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...shrill reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit Ground Zero is playing right into the Iranian President's hands. He faces growing unpopularity at home, thanks to a dire economy and mounting religious and cultural repression. But his power base is made up mainly of Iranians who participated in the 1979 revolution, among whom the loathing of the U.S. runs very deep. Nothing energizes them more than the sight of their leader being excoriated by the hated Americans...
...Seeking to forestall a crisis in the making, Rice chose her words cautiously in a media conference Wednesday, claiming that the "hostile entity" was not Gaza but Hamas, which runs the cordoned-off territory. Rice will reiterate this distinction on Thursday when she meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Advisers to the Palestinian leader told TIME that despite his feud with Hamas following its ouster of his own militia in Gaza, Abbas cannot publicly accept Israel's turning the lights off on those of his countrymen unlucky enough to live in Gaza. Such an action would also make...
...Nicaragua-Iran embrace includes four significant events since Ortega took office as the democratically elected leader of his country last January. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, to personally congratulate Ortega days after his Jan. 10 inauguration. Then Ortega borrowed a jet from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to visit Iran in June. Two months later, Iran and Venezuela pledged $350 million to build a seaport near Monkey Point on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. (Tehran has also been cultivating an alliance with oil-rich Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.) And last Wednesday, the Nicaraguan foreign minister returned...
...heading the South Command, are pressing for an all-out assault on Gaza. This would require four to five divisions of troops, and its aim would be to arrest the leaders of Hamas and destroy the Islