So Dr. Evan Siegel, from Brooklyn, New York (who holds a PhD in Mathematics from the City University of New York Graduate Center and has an impressive resume), writes in his blog “Iran Rises” (complete with a green banner background, presumably in the by now familiar expression of solidarity with…
Hamid Dabashi, in his article “Left is wrong on Iran”, makes a number of fallacies in his argument that some on the American left are ignorant about Iran and have supported President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad while standing against those who supported opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Iran’s recent election. Dabashi’s…
One claim made by the opposition in Iran to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an attempt to paint the election as fraudulent is that there was an unusually high turnout, in some cases more than 100 percent, in many places across the country. Citing just one example, the…
The propaganda campaign to paint the victory of the incumbent candidate in Iran’s June presidential election as having been a stolen one began early. Even before the election, the seed was being planted that the election would be stolen to give President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a win. This narrative played nicely…
In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined the Obama administration’s foreign policy, which has been widely touted as a sharp break from that of his predecessor’s. Judging from commentary in the media, Obama has ushered in a new age…
I really like both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. They each have a few pros and cons that stand out in my mind, for my purposes, which is mostly to do research. In the end, I believe Firefox is the better browser, but it has borrowed from and could still…
I happened to stumble across this FOX News “Hannity” interview with Anne Coulter. This portion came up in a Google News search: COULTER: I’m reading up on the Noam Chomsky view of the world, so that I can understand Barack Obama’s position with Iran. HANNITY: OK, fair enough. Barack Obama…
The Independent has this headline: “Britain punishes Israel for Gaza naval bombardment“. Britain’s “punishment” is to revoke five licenses for arms exports to Israel. The article explains: The British Government has reacted to Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza last January by barring further exports of components used in naval…
Taiwan’s educational system is in dire need of attention before we start touting it as a model for others.…
Shahid R. Siddiqi began his career in the Pakistan Air Force, and later joined the private sector where he was until recently in a senior management position. At the same time, he worked as a broadcaster with Radio Pakistan and was the Islamabad bureau chief of the English weekly magazine,…
Gary Sick at the Daily Beast explains how the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) have become a formidable power in Iran. “Technically,” he writes, “they take their orders from the leader, but has he ever dared to contradict them? On the contrary, he seems always to court them by granting…
A new claim on Iran’s elections is making the rounds. The latest is that photos taken during the partial recount the Guardian Council agreed to perform in response to charges of fraud show evidence that the ballots themselves are fraudulent. The New York Times blog The Lede observes: There’s growing…
The mainstream media is reporting that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told his FBI interrogators after his capture that he lied about having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) because he feared Iran. But there’s just one problem with this claim: Saddam Hussein never claimed to have WMD, but , as…
Wikileaks has obtained a Department of State document laying out the terms of a grant in part for the purpose of helping to import new media technology into Iran for the creation of a website to “promote democracy”. According to Wikileaks: This file provides budgetary information regarding a specific covert…
I was interviewed by Dori Smith of Talk Nation Radio about the topic of Iran and the recent unrest, and the possibility of U.S. interference in Iran’s domestic affairs during the recent presidential election and the unrest and violence that followed. An interview with editor Jeremy R. Hammond of Foreign…
An earlier version of this article mistakenly stated that the ABF received $345 million from NED. The number is $345 thousand, and has been corrected below. The NED The National Endowment for Democracy Act (U.S.C. Title 22, Chapter 54, Subchapter II) stipulates that the U.S. Information Agency “shall make an…
Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com criticizes me along with Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett, and Paul Craig Roberts for suggesting the possiblity that the U.S. might have interfered in Iran during the recent presidential election and subsequent unrest and violence in the streets. He begins by talking about the Cold War…
The Iran Freedom Support Act became Public Law 109-293 on September 30, 2006 essentially committed the U.S. to a policy of regime change in Iran. It’s declared purpose is “To hold the current regime in Iran accountable for its threatening behavior and to support a transition to democracy in Iran.”…
Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian arms dealer who served as a go-between for the CIA, Israel, and the regime of Ayatollah Ruhuollah Komeini during the Iran-Contra affair, was “a trusted friend and kitchen adviser to Mir Hussein Mousavi, Prime Minister in the Khomeini government”, said TIME magazine back in 1987. Michael Ledeen…
The Free Gaza Movement announced in a press release on Tuesday that its boat The Spirit of Humanity had been intercepted by the Israeli navy while en route from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Palestinian people. The people of Gaza have suffered under an…
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