Yes, Iran is an evil, dangerous, fundamentalist, religiously intolerant nation -- kind of like the Republicans want the US to become.

Still, we were illegally flying a drone inside their sovereign border. Obama has asked for the drone back? rotfl!

Of course, then there are the Republican revisionists. Take Ari Fleischer, who claims, as quoted in ( Read more... )

Iran's been trying to link the protesters in Egypt to what happened in Iran in 1979. That's false to anyone who knows the difference between the up front position of the Ayatollahs then and the quietness of the Muslim Brotherhood now. It's also been made clear by other news.

Its seems the Iranian government has arrested an opposition leader ( Read more... )

One of this week's episodes of The Daily Show again perfectly showed the problems neo-libs have trying to contort their weird PC views. There were two bits, back to back, that were interesting ( Read more... )

How do I know? Because John McCain has said Israel isn't planning a strike. After all, McCain has spent the past 3-4 years being completely and absolutely wrong on just about everything in order to pander to the extremists who vote Republican. You can pretty much judge the correct answer by reversing whatever McCain says ( Read more... )

Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, an Iranian physicist, was killed by an exploding motorcycle. Iranian government controlled media immediately blamed the US and "Zionists". However, there's no indication he was working on Iran's nuclear program, every indication he was a theoretical, and no reason why Israel would target him rather than other physicist ( Read more... )

The Washington Post had a column a few days ago. It was a guy inventing "myths" about Iran's threat. My letter was too long for them to print and I doubt they would have anyway, but I gave them a few days. Here it is ( Read more... )

I was reading about the recent round of World Cup qualifying games, and a bunch of Iranian players wore green arm bands, signs of Moussavi's opposition party.

Ahmadinejad won the election by an overwhelming margin. His slightly less radical opponent has cried foul, claiming the Revolutionary Council rigged the election. Whichever way Ahmadinejad won, it's bad for the world ( Read more... )

So the UNSC has agreed to a resolution condemning N. Korea and adding additional sanctions due to its nuclear programs. What a surprise. China's the nation's only supporter, so if China thinks a resolution's ok, that's all it takes ( Read more... )

Earlier in the week, after all the talk about the large fall in oil prices, I was thinking about how short sited people are. Winter in the northern hemisphere is coming, which will increase demand. OPEC could always cut supply, in an effort to increase prices. More importantly, oil is still a nonrenewable resource ( Read more... )