A Comment

Because of the apparently short-winded standards at the HuffPost regarding comment length (and my own long-winded nature) I place below my full comment/response to HW’s recent post, “Engaging the Other Iran.”
Is American policy towards Iran aimed at regime change or behavior change? The Bush administration’s approach to Tehran has been hampered by an unwillingness or [...]

Man of the Year?

I am currently watching a really self-indulgent program on CNN in which they take cameras behind the scenes at TIME magazine while the editors deliberate who should be the TIME Man of the Year. It is kind of a sad personal admission. But there it is.
In any event, right now they are rolling through the [...]

Not Reading Lolita in Tehran

The Guardian reports today that dozens of literary masterpieces and international bestsellers have been banned in Iran. Perhaps this comes as no surprise. Iran is, after all, a repressive theocracy in which men are executed for the “crime” of homosexuality. But apparently this is indicative of a a broader cultural freeze being orchestrated from the [...]

A “Disturbing Element”

Disturbing indeed. The government of Iran appears to have executed another gay man in its ongoing campaign of persecution against gays and lesbians. The report from Iranian state news agency IRNA, translated and posted by the Persian Gay & Lesbian Organization, is worth reproducing here in full for its android-like Islamo-fascist tone:
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The Wise One…

…has spoken.

First as Tragedy, Second in Farsi

The UN Security Council’s deadline for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program came and went yesterday. I’m-A-Dinner-Jacket has essentially told the world to suck on his centrifuge.

Shuttered

As part of an apparently boarder crackdown, the Iranian regime has outlawed Nobel Prize winning dissident Shirin Ebadi’s Centre for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR). “Any activity by this centre is illegal, and violators of this decision will be prosecuted,” the Interior Ministry decrees.

Embargo?

My esteemed partner has eloquently lamented the depressing futility of the international response to Iran’s unabashed pursuit of nuclear weapons. But today there was an interesting little reference to Iran, almost an off-hand remark, that may shed considerable light on where the Bush administration is heading.
As a result of British Petroleum announcing its intent to [...]

Enrich This, Punk!

The almighty United Nations Security Council has now threatened the Iranian regime with (gasp, monocle-shatter) … more discussions if it does not suspend uranium enrichment by August 31st. Yes, nuke-hungry Iranian theocrats, cower before the awesome prospect of further bickering between the world’s leading powers as to whether to do anything about you. Doesn’t the [...]

We Have Been Noticed

We still won’t take sweeties from strangers, but we’ll gladly take comments from people we’ve never met before and plenty of them. Until recently, those commenting upon our humble blog have been people who know us in the flesh and weren’t too sickened by the experience to break off all contact with us. But we [...]