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Calm down, you neo-conservative warmongers. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's no more a threat than Congressman Joe Blow back in Cleveland, trying to appeal to the good folks who make up his base. So suggests Brian Williams. Hat tip jazr. Fresh from his trip to Tehran, where he scored a big exclusive with the Iranian president, Williams sat down with Jon Stewart on last night's Daily Show. View video at Daily Show site.

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad taunts 'wicked' President George W Bush By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin Last Updated: 3:28PM BST 11/06/2008 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad taunted "wicked" George W Bush on Wednesday, just hours before the US president warned that Iran could face military action over its nuclear programme. The two men exchanged barbs on Wednesday morning, with Mr Bush saying on a visit to Germany that "all options are on the table" to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. After meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel north of Berlin, he insisted that "both the Chancellor and my first choice of course...

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders banks to move assets to beat EU By Con Coughlin Last Updated: 11:01PM BST 08/06/2008 The president of Iran has ordered the country's leading banks to transfer billions of dollars of assets from Europe to the Central Bank to prevent them being frozen by international sanctions, according to Western diplomats. The funds are being moved to Tehran through a secret network of "front" companies set up in Gulf states such as Dubai. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the move amid growing concern that Iranian banks would soon be subject to strengthened European Union-level sanctions. But his action has...

In what appears to be the biggest case of corruption in Iran, and perhaps in the Middle East, the Tehran-based Shahab News reported that the chief auditing office of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) has revealed that close to $35 billion of oil income from the financial year 2006-07 is missing. According to Iranian law, this money should have been paid by the government of President Ahmadinejad into Iran’s central bank. Once there, the government can request the withdrawal of funds for projects, depending upon the approval of the Majlis. However... This is a serious allegation, as this amount constitutes almost...

Pictures and annotations from the Upcoming 2010 Peace Conference: Whew...this guy is tough! Breakthrough! PEACE IN OUR TIME! IT WILL LEAD TO THE SAME PLACE

IIn the movie “Die Hard 2,” a terrorist is laying out his nefarious plans to the air-traffic control chief — played by one Sen. Fred Thompson — at Dulles International Airport. “Dammit, you can't do this!” an aghast Thompson tells the terrorist character. “I am doing this!” snarls the terrorist. With similar melodramatic aplomb, the Iranians played a potentially deadly game of chicken just as all eyes were fixated on Thompson and the rest of the New Hampshire hopefuls. As Iranian speedboats confronted U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, a radio transmission intoned in the speaker's best Darth Vader English,...

Huge relief from sea to shining sea this morning. That college drum major who went missing last month, and for whom we all feared the worst, has been spotted alive! Turns out he had simply gotten a better gig. Check out the screencap. That's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being given the royal treatment as he visits fellow USA-hater Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. And sure enough, there's the drum major. I figure Hugo must have been watching ESPN a while back, dug the drum major's look, and used some of those oil revenues to make him an irresistible offer. That was just one...

1. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pronounced mah-MOOD ah-mah-dih-nee-ZHAD) was born Oct. 28, 1956, three years after the CIA-sponsored coup that installed the pro-Western leader Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Iran's leader. A Shiite Muslim, he and his wife, a professor, have two sons and a daughter. 2. When he was an infant, Ahmadinejad's family moved from the village of Aradan to Tehran. It was at this point that the family changed its name from Saborjhian, which translates to "thread painter" (the lowliest job in Iran's traditional carpet-weaving industry), to the more religious Ahmadinejad ("race of Muhammad" or "virtuous race"). 3. Ahmadinejad is...

September 27, 2007, 0:00 a.m. School of the Absurd Responsible debate and crass propaganda. By Victor Davis Hanson Have American academics lost their collective minds? This week, Columbia University allowed Iran’s loony President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be a lecturer on its campus. In the circus that followed, Ahmadinejad weighed in on everything from Israel to homosexuals, and came off, as expected, like a petty bigot. All the same, by his very presence on an Ivy League stage, Ahmadinejad showed the world that a top American university considers his odious views worth showcasing. Ahmadinejad has denied the first Holocaust and...

