In our last post about the Holocaust denail confab in Iran, we asked whether the rumors are true that anti-Zionist writer Norman G. Finkelstein is participating. Alan “torture could be justified” Dershowitz explores the question on the ostensibly liberal Huffington… Read moreIs Norman Finkelstein at Tehran Holocaust-denial confab?
From Human Rights Watch, Dec. 11: The Iranian Judiciary should prosecute officials responsible for the arbitrary detention and alleged torture of several bloggers in 2004, instead of prosecuting the bloggers for expressing their opinions, Human Rights Watch said today. On… Read moreHRW to Iran: Prosecute torturers, not bloggers
From The Scostman, Dec. 12: A conference of the world’s most prominent Holocaust deniers opened in Iran yesterday amid international condemnation and protests by dozens of Iranian students, who burned pictures of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and chanted “death to the… Read moreIran: protesters condemn Holocaust conference
It was inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any more probable. How can the GWOT propagandists buy this thesis while Tehran’s agents and al-Qaeda’s local franchise are locked in a death struggle for control of Iraq? Maybe it’s because they’re… Read moreNext: Iran-al-Qaeda link?
From AFP via Qatar’s Gulf Times, Nov. 12 (commentary to follow): Iran vows to hit back if Israel launches attack TEHRAN — Iran’s armed forces yesterday vowed to hit back against any military strike after a top Israeli official refused… Read moreIsrael threatens Iran —again!
Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest was an atrocious and juvenile tit-for-tat for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten’s almost equally stupid and insensitive Mohammed cartoon contest. But the cartoon they finally chose as winner sounds like it was making a legitimate point. Israel… Read moreIran announces winner in Holocaust cartoon contest
From AP, Oct. 25: BUENOS AIRES — Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores… Read moreArgentina demands arrest of Iran ex-prez
We have noted the decidedly mixed signals in the question of whether Iran is really seeking the nuclear bomb. Another piece of the puzzle now emerges. From Reuters, Oct. 5: TEHRAN – An old letter by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah… Read moreKhomeini letter emerges in Iran nuclear controversy
C’mon Bernard, don’t you think they’re just waiting for Yom Kippur? Baruch Kimmerling writes for Haartez, Sept. 25: Thus spoke Bernard Lewis On September 22, 2006, Iran was supposed to attack Israel and perhaps the entire Western world. And why… Read moreRajab 27 passes without Iranian attack on Israel
What are we to make of this? Iran’s ayatollahs have issued both fatwas for and against nuclear weapons in recent months, while the country’s National Orchestra performs a Nuclear Energy Symphony. Is Ahmadinejad saying what he really thinks here? Or… Read moreAhmadinejad: “the days of the atomic bomb are over”
From our correspondent Jennifer Fasulo: Chavez’s Shameful Embrace of Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Show Solidarity with the Women and People of Iran, not their Oppressors! Hugo Chavez, one of the key important figures in the left populist movements spreading throughout Latin… Read moreFeminist dissent from Chavez embrace of Ahmadinejad
This blurb appeared in the New York Times Aug. 8: The authorities have banned a rights group founded in 2002 by a group of lawyers and led by Shirin Ebadi, the only Iranian to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The… Read moreIran: Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi’s rights group banned
