We all know that Iran's "missile threat" is a pretext anyway and the real target of this "missiel defense" system is Russia, so whether Iran's missiles are "boring" or not is really irrelevant to the issue.

Incidentally, its not clear who photoshopped that missile. Was it "The Iranian Government" or just some photographer acting on his own? This sort of thing happens enough in the Western media so why assume otherwise in IRan?

Posted at July 14, 2008 12:54 PM in response to Iran's Missiles: Potemkin Proliferation?

Our compliant media and the "expert" mouthpieces present us with a FALSE DILEMMA, according to which we either have to sanction/bomb Iran or else face being nuked by Iran. This is simply not the case.

Not only are Iran's centrifuges under IAEA safeguards but Iran has made perfectly reasonable compromise suggestions to resolve the standoff that is widely endorsed by American and international experts: multilateral enrichment on Iranian soil.

This was one of many Iranian compromise offers that the US has refused to even acknowledge, along with Iran's 2003 comprehensive peace offer (which Rice falsely claimed she had never seen.)

Read more at http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/05/opinion/edzarif.php and http://www.IranAffairs.com

Posted at June 30, 2008 2:51 PM in response to Cheney's Secret War In Iran

Not entirely true. Israel has repeatedly blackmailed the US into backing it militarily, by threatening to use nuclear weapons against the Arab states (= US gas tank)

In 1973, for example, Israel threatened to use nuclear weapons unless the US provided military aid during the war. That was when the US buckled and started airlifting weapons to Israel.

The real target of Israel's nukes are US economic interests in the Mideast.

Posted at May 18, 2008 12:04 PM in response to Presidential Candidates To Address AIPAC

Ummm...Exactly which "European culture" has declared that a self-identified ethnicity is superir to others and therefore entitled to ethnically cleanse people and take their land?

Wait, don't answer that.

Posted at May 18, 2008 11:56 AM in response to Presidential Candidates To Address AIPAC

Oh how droll!

Meanwhile, these people are responsible for the mass deaths of over a million Iraqis.

But hey they can still chit-chat and laugh at cocktain parties.

Sheesh.

Posted at May 8, 2008 1:09 PM in response to Robert Kagan Protests: Neocons are NOT Vampires and Werewolves!

Listen to what the IAEA has had to say about Iran's nuclear program as reported by Reuters:

"Some people do not want to see the Iran issue resolved because that would contradict their hidden agendas, he said, adding that "people should have learned from their mistakes in the past, when all the hype over alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq turned out to be just that -- hype"... "If the facts are at odds with the policy objectives of some people who are keen to impose further sanctions on Iran, that's too bad," the official added.

MORE: IranAffairs.com

Posted at February 19, 2008 5:17 PM in response to Unfair sanctions on Iranian banks?

US/EU are threatening IAEA over Iran report:

“If the facts are at odds with the policy objectives of some people who are keen to impose further sanctions on Iran, that’s too bad,” the [IAEA] official added.
--Pressure on IAEA over Iran report

Posted at February 18, 2008 7:22 AM in response to "War with Iran" rhetoric brewing again

US/EU are threatening IAEA over Iran report:

“If the facts are at odds with the policy objectives of some people who are keen to impose further sanctions on Iran, that’s too bad,” the [IAEA] official added.
--Pressure on IAEA over Iran report

Posted at February 18, 2008 7:21 AM in response to "War with Iran" rhetoric brewing again

The fact that Obama has said that he'd negotiate with Iran rather than go to war is why he's come under so much crticism from the Israelis.

Just read what the Jerusalem Post said about him:

Obama placed the risk of a US military response to Iran and the risk of lengthening the US stay in Iraq as higher and more important than the risk that international sanctions being too weak to stop an Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Such logic is warped and mistaken.

Wrapped and mistaken indeed! The PRESUMPTION of these people!!

has it ever occurred to you that Israel doesn't want peace but instead wants any excuse for further expansionism and eradication of Palestinains and appropriation of their lands? No sooner is there an Annapolis conference than Israel announces new settlement building.

And so about the last thing that the "pro-Israeli" Lobby wants is the US acting as a fair, assertive force in the peace process. And, they want the US to go to war against Iran, just as they pushed for the US to go to war against Iraq. Yes, the pro-Israeli lobby was direct and foremost pressure group for that war.

Posted at February 3, 2008 9:31 PM in response to Obama and Israel: A Different Angle

Worst Dictators???? LOL!!!!
Iran's Ahmadinejad and Venezuala's Chaves were both ELECTED with larger margins that Bush II.

If you're concerned about "talking to Dictators" note that the US regularly talks to Pakistan's Mussharraf, a military dictator who came to power via a coup, and Egypt's "President" Mubarak, and the Saudi Royals, and Jordan's "King" etc. etc.

Posted at February 3, 2008 3:55 PM in response to Hillary: Obama "Consistently Misstates" My Position On Negotiating With Foreign Leaders