The moment Iran has the capability to create nuclear weapons, the world will change. The moment Iran creates nuclear weapons life will not be the same, like it was on September 12, 2001. Those that choose to believe that a nuclear Iran can be handled (an msm-loved and revered retired general, along with a lot of people), the greater threat to the world is George Bush or any other opinion that avoids possible recognition of the administrations side of the debate; please don't be surprised when much of it comes to fruition, you just weren't listening. From Family Security Matters:...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets reporters as he arrives for a press conference at United Nations headquarters in New York 25 Serptember 2007 after his address to the General Assembly.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Hey folks! Did you know that the beady-eyed, vertically challenged thug who runs Iran is really a good guy? No, really. He is just misunderstood. Don't believe me? Then check out this DUmmie THREAD titled, "What Ahmadinejad is and what he isn't..." Yes, read this thread and you will find out that poor widdle Ahmadinejad is a victim of cultural misunderstanding and the lies of the EVIL Bush Regime. So let us now watch the DUmmies join hands and sing "Kumbaya" in honor of President Hostage-Taker in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if the...

Who could have imagined that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would meet his match in the Ivy League? After Official New York had treated the Iranian fruitcake like a visiting potentate, denying him a visit to Ground Zero only because of "security concerns," a university president stood up to tell the piggish Mr. Ahmadinejad, the celebrated Holocaust denier, would-be destroyer of Israel and Public Enemy No. 1 in America, to crawl back under his rock. Security had nothing to do with it. "Mr. President," President Lee Bollinger of Columbia told him, "you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator." And...

It's nice to know that the very same Columbia University that invited, and attacked, the founder of the Minutemen to share in the atmosphere of free speech and tolerance, also gave a forum to the dictator and state-sponsor of terror, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But free speech can be a funny thing. Published reports in America, a nation known for "freedom of the press", cited President Ahmadinejad as dancing around some answers to questions and not receiving the warmest of responses....

COLUMBIA University Presi dent Lee Bollinger yester day made some cutting crit icisms while introducing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - but that doesn't make the school's decision to offer a platform to the head of a violent terrorist state any less abject, squalid or shameless. "Abject, squalid, shameless" is how Winston Churchill described the resolution passed by Oxford University's prestigious Debating Union in 1933 - the year Adolf Hitler came to power - that "this House will under no circumstances fight for King and Country." And Columbia's event, like the 1933 Oxford resolution, sent (to quote Churchill again) a "very...

Columbia President Lee Bollinger said it was a question of and academic freedom, he was speaking of the invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the University of Columbia. But how soon we forget [there are voices not welcome on the Columbia campus and free speech has been stifled there]

‘60 Minutes’ resident liberal Scott Pelley wasn’t able to get Ahmadinejad to give a straight answer on whether he will build a nuclear bomb. Ahmadinejad also wouldn’t admit that Iran has been responsible for many military deaths in Iraq. After pressed on another topic, the Iranian leader said that he is a Muslim and can not lie. Bwhaha.

The spectacle of these left-wing academics repudiating men like Larry Summers and Donald Rumsfeld even as they abase themselves scrambling to find excuses for welcoming a fanatic like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the halls of a great American University is disgusting. I think again of Bagehot's observation that "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it." Are we really willing to let ourselves--our ideals, our...

Good old boy Fred Thompson relaxed with Fox News' Sean Hannity this week and talked on TV about how some unnamed bad guy was trying to blackmail his media consultant wife about an old boyfriend. Mr. Thompson, a self-confessed former Washington playboy, acknowledged very seriously to his right-wing host that it's probably just the beginning of the mud-slinging season. You see, Mr. Thompson's presidential campaign (unbelievably announced the prior evening on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) has begun ramping up. Freddie Dalton Thompson (his given name), all folksy and self-assured, told the fawning Mr. Hannity that this kind of...

Iran's Ahmadinejad has 'proof' U.S. won't attack TEHRAN - In a speech to academics, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his confidence the United States will not attack Iran is based on proof that comes from his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in Allah. "I told them I am an engineer and I am examining the issue. They do not dare wage war against us and I base this on a double proof," he said in the speech on Sunday. "For hours, I write out different hypotheses. I reject, I reason. I reason with planning and I make a conclusion....

