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Updated and bumped Originally posted June 24, 2007 @ 06:30am Today I am joining blogs Gateway Pundit, Ali Eteraz, and Iran Focus in reprinting the latest batch of Iranian repression photos being distributed by the regime’s state-run FARS News agency and ISNA. The innocent young men in the photos were beaten, humiliated, and arrested for [...]

I can’t get this woman’s cry for help out of my head: Jim Hoft and Robert Mayer both sent the video and have extensive posts on the ongoing spring crackdown by the Iranian mullahcracy. Fausta notes that it’s not just women being targeted. It’s men with Western hairstyles. Tourists. Foreign journalists. And even mannequins: Though [...]

The Brit hostage debacle continues to unfold. Yesterday: The American soldier’s code of conduct

Free, but humiliated, says the London Telegraph. And the episode isn’t over: No one would pretend that it is easy to deal with a nation that, since 1979, has shown itself prepared to treat norms of diplomatic behaviour with contempt. However, the steps that led to the seizure of the 15 on March 23 must [...]

Meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, newly-crowned champion of women’s rights. Jim Hoft has more feel-good photo-ops. Roger Kimball: “I am glad the hostages are to be released. Their emancipation is no gift, however, but merely the bitter codicil of this latest instance of Iran’s criminal insolence.”

Erick Stakelbeck reports. Related: Allah on Iran’s enrichment capacity and Bryan on Iran’s global reach and global power. Plus: The Independent recycles and repackages its blame-America spin.

The latest in the hostage stand-off: Iran may delay the release of the female British sailor if Britain takes the issue to the U.N. Security Council or freezes relations, the country’s top negotiator Ali Larijani said Thursday. The Foreign Office in London, meanwhile, said Britain is seeking condemnation of Iran at the United Nations.

Busted–at LGF, of course.

***update: attention, military folks and weapons experts…please help Michael Yon identify a weapon he photographed and which troops he has talked to haven’t been able to peg*** The Democrats may not want to hear about Iran, but our troops in Iraq have an earful to say about it. In both formal briefings and informal conversations [...]

The World Economic Forum in Davos is a sanctuary for America-bashers. John Kerry was the star there yesterday. In case you missed it, Allah’s got video and the lowdown. All I can say is: Thank God for the Swift Boat Veterans. *** Davos is getting feedback. LGF’ers are leading the charge. Matt at Blackfive notes [...]

Via Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty’s Iran Report: Iranian state security agents arrested 14 Christians in three cities on December 10, apparently to prevent them from celebrating Christmas and New Year, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reported on December 17, citing the group Human Rights Activists in Iran. The group issued a December 16 statement to report [...]

Like I said earlier today, information wants to be free. And freedom is something Iran is just not going to tolerate. Via The Guardian (hat tip: Greg Tinti): Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world’s most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to [...]

Nasrallah-non? (Source: Yahoo! News) Keep an eye on Beirut: A sea of flag-waving protesters demanded on Friday the resignation of Lebanon’s Western-backed government at a Hezbollah-led rally, but Prime Minister Fouad Siniora appeared unmoved by the pressure. Pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies had called on Lebanese from across the country to take part in the [...]

Americans are responding to Ahmadinejad’s letter calling for “dialogue.” Jason Smith: “Sorry, Mahmoud, but converting to Islam under the threat of beheading and carrying out a new Holocaust are not at the top of our to-do list.” Smash does a rewrite. Robert Spencer compares the calls of Muhammad and Mahmoud. Allah Pundit: “Long story short, [...]

A macho show of firepower: Iran test-fired dozens of missiles, including the Shahab-3 that can reach Israel, in military maneuvers Thursday that it said were aimed at putting a stop to the role of world powers in the Persian Gulf region. The show of strength came three days after U.S.-led warships finished naval exercises in [...]

Still traveling and catching up on news/mail. The three Christians in Indonesia I blogged about last week were executed yesterday by firing squad. Indonesian blogger Stan liveblogged the day’s events. BBC coverage here. Context here and here and here. My initial post prompted much caterwauling from tone-deaf moonbat bloggers who accused me of hypocrisy for [...]

Andrew McCarthy explains. His take on the new liberal cause celebre, Maher Arar, is here. The White House appears to backtrack. NRO on the tortured debate. And my take on the Republican Surrender Caucus. Mary Katherine Ham has the latest on all the legislative manuevering.

***see update*** First they came… More. 1220pm EDT update: Report may not be true. 255pm EDT: Allah investigates.

Vital Perspective has the full text of the embargoed report by IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, “Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” In the Current Overall Assessment section, ElBaradei writes that even after three years of intensive Agency verification, the IAEA still cannot conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear [...]

The pretext is a protest at the Danish embassy in Iran over the Muhammad cartoons: Meanwhile, the Iranian newspaper Hamshari is holding a Holocaust-mocking cartoon contest. Yes, thank you–another opportunity to show how the civilized world, unlike the contest organizers and participants, does not react by waving swords and placards endorsing decapitation and annihilation. And: [...]

Link Mecca has the latest on Iran’s plans for nuclear testing. Israel is watching. Winds of Change weighs in with the case for invading Iran. Rhetoric round-up at RWV. More at Regime Change Iran. And Ed Morrissey takes on the Hillary-parroting NYTimes. (See also Hillary’s New Costume.)

Via Reuters: The governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency will hold an emergency meeting on Iran’s nuclear work on Feb. 2 at the request of European Union powers, an IAEA spokesman said on Wednesday. France, Britain, Germany and the United States are expected to push at the session to have Tehran referred to [...]

We are on the brink. Via AP: Iran’s president on Saturday denounced Western nations threatening to refer his country to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclear program, saying the international community has no legal basis for restricting Tehran’s right to research. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran’s president said his country has not [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again: The White House assailed as “outrageous” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments dismissing the Holocaust as a myth and saying Israel should be cut from the Middle East. “I think all responsible leaders in the international community recognize how outrageous such comments are,” spokesman Scott McClellan said of [...]

The Committee to Protect Bloggers has the story.

Read important posts at Willisms (Will Franklin almost gets arrested in Houston covering Iranian polls) and Publius Pundit (Robert Mayer reports on sham U.S. polls). *** More: President Bush’s response. Sean Penn’s adventures: The Actor and the Mullahs. Michael Ledeen: When is an election not at election? Full coverate at Regime Change Iran.

Tomorrow is “Free Mojtaba and Arash Day“–an effort by the Committee to Protect Bloggers to turn up blog pressure on Iran to release two bloggers jailed for expressing their opinions on the Internet. Contact info and e-mail addresses for Iranian government officials here. *** Previous coverage: Bloggers behind bars

Not that Seymour Hersh and his Kool-Aid drinkers in the “reality-based community” will accept it, but here’s the Pentagon’s statement on his Iran piece. An excerpt: Mr. Hersh’s source(s) feed him with rumor, innuendo, and assertions about meetings that never happened, programs that do not exist, and statements by officials that were never made. A [...]