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attackerman.firedoglake.com - 11/2/2009
How Dare Those Iranian Dissidents Not Be Neocons!
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Ataollah Mohajerani, who has been a spokesman in Europe for presidential candidate-turned-dissident Mehdi Karroubi, came to Washington to address the annual conference of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The mostly pro-Israel crowd was primed to cheer what they expected would be a ...

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Shorter Jackson Diehl
Eschaton — I wish they were all like Ahmed Chalabi.

Thirty Years Ago Today… and Today
Firedoglake — ... . The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl has called the opposition “unlovely” because it’s made up of Iranians, who possess an Iranian agenda, not an American neoconservative one. Great timing, gentlemen. You couldn’t be doing Ahmedinejad’s work for him any more thoroughly if he paid you. Not that I’m accusing him of paying you, of course. I have no evidence of that. ...

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