The Iranian regime is murdering its own people on the streets. Any further comment is superfluous. Video here. And here.
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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.
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.
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?