It’s a telling sign when the only two US Representatives who voted against a non-binding resolution last month to censure Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are also (thankfully) the least likely people to be elected president. Republican Ron Paul and Democrat Dennis Kucinich were on the losing end of a 411-2 vote that reaffirmed America’s partnership with Israel, urged the United Nations Security Council to censure Ahmadinejad for past remarks about destroying Israel, and asked the U.N. to consider measures to prevent him and his terrorist cronies from obtaining the nuclear weapons. Kucinich’s vote shouldn’t have come as a surprise since...

Look behind the curtain of virtually every major problem in the Middle East, and you will find Iran: killings in Iraq; arms and money for Hezbollah's assaults on Israel and Hezbollah's attempts to usurp the elected government of Lebanon; support of Syria as the hotelier of the region's major terrorist groups; support and training of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and sleeper networks in countries beyond; promotion of a messianic revolutionary ideology that has deepened the Sunni-Shiite divide; the reckless seizure of 15 British sailors and marines as hostages; and defiance of the U.N. in pursuit of nuclear weapons. Only the...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Monday expressed surprise over the European Union's biased approach to the historical event of holocaust. The statement was made in an exclusive interview with the Spanish television broadcast, in response to the question about holocaust. "I just raised two questions on the issue. Does EU consider questions as a crime. Today, anywhere in the world, one can raise questions about God, prophets, existence and any other issue. "Why historical events should not be clarified?" asked the chief executive. Turning to his first question, he said, "If a historical event has taken place, why do you not...

Iranian official lashes out at Hollywood movie "300" for insulting Persian civilization An Iranian official on Sunday lashed out at the Hollywood movie "300" for insulting the Persian civilization, local Fars News Agency reported. Javad Shamqadri, an art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the new movie of being "part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological war aimed at Iranian culture", said the report. Shamqadri was quoted as saying "following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the U.S. initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture," adding "certainly, the recent movie is a product of...

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD - THE ISLAMIC HITLERThe hellish Mahmoud AhmadinejadJanuary 12, 2007 : Rothman Calls On UN to Charge Ahmadinejad with genocide ...The full text of the Rothman-Kirk Resolution calling on the United Nations Security Council to charge Ahmadinejad with inciting genocide against Israel...http://www.house.gov/rothman/news_releases/2007/jan12b.htmGermany likens Iran's Ahmadinejad to Hitlerhttp://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1579368Iran Calls for a New Holocausthttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20001Iran Holocaust Denial--Rewriting history to suit their political endswww.iranholocaustdenial.com/IranHolocaustDenial.com News___ Hitler in the Twenty First Century:comparing Ahmadinejad and Hitler quotes August 03, 2006 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Hitler in the Twenty First Century In a speech in Malaysia on Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the destruction of Israel...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who flaunts his ideological fervour, has been accused of undermining Iran's Islamic revolution after television footage appeared to show him watching a female song and dance show. The famously austere Mr Ahmadinejad has been criticised by his own allies after attending the lavish opening ceremony of the Asian games in Qatar, a sporting competition involving 13,000 athletes from 39 countries. The ceremony featured Indian and Egyptian dancers and female vocalists. Many were not wearing veils. Women are forbidden to sing and dance before a male audience under Iran's Islamic legal code. Officials are expected to...

A POPULAR joke in Iran has someone asking the conservative former president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, what the superhighway under construction north from the capital Tehran to the border will be called. “Shaheed Ahmadinejad Highway,” he responds. --snip-- In the days before the general election last Friday for the Assembly of Experts, an 86-member council that might well choose Iran’s next supreme leader, some candidates allied with Mr. Ahmadinejad’s clerical mentor were eliminated as unqualified. In addition, when the president visited Amir Kabir University in Tehran last week, a small group of students burned his picture and chanted “Death to the Dictator!”...

