The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A college mathematics student has become an unlikely hero to many Iranians after he insulted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to his face.
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The exchange was recorded and was first published on Khamenei's website. Lots of talk about this story but for now, it's more a mystery that will be answered later. The Guardian : He may be the bravest student in Iran or an unwitting stooge of the Islamic regime – or both. Either way, Mahmoud Vahidnia has gained instant fame after breaking a taboo by criticising the supreme leader, Ayatollah...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met in Tehran with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa Aal-Thani; during the meeting, Khamenei said that the enemy was trying to prevent unity among the countries of the ... November 6, 2009, 1:10 pm
The Daily What (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Lunch Links: Revenge Of The Nerds: Iranian math whiz unexpectedly excoriates supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during student Q&A . The way to a terrorist’s heart is through his stomach . Prisoners rush to save guard from strangulation at the hands of an inmate . Old and Busted: School bus. New Hotness: School plane . 950th time’s the charm for South Korean woman attempting to...
On Deadline (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A soft-spoken college math student has become something of a national hero in Iran among the opposition by daring to criticize Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- the country's most powerful man -- to his face.
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country’s most powerful man to his face. Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge — unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a crime punishable [...]
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
P resident Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor. He announced the closing of Guantanamo in his first week on the job (though, ten months on, it remains open) to advertise the new administration’s disdain for George Bush’s war-fighting tactics. And at every opportunity since, he has stressed that his policies -- on taxes, on the Middle East,...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Ahmadinejad appoints leading Holocaust denier as new official in charge of the press By Tom Gross November 04, 2009 http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDFjNmQxZTNmMDlhZDRjMDM1ZTE2MGYwMGNmZDQwZjA= Not only did Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today say that negotiating with the United States would be a “naive and perverted” thing to do (Khamenei revealed President...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yesterday marked the 30th anniver sary of the capture by Khomeinist "stu dents" of the US Embassy in Tehran, triggering the 444-day hostage crisis. The Iranian public seized the chance to reject the regime -- even as the surviving hostage-takers have largely come to regret their actions. For months, Iran's state-controlled media had tried to build up the day as a "turning point"...
Warning Signs (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Alan Caruba On November 4, 1979, some Iranian “students” took 53 American diplomats hostage. This iconic act broke every international law ever set to page or parchment. As this is written thirty years later, the Iranians are holding three American tourists who wandered across a border between Iraq and allegedly into Iran’s Kurdistan province. They were seized in August. Taking...
Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Mahmoud Vahidnia is my newest hero, based on this startling account of his intense public challenges to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His brave exchange with Khamenei is a crime punishable by prison in Iran. Related posts: On Truth and Power The President’s Abuse of Power redux That strange relationship between power and truth
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
On the day of the 30th anniversary of the violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Obama, ignoring the massive government-sponsored "death to America" demonstration in Tehran, once again tried to suck up to the Iranian theocracy : "This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust and confrontation," Obama said in his statement. "I...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The UN fails yet again in enforcing any resolution that does not involve punishing Israel. The destruction of Israel is the mission of the UN. Ironic that the UN was created in the wake of the horror and unimaginable barbarity of crimes against humanity, and here we are 60 odd years later and the very people whose annihilation gave the UN life are now the very same people the UN seeks to annihilate....
Cadillac Tight (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Well, I guess this would qualify as a “no” on offers to “engage”, eh? Iran’s supreme leader, spurning what he described as several personal overtures from President Obama, warned Tuesday that negotiating with the United States would be “naive and perverted” and that Iranian politicians should not be “deceived” into starting such talks. Ayatollah...
Freedom's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Here is video of Iranian protesters in Tehran, Iran chanting in Farsi "Obama, Obama, you are either with them or with us." They were protesting in defiance of security forces warning about "illegal gatherings". The video also appears to show some demonstrators walking over a poster of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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