Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 28th, 2011:

The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin blogs that White House Middle East Adviser (and Middle East Quarterly board member) Dennis Ross’s appearance at the J Street conference today “was an odd assignment, given that J Street, in concert with the pro-Iranian-regime NIAC had conspired to try to prevent his appointment.” She observes, “The applause greeting him was slight, almost imperceptible.” (I attended Ross’s speech and remember Ross receiving a polite reception from the crowd.) She adds, “on Iran’s nuclear program, he gave the Obama-approved squishy line, saying we are determined to try to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.”

RealClearPolitics: Hawkish senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) on RealClearPolitics’s State of the Union blog. “The president should reverse the terrible decision he made in 2009 to not support the demonstrators in Tehran,” said McCain, in response to a question about the Obama administration holding off criticism of Libya out of concern that Americans there might be taken hostage. “Stand up for democracy in Iran and tell those people that we are with them,” he continued, “And that should be true not only throughout the Arab countries but as far as China and other parts of the world as well.”

Author: Eli Clifton

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14 thoughts on “Monday Iran Talking Points”

  1. demonstrators in Tehran'

    Amazing the old wind bag McCain is silent on the demonstrators in Baghdad. McCain is also very silent on the opposed in Gaza. Do the people of Gaza not have right to a life without the USA provided boots via IDF on their necks? Lieberman and McCain along with Graham make a major case for repeal of the 17th Amendment. Clearly direct election of senators lead to war mongers who get the backing of corrupt groups like the Likud via agents AIPAC.

  2. Obsessed with Iran? Can't stop bad mouthing or criticizing the government of Iran and the Iranian Revolution? This is mostly caused because you have no realistic solution to Iran's problems and issues NOW or prior to the Revolution. People such as these are out of touch and as long as they have money to eat, they will collaborate with the Zionists to keep their own selfish life style intact.

    Here in this country millions of people lost their jobs, homes and their families fail apart during the shameful Bush administration real state market scams, "bankruptcies" and bail outs. But no one has gone to jail for any of it!! Imagine if that had happened in Iran!! What these people and the Zionists would have said about the government of Iran and how much they would have complained about the people in charge in Iran?! We call this democratic and free market and just, but what we need is a revolution in this country. We should stop being arrogant with what is going on in Iran and look at ourselves. Do you think this would have gone unpunished in Iran, if it would have happened there in the first place?! I doubt that very much.

    So, come down from your high horses and stick a pin in yourselves and then stick a needle in to the others.

    Get real.

  3. Amazing the old wind bag McCain is silent on the demonstrators in Baghdad. McCain is also very silent on the opposed in Gaza. Do the people of Gaza not have right to a life without the USA provided boots via IDF on their necks? Lieberman and McCain along with Graham make a major case for repeal of the 17th Amendment. Clearly direct election of senators lead to war mongers who get the backing of corrupt groups like the Likud via agents AIPAC.

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