by Thaddeus McCotter Iranian tyrant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly recently. This despot wields power due to blood and fraud, for as every Iranian and honest observer knows the “election” was corrupt. In fact, on June 24, 2009, CNN recorded a telephone call from a terrified Iranian girl, who told of…
Can sanctions stop Iran’s nuclear drive? Since the passage of new U.S. and multilateral measures this summer, there have been unmistakable signs that Iran has begun to feel the economic pinch. Prompted by mounting international pressure, a slew of foreign multinationals have exited the Iranian market, while a range of countries – from South Korea…
by Associated Press Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 fighters from a group it says was involved in last week’s bombing of a military parade, state TV reported Sunday. Gen. Abdolrasoul Mahmoudabadi of the elite Revolutionary Guards said the “terrorists” were killed on Saturday in a clash “beyond the border” and that his…
by Samara Greenberg, JewishPolicyCenter Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in the United States yesterday ahead of the United Nations’ 65th Annual General Assembly in New York. Wasting no time, the president granted The Associated Press an hour-long interview in which he said nothing new: “The future belongs to Iran,” Ahmadinejad claimed, challenging the United States…
by Ilan Berman, Forbes.com If economic sanctions fail to stop Iran’s march toward the bomb, and either the U.S. or Israel is compelled to use force against the Iranian nuclear program, China will shoulder at least some of the blame. Since this summer, concerted international pressure has unmistakably tightened the financial noose around Iran’s ayatollahs.…
by David Essing, Isracast Israelis and Jews around the world have marked the Jewish New Year of 5771. In the homeland of the Jews, which the Palestinians steadfastly refuse to recognize as a people with the right of national self-determination, analysts were assessing some of the strategic issues in the coming year. There was agreement…
by Roee Nahmias, Ynetnews.com Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to tour south Lebanon, just a few kilometers from the border with Israel, Iranian sources told the al-Khaleej newspaper on Sunday. According to the newspaper, which is based in the United Arab Emirates, on October 13 Ahmadinejad is expected to visit the town of Bint…
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Arutz 7 Iran continues to snub the United Nations and has produced 2.8 tons of enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported Monday. Iran previously enriched uranium to a five percent grade, but increased the purification level to nearly 20 percent last February. U.S. President Obama has claimed that…
by Jerusalem Post Mahmoud Ahmadinejad purports to know: Israel, he reiterated for the umpteenth time last week, is “too weak” to strike militarily at Iran, and “lacks the courage” to intervene decisively to thwart Teheran’s steady progress toward the nuclear bomb. The Iranian president is mistaken. Neither weak nor lacking in courage, Israel is, rather,…
by DEBKAfile A study of the mood among Israeli leaders and military chiefs indicates that at any moment a strike on Iran’s nuclear sites must be taken into account. The Israeli media show nothing of this; they are totally absorbed in guessing whether Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will extend the 10-month settlement construction moratorium beyond its…