On Wednesday, Democrats and Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved harsher penalties against Iran, citing the regime’s plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador on American soil. This latest Iranian provocation signals an alarming escalation by a terrorist regime that has been complicit in killing U.S. soldiers through its proxies, the Taliban in…
Category: Luminaries
Tehran’s Anti-MeK Propaganda Machine
THE NATIONAL INTEREST If disinformation is defined as deliberate and covert efforts to plant false information to bias media reporting and intelligence collection, the UN’s Durban conferences constitute a prime example. Although organized around an “anti-racist” agenda, they focus on ways to delegitimize Israel and are an icon of intolerance. A participant in the Durban…
Opposition group could give Iran trouble
The foiled plot by agents of the Iranian regime to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States has officials in the Obama Administration furiously scratching their heads for an “ appropriate” response. All too often with Iranian provocations, U.S. policy options swing ineffectually between the uncreative (economic sanctions) to the unrealistic (military…
Governer Randell: Let’s honor our word, let’s protect Camp Ashraf
On October 22, 2011, Former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendel spoke in a rally outside White House, calling on US to protect Camp Ashraf residents and ensure their safe and secure re-settlement in third countries. Here are excerpts of his remarks: It’s a pleasure to be back with you, and it’s amazing that we are…
Mislabeling Iran’s enemies
NEWSDAY The death last week of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi means focus will soon shift back to the single most significant threat America is facing: Iran. Officials in the Obama administration are still scratching their heads for an appropriate response to the foiled plot by agents of the Iranian regime to assassinate the ambassador of…