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Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who is close to Iran's supreme leader, has made the announcement in a Friday prayer sermon. He says the detained staffers "made confessions."Jannati does not say how many staffers will be tried or on what charges. Earlier Iranian officials said all but one of the eight embassy personnel arrested on June 27 had been released, but European Union officials said they believed more than one was still being held. Jannati is the head of the Guardian Council, a powerful body in Iran's clerical rule, and is close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

I hope he's very close to Khamenei when the smart bomb hits.

This is Obama's Jimmy Carter moment. I think he's going to surprise us all here on FR, and if so, heads are going to explode at DU, HuffPo, Kos, CodePink, and MoveOn.

If he doesn't surprise us (and really would that be so surprising? ;'), then Obama will become Jimmy Carter, although since Carter already effed it up, one could say that Obama would be worse, having learned nothing.

Obama was going to Surge Afghanistan, then backed out on that idea within the past couple of weeks. US forces have begun a joint operation, an offensive to annihilate the resurgent Taliban, and the Pakistani army allegedly is deployed to allegedly keep them from escaping Afghanistan.

It appears that Obama doesn't want to commit more troops to that theater, and plans instead to use those troops, and redeploy our troops now idle in Iraq, against the mullahcracy. Iranian trial of kidnapped diplomats will force even the UNSC to act, and an international alliance will no doubt be formed. Russia would be the wild card, and by a weird coincidence, Obama's talking to Putin (not the supposed Russian leader), and gosh, I wonder what they're talking about?

Meddling?

Moscow opposes new sanctions on Iran

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99644&sectionid=351020101

Moscow opposes imposing sanctions on Iran over what the West describes as a crackdown on protesters who illegally took to the streets following the country’s presidential election.

“We believe that sanctions against Iran over its internal political problems would be unlawful and counter-productive,” Xinhua quoted Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Andrei Nesterenko as saying on Thursday.

Nesterenko warned that such a move would provoke unwelcome events in the country and the region. He stressed that all disputes should be addressed through legal channels.