Bloodthirsty Liberal

Mahmoud, meet the MPR-500:

Israel last week unveiled an improved precision, bunker-burrowing weapon, the latest in a series of operational upgrades aimed at honing what one official here labeled “a very credible military option” against the Iranian nuclear threat.

Built by state-owned Israel Military Industries (IMI), the 500-pound MPR-500 is an electro-optical or laser-guided projectile that can penetrate double-reinforced concrete walls or floors without breaking apart. It is designed as an upgrade to the U.S. Mk82, thousands of which are in Israel Air Force stocks, and can use Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits or Paveway for guidance.

In an operational test video released March 6, the MPR-500 is seen penetrating four reinforced concrete walls, with fragmentation from the explosion limited to a radius of less than three meters.

“The lethality, precision … and relatively low weight enables its use against multiple targets in a single pass; an element that increases the operational effectiveness of attack,” according to IMI.

The MPR-500 bridges an operational gap between the 250-pound U.S. GBU-39 small-diameter bomb — 1,000 of which were approved for sale to Israel — and the 5,000-pound GBU-28.

Did someone say GBU-28?

So, who would win a steel-cage death match between the Twelfth Imam and the Supreme Leader?

Do you really have to ask?

With an initial turnout of 65 percent in Iran’s parliamentary election on Friday the political future of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks bleak.

Iran’s ultra-conservative Islamic clerical leadership is eager to restore the damage to its legitimacy, caused by the violent crackdown on dissent and claims of vote-rigging after Ahmadinejad’s re-election in 2009.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who endorsed the 2009 result, has since turned sharply against Ahmadinejad.

Khameini, 72, and Ahmadinejad locked horns early last year in a contest of wills that observers say Iran’s Supreme Leader, who has since called Ahmadinejad a religious ‘deviant,’ was destined to win.

Early results from Friday’s vote indicated the bombastic and divisive Ahmadinejad’s supporters were losing ground in the 290-seat parliament.

His sister, Parvin Ahmadinejad, failed to win a seat in their hometown of Garmsar, the semi-official Mehr news agency said.

He has a sister? I bet she’s taller than him too. And better looking.

Well, taller still has a shot.

Anyhow, I never thought I’d agree with Ayatollah Khamenei on anything, but I’d say Ahmadinejad is a deviant too.

They don’t have wood in the desert, so I guess this can be described as being called to the sand shed:

Iran’s parliament on Tuesday decided to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation’s economy.

The summons was the first of its kind for an Iranian president since 1979. It follows a petition by a group of lawmakers for a review of policy decisions by Ahmadinejad, who has come under increasing attacks in recent months from the same hard-liners who brought him to power.

It is also part of a power struggle on the Iranian political scene ahead of March 2 parliamentary elections and the 2013 presidential vote.

Mohammad Reza Bahnoar, the parliament deputy speaker, said lawmakers have demanded that Ahmadinejad answer a slew of questions on the economy, including purportedly bypassing a special budget for the Tehran subway and public transportation.

He is also to be queried about foreign and domestic policy decisions.

“There is a requirement for the president to answer questions in an open session of the parliament,” said Bahnoar, whose parliament speech was broadcast live on Iranian state radio.

A letter containing the summons is to be sent to Ahmadinejad in next two days, according to the parliament statement. Under Iranian law, he has up to appear in parliament after one month. It’s unclear what would happen if Ahmadinejad fails to appear before parliament.

Ahmadinejad will also be asked why he “hesitated for 11 days” to act on a demand Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to reinstate intelligence minister, Heidar Moslehi, who was sacked by Ahmadinejad in 2011, and to elaborate on his snap dismissal of former foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, during a trip to Africa.

The power struggle has pitted Ahmadinejad against Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters in Iran. Ahmadinejad and his policies have been the target of criticism by lawmakers, clerics as well as state-run media.

If Ahmadinejad should hang from the highest gibbet, as is the Persian wont, would it be improper for Israelis to hand out candy, as is the Arab wont?

Wow.

In an historic hearing in the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels said he planned to issue a ruling in the coming days declaring that Iran shares in the responsibility for the 9/11 terror attacks.

“The extensive record submitted to this court, including fact witnesses and expert testimony, is satisfactory to this court,” Judge Daniels said. The court “accepts as true” the various allegations of the plaintiffs and their experts, he declared, and “will issue an order” in the coming days that Iran bears legal responsibility for providing “material support” to the 9/11 plotters and hijackers.

Family members of 9/11 victims who attended the open-court hearing broke into tears. They had nervously sat through a four-hour presentation by attorneys Thomas E. Mellon, Jr., and Timothy B. Fleming, consisting of evidence backing up their claims that Iran had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and actively assisted the hijackers in planning, preparing, and executing their plan.

“My husband’s name is on that lawsuit,” said Fiona Havlish, the lead plaintiff in the case against Iran. Her spouse, Donald G. Havlish, Jr, perished on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center’s South Tower. “This is about my husband, all our husbands, our loved ones, our sons, our daughters.”
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In presenting evidence gathered by the attorneys and their outside investigator, Timothy Fleming revealed tantalizing details of still-sealed videotaped depositions provided by three defectors from Iranian intelligence organizations.

