Jun 19, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Breitbart By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and NASSER KARIMI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Witnesses said police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied in Tehran Saturday in open defiance of Iran's clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The eyewitnesses described fierce clashes near Revolution Square ...
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Both Articles From RealClearPolitics: Obama Shows Naivete on Iran By Rich Lowry If only the Obama administration considered motorcycle-riding thugs beating demonstrators in Iran an offense on par with Israel's West Bank settlements. Then it could speak with moral passion. It could unmistakably denounce the killings, and relieve its State Department spokesman of the trouble of dancing around the ...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Tehran residents are climbing to their roofs and crying "God is Great!" in open defiance of Iran's supreme leader. The late-night cries of "Allahu Akbar!" and "Death to the Dictator!" throughout Tehran Friday are a direct challenge to the cleric who has ultimate authority under Iran's constitution. They come hours after Supreme ...
Continue ReadingJun 18, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The WashingtonPost H/T Karl Rove via twitter By Paul Wolfowitz President Obama's first response to the protests in Iran was silence, followed by a cautious, almost neutral stance designed to avoid "meddling" in Iranian affairs. I am reminded of Ronald Reagan's initially neutral response to the crisis following the Philippine election of 1986, and of George H.W. Bush's ...
Continue ReadingJun 18, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Right Pundits: When Barrack Obama came to Washington, he promised a different tone in his foreign policy from that of George Bush. And he has lived up to that promise. In the wake of the Iranian presidential election and the protest over the results, Obama has yet to support the people of Iran who want freedom. ...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of protesters wearing black and carrying candles filled the streets of Tehran again Thursday, joining opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes over Iran's disputed election. The massive protest openly defied orders from Iran's supreme leader, despite a government attempt to placate Mousavi and his ...
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A man posing as a woman carried out an eight-month Internet flirtation with Fidel Castro's son -- and found out the famed security protecting Cuba's leaders is not as tight as it's presumed to be. Miami Herald: One of Fidel Castro's sons carried on an eight-month flirtation over the Internet with a person he believed was a ...
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Press TV: A top Reformist body, made up of influential clerics, has asked for authorization to hold a pro-Mousavi rally on Saturday in the Iranian capital, Tehran. The Association of Combatant Clerics (Majma'-e Rowhaniyun-e Mobarez) made the request via a letter to Tehran's governor's office, Kalameh website reported on Thursday. The rally is scheduled to be ...
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Related: Gates Orders Missile Interceptors To Hawaii To Defend Against North Korea Launch TOKYO — North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program. The missile, believed to ...
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Agencie France Presse: South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday. The Defence Security Command said in a report to a security forum that every day the military counters an average of 10,450 hacking attempts and 81,700 computer virus infections in addition to other cases. The ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: Faulty speed readings and electronic failures were cited by crash investigators yesterday as they said they were closer to understanding the loss of Air France Flight 447 on June 1, with the deaths of all 228 people on board. Paul-Louis Arslanian, chief of the French accident investigation bureau, said that it was too early to ...
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Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and Ayatollah Khomeini stare at each other Seattle Times: TEHRAN, Iran — Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main rival in the disputed presidential election, Mir Hossein Mousavi, staged competing rallies Tuesday as the country's most senior Islamic cleric threw his weight behind opposition charges that Ahmadinejad's re-election was rigged. "No ...
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Iran's Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eje'i This is from Iran's most "Western" news outlet (granted offices in New York), Press TV: Iran's Intelligence Ministry says that it has arrested a number of 'main agents', who masterminded the recent post-election violence in Tehran. "The Intelligence Ministry has identified and arrested a number of the main agents and elements ...
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Press TV: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Iranian nation's massive turnout in the recent presidential elections has challenged Western democracy. "The recent election in Iran posed a great challenge to the West's democracy," Mehr news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. He noted that the presidential election was a referendum in ...
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Times Online: The Iranian opposition dashed the regime’s hopes that its protests would gradually fade away by staging another huge demonstration against electoral fraud yesterday and calling for an even bigger show of strength today as unrest spread across the country. The demonstrators’ defiance of bans, violent repression and official pleas for unity is driving the regime ...
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The Times Online: At least 500,000 demonstrators marched silently through the streets of Tehran tonight in a direct challenge to the authority of Iran's clerical regime. Witnesses said that the protesters, both young and old and many accompanied by children, marched through central Tehran Haft-e Tir square towards Vali Asr square in the heart of the city. The ...
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The Telegraph: Iranians who have been using websites such as Twitter to record every twist and turn of the political crisis faced the threat of state retribution yesterday from the country's feared Revolutionary Guard. The elite military force issued a statement alleging it had identifed websites run by companies it charged were backed by the US ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Above: Obama meets with Lee Myung-bak to discuss North Korean Aggression The LA Times: The West Coast may be vulnerable to an attack, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says. However, North Korea is unlikely to be able to develop a nuclear warhead by then. Reporting from Washington -- North Korea may be able to ...
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