...figure” in Iranian efforts to scuttle the status-of-forces agreement that is under fierce negotiation between Baghdad and Washington. “He is seen more and more by the U.S. as a foreign agent, an Iranian agent,” Roston told me by telephone from Mexico, where he is vacationing. What Chalabi says is “equated” with the Iranian position on the status-of-forces agreement, Roston said, which it opposes...

Watch this is if you're interested in Iranian politics and Iran's relationship with the west. I ask a question at the 30 minute mark. "Akbar Ganji, called by some "Iran's most famous dissident," was a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But, troubled by the regime's repressive nature, he became an investigative journalist in the 1990s, writing for Iran's pro-democracy newspapers...

...pas. Aviez-vous honte de le porter? Pas du tout. Mais dans la mesure où ma mère est une bonne Suissesse, que j'ai grandi en Suisse, que je ne sais pas le persan et que je ne suis jamais allé en Iran, j'ai ressenti le besoin d'une orthographe plus francophone de mon nom.­ Avez-vous hésité à changer? Epris de littérature et un peu poète, je me demandais si je n'allais pas m'appeler Darius Liber...

Русскому иранцы с непривычки кажутся людьми шумными и эмоциональными. И в самом деле, выражать эмоции тут не стесняются, не стесняются громко рыдать, жаловаться на болезнь или жизнь свою несчастную и т...поднимемся на Великую китайскую стену и Эйфелеву башня, как побываем в Мекке, поедем в африканское сафари, посмотрим на коралловые рифы. Я пока еще могу верить в это. Но сокут... сокут просто убивает..

... . We talked about Iraq, and he and I disagree on this.” They also discussed McCain’s argument that Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Presidential nominee, was wrong to pursue direct engagement with Iranian leaders. “And I said, ‘I don’t think he is. It’s what I’ve been saying, actually longer than Obama.’ I remember telling John—I said, ‘John, if you don’t engage Iran, where do you think this is...

Some jolly news for a gloomy Sunday* - Iran's nuclear-dick-waving, anti-Semitic scumbag of a President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is reportedly rather unwell . Let's all hope he takes a turn for the worse real soon! * Looking out of the window, I'm not currently seeing the benefits of that hour we saved.

Ибо змий проникает в честную мусульманскую страну, вскрываются целые склады и лавочки с завезенным из-за рубежа алкоголем. Да и гады-иностранцы постоянно пытаются провести в страну запретный плод... контейнера... что не имею права навязывать своих взглядов другим и ограничивать чужую свободу. Если человек совершеннолетний и дееспособный, он имеет полное право самостоятельно решать, чем и как ему травиться :

....not so fast there, kids. Iran economy facing 'perfect storm' For the past three years, he has been the lucky president. Everything seems to have fallen the right way for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. There was international disarray over his country's nuclear programme; Israel's ill-thought-out attack on Lebanon in 2006 that spurred support for Hezbollah and the president; and the perhaps fortuitous...

... further causing a drop in demand. Second, OPEC only controls 40% of the oil market these days, so will it have any impact other than on traders? Third, and more enjoyable, who's going to ask Iran the big question? Its leaders claimed the financial crisis is Allah's punishment of the West. Of course, they never blamed the big Tehran quakes on Allah punishing Iran's leaders, but now we have...

...21,000 pounds of explosives caused the largest single-day loss of life for the Corps since Iwo Jima in 1945. It marked the start of a series of carefully coordinated attacks - initiated largely by Iran - that have plagued Americans in that region ever since. And the threat continues today. The recent revelations that Tehran is providing sophisticated weaponry that is killing US Marines and soldiers...