One of those defectors was “physically present” when al-Qaida’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, came to Iran in January 2001 for four days of intense closed-door meetings with the top leadership in Iran to discuss the impending attacks.
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The most dramatic moment of the hearing came when Fleming unveiled the identity of a third defector and described in detail the information he had provided.

The defector, Abdolghassem Mesbahi, had been a confidant of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic’s founder, and headed up European operations for the new regime’s fledging intelligence service in the early 1980s.

Then, Mesbahi actively took part in developing a set of terrorist contingency plans, called “Shaitan der atash” — meaning “Satan in the Flames,” or “Satan on Fire” — to be used against the United States.

Had you heard of this lawsuit? This is news to me. This also blows a hole in the Leftist propaganda that Iran and various Arab groups cannot work together because of religious differences, Arab-Persian differences, etc. Are you listening, NPR?

- Aggie

Hop on the M104 bus (if memory serves) and take it to its southern terminus:

NOW IS THE TIME TO STAND UP FOR ISRAEL!

Next Tuesday, September 20th will be a dramatic day. The Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations to endorse its unilateral declaration of statehood. The UN will continue to demonize and delegitimize Israel, and prepare to welcome Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to address the General Assembly.

Join Rabbi Avi Weiss, other rabbis and congregants on September 20th at 10 a.m. at 40th Street & First Avenue, just south of the UN. Those who wish will step off the sidewalk and peacefully block the traffic going to the UN. We will demand that there can be no anti-Israel “business as usual” at the UN.

In the days before Rosh Hashana, when we examine our own deeds, let us say that we stood up for Israel when it counted most!

We all remember what happened last time Ahmadinejad came to New York, don’t we?

In this insane, depraved world we live in, four years have passed, yet we are back where we were before. Ahamdinejad will speak at the UN and dine at Columbia (last I heard, anyway), and Israel will be vilified at the UN. All that has changed is that more Iranians have died at the hands of the Puny Persian, and Iran stands at the threshold of making an atomic bomb.

Yes, any time is the time to stand up for Israel, but I fear we’re at least four years too late. (More, of course.)

And you were told. You were told many, many times. You can’t say you didn’t know.

Everybody’s gettin’ all millennially

Increasing tensions between Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intensified when hardline clerics exerted pressure on Ahmadinejad to obey the supreme leader as the ultimate authority. Those tensions were exacerbated with the arrest of over 25 of Ahmadinejad’s associates and loyalists, along with a high-level member of his inner circle. Supporters of the supreme leader are referring to Ahmadinejad’s group as “The Deviant Movement.”

This “group” has announced that within the upcoming weeks a monumental event will turn the tide to their advantage.

Based on a report from Iran’s Ayandeh, one of the officials within “The Deviant Movement” has informed his confidants that certain sources close to the “Mahdi’s Emergence Movement” have stated that an important event will soon change the course of operations to Ahmadinejad’s favor. According to interpretations offered by Ahmadinejad’s team, a high-ranking member of the Islamic Republic will meet with a climactic incident. This in turn will build up to the announcement of the “covert emergence” of the Twelfth Imam (or Mahdi) in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

Hardliners critical of Ahmadinejad maintain that his team believes a covert emergence will commence on the 14th of Khordaad (June 5) in Medina, setting the stage for the announcement of the actual emergence in the next few years.

Certain accounts have chronicled that prior to the official emergence of the Mahdi, he will appear covertly in Medina, and during a period of one to three years he will lay the foundations for the actual announcement of his appearance.

The Deviant Movement states that: “At the time of the covert emergence, his regent (i.e., the supreme leader) will be deposed from his position.”

Previously, Ali Mottahari — a pro-supreme leader member of the Islamic Parliament — criticized Ahmadinejad:

Ahmadinejad believes that the covert emergence has, in fact, occurred. Therefore, he acts like he no longer needs the supreme leader and that he can disobey him, as he is taking his orders directly from the Mahdi himself.

I wish someone would call us “The Deviant Movement”. Maybe I ought to start another blog of that name.

Anyhow, that upstart little pipsqueak is going to p*ss off one too many mullahs and get his ears boxed. And 12 Imams imamming and 11 pipers piping aren’t going to save him.

Now, this is how you treat a mass-murdering terrorist mastermind:

Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in US custody for “sometime” before he was killed by the American military, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.

“I have exact information that bin Laden was held by the American military for sometime… until the day they killed him he was a prisoner held by them,” the hardline president said in a live interview on Iranian state television.

“Please pay attention. This is important. He was held by them for sometime. They made him sick and while he was sick they killed him,” Ahmadinejad added.

How I wish, Mahmoud! How I wish.

But I think it is more likely that we greased him more or less along the lines reported (probably less). I think Osama would have sung like a Yellow Warbler or a Tufted Titmouse if we had merely waved a garden watering can in front of his face.

But the idea that we held him, made him sick, then killed him, is practically pornographic. Dare to dream.