There are all kinds of signs that traditional anti-Semitism in Europe is growing by leaps and bounds, while the UN continues to pass resolution after resolution condemning Israel for shooting back at Arab terrorists who murder Israelis almost on a daily basis. There is really nothing new about this; similar tendencies were seen just before World Wars I and II. Since 1948, when the United Nations approved the formation of the nation of Israel (and Arabs were offered and refused their own nation-state), and the United States was the first country to recognize Israel, Americans have supported Israel as one...

While the White House remains wary of the proposal to talk with Iran, Tehran sources tell TIME that the regime believes such talks are in the country's best interest...

Vast majority of Iranian lawmakers vote to move up presidential elections by 18 months, final say on matter up to Ahmadinejad's arch-rival. Will Ahmadinejad's term be cut short? The Iranian parliament voted on Sunday to unite the presidential elections with the upcoming parliamentary ones, this according to the official Iranian news agency. The proposal, which passed with a surprising 80 percent majority, may cut the term of sitting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by 18 months. The bill must still be ratified by the Iranian constitutional committee, which is headed by former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad's arch-rival, a fact which many...

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect human being promised to all by You, and make us among his followers. Noble Americans, Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities on the daily lives of our peoples, coupled with the many wars and calamities caused by the US administration as well as the tragic consequences of US interference in other countries; Were the American people not God-fearing, truth-loving, and justice-seeking, while the US administration...

Today the Iranian nation's (nuclear) strength is ten times stronger than it was last year at the beginning of this glorious path," Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech to a crowd in the southern city of Rey. "On the other hand, our enemy's strength has become ten times less than it was last year.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly delivered a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, saying he is inspired by Satan. Speaking to a group of supporters, Mr Ahmadinejad said he himself had inspirational links to God, Iranian media reports. According to the Iranian media, Mr Ahmadinejad said he had inspirational links to God, and went on to say that if you were a true believer, God would show you miracles. Then the Iranian president said Mr Bush was similar to him. According to Mr Ahmadinejad, the US president also receives inspiration - but it is from Satan. He...

Practically everywhere you look in the operations of the United Nations, you find incredible graft, corruption and disgusting criminal behavior. The time has come to withdraw all support from this organization and let it fall apart – starved of funds. We can find some other use for the buildings and grounds while leaders from the important countries of the world meet to plan a successor organization. Let the United Nations follow the League of Nations into the dustbin of history, as we try again to find a way to resolve the world’s problems peacefully.

Tehran, 7 Oct. (IPS, with report by Meisam Tavvab of Rooz newspaper) A recent survey operated by the Iranian State-owned and conservatives-controlled Radio and Television showed that the majority of Iranians are unhappy with their messianic President, Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad. Asking interviewees how do they regard the economic, political and social performance of the new government, 65 per cent have indicated that they are not satisfied, reported the pro-reform online newspaper “Rooz”, based in London and Paris on 4 October 2006. Last year, same kind of survey carried by the same organisation had found that 60 percent of Iranians interviewed...

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." - Mark Twain

September 23, 2006 New York, New York I went to New York City this week so I could protest against Bush, and show support for Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as they all arrived to speak at the United Nations. These foreign leaders epitomize the strongest challenge to W and his attempts to conquer the world, so I wanted to cheer them on. Imagine my excitement when I was invited by a very influential Democrat to a private cocktail party held to honor the visiting presidents at a very swanky New York hotel! I wish Scooter...

Teheran police order 64,000 women to cover up in the heat of summer By David Blair (Filed: 29/08/2006) Police in Iran's capital, Teheran, have stopped almost 64,000 women and warned them against breaching strict Muslim dress codes in the last month alone. The authorities have chosen the height of summer for a new crackdown to ensure that women cover their heads with veils and their bodies with long, heavy overcoats whenever they can be seen in public. For years, Iran's police turned a blind eye when young women pushed the boundaries of the rules by wearing the flimsiest of veils,...

My article on the meaning of the Middle East ceasefire and the failure of the Israelis to complete their mission speculated that it could lead eventually to a nuclear weapon being used by the Israelis on Iran. It seems to me that one might conclude from the following opposing article (its author says that the real losers were Syria and Iran (not Israel) that the events of this summer have actually laid the groundwork for the USA to bomb Iran with nuclear weapons.

