, the US and Iran have very abnormal relations since 1979, and this creates several problems. Not the least of which is the problem of accurate reporting about activities within and with regard to Iran. Of course there’s a language barrier, but there’s a lot more at play than that.
Iranian media is controlled […]
The interview mentioned earlier today went great. The person I interviewed was a former member of Iranian parliament who is currently doing a fellowship at Harvard, with a really, really interesting story I will include in my next piece for Truthout (sorry, no spoilers… or at least none until I start writing) the article. By […]
Video provided by TheDailyBackground.com
Yes, I know Crooks & Liars and ThinkProgress had partial videos of this interview online yesterday when it first aired, but here’s the full interview, exclusive to TheDailyBackground.
Okay, so Sy hersh has a new article out in The New Yorker. The topic? Like all of Hersh’s articles lately, it’s about Iran. It’s titled “The Next Act:
Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?“
Among other things, the article (which I have read… okay skimmed, although it is quite long) reveals […]
As rumored yesterday, The New York Times front-paged an article about an online program which was created at the urging of Congressional Republicans.
Specifically, Republican House Intelligence Committee Peter Hoekstra and Republican Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts are blamed for getting the ball rolling on the program, which many conservatives had been calling for. President […]
An source has told Raw Story that the Pentagon is arranging “second-state contingency” plans for an attack on Iran.
The official, who is close to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officials of each branch of the US military, says the Chiefs have started what is called “branches and sequels” contingency planning.
“The JCS has […]
I’m hardly the President of the Ahmadinejad fan club, but likening the Iranian President to Adolf Hitler is just ridiculous. Reuters:
Ahmadinejad — I call him Ahmad-in-a-head — I think he’s a Hitler type of person,” Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
“He has made it clear that he […]
Burried on page A17 of today’s Washington Post is a story of considerable signifigance. For some reason, the Post thought it was more important to put a story about some lady with a bionic arm instead of an article about the IAEA accusing the House Intelligence Committee on Iranian nuclear activities of falsifying evidence and […]
Evidently, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied for an American visa so he can visit the United States later this year.
The fiery leader plans to attend the U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York later this month. Official says that the application, which was submitted last month, is going through the normal processing procedure.
[…]
Because he […]
Newsweek’s Elenor Clift is predicting that the White House will start the “war drums” so to speak on Iran in order to get Republicans motivated to turn out at the polls this November. Broken up for readability:
An off-year election without a presidential candidate on the ballot is about turn out, which side can […]
Hat tip to Hotpotatomash for finding this video
Respected veteran investigative journalist Symour Hersh, who writes for The New Yorker these days appeared on CNN’s Late Edition yesterday with Wolf Blitzer to discuss his new article which reports that the Israeli war on Hezbollah was planned in advance just waiting for a provocation from the militant […]
Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad (anybody else catch Mike Wallace’s exclusive interview with him last night on 60 minutes?) has started a blog. Would you believe it?
It’s rather poorly translated into several languages besides Farsi, but you can understand what he’s saying. Among the several subjects he discussed in his first blog post was the Iran-Iraq […]
Late last night a crazy Marxist friend and I were talking about various things, and knowing that my father was born Iranian, he linked me to an interesting entry on some linguistics blog he found. Here’s the short of it:
Back in January, the edict came down in Tehran that Danish pastries (shirini danmarki) should henceforth […]
Arlen spoke earlier about the Friday-through-Sunday hunger strike led by human rights activist Akbar Ganji in New York. The group (www.free-political-prisoners.net) is protesting to raise awareness of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies “that are reminiscent of some of the darkest days of the Islamic Republic.”
Furthermore, because Iran’s government has been concentrating their efforts on human rights […]
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