My friend JK writes: Have you seen today’s Washington Post story about the purported “huge embassy” Iran is building in Nicaragua? The only problem: there is no monster Iranian embassy in Managua. But that didn’t stop Secretary of State Hillary…
I did a post yesterday, in the moment, foolishly giving Obama a break, prospectively, if Israel is to bomb Iran. Two of my intellectual betters demurred. Jack Ross: I’m closer to Antony Loewenstein than to you on this one. If…
Sharing a cab to JFK, business for him, a frolic for me, Antony Loewenstein challenged me, If Israel bombs Iran, then you really have to get over your adoration of Obama. But I said I wouldn’t. I would say that…
Joe Biden went on “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos’s show Sunday, and said Israel has a “sovereign right” to go after Iran. JTA saw Biden’s comments as giving a “green light” to Israel. So did Haaretz. When asked whether the Obama…
Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation, from Tehran: And then there was the Obama factor. Countless Iranians watched his June 4 Cairo speech, and its transcript was parsed word by word. By offering to respect Iran rather than locating it in…
Last night I did a post stealing Antony Loewenstein’s view (and Mohammad of Vancouver’s) that it is naive to believe that the U.S. had no hand in the Tehran uprising, especially given the use that neocons are now making of…
Jack Ross writes: Dershowitz is still, at least half-heartedly defending Obama–Commentary’s take with a link to the column. I’m not sure quite what to make of it. On the one hand, Dershowitz takes pretty much the same position as Norman…
Surprise. Max Boot at Commentary wants Israel to bomb Iran now. So does John Bolton, speaking from the fever ward, the Washington Post op-ed page. The former ambassador says the Tehran revolt has upped the urgency for regime change. Significantly,…
Max Blumenthal has a great piece up on Huffington pointing out that even as the cable networks and MSM endlessly reprise the video killing of Neda Agha-Soltan in Tehran, they have ignored similar cold-blooded killings during protests in the West…