I just have to laugh:

Images published Saturday by Iranian media outlets show a Star of David on the roof of the main national airline’s building at the Tehran airport.

The satellite image was taken from the Google Earth service. According to the Iranian report, the Iran Air building was “built by Israeli engineers,” who operated in the countries before the 1979 Islamic Revolution during the days of Shaa Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

“It’s interesting that even 32 years after the victory of the revolution, this Zionist star symbol has yet to be removed from this building,” a local news website wrote.

I wonder how Morey Amsterdinejad feels every time he flies in and out of an Iranian airport designed and built by Jews? And I wonder if said Jews could implant another Stuxnet virus into the air traffic control system at Tehran International?

Oh, and the airport is not the first and only place pernicious Jewish symbols can be found:

This is not the first time a symbol associated with Judaism sparks a media row in Iran. In August, a Star of David was spotted on one of the buildings in a main square in Tehran, which were accompanied by claims that “the Zionist regime is conquering the Revolution Square.”

You think that’s something, I heard there was a crop circle in Iran in the shape and image of Henny Youngman.

Morey Amsterdinejad refuses to believe in the Holocaust, refuses to believe in the events of 9/11—yet insists we believe in the Hidden Imam:

In recent days, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made statements at several venues. On November 23, 2010, in a speech in the northwestern Iranian city of Zanjan, Ahmadinejad called on “the arrogance and the great powers” to surrender to the Hidden Imam – the Shi’ite messiah whose appearance he repeatedly claims is imminent.

Prior to that, on November 18, while in Baku, Azerbaijan for the third meeting of the leaders of Caspian littoral states, he gave an interview to Iran’s Sahar TV discussing the negotiations with the 5+1, Iran’s demand for a committee to investigate the 9/11 events, “Islamophobia” as “humanophobia,” how the world will treat the Jews, and other issues.

Sight unseen? We don’t even get to take him for a spin? I don’t know…

I did a Google image search of Hidden Imam, expecting to get this:

And wouldn’t you know, I actually found this!

As the Monkees sang:

Then I saw her face
I’m a believer
Not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I’m a believer

Someone needs a hug:

Iran has failed to gain a foothold on the board of the new United Nations super agency for women’s issues.

The organization, which will deal with global gender equality, voted to establish its 41-member Board of Trustees on Wednesday, which included a 10-member Asian panel.

Iran was in the running as a leader in the Asian group, until the United States teamed with Australia and Canada to block the effort. They were joined by Iranian 2003 Nobel laureate and activist Shirin Ebadi, who expressed her opposition to Iran’s candidacy earlier in the week.

But take heart Islamic misogynists! You have representation!

Six seats on the board were set aside for major donors, who included Saudi Arabia, whose human rights and gender equality record was euphemistically termed “less than stellar” by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice.

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And while the U.S. firmly opposed Iran’s participation on the board of U.N. Women, it filed no such complaint against Saudi Arabia during the same vote. In Saudi Arabia, women cannot drive, and must receive permission from a male guardian even to work, let alone travel, study and/or marry. A woman who goes out in public in Saudi Arabia must be covered completely and accompanied by a male – even if that male is a minor – in order to avoid being harassed or viewed with disdain.

Must be an anti-Persian thing. I hate bigotry.

In Iran, chicks dig graves. Their own!

Iran, where a woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning, is likely to become a member of the board of the new U.N. agency to promote equality for women, prompting outrage from the U.S. and human rights groups.

Some rights groups are also upset that Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive and are barred from many facilities used by men, is also vying to join the governing body of UN Women.

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Philippe Bolopion, U.N. advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, said “it’s puzzling that Iran would have the nerve to be a candidate for the board of UN Women, and even more puzzling if the Asia group lets Iran get away with it.”

“Having on top of it Saudi Arabia, a country with a track record on women’s rights as horrendous as Iran’s, would add insult to injury,” he said.

Puzzling? The same group that finds Israel guilty of the greatest crimes against humanity since Idi Amin tuned vegetarian has the nerve to term Iran’s participation as “puzzling”?

Yeah, and the Holocaust was “disappointing”.

Iran is a shoo-in for the position. And Ahmadinejad is loving every minute of it.

I crack myself up.

Hey Israel, I think he’s warming up to you:

Iran’s president called Israel a “savage dog unleashed in the region” Sunday, and said US leaders should be “buried” in response to threats of military attack over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is known for brash rhetoric in addressing the West, but in a speech Sunday he used a deeply offensive insult in calling for an undertaker to bury US leaders.

“They have an incomprehensible nerve threatening us and saying all options are on the table. Damn you, you have dragged the region into the mud,” he said of the US, and added that if Western countries did not pull out of the Middle East “the nations of the region will throw you out.”

Even in the Islamic world, “savage dog” has to be an upgrade over “filthy microbe”. It won’t be long before Morey Ahmadamsterdam starts souning like Carnac the Magnificent:

May the swami of Bagdad squat on your fez.

And last time a hostile foreign leader threatened to bury us, it was Nikita Krushchev, and look how that turned out: