
Ahmad Khatami: Bush recently said, in one of his stupid and foolish statements, 'We are considering all options vis-a-vis Iran.' Thus, he hinted that a military option was possible. He should know that the Iranian people is also considering all options vis-a-vis America, including a strong punch in America's teeth."

This morning, against my better judgment, I decided to take a look at David Ignatius's Washington Post column, "For Iran's Spies, A Putsch." It was the fleetingest of impulses: that perhaps something is going on in iran which I should know something about, and it should be possible to get some idea even from a pile of standard-issue Village hack ..

Ron Paul on iran and the energy crisis. He argues that speculation about a US or Israeli strike on iran is driving some of the increase in oil prices. The OPEC president should know a thing or two about what drives oil prices and he agrees.

"The Iranian nation will never abandon its obvious right to peaceful nuclear technology," state radio quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying, as time ran out for iran to stop enriching uranium. "(The West) should know the Iranian nation will not yield to pressure and not accept any violation of its rights,"

Robert Gates might be better a better US Defense Secretary than Donald Rumsfeld, but he was involved into the Iran-Contra Scandal so you should know a few facts about him. This article from 1991 might be old, but is interesting again due to the nomination by President Bush.

"...a great deal of the force propelling us into confrontation is fueled by ignorance and dehumanization. Israel is demonized as "Little Satan," while Iranians are portrayed as irrational Muslim extremists. "

So the Senate caved into Lieberman's wish to attack iran at will with a bipartisan vote. Oh, I know, it's non-binding and not an actual declaration of war, and they amended some of the language. But you should know how these things go by now. This has given Bush the political justification, however flimsy, to execute 'Operation...

Even a casual consumer of news should know that iran is a theocracy that is ruled, not by elected officials like Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but by an unelected council of mullahs, headed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. John McCain, a purported expert on foreign policy, did not know this.

>..Everyone concerned with Iran's martyrology should know these 1980 words of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Marx and Lenin of the cult: "We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah; For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world."..>

This is a good idea. Anyway, Americans should know that most of the Iranian people are pro-American, unlike what the White House wants everyone to believe.
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