Posted on 01/09/2007 10:55:13 PM PST by DoctorZIn
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An Update: The "Supreme Leader" Dead of Dying?
- Michael Ledeen, Faster Please provided further updates on his earlier report on the death of the Supreme Leader Khamenei. He points out that Khamenei has not been seen in public for 5-6 days now.
- James Lewis, The American Thinker reported that the mullahs of Tehran are in midst of the most dangerous power struggle since Jimmy Carter handed Iran to Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.
- Pajamas Media provided a roundup of today's major news reports debating whether or not the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader is dead or dying. Photo.
Rafsanjani hints of Ahmadinejad demise
- Ken Timmerman, Iran.org reported that Rafsanjani suggested a road to be named after the "Martyr" Ahmadinejad.
Military Officer Threatens Key Oil Strait
- Forbes.com reported that deputy Basij commander General Majid Mir Ahmadi said Iran could block oil traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz if the West threatens Iran.
Iran Doing a Brisk "Business" in Terror
- Niles Latham, The New York Post reported that Iran is using an increasingly vast network of fake import-export companies to funnel weapons and money to terrorist groups in Iraq.
Pope says Iran should cooperate on nuclear concerns
- Boston Globe reported that Pope Benedict XVI said Monday that Iran should cooperate with the international community to ease concerns over its nuclear ambitions.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- Jerome Corsi, The World Net Daily argued that President Bush is putting into place a new political and military command team, all in preparation for an expanded war in the Middle East.
- ABC News reported that the U.S. Treasury will make an announcement on Iran at a news conference on Tuesday.
- CanWest News Service reported that a former Miss Canada pageant winner is working to have the Nazanin Fatehi Iranian girl's sentence overturned, doing much of the work from a computer in the bedroom of her apartment here.
- The Telegraph argued that since the international community is in no mood to deal decisively with Iran ignoring the UNSC nuclear resolution, we are leaving Israel with no option but to act on its own.
- Cox & Forkum published a cartoon: Saber Rattling.
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bump
Shouldn't the heading read: Dead OR dying?
headling=headline.
Important reading bump!
If this proves to be true, Praise God!
yes!
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