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Iran Busted

Posted by mario piperni On September - 25 - 2009

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After years of denying they were preparing to build nuclear weapons, comes this:

President Obama and leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years.

President Nicholas Sarkozy of France, appearing beside Mr. Obama, said that Iran had deadline of two months to comply with international demands or face increased sanctions.

“The level of deception by the Iranian government, and the scale of what we believe is the breach of international commitments, will shock and anger the entire international community,” Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain said, standing on the other side of Mr. Obama. “The international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand.”

American officials said that they had been tracking the covert project for years, but that Mr. Obama decided to make public the American findings after Iran discovered, in recent weeks, that Western intelligence agencies had breached the secrecy surrounding the project.

There’s no way for Iran to lie themselves out of this one, though of course they’ll try. Slowly but surely, President Obama’s foreign policy approach is paying dividends. By scrapping the missile defense plan in Eastern Europe which among other things, satisfied Russia, he’s weakened one of Iran’s few remaining allies’ ability to defend this rogue nation.

With this latest development combined with Iranians taking to the streets as part of the Green Revolution and Obama’s overture towards the Islamic world, Iran is finding itself further isolated from the world community.

The plot thickens.

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Ahmadinejad Won’t Be Celebrating July 4

Posted by mario piperni On June - 24 - 2009

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No corn dogs for Iranian diplomats on July 4.

The Obama administration has rescinded an offer for Iranian envoys to attend U.S. embassy Fourth of July parties as the violent crackdown in Tehran continues.

Hillary speaks…

“Unfortunately, circumstances have changed and participation by Iranian diplomats would not be appropriate in light of the unjust actions that the president and I have condemned,” she said in her message sent overseas. “For invitations which have been extended, posts should make clear that Iranian participation is no longer appropriate in the current circumstances. For invitations which have not been extended, no further action is needed.”

Might this be the game breaker for the Iranian government?  Will Ahmadinejad now admit he rigged the election?  I think so.

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The Iran/Twitter Revolution

Posted by mario piperni On June - 23 - 2009

Twitter has helped to empower a nation yearning for freedom and justice.

Iran, in censoring and condemning Western nations and media outlets from covering the post-election unrest, have been unable to reign in the power of social networking giants like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.  The end result is that citizen-journalists have had an unprecedented impact in bringing a fast moving story to the world.   Unable to gather news in a conventional form, new outlets like CNN are using Twitter ‘tweets’ and cellphone videos to tell the story of the Iranian revolution.  The media ban by the Iranian government has backfired and the world press has become the PR agent for the protesters.

And with that segue…

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Another Republican Who Gets It

Posted by mario piperni On June - 22 - 2009

Following up on my last post, here’s Joe Scarborough on Republican criticism of Obama over Iran…

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There’s hope for this party yet.  Not much, but some.

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