Filed at 3:30 pm, Friday September 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
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.
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Because he […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Monday September 04th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 3:30 pm, Monday August 14th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Monday August 14th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Monday July 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Saturday July 15th 2006
by Martha
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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Filed at 1:53 pm, Thursday July 13th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
With the situation in the middle east heating up intensely (and with President Bush’s remarks doing nothing to placate the situation), oil prices soared to new record highs today, topping more than $76.50.
Of particular worry are reports circulating from the right-ward leaning Jerusalem Post that Hezbollah guerillas are seeking to transfer the two Israeli soldiers […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Monday June 12th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The New York Times reports on the current situation in Iraq:
President Bush’s two-day strategy session starting Monday at Camp David is intended to revive highly tangible efforts to shore up Iraq’s new government, from getting the electricity back on in Baghdad to purging the security forces of revenge-seeking militias, White House officials said.
Three years of […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Sunday June 11th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Preparing for a U.S. invasion: it’s not just for Iran anymore.
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Filed at 9:30 pm, Saturday June 10th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Cool stuff. Who would have thought that a major Democratic politican would choose a small conference of bloggers to unveil an important piece of legislation? AP:
Americans won’t be fooled by future intelligence failures if Congress will enact stiffer reporting requirements for the president and the intelligence community, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Saturday.
Reid, in […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Thursday June 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that
Iran was ready to discuss “mutual concerns” over his country’s nuclear program, but he refused to first suspend uranium enrichment.
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“On behalf of the Iranian nation, I’m announcing that the Iranian nation will never hold negotiations about its definite rights with anybody, but we are for talks about mutual concerns to […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Wednesday June 07th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I am encouraged by this. For the sake of peace and global security, I hope that Iran takes the deal.
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Tuesday June 06th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Now we know why the White House was so quiet about what the actual terms were on the Iran deal they’re offering. Apparently the U.S. would give nuclear technology to Iran, under certain circumstances. How the hell are they going to spin this one? Giving nuclear technology to a country that they have already labelled […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Friday June 02nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
She’s reading out to Iran. We promise.AP: 6 world powers agree on Iran incentives
This would actually mean something to us, if we had any idea of what the terms were. There’s of course a 90% chance that Iran won’t take the bait whatever the hell it is (as Secretary Rice knows). Of course, it’s kind […]
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Filed at 5:30 pm, Wednesday May 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The Bush Administration took a step toward real diplomacy with Iran, but it is only a baby step. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the U.S. will talk directly with Iran if it puts all of its nuclear activities on hold (this is not expected to happen). Even Administration officials are admitting that it […]
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