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nytimes.com - 2/23/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: What Iran’s Jews Say

— nytimes.com — The reality of Iranian civility toward Jews tells us more about Iran — its sophistication and culture... — than all the inflammatory rhetoric. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: What Iran’s Jews Say

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nytimes.com - 2/20/2009

Iran Has More Enriched Uranium Than Thought

— nytimes.com — U.N. officials said that the amount of uranium that Tehran now holds is sufficient to make an... atom bomb. > (more) Iran Has More Enriched Uranium Than Thought

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chicagotribune.com - 2/23/2009

On Iran, begin with the end in mind -

— chicagotribune.com — His outreach was stronger and swifter than many had expected. It was a wise move, but there... should be little surprise that Tehran has yet to fully respond. It won't. While small steps like these are necessary to set the stage for diplomacy with Iran, ... (more) On Iran, begin with the end in mind -

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Re: Lost and Found
The Corner on National Review Online — ... significant role in any major terrorist attack before or after 9/11." Having made our punitive point by bringing down the first Taliban government, we have no further quarrel with them, or with any other Afghans, so long as they give up their support for al Qaeda, which they could surely be persuaded (or bribed) to do. A war against the Taliban per se is an unnecessary war at this point. Afghanistan is a failed nation with dismal prospects. Its problems bleed over into Pakistan and Iran [A]ccording to a recent report from the US Council on Foreign Relations, "Iran serves as ...

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Theo Spark — Sex, drugs and Islam. All is not well in Iran. Obama's New Spy Chief Publishes a Vicious Anti Israel Journal. Obambi has some very strange 'friends'. Attack threat to ambulance staff. Give them tasers. What do they have to hide? Fury as Straw blocks release of minutes of key Cabinet meeting held before Iraq war. Wait for the leak. It will come. Policeman hauled before court and suspended for 20 months for defending himself against yob who headbutted him. The Crown Prosecution Service ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/14/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... Sex, Drugs and Islam By Spengler Political Islam returned to the world stage with Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution in Iran, which became the most aggressive patron of Muslim radicals outside its borders, including Hamas in the Palestinian territories and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Until very recently, an oil-price windfall gave the Iranian state ample resources to pursue its agenda at home and abroad. How, then, should we explain an eruption of social pathologies in Iran such as drug addiction ...

Decline
Neptunus Lex — ... In the Asia Times, Spengler chronicles a list of Iranian woes, including marked demographic decline, a collapsing of the oil-based economy, high rates of opiate addiction and prostitution among the literate class and concludes that theocratic Iran is dying. ...

Harry Potter and Ziono-Hollywoodists
The Corner on National Review Online — ... , whose spectacular failures are the only way Muslims societies will ever repudiate political Islam. Or, as the columnist Spengler put it recently: Theocracy subjects religion to a political test; it is hard for Iranians to repudiate the regime and remain pious, for religious piety and support for political Islam are inseparable, as a recent academic study documented from survey data. As in the decline of communism, what follows on the breakdown of a state ideology is likely to be nihilism. Iran is a dying country, and it is very difficult to have a rational dialogue with a ...

The Hookers Are Well Educated
Classical Values — The Hookers Are Well Educated Spengler at Asia Times is looking at the portents from Iran and sees a collapse coming. And as per usual he uses his favorite metric. Whores. The man is obsessed. I can, however, appreciate his obsession. Until very recently, an oil-price windfall gave the Iranian state ample resources to pursue its agenda at home and abroad. How, then, should we explain an eruption of social pathologies in Iran such as drug addiction and prostitution, on a scale much worse than anything observed in the West? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it appears that ...