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Opinion Toppling Saddam, Unleashing Iran and Anticipating the Unanticipated
Every day, it seems, something else happens somewhere to prove again, if any more proof were needed, just who is the big winner from America’s six-year adventure in Iraq. We refer, of course, to the Islamic Republic of Iran. America’s successful toppling of Iran’s nemesis, Saddam Hussein, accidentally ushered in a golden age for Iranian…
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Life Franklin ‘Smelled a Rat’ in Chalabi
In the Forward’s interview with Larry Franklin, the man once accused of being an “Israeli mole,” Franklin speaks candidly of his five-year ordeal since he was named as a key suspect in what became known as the AIPAC case. But Israel wasn’t the only issue on Franklin’s mind. In the interview he reveals that while…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Iran Makeovers, Cable Price Wars
Here’s an interesting take on the unrest in Iran. Chic clothing firm Daphna Levinson has placed an advertisement in several newspapers. It reads: “Iranians, good luck with your revolution to freedom.” The picture shows “before” and “after” pictures supposedly on this theme. The “before” picture features a woman covered up in a black burka-like robe;…
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Culture Iranian Intelligence Ministry Thinks George Soros and John McCain Are Buddies
Here’s a video broadcast by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry, subtitled by Memri. Very “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Very “Protocols.” Very creepy. (Though the production values are very lousy.) Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan’s blog
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Life Offbeat Israel: Has Kiryat Gat Adopted the Iranian Flag?
If there was an Israeli “Obama Girl,” chances are that she would be approaching middle age. The American president may have been a big hit with young Americans, but in Israel, it’s apparently the young who are the most skeptical about him. Bar Ilan University, together with the Anti-Defamation League, have polled Israelis on their…
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Life Ahmadinejad’s Speech Was Supposed To Be Even More Inflammatory
Here’s the portion of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Durban II speech that caused dozens of Western diplomats to walk out of a session yesterday at the U.N. racism conference: The U.N. has since said that Ahmadinejad’s address would have been even more inflammatory; he apparently left out a previously planned reference to Holocaust denial that…
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Life On Iran, Roger Cohen v. Jeffrey Goldberg
One day after Atlantic writer and blogger Jeffrey Goldberg announced that he would be “checking out for a while” — taking a blogging break to “buy some horseradish, among other things” — Roger Cohen, in a New York Times op-ed that referenced Goldberg’s recent interview with Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Goldberg (a Forward alum) of being…
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Life Exiled Ayatollah: Iranian Regime on Verge of Collapse
As the country is busy speculating whether the brand new Benjamin Netanyahu-led government will end up going to war with Iran, a former member of Iran’s Khomeini government has said that Israelis are over-estimating the life expectancy of the Iranian regime. “I guarantee that within two years Iran’s regime will collapse,” Ayatollah Dr Mehdi Haeri…
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