Iran Claims U.S. Airstrikes are Killing Its Men in Iraq

Jamie Dettmer,  The Daily Beast

The Iranian-trained Shia militias fighting around Tikrit say they’ve been hit several times, and Tehran says two of its advisers were killed.

Tom Cotton’s Truth Bomb

RICH LOWRY,  Right Wing News

Critics of the senator’s letter to Tehran are missing the point.

The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here

Jeffrey Goldberg,  The Atlantic

The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickensh*t,” this official said, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by his nickname.

Scare Tehran, Please

 

 

 

 

REUEL MARC GERECHT,  The Weekly Standard

Is Barack Obama’s threat of preventive military action against the Iranian regime’s nuclear program credible? Would a one-year, six-month, or even three-month nuclear breakout capacity at the known nuclear sites be acceptable to him?

Iran: British woman jailed for “insulting Islamic sanctities,” in danger of execution

Robert Spencer,  Jihad Watch

The odd thing about this story is that while everyone is offended that Roya Saberi Negad Nobakht could be executed in Iran for “insulting Islamic sanctities,” in Britain (and America) it is a de facto crime to insult Islamic sanctities.