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Tag Archives: hostage crisis
Manufactured Evidence
The new book by true investigative journalist Gareth Porter, Manufactured Crisis, summarizes the decade-long deception of the public about the nature of Iran’s nuclear program. It is not real news that the United States, Israel and the Iranian terrorist organization … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Iran, USA
Tagged CIA, Gareth Porter, hostage crisis, nuclear crisis
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Over Again?
When basiji “students” stormed the British Embassy in Tehran yesterday one first recalls events in November 1979 when students took 55 American diplomates and Embassy employees hostage for an incredible 444 days. Those days cemented the decade-long hostilities between the … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, UK
Tagged 1953, assassination, atomic bomb, basiji, British Embassy, hostage crisis, IAEA, nuclear program, nuclear scientists, Operation Ajax, revolution, students, Vyacheslav Danilenko
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From Aradan
Kasra Naji. Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader. University of California Press, Berkeley 2008, 312 pages. There is an urgent need for an unbiased and more detailed analysis of the origins of this son of a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Iran
Tagged Angela Merkel, Aradan, axis of evil, Ayatollah Jannati, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, Basij, Elm-o Sanat University, George W. Bush, Holocaust, hostage crisis, IAEA, Iraq-Iran war, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Jamkaran, Kasra Naji, Mahdi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami, Natanz, National Intelligence Estimate, NIE, nuclear program, Pasdaran, Revolutionary Guard, United Nations, Zionism
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