Quote of the Day

"The presidential election was the freest election around the globe."

-- Iranian President MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, making his first televised address since the disputed June 12 vote

Freedom, Martyrdom and the Snuff Film

The death of a young woman on the streets of Tehran is caught on camera and viewed by millions. But should we be watching?
You tick the box saying you are over 18. You notice the warning that the material you are about to see could be upsetting. But nothing can prepare you for the horrible immediacy of watching a young woman die, as Neda Soltan does on YouTube.
The bloodied face of Neda – already called the Angel of Freedom – will be the image that lingers of the Iran uprising, just as the naked, napalmed girl running down the road has come to encapsulate the Vietnam war.
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Iran's Past, Present and Future of Nuclear Energy

In the 1970s the United States encouraged Iran to develop nuclear power.
The United States ultimately planned to sell billions of dollars worth of nuclear reactors, spare parts and nuclear fuel to Iran.The Shah even periodically hinted that he wanted Iran to build nuclear weapons.
In June 1974, the Shah proclaimed that Iran would have nuclear weapons "without a doubt and sooner than one would think."
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Media Duped Again

It was an arresting image: Four missiles arcing skyward in near perfect symmetry, perhaps a prelude to war. It was ominous. It was also a fake.
Newspapers and Web sites around the world were duped into running a propaganda photo handed out by the Iran Revolutionary Guard that turned out to have been digitally manipulated. The missile launch was real, but one of the four missiles in the image apparently wasn't.
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Clinton's Plan for Iran

WASHINGTON D.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran...
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