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By | 07.28.10 | 12:05 pm

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemns D.C.’s most famous psychic octopus.

Rod Blagojevich is not corrupt; he’s just not the “sharpest knife in the drawer.”

Now it’s Republicans who need to “support our men in uniform.”

Massachusetts approves a plan to bypass the electoral college.

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Quotes That Susan Rice Does Not Want to Read

By | 05.17.10 | 12:46 pm

There’s one up high in this morning’s New York Times piece on the Iran/Turkey/Brazil uranium enrichment deal:

According to a Western diplomat who spoke in return for anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, the amount of low-enriched uranium that Iran was prepared to ship to

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Petraeus Commemorates 65th Anniversary of Concentration-Camp Liberation

By | 04.15.10 | 12:38 pm

In an eloquent address at the Capitol Rotunda sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, honored the survivors of the Nazi death camps and the U.S. soldiers who helped liberate them 65 years ago. “We approach More…

Western Officials Are Laughing at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

By | 02.11.10 | 3:47 pm

It hurts not to be taken seriously, and that’s why the Iranian dictator went around boasting that he was going to deliver a knockout blow to the West in his speech today. The speech just kind of swung and missed. How badly? Mark Hosenball explains:

The Many Failures of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

By | 02.11.10 | 8:50 am

In a long-telegraphed speech billed as giving the west a bloody nose, Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday claimed to have enriched some of Iran’s stockpile of uranium to 20 percent potency. (That level is nowhere close to the potency required to make a nuclear weapon — it’s More…

U.S., EU Issue Rare Joint Statement Against Iranian Human Rights Abuses

By | 02.08.10 | 10:25 am

Fresh out:

The United States and the European Union condemn the continuing human rights violations in Iran since the June 12 election. The large scale detentions and mass trials, the threatened execution of protestors, the intimidation of family members of those detained and the continuing denial to its citizens of

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‘Death to Khamenei’

By | 12.28.09 | 6:00 am

Speaking of the Green Movement, the Iranian regime directed a new spate of violence against the Greens during street demonstrations yesterday commemorating the Shiite holiday of Ashura, which remembers the climactic battle between the martyred saint Hussein and his persecutor Yazid. Protesters, amazingly, chanted “Death to Khamenei,” the supreme More…

Iranian Dissidents Fear Repercussions of U.S. Sanctions

By | 12.28.09 | 6:00 am

As the Obama administration and its allies prepare new economic sanctions for Iran, the Iranian dissidents of the Green Movement and their supporters abroad are expressing concern over what the sanctions will mean for a nascent More…

It’s Like Iran Wants U.N. Security Council Sanctions

By | 11.30.09 | 8:46 am

In a move sure to increase Iran’s international isolation, not only is the Islamic republic showing every sign of rejecting the Vienna deal on uranium enrichment, but now President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces ten new enrichment facilities. The response from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:

“If true, this

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Iranian-American Group Urges Diplomacy Despite Violence

By | 11.05.09 | 6:00 am

Provocations from Iran accelerated this week, as the ruling Iranian ayatollah gave a speech that suggested Iran would reject a nuclear-fuel deal reached in Vienna last week, while his regime violently suppressed a new round of anti-regime demonstrations across several cities. Yet a group of former diplomats convened by a More…