“Not Gaza, not Lebanon — our life is for Iran,” chanted the demonstrators, as they turned the Iranian regime’s annual Quds Day march into a protest against the tyrannical mullahs who show the same zeal in repressing the Iranian people as they do in supporting Hamas and Hezbollah.
As Basij militia thugs laid into the protesters, Ahmadinejad stated - again - that the Holocaust is “a lie” based upon a “mythical claim.” This latest bout of foulness came just a few hours after he declared that “we do not see any need” for nuclear weapons. I don’t know about you, dear readers, but I’m reluctant to accept any assurances from a Holocaust denier.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just appointed Ahmad Vahidi as Iran’s new defense minister. He is one of the Iranians being sought by the Argentine authorities on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 AMIA massacre in Buenos Aires and he is the subject an Interpol Red Notice, for all practical purposes an international arrest warrant.
Continue reading ‘Iran Thumbs Its Nose at Argentina and AMIA Victims’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was part of a death squad that killed three Kurds in Austria, according to Green party security spokesman Peter Pilz. He said Ahmadinejad had been involved in the killings in Vienna in 1989 and may have pulled the trigger on one of the guns used to kill the men.
Continue reading ‘Ahmadinejad the Assassin’
The Iranian regime is murdering its own people on the streets. Any further comment is superfluous. Video here. And here.
This is a guest post by ganselmi.
“Did you vote for Dr. Ahmadinejad yesterday?” I jokingly asked a friend who lives in Tehran. “Yes, I did,” he responded without missing a beat or elaborating on his response. For a second, I started to get worried. I’ve known my friend to be a vehement and longtime critic of the recently re-elected Iranian President. “You’re kidding right?”
Continue reading ‘Iran’s Election: Magical Ballots and Martial Law’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked Holocaust Memorial Day by addressing a conference entitled: “Holocaust: The West’s Sacred Lie.”
Continue reading ‘Ahmadinejad: A Victim of Antisemitism?’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in trouble, says The Economist. Citing two of his predictions that spectacularly backfired - that Obama would lose, and that oil would never drop below $100 per barrel - the paper argues that Iran now faces an economic crisis that will weaken the ultraconservative faction Ahmadinejad represents.
Continue reading ‘The False Prophet’
Now here’s a story that looks decidedly murky. The Jerusalem Post reports that Hossein Derakhshan, a leading Iranian blogger, has been arrested in Tehran on charges of spying for Israel.
Continue reading ‘The Strange Case of Hossein Derakhshan’
Periodically, I’ve heard it said that an excessive focus on Iran’s wretched President Ahmadinejad is a mistake. True, active promotion of Holocaust denial is his own innovation, but threatening to wipe Israel from the map was a favorite theme of Ayatollah Khomeini. Besides, when it comes to Iran’s bewildering power structure, is Ahmadinejad that significant?
Continue reading ‘Sultan Khamenei’
Is the recent agreement between North Korea and the United States, whereby the latter took the former off its list of countries that support terrorism in exchange for the former reopening access to its nuclear facilities, a model for a future settlement of the nuclear standoff between Iran and those countries who don’t want it to develop nuclear weapons? The answer is no, because the two countries are very different from each other and they have very different aims in their negotiations with the outside world.
Continue reading ‘A North Korean Solution For Iran?’
Amidst the uproar over the dinner which a number of religious groups - the Mennonites, the Quakers, the Council on American-Islamic Relations among them - held with the Iranian President (dubbed by some protesters as the “feast with the beast”), it’s important to remember that other Christian denominations were deeply troubled by the event.
Continue reading ‘Not Everyone’s Breaking Bread with Ahmadinejad’
Here in New York, the Ahmadinejad show continues. Yesterday, the Iranian President met with a delegation from Neturei Karta, the haredi Jewish sect whose theology makes submission the ultimate virtue (the State of Israel is an abomination, Jews should be the meek, loyal subjects of whomever happens to be ruling them.) Tonight, he will sit down for an iftar dinner sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), aka The Quakers.
Continue reading ‘Ahmadinejad in New York (2)’
UPDATE: The text of Ahmadinejad’s address to the UN, in which he claimed that “Zionists…have been dominating an important portion of the financial and monetary centers as well as the political decision-making centers of some European countries,” can be read here.
Perched in a suite at New York’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in town for the UN General Assembly, has been making nice with the press.
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