Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander, has recently been crowing about how the Islamic Republic of Iran had managed to disrupt traffic in the Persian Gulf, and now it is doing the same in the Red Sea. Full of braggadocio, he threatens that now the Islamic Republic will close […]
Mare Clausum, Or, The Diversions of Khamenei
Iran is becoming ever more unhinged. An IRGC commander has just been crowing about how Iran had managed to disrupt traffic in the Persian Gulf, and now it is doing the same in the Red Sea, and the Islamic Republic will, he threatens, close off the entire Mediterranean Sea, and keep it closed until Israel […]
Iran: U.S. must pay reparations to the Islamic Republic
The billions in sanctions relief weren’t enough. The Islamic Republic sees the weakness of the Obama Administration, and is pressing forward with more demands. “Iran: U.S. Must Pay Reparations to Islamic Republic,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 5, 2015: An Iranian military leader is demanding that the United States pay Tehran reparations for […]
Iran militia top dog: “Erasing Israel off the map” is “non-negotiable”
This is nothing new: Iranian leaders have said it many times before. Still, no one in the West seems to believe that they mean what they say. “Iran militia chief: Destroying Israel is ‘nonnegotiable,” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, March 31, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): The commander of the Basij militia of Iran’s […]