Ahmadinejad has a blog? (It’s using the Iranian .ir - so I think it’s legit.) It even provides an English translation. (Hat tip to LGF commenter Sleipnir, who got it from Allahpundit at Hot Air.) No. I am not putting this one on my blogroll. But I’m fascinated.
13 Aug, 2006
18 Dec, 2005
Sometimes, intolerance is a GOOD thing.
Iran tells West to be tolerant of Holocaust views
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust is a matter for academic discussion and the West should be more tolerant of his views, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
I think the phrase “just say no” applies to that request…
Hat tip: LGF
5 Aug, 2005
What does it take before something is considered ‘an act of war’?
Shipment of high explosives intercepted in Iraq
U.S. military and intelligence officials tell NBC News that American soldiers intercepted a large shipment of high explosives, smuggled into northeastern Iraq from Iran only last week.
The officials say the shipment contained dozens of “shaped charges” manufactured recently. Shaped charges are especially lethal because they’re designed to concentrate and direct a more powerful blast into a small area.
“They’ll go right through a very heavily armored vehicle like an M1-A1 tank from one side right out the other side” says retired U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey.
Military officials say there’s only one use for shaped charges - to kill American forces - and insurgents started using them in Iraq with deadly effectiveness three months ago.
Intelligence officials believe the high-explosives were shipped into Iraq by the Iranian Revolutionary guard or the terrorist group Hezbollah, but are convinced it could not have happened without the full consent of the Iranian government.
I would consider that an act of war - if we can prove it. Of course, I would also consider kidnapping diplomats and holding them hostage an act of war…
Hat tip: LGF
14 Jun, 2005
Heh. Indeed™.
“Thanks,” this Australian says, in glowing prose… “and while you are at it, would you terribly mind doing just one more thing?” (That’s where the ‘Heh’ comes in… we’ve heard that before.)
If I had my way, we would do that one little thing. (And that’s where the ‘Indeed’ comes in.) And Australia would probably have our backs there too, which is why I’m smiling.
Faster, please.
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10 Jun, 2005
You Go, Gals !!
A Smile From The Den……..
“When it comes to women’s rights, I think it was worth it. A leg gets broken, but maybe [it will lead] to the change in the law,” Abbas-Gholizadeh said. “Or an issue regarding women’s rights might be brought to attention. Violence is bad. It’s bad to have to pay a price. But I don’t think it has been any different elsewhere in the world, where people have also had to obtain their rights themselves.”
All this because of the Iranian victory in a soccer match. Each day, the young are making it plain that things cannot continue the way they are, in some very surprising venues!
Via Iran va Jahan
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30 Apr, 2005
Be Afraid; be VERY Afraid !!
A Snarl From The Den……..
When you read THIS [Iran] and THIS [NKor], it brings back to the front burner a very serious threat of not just ordinary terrorism, but the distinct possibility of threats of entire huge sections of the globe being held hostage through intimidation, and, in the case of NKor, being harmed for real.
Be Aware !!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!
9 Mar, 2005
Don’t Go Wobbly…
The Last Days of the Mullahs by Michael Ledeen
As has so often happened in American history, we have a chance to be saved from our folly by our enemies, rather than by our own exertions. Our diplomatic corps have labored mightily, ever since the bloody seizure of power in Tehran by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, to reach a rapprochement with the tyrannical rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Kenneth Pollack wrote in his recent book, “The Persian Puzzle,” we have tried every possible approach, and they have all failed. And he sadly concluded that they all failed because the Iranian tyrants are not interested in rapprochement with us. Would that he remembered what he wrote, because Pollack, along with a vast array of self-styled foreign policy professionals, continues to propose new stratagems to weave this well-aged pig’s ear into a diplomatic silken purse. But the response is always the same: the mullahs will have no part of it. In the past few days, they have told us and the European appeasers to take our carrots and go away. They will not terminate their nuclear program.
Good article, and he ends with:
Indeed. And since he didn’t say it this time, I will: “Faster, Please!”Freedom is spreading, and we are its inspiration. Don’t go wobbly on us, George. Don’t play the one-step-at-a-time game, we are a big country and we have big dreams. So, to the amazement of the cynical professionals, do the peoples of the Middle East.
23 Feb, 2005
Ummm. Right.
US military denies conducting spy flights over Iran
If the military isn’t, I sincerely hope someone is!
22 Feb, 2005
Bloggers without Borders.
Via the Committee to Protect Bloggers:
Today is Free Mojtaba and Arash Day in honor of the two Iranian bloggers currently incarcerated by the Iranian government.
Here is what you can do.
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- The Laughing Wolf linked with Free Mojtaba and Arash!
This Is IMPORTANT !!
A Snarl From The Den……..
As bloggers we MUST do everything we can to help fellow bloggers, for there are those who would crush us all, given the chance. This new site concerning bloggers and bloggers’ rights has chosen today to get the ball rolling with a “Free Arash and Mojtaba” campaign: two Iranian bloggers jailed for believing in free speech, basically.
Put up a post on this, and keep it up top all day !! Let the world know we bloggers are all in this together.
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18 Feb, 2005
Call to action.
Encourage PBS Frontline to air this important DOCUMENTARY!
Please do read this, and if you do write PBS (as I just have), please write your own letter. Anyone who gets umpteen identical letters tends to ignore them.
17 Feb, 2005
As Promised
A Command From The Den……..
A while back a group of very brave Iranians started this petition drive calling for a referendum, supposedly as permitted under the constitution of Iran, as to the type of government the people of Iran really want. Despite harrassment, threats, secret police beatings, Revolutionary Guards’ thugs brigades wounding citizens, and other nefarious actions on the part of thetoo-tightly-twisted-turban-crowd™, they have persisted in keeping it circulating.
We can show our support of their determination and will to survive and flourish by signing on along with the thousands of others who have braved the wrath of the mullahs and ayatollahs.
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Brevity is not one of his strong points, although spewing bullshit is.
Comment by Jim - PRS — 22 Aug, 2006 @ 03:39