Iran Blogging--UpdatedOkay, I'm going to take a little time to do some more serious blogging. Paul has criticized me for chasing hits with the Air America coverage, and while it's a subject that interests me ergo I blog it, there is some validity to the criticism.
The Iran situation is obviously heating up. Iran has
named a hard-liner to head up its nuclear policy:
A veteran deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards -- the ideological army set up after the 1979 revolution to defend the clerical regime -- [Ali] Larijani also served as deputy minister of the Guards when such a ministry existed.
He has also served as a minister of culture and Islamic guidance, and in 1994 was appointed by Khamenei as head of the state television and radio network -- another bastion of the religious right.
There, Larijani Islamised programming and oversaw production of a series called Hoviat ("Identity"), which harshly criticised moderate and secular intellectuals.That Larijani comes from the Revolutionary Guards is hardly surprising; according to
this website, 18 of the 21 members of Iran's cabinet are from that organization.
Update: Paul at Moonbats says
we have to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in order to resolve the Iran situation. A solution to that puzzle would certainly help; I'm just not sure there is one.