by Caroline B. Glick, Jerusalem Post These words are being written before the dust has had a chance to settle on Monday night’s naval commando raid of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla of terror supporters. The raid’s full range of operational failures still cannot be known. Obviously the fact that the mission ended with at least…
By Shelley Neese It’s 1979. Iran’s monarchy lay somewhere between impotency and total collapse. The Islamic Revolution rolls full steam ahead as one of the largest protest movements in history. Millions take to the streets in anti-Shah demonstrations throughout Iran. On January 17, the Shah and the rest of the Pahlavi dynasty flee the country. …
By Charles Krauthammer, Townhall It is perfectly obvious that Iran’s latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent). Which is why the French foreign ministry immediately…
by Ryan Mauro, Frontpagemag.com Both Turkey and Brazil have grown much closer to Iran in recent years and have voiced their opposition to further sanctions. So it is not surprising that they have now come to the Islamic Republic’s rescue, handing it a lifeline on its nuclear program just as the Obama administration, after a…
By Barry Rubin, JPost.com Russia’s bid for renewed power in the Mideast as a rival to the US is one more thing that US policy is unprepared to cope with, nor even recognize. If America’s Middle East position collapses in the forest will anyone hear it? The answer is either ‘no,’ or ‘just barely.’ As…
By The Emet Report Inside Iran, Ahmadinejad was met with open hostility during a visit Monday to the University of Tehran, resulting in Revolutionary Guards Corps units attacking students in clashes which lasted for several hours. Cell phone video’s taken by students show them chanting, “The students would rather die than agree to humiliation and…
By YNetnews.com Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Monday Israel has the technological capabilty to make a military strike against Iran. Addressing a conference on air power, Yaalon said Israel’s experience in carrying out air strikes against terrorists along its borders could easily be extended to distant sorties in Iran. “There is no doubt…
By Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post So much for US President Barack Obama’s famed powers of persuasion. At the UN’s Nuclear Non-Poliferation Treaty review conference which opened this week, the Obama administration managed to lose control over the agenda before the conference even started. Obama administration officials said they intended to use the conference as a…
By Barry Rubin, The Jerusalem Post Would the Iranian government hand nuclear weapons to a terrorist group or fire off nuclear-tipped missiles itself? It is easy for many experts and “experts” to answer no. The reason would be that historically, Iran has proven itself cautious and knows it would be punished for doing so. I…
By Hillel Fendel, Israelnationalnews.com The United States is working with both Egypt and Russia to rid Israel of its nuclear weapons, as part of a comprehensive plan to neutralize Iran’s nuclear power. Reports of this nature are being reported in various news media. The Guardian (London) reports that the US and Russia have drafted an…