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"Giving Iran a Seat on U.N. Rights Council Would Legitimize Its Brutality and Encourage Other Violators, Iranian Says"

March 10, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"An Iranian whose fiancée’s death by gunfire became a symbol of opposition to the regime during post-election protests last year made an impassioned appeal Tuesday for Tehran to be denied a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council in elections this spring."

"Crisis in Turkey"

March 2, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country will continue its slide toward Islamism or revert to its traditional secularism. The denouement has major implications for Muslims everywhere."

"Protests are showing cracks in Kremlin policy"

February 19, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"In the past month, . . . calls for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to resign were heard at rallies in different parts of Russia. These events -- one organized in late January in Kaliningrad, on Russia's western border; the other last week in the Siberian city of Irkutsk -- were not related and are not likely to evolve into a national political movement. Read more »

"Islamic and Leftist Allies Defend Iran’s Human Rights Record at U.N. Gathering"

February 16, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"For Iran’s allies . . . – many of them countries whose own human rights records draw criticism – Iran’s UPR was an opportunity to shield Tehran and scold the West."

"Hillary Clinton Views Previous Iranian Governments as ‘Democratically Elected’"

February 16, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"In fact, in every presidential election held in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the first in 1980, the Guardian Council has disqualified the vast majority of aspirants. The most it ever allowed was ten candidates in 2001 – ten out of 814 who had applied for a candidacy. In last year’s poll, four candidates out of nearly 500 applicants were approved."

"Opposition in Iran Meets a Crossroads on Strategy "

February 15, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"Now, dejected opposition supporters are re-examining their tactics and struggling to find a new catalyst for a movement that emerged with astonishing power just eight months ago, after the disputed presidential election."

"Clinton: Iran Is Becoming a Military Dictatorship"

February 15, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, a new U.S. accusation in the midst of rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions and crack down on anti-government protesters."

"Iranian regime change: An Obama achievement we could believe in"

February 12, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

Bill Kristol opines at WaPo: "Perhaps embracing the concept of 'regime change' spooks the Obama administration. . . . Does Obama want an achievement that eluded Bush? Regime change in Iran -- that would be an Obama administration achievement that Joe Biden, and the rest of us, could really celebrate."

"Tehran Uses China’s High-Tech Trucks to Squash Protests"

February 12, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"The Tehran regime has new gear to help squash . . . pro-democracy protests: high-tech anti-riot vehicles, imported from China."

"Iran, Beacon of Liberty?"

February 11, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"President Obama and his advisers . . . have likely spent little time envisioning a region where the Islamic Republic as we have known it no longer exists. . . . But given the troubles facing Ayatollah Khamenei, the near certainty that the clerical regime is going to get a lot nastier soon and the momentous possibilities of a democratic Iran, the White House should give it some thought."

"The Railroading of Geert Wilders"

February 9, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"The Stalinist-show-trial aspect of the Geert Wilders 'hate speech' trial in the Netherlands was thrown into sharp relief last week when the Amsterdam District Court refused to allow Wilders to call fifteen of the eighteen witnesses he had hoped to bring forward in his defense. Wilders in response was characteristically direct: 'This Court is not interested in the truth. This Court doesn’t want me to have a fair trial. I can’t have any respect for this. Read more »

"Western Civilization on Trial"

February 8, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

As the Geert Wilders case goes into pre-trial, National Review Online asked our experts: Is there any legitimate reason he’s in court? What are the implications of such a trial being held, nevermind its outcome?

"A Non-Violent Jihadi is Still a Jihadi"

February 8, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

"The British media is reporting that a teacher in the London School of Economics’ government department is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group seeking to internally overthrow democracy and capitalism and replace it with Sharia Law. Unfortunately, the violence of groups like Al-Qaeda has caused HUT and groups like it to look less extreme by comparison and so they are not receiving the attention they deserve."

"Universal [Criminal] Jurisdiction" Woes

December 17, 2009 by ZacKester

John Bolton writes:

"Universal jurisdiction"  . . . has pernicious and profoundly antidemocratic consequences in the real world. A British arrest warrant, issued over the weekend in London for former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni [for alleged war crimes by Israeli forces during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip last winter], shows precisely why.

"Key Shi'ite backs a democratic secular Iraq"

December 10, 2009 by Richard E. Coleson

"American hopes that Iraq will become a democratic secular state with tolerance for religious differences have received a boost with the emergence of 38-year-old Ammar Hakim at the head of one of the largest Shia movements."

EPA Twists the Clean Air Act

December 8, 2009 by Jeff Gallant

The EPA's designating carbon as a pollutant regulable under the Clean Air Act is a brazen threat to get business to beg for cap-and-trade. Unelected EPA officials would become the sole arbitrers and enforcers of carbon emission limits. The contortions needed to pull off this coup are amusing. Read more »

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