What is happening right now in Mexico is a perfect example of the little-kid tantrum those on the left throw when they don’t get their way – when they lose. Leftists in Mexico have shut down the government because they lost an election they thought they should have won. They are so good, they are so smart, they are so sure they have all the answers, it’s not possible that the electorate would look at their past failures and present actions and decide to vote against them. This is behind the “selected not elected” nonsense that has led to a...

The next time you notice that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks like he's lost a little weight on CNN, it's probably because he no longer chows down on those evil "elastic loaves". "Elastic loaves" are pizzas in the lexicon of President Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has ordered the minions in his government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he talks at a news conference in Dushanbe, Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Ahmadinejad called for a cease-fire in Lebanon and lambasted U.S. policy in the Middle East on Wednesday, saying the United States wanted to 'recarve the map' of the region with Israel's help. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

Dr. Jerome Corsi will be on WCTC 1450 AM to discuss Atomic Iran tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, July 22) Dr. Jerome Corsi will be the guest of Keith Rasmussen and Maggie Glynn who host Loud & Clear on Central Jersey 1450 Saturdays 3 pm - 6 pm Eastern. Dr. Corsi will join Loud & Clear at 4:15 pm Eastern. Jerome Corsi, Ph.D. Harvard University, co-author (with John O'Neill) of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, is the author of 2005's Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and...

It was only last Saturday that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a two-day conference attended by officials from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, called on the Islamic world to mobilize and wipe out Israel. Less than a week later we see the results of this conference.

BANJUL (Reuters) - Two of the world's most anti-American leaders, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended this weekend's Africa summit in Gambia to the consternation of Western diplomats. Both lived up to their billing with Chavez railing against U.S. "hegemony" and Ahmadinejad blaming Western greed for "poverty, backwardness, regional conflicts, corruption, illicit drugs." The role of West-baiting once fell at AU summits to Libya's colourful leader Muammar Gaddafi but he has now been welcomed into the Western fold and Libya is soon to be taken off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. So why were...

IT is easy to label Iran's quest for nuclear energy a dangerous adventure with grave regional and international repercussions. It is also comforting to heap scorn on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his earlier denial of the Holocaust and his odious call for the obliteration of the state of Israel. The rambling intransigence expressed in his recent letter to President Bush offers ample insight into this twisted mindset. Yet there is something deeper in Iran's story than the extremist utterances of a messianic president and the calculated maneuvering of the hard-line clerical leadership that stands behind him. We tend to forget...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, traded barbs during bad- tempered talks at a foreign ministers' summit in New York on Iran's nuclear program a week ago. The exchanges provided a candid introduction to diplomacy for Margaret Beckett, Britain's new foreign secretary, who attended the tetchy session at the end of her first full day in the job. The row, which further undermines hopes of a diplomatic solution to the Iran crisis, reflects deepening rifts between the United States and Russia. Tension surfaced at a private meeting hosted by Rice in the Waldorf Hotel...

I have often wondered while watching films such as Schindler's List just how a leader such as Hitler or Mussolini was able to contort the minds of an entire nation into believing that evil was good.

He wants Israel wiped off the face of the earth, dismisses the Holocaust as a myth and defies the world by pushing ahead with a nuclear program. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's fiery rhetoric has found instant appeal among some Arabs, who consider him a hero for standing up to Israel and the West. But not everyone is cheering the hard-line leader. Many Arabs interviewed by The Associated Press said Ahmadinejad's rhetoric and defiance remind them of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and worry they will result in violence and turmoil for the Middle East. They say the Iranian leader's...

Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix urged that the world take a softer line toward Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Iran is feeling very isolated right now,” said Blix. “I think if the United States were to offer its sincere apology for disrespecting its loony government and accompany the apology with a nice box of chocolates and maybe a dozen roses, Iranians would feel better.” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he will make no promises, but that it is up to the United States to make the first move. “The Americans used to invite us to parties and give us...