Posted in Iran, Palestinians, War fighting on Feb 29th, 2008
The train wreck that has me upset is really nothing new. It’s just the latest round of the same-old, same-old.
Gaza.
And, the two trains crashing into each other are the Palestinians of Gaza… and Hamas.
I bet that you are wondering why I’m not mentioning Israel. Well, Israel’s certainly there. They’re the ones jumping up and down, [...]
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Posted in Iran on Nov 13th, 2007
We started our story with Dr. Sick, but it continues with another interesting character: a pistachio farmer.
Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is pistachio farmer. I love pistachios, but I think that I like them a Little less now because Rafsanjani helped put us where we are.
Rafsanjani is a religious zealot that doesn’t see corruption as contradicting that [...]
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Posted in Iran on Nov 9th, 2007
I promised to go into how we’ve been bamboozled, so here I am.
Our tale starts with a guy with a really appropriate name: Gary.
For some reason Gary has a thing about Iranian mullahs. He can’t get enough of them. He serves on boards that support them. He has their ambassadors appointed as faculty to Columbia University. He even [...]
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Posted in America, Iran, Personal Notes on Oct 31st, 2007
This is such an incredible story, that I’m not sure where to begin.
And no, ‘the beginning’ is not the best place to begin.
Let me start it off with this:
We have been duped.
We have been led down the garden path. Hoodwinked. Hornswoggled. Bamboozled. The lying liars have lied to us. They spun a brilliant web of [...]
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Posted in Iran, Islam on Oct 30th, 2007
A new messianic star has risen in Iran.
His name is Saeed Jalili and he is the new head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and therefore the new head of Iran’s nuclear negotiation team. He replaces Ali Larijani, who resigned on October 20th.
I know what you are about to say, so I’ll say it [...]
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