Posts Tagged: Iranian President
Will Hassan Rohani, Not the First ‘Moderate’ Iranian President, Bring More of the Same for Nuclear Program?
JNS.org - The win of the so-called "moderate" Hassan Rohani in Iran's presidential election has renewed hope in the West that the nuclear standoff with the...
White House Respects Iran Election, Congratulates Iranian People
The Weekly Standard - In a statement, press secretary Jay Carney says the U.S. respects the Iranian election and congratulates the Iranian people. "We have seen...
‘Rooting for Jalili’ in the Iranian Elections
Four years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a blog, "Rooting for Ahmadinejad," which explained why I wanted the worst of the candidates on...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Promotes anti-Semitic Conspiracy on Facebook Before Elections
JNS.org - On the eve of Iran's June 14 presidential elections, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on his...
Iranian Presidental Candidate Campaigns With New-Age Tactics in Old-School Country
As a presidential candidate in Iran, Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi believes the Islamic Republic should prioritize allaying its tension with Israel and the United States—not the...
Ahmadinejad: Iran-Egypt Relations Hinge on ‘Liberation of all of Palestine’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while in Egypt as the first head of state from the Islamic Republic to visit the country in more than three...
The Persian Spring is Simmering
At the start of this month, the Iranian currency—the rial—lost 17 percent of its value in one day. In the last year, its value plunged...
A Hitler Wannabe Visits New York
Autumn is here and with it the annual trip that makes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad positively giddy. The Iranian President gets to leave the country whose citizens...
What Must be Said: Former Nazi Gunter Grass and What Germany Owes Jews
I've never believed that children inherit the sins of their ancestors. In the American context, the history of slavery and segregation (de facto and de jure)...
