Iran: The Backlash Begins
Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran.
Iran: The Backlash Begins.
Iran: The Backlash Begins.
- Robert Tait, The Sunday Herald reported that Ahmadinejad has started to feel the unmistakable chill of public disaffection.
- ABC News reported that the five Iranians detained in Iraq Thursday during a raid in Irbil belong to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and may have helped insurgents attack American troops.
- CBS News reported that Condoleezza Rice said that the recent U.S. raids that President Bush approved against Iranian targets in Iraq are part of broad efforts to confront Tehran 's aggression.
- The Los Angeles Times reported that the Bush administration sought to assure lawmakers and the public Friday that despite harsh new rhetoric, it did not intend to go to war with Iran, even as U.S. sources charged that Iranians captured in Irbil, Iraq, were suspected members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
- Stratfor reported that the world has changed since November 2006, when the Iranians reasonably felt they were on the verge of the strategic triumph of dominating Iraq.
- Michael Rosen, TCS Daily argued that one way to deal with Ahmadinejad is to try him and his ilk on charges of inciting genocide.
- R. James Woolsey testified before the House Committee for Foreign Affairs on Iran.
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center recently published a document “36 questions about the holocaust.” Given Ahmadinejad's campaign to deny the holocaust this may be a timely resource. They have also published a version in Persian.
Labels: Daily Briefing on Iran, GWOT
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