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Clinton told the forum, which is jointly organised by the Qatari foreign ministry and the US-based Brookings Institution, that “evidence is accumulating” that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon.

Of course, the evidence is quite clear about one regime in the Middle East that already has nuclear weapons and has shown it has no qualms at least using conventional weapons against civilian populations.

“We see the government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the parliament is being supplanted and Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship.”

… she warned while speaking in a state run by an absolute monarchy while trying to get backing from other various and sundry anti-democratic regimes for US aggression against Iran.

All in all, it’s reassuring to see the US maintaining its outstanding track record of principled foreign policy. Keep talking Hillary, while I take off my shoe…

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…whatever their earthly crimes were, the two men executed last month were also accused of another offense far more serious than simply protesting against a government.

They were convicted of being “mohareb,” enemies of God.

That is the worst possible crime in Shiite Muslim law, according to Abbas Milani, the director of Iranian studies at Stanford University.
The legal implications are clear, he said.

“A mohareb, according to Shiite law, is executed,” he said.

That the regime is labeling its opponents enemies of God is a sign of how rattled it is by the protests, he said.

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Just as the spectre of Munich hung over postwar foreign policy, just as the outcome of the Vietnam War scarred a generation, so now our experience in Iraq shapes our attitudes. It becomes impossible to consider any action against Iran without thinking about what has happened and is happening in Iraq. Even the assertion that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are dangerous reminds people of exactly the same claims about Saddam’s weaponry. The mad, bad, murderous leadership of Iran denies aggressive intent, Western leaders sound warnings and many people, at the least, think the competing claims equally credible.

@Dannythefink (who rarely shows much ‘finking’) proves that when you’re a down and out warmongering bastard, just invoke Munich, 1940, Hitler and Churchill.

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Neoconservative scholar-activist Daniel Pipes has a new article on the leading conservative website National Review Online, in which he suggests that President Obama can “save” his presidency…by bombing Iran.

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Hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army hijacked the website of a Dutch-based Persian language radio station at the weekend, weeks after doing the same to China’s Baidu Inc search engine and Twitter.com.

Since early Saturday, visitors to the website of Dutch government-funded Radio Zamaneh, which reports on human rights and unrest in Iran, have seen the message “this web site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army” followed by a warning in Persian:

“Iranian Cyber Army warns all treasonous mercenaries that it will not leave them at peace even in the bosom of their masters.”

The radio station is trying to regain control of the site and expects to be back online on Monday, editor-in-chief Farid Haerinejad told Reuters.
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Radio Zamaneh is an independent foundation which describes itself at the “unheard voice of young Iran”. It broadcasts news and analysis of topics such as gender issues and religious minorities in Iran, along with music and entertainment.

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