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To lefties who support Iran against the protesters because the US must have been interfering somehowIran’s supreme leader disagrees with you. “I do not accuse the leaders of the recent incidents to be subordinate to the foreigners, like the United States and Britain, since this issue has not been proven for me,” said Ayatollah Khamenei, in a statement read out on Iranian television. For the rest of you wondering what [...] There are now multiple, reliable reports of the government of Iran using rape, multiple times, as a deliberate way to emotionally and psychologically destroy jailed protesters. Bizarrely, the hard left is still having a argument as to whether the government of Ahmadinejad should be supported either because it supposedly opposes imperialism or because the US [...] Roxana Saberi In what was clearly a kangaroo court, Iran has sentenced Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years in prison on bogus espionage charges Journalists have started FreeRoxana.net and are also on Twitter. From John Wight The story which appeared in the Guardian newspaper on 26 September, reporting that President Bush refused to support (which really means refused permission) for an Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities recently, is hugely significant for two reasons. Firstly, it reveals the extent to which the US military is overstretched in [...] The big question is whether Saakashvili is another US proxy who over-estimated US support (q.v. Saddam Hussein), or whether the US put him up to the attack to distract the Russians prior to some sort of operation against Iran. Just paranoid speculation, right? [Kuwait] has reportedly activated its “Emergency War Plan” as a massive U.S. [...] From John Dvorak at MarketWatch (“an unlikely source of tinfoil” says Peak Energy) The cut cables — originally blamed on ships dragging anchors — look more like a ploy by some intelligence agency to disrupt Iranian commerce, specifically an emerging oil bourse that the Iranians have been quietly establishing and hoped to roll out [...] Iran’s international trade has grown dramatically since the imposition of US sanctions against Iran in 1987. Bush urges Arab allies to confront Iran Juan Cole has a detailed analysis of this pitiful (and failed) propaganda attempt. The Iranians analyzed the Pentagon video released to the US media and found that the audio track was not synchronized properly with the video, pointing to serious tinkering. And sure enough, we now know that the tape is a fabrication in the [...] |  | ||||
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