April 2007
Ingenious Iranian PR and Diplomacy - Releasing British Sailors as "Easter Gift"
by trnscndrIn one fell-swoop today Iran and their seemingly Napoleonic leader, Ahmadinejad, made everyone in the world further consider the possibility that Bush and Co. are all smoke when it comes to their portrayal of Iran as "warmongering" or set on anything other than than defending itself against proven aggressors. They announced plans to release British POW's as an "Easter" gift. What a coup for these witty Persians. With smiling faces on their captives they presented themselves as fair and appropriately deliberative, if not gracious.
February 2007
S. Royal et N. Sarkosy face à G. W. Bush
by Jacques AdamUn compararatif, sur une page, des attitudes très différentes face à Bush, des deux principaux candidats à la Présidentielle francaise 2007
January 2007
President Ahmadinejad's Count Down to War?
by OPINIONISTAhmadinejad mind-map bullet points:
- Holocaust denier
- US/Israel “soon to be destroyed”
- “one bomb” will destroy Israel
- North Koreans assisting Iran’s nuclear program
- Israel very quiet recently
- Israel political will and military resources to attack Iran unilaterally?
- 2nd U.S. carrier group en route Persian Gulf
- U.S. defend Iraq’s Iran / Syrian borders in response?
- 2009 term limit, Parliament shortened Ahmadinejad’s term?
- ‘Hojjatieh’ ultra-conservative Shia believer of the 12th Imam/Mahdi
- Ahmadinejad wants his administration to ‘pave way for 12th Imam’s return
- His administration politically weaker; forcing his hand?
- Inflation, unemployment, building opposition to his policies
- Ahmadinejad even scares Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
- Ayathollah’s recent overtures (”goodwill”) to U.S. via Saudi King
- Sec. of State - Condi Rice - making trip to Riyadh next week
June 2006
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