Mousavi says the regime, a “cult,” is doing more harm to the nation than its enemies can. The words must cut deep as a planned mass opposition rally on the anniversary of June 12 election approaches

The Obama administration’s strategy as it devises sanctions for Iran is to build a sticky trap — so that the harder the Iranians try to wriggle out of the sanctions, the more tightly they will be caught in the snare.

Take the action now! For God’s sake, we are the leaders of free world! How could we possibly even think about sitting around a table and negotiating with the members of this regime?

A democratically elected government must heed the will of the people, not its own personal agenda. Thus, when Iranians as a nation and a people elect a democratic government and choose their leaders, their will shall rule.

With Iran now fast approaching the nuclear threshold, an Administration that doesn’t want bullets to fly needs more than diplomacy. The only way Iran’s regime is going to stop its nuclear program is if it feels some pain it can believe in.

Iran now possesses 5,600 centrifuges in which it can enrich uranium — a 34-fold increase from 2006 — and plans to add 45,000 more over five years. That will give Tehran an ability to make atomic bombs on an industrial scale.

To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.’s flagship agency, the multibillion-dollar globe-girdling United Nations Development Program, dedicated to promoting good governance and ending poverty, the U.N. has now picked–wait for it–the Islamic Republic of Iran.

And yet the one place where Moslems are cynical about Iran is in Iran itself, where the regime relies on a narrow base of support amid a state that (despite its vast oil reserves) is in economic shambles. Thus, the supreme irony of the Middle East is that the place where anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism are least potent is in the Iranian heartland.

For a glimpse of this setup, you don’t have to wait for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s annual rant on the U.N. General Assembly stage. All you have to do is stroll through the main visitors’ lobby of the landmark U.N. building in Manhattan. In that lobby, by far the most prominent display is a row of eight portraits, framed in gold, and showing the lineup of secretaries-general from the U.N.’s founding at the end of World War II, through the current Ban Ki-Moon

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