In the alleged Iranian government assassination plot involving the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S. Adel al-Jubeir the Iranian-American prime suspect Manssour Arbabsiar yesterday pleaded not guilty. In view of what has been made public about the so far more than bizarre plot it is currently not clear on what kind of further intelligence the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’
The Head of the Snake
Posted in Saudi Arabia, USA, WikiLeaks, tagged Adel al-Jubeir, Arab Spring, Bahrain, Ford Fraker, Hajj, King Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Makkah, Manssour Arbabsiar, Michael Gfoeller, nuclear Iran, State terrorism on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What Stupid Interviews Are Good For
Posted in Iran, tagged American hikers, Ann Curry, Guido Westerwelle, Jens Koch, Josh Fattal, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marcus Hellwig, Shane Bauer, Ta'arouf, UN General Assembly on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While the media’s groaning about rather stupid teaser (“A Day in the Life of Iran’s President”) for Ann Curry’s upcoming interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (“Why are you working so hard?”) is becoming louder, we now might get to know the background for her so incredibly harmless and naïve questions on a day tour with Ahmadinejad [...]
“The World Should be Rooting For the Clergy …
Posted in Iran, tagged Ali Khamenei, Hidden Imam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nationalism, power struggle, Shi'a, Vali Nasr on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
… their victory will bring about the quickest end to the Islamic Republic.” Former Middle East advisor to the Obama Administration and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University Vali Nasr has written, for Foreign Policy, a racy summary about the real background of the current power struggle [...]
The Price for Illicit Journalism
Posted in Germany, Iran, tagged BamS, Guido Westerwelle, Jens Koch, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marcus Hellwig, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, stoning on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The two reporters of German tabloid BamS, Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch, which had been sentenced to 20 months in prison on charges on “acting against national security” for illicitly entering Iran on tourist visas have been freed yesterday. Their sentence had been commuted to fines of $50’000 each. Koch and Hellwig had tried to [...]
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