Disturbing news out of Iran this week as the regime-backed newspaper daily Kayhan says Carla Bruni, first lady of France, deserves to die for her views.
Taking a stand for the rights of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two who was sentenced by an Iranian court to death …
Today former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told FOX News that Israel has until the weekend to launch a military strike on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant - or else the humanitarian risk of an attack becomes too great.
Not sure what to make of this troubling, and …
Last Monday the European Union passed its toughest set of sanctions yet against the Iranian regime. My understanding is that finally, after many years of talk and attempts to “engage” with Iranian leadership, European leaders are finally recognizing that a brutal regime cannot be appeased with such talk - and that if anything, engagement …
Four thousand delegates from across the country have just wrapped up the annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) conference in Washington D.C.
No doubt some Jewish-Americans and others who generally support Israel would not gravitate towards a conference of Evangelical Christians. Valid concerns about separation of church and state and …
Interesting piece in this week’s Los Angeles Times about Germany’s trade relationship with Iran.
According to this article, Germany’s industrialists and politicians “regularly advocate business with the Islamic Republic. Germany sold $4.5 billion worth of goods to Iran last year.”
Following World War II, the allies allowed many German businesses, including …
Looks like the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. ally in Gulf War I and in Operation Iraqi Freedom, is joining the U.S. and allies in imposing sanctions on Iran. Apparently the small Gulf nation’s ruler, Khalifa Zayed Al Nahyan, is promising to shut down businesses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai that are funneling money …
Jonathan Tobin aptly characterizes, in this piece, the increasingly alarming situation currently facing Israel. He does a good job of outlining the basic reality and President Obama’s fallacious assumptions about it, as well as the President’s attempt to blur the realities (Israel’s normal construction in Jerusalem has already been characterized as an act of …
Last Sunday in his speech on Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the point that he believes the lessons of the Holocaust are three: “fortify your strength, teach good deeds and fight evil.”
His speech should be read in its entirety. But one of the elements …
Looks like even the U.S. State Department is saying that clearly, Iran’s nuclear enrichment effort is weapons related. At a recent event in Tehran, Ahmadinejad showcased what he said was a new generation of domestically-built centrifuges and declared Iran’s nuclear path is “irreversible.”
Former Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi told me last fall that he believed …
Germany Must Change for EU Sanctions on Iran to Have Bite
from the Los Angeles Times
by HEATHER ROBINSON
As EU foreign ministers meet, Iran’s second-largest trading partner, Germany, has a responsibility — and leverage. It should lead, as an issue of conscience, in making sure new sanctions have teeth.
Foreign ministers of European Union member states are meeting in Brussels on Monday …