A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin.

An article in the aggregator about General Petraeus being appointed to the head of US Central Command, not because of his ability to defend ‘lil Georgie but because of the paragraph that said “It also gives Vice President Dick Cheney greater freedom of action to exploit the option of an air attack against Iran during the administration’s final months.“

Voter turn out in Iran was 65%… Spirit of Man says that people refused to participate in a “sham election” - in Alberta the turn out was around 42%, are they saying the same thing?

— that’s why the sanctions will work.

Iran on Wednesday accused the United States of “clumsily” fabricating footage claiming to show Iranian speedboats harassing US ships, as tensions rose amid President George W. Bush’s crucial visit to the region.

– that this is really news to the Bush administration?

[updated Dec 5/07: now includes video]

What’s that !?!? You mean Iran isn’t 3.5 seconds away from the nuke they will try and destroy Israel with and by doing so bring about the coming of the 12^th Imam that will signal the final battle between good and evil and all that jazz?

On the dangers of opening your ideological yap without thinking.

Anyone who remembers the lead up to the American invasion of Iraq can’t help but to see similarities with current rhetoric surrounding Iran - but Iran has something Iraq didn’t have, powerful friends.

Iranian and Israeli news outlets are reporting that Russia has evacuated its entire staff of nuclear engineers and experts who were working at the Bushehr nuclear reactor, increasing speculation that the United States is preparing an imminent military attack on Iran.

It’s OK to criticize the US military leadership, or rank and file soldiers, if you’re Fox News or Rush Limbaugh…. otherwise shut the f#@k up ‘eh!

It’s as laughable as Hu Jintao complaining about how elections are run in North Korea, or Robert Mugabe making statements about civil rights abuses in Sudan.

Tehran has reached a decision to end all oil sales in dollars, according to statements by Iran’s central bank governor, Ehrabhim Sheibany, in Kuala Lumpur at the end of last month.

In which we thank God that Conservative bloggers are nowhere near the red button.

I caught an item on CNN this morning while getting ready for work about how Tony Blair was “outraged” over the idea that the British military folks held prisoner by Iran were being “paraded” on Iranian TV - does he not know that the BBC is available outside of Britain? [Updated: 12:42PM]