Senior Iranian Cleric Who Boasts of Being Godfather of Suicide Attacks: Injured in Embassy Bombing

Embassy Bomber ID’ed as Palestinian November 21, 2013 16:12 by Pesach Benson One of the suicide bombers from this week’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut is Palestinian, according to the Daily Star. Michael Totten and NOW Lebanon look at Hezbollah’s fears of more suicide attacks. And the Times of London piles on with a new irony you gotta […]

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Believe Khamene’i and Assad? Not Me

by Daniel Pipes September 28, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Has anyone else noted the similarity in today’s top two Middle East news headlines – the telephone call between the Iranian and American presidents and the passage of U.N. Security Council Resoluton 2118 that calls for the “expeditious destruction” of Syrian chemical […]

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Iran President Chooses New Nuclear Chief Negotiator

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani has chosen a new nuclear chief negotiator to represent Iran at talks with the international community, although any nuclear policy is determined strictly by the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Mohammed Forouzandeh currently heads a powerful state charitable foundation and serves as a member of the Supreme National Security Council. […]

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Iran Wants 200 Nuclear Bombs, Not Two

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the international community not to be fooled by Iran’s new “moderate” president. Speaking to the Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth on Thursday, Netanyahu said that the elections in Iran “reflect a deep dissatisfaction of the Iranian people with its regime. Unfortunately, this result doesn’t have the power to change Iran’s nuclear […]

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686 Candidates Vie to Replace Ahmadinejad as Iranian President

A total of 686 candidates are vying replace Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the country’s upcoming June national election, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported. Among those who have registered to be considered for the post are Ahmadinejad’s top aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Ahmadinejad, who is term-limited and cannot […]

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Another Islamist Assault, Another Western Cringe

by Daniel Pipes The Boston Herald September 13, 2012 BH title: “Weak resolve enables jihadists” Attacks on Tuesday against American missions in Cairo and Benghazi fit into a familiar pattern of Islamist intimidation and Western appeasement that goes back to the Salman Rushdie affair in 1989. The Obama administration’s supine response to the murder of […]

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