TagsTagsUS officials announced today that they have foiled an Iranian-backed terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington DC. At a news conference, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said two Iranians have been charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to commit an act of ...
Iran, Terrorism, Saudi Arabia, Quds Force, Pamela Geller, Illiteracy
It's hardly even news any more that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a crazed Holocaust-denying lunatic, and today he provoked the now-traditional walk-out by Western delegates at his speech to the UN General Assembly. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has provoked his share of walk outs at the U.N. In 2009, ...
United Nations, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Holocaust Denial, 9/11 Conspiracies, Hate Speech, Antisemitism
Major clashes in Iran between protesters and government forces: Iranian police have fired tear gas at opposition supporters participating in a rally in the centre of the capital, Tehran, called in solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. A BBC producer, who was affected by the gas, said there ...
Egypt, Tunisia, Protests, Demonstrations, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran
Here's an amusing and interesting Wikileaks revelation; it shows who is really the boss in Iran, and it's not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iran President Ahmadinejad slapped by head of Revolutionary Guard. The February 2010 cable, classified secret and puckishly headlined, "He Who Got Slapped," quotes an intelligence source recounting a contentious ...
Wikileaks, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Revolutionary Guard, Theocracy
An interesting piece of information from the Wikileaks diplomatic cables (not really news, because most people already inferred it to be true -- but now it's confirmed) is that Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries have strongly encouraged a US attack on Iran to stop its nuclear program.
Wikileaks, Security, Julian Assange, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation
Sarah Palin woke up today in a refudiatin' mood, fired up her Blackberry, and attacked the Obama administration for sending a "Happy B'day" wish to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with a couple of outrageously outraged Twitter posts: Americans awaken 2 bizarre natl security thinking of Obama Admn: Ahmadinejad b'day greeting ...
Sarah Palin, Refudiation, English Language, Sarcasm, Iran, Dimmitude
Right on cue, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spewed the expected crazy talk in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, leading to the expected walkout by the US and other Western delegates. The United States led an enraged Western walkout after Ahmadinejad's comments on the Al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade ...
Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, United Nations, Speech, 9/11 Conspiracies
The Iranian government has been holding three American activists for an entire year, accusing them of espionage. Barrett Brown has more details: Iran Has Detained Three Americans for a Year. This Friday a demonstration is planned in New York City to bring more attention to these US citizens held captive by ...
“What good is an atom bomb to anyone? The stupidest thing today is accumulating atomic weapons.” — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Hat tip: PlutoniumPage.)
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation
Iran has been making a lot of noise about sending a flotilla of “humanitarian aid” to Gaza, but today the news is that they’ve canceled their plan. And after blustering for weeks about destroying the Israelis if they tried to stop the flotilla, Iran’s reason for canceling is: they’re afraid of ...
The Iranian regime announced yesterday that they’re going to be severely cracking down on protesters who use cell phones and email, as technology continues undermining totalitarianism. The police chief, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, said at a news conference on Friday that those who used e-mail and cellphones to organize protests would ...
Iran, Protests, Demonstrations, Totalitarianism, Cell Phones
This photograph was posted at a lot of blogs (including LGF) and even some mainstream news sites yesterday, after someone uploaded it to Twitpic; it seems to show Iranian protesters battling riot police to a standstill: But it turns out that the photo was not from Iran — it was taken ...
Iran, Protests, Ahmadinejad, Demonstrations, Photograph, Honduras, Hoax
According to numerous Twitter reports, the Iranian regime has blocked all Internet access today and only government sites remain connected to the web. IranNewsNow has a list of the activist leaders who were arrested yesterday: What will the regime do now? Arrest people.
[Video] The description for this video at YouTube translates what’s going on: People have cornered these security forces. People ask them ‘why do you do this to your people?’ and the riot guards ask for forgiveness, ‘Bebakhshid’ they can be heard to say. ‘You are Yazid’s - the Khalif against whom the ...
Here’s a collection of 127 photographs of today’s events in Tehran, from various sources: Niusha Boghrati’s Photos - Tehran’s Bloody Sunday.
This video gives you an idea of the size of today’s crowds protesting the Iranian regime: [Video] A commenter at YouTube translates the chants: People are chanting: “the coup government is the murderer of Neda”, “Khamenei is a murderer, his leadership in annulled”, “rape, crime, death to this regime”, “rape in prison, ...
The White House has made the following statement on the Iranian protests, which have now been under way for more than 12 hours: “We strongly condemn the violent and unjust suppression of civilians in Iran seeking to exercise their universal rights,” White House National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said ...
This video shows protesters taking over Vali Asr Square in central Tehran — and shows the same ransacking of a Baseej station we posted earlier, from another angle. [Video] UPDATE at 12/27/09 12:21:29 pm: The latest Reuters video report on the events in Iran: Mousavi nephew, others die in Iran protests. [Video] UPDATE at 12/27/09 ...
Just posted at Twitpic: UPDATE at 12/28/09 12:42:29 pm: It turns out that this photo was not taken in Iran — it was from last June in Honduras: FILE - Supporters of ousted Honduras’ President Manuel Zelaya clash with soldiers near the presidential residency Tegucigalpa.
Another round of massive protests has broken out in Iran today; this video shows a crowd fighting back against the Iranian Baseej, the thugs and enforcers of the mullahs. Some Iranian sites are reporting up to 12 protesters killed by the thugs so far. [Video] UPDATE at 12/27/09 10:30:34 am: Andrew Sullivan has ...
Iran is erupting in demonstrations again, after state television repeatedly broadcast video of people burning pictures of the Ayatollah Khomeini and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Police surrounded the campus of Tehran University on Sunday, trapping hundreds of students protesting what they said were fabricated government images of the burning of a photo ...
Iran, Protests, Ahmadinejad, Demonstrations, Ayatollah Khomeini
The Obama administration is making more than symbolic moves to pressure Iran, as federal prosecutors file complaints to seize 4 mosques and a New York skyscraper owned by an Iranian front group. NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation, Barack Obama, Mosques