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The Iraq Study Group, prominent U.S. Senators and realist diplomats all want America to hold formal talks with the government of Iran. They think Tehran might help the United States disengage from Iraq and the general Middle East mess with dignity. That would be a grave error for a variety of reasons - the most important being that Iran is far shakier than we are. The world of publicity-hungry Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not expanding, but shrinking. Despite his supposedly populist credentials, his support at home and abroad will only further weaken as long as the United States continues...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s message to our president ought to give all the leaders of our country as well as the rest of us pause. He is absolutely right to suggest that President Bush, and the rest of our nation, “do some soul-searching and atone for past U.S. transgressions.” While many proclaim that we are a “Christian nation,” we are not. We are not even a moral nation. If we were, our economic policies, both domestic and foreign, would reflect a deep, abiding care and compassion for our brothers and sisters around the globe. We would care for the Earth....

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, listens to Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, during a gathering of commanders of Basij, a paramilitary volunteers group affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 7, 2006. The Iranian parliament threatened in a letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Sunday to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the United States continued pressuring Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment. (AP Photo)

President Ahmadinejad, unimpressed with harsh international criticism on his loaded comments, says: 'Why do the Palestinian people suffer from the crimes of the occupying Zionist occupier? They are killing the Palestinians in their homes 60 years after the war as revenge’ International criticism has become more intense against comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about the Holocaust, but the Iranian leader is not giving up. In a speech in northwest in Iran, he accused Israel of taking revenge against Palestinians in the territories following the Holocaust. "In World War Two more than 60 million people were killed and tens of...

Iran's defense minister says if Israel attacks Muslim republic, Iran and its allies can retaliate, 'put Israel in coma' similar to that of PM Sharon. Iran a lunatic regime, Israel's ambassador to U.N. says earlier Wednesday Iran threatens again: Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said Wednesday that the country and its allies could put Israel "in an eternal coma," like that of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, if Israel attempts to attack the Muslim republic. "Israel does not have the courage to attack Iran, and if it commits such a big mistake, the defenders of Islamic Iran will put Israel...