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... At a meeting with war veterans and families of soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq war, the president added: "Soon the feast for elimination of Zionism and destruction of the arrogant ones will be held."

Iranian President Ahmadinezhad is back to writing letters again. He has apparently written one to the "American Nation" which will be published today. I imagine we know what it will say. This is pure speculation on my part, but I'd strongly suspect that it will tell us Iran wants to be our friend, that we should be understanding of their quest for nuclear energy, and that we should consider learning more about Islam. I'd also suspect he'll call for us to send a message to our government calling for the US to leave Iraq, quit supporting Israel, and to lay...

PREPARED TESTIMONY OF DR. MICHAEL A. LEDEEN, RESIDENT SCHOLAR IN THE FREEDOM CHAIR AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE, TO THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS I am delighted and honored by your invitation to discuss American policy toward Iran, but before I do that, I hope I will be permitted a few personal words in appreciation of the welcome contribution that you, Chairman Hyde, have made to our country and to the tenor of life in Washington. Our national political debate has long been very fractious, and this moment is especially nasty. But you are a rare man, Mr. Chairman....

No surprises in this article, but in case you've heard the rumor that Iran and its president are backpedalling from their calls for the destruction of Israel and the US - well, that's just a rumor. From today's Iranian press: Iranian Daily Calls For World Without Zionism, 'Satanic' US Administration "World without Zionism and the great Satan" Keyhan International Tuesday, November 1, 2005 President Ahmadinezhad's extremely thoughtful and realistic remarks in preparing the mindset of not just the Iranians but of the Muslim ummah and the rest of the contemporary world for the fast approaching eventuality of the world without...

Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 25 June: Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message of congratulations to Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, who has won the presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian president's press service said today. "I am confident that now that you have been elected [president] as a result of the Iranian people expressing their will, continuity in the development of long-term multi-faceted partnership and cooperation between our states will be secured," the message says. "These relations have been developing vigorously of late. The volume of trade has for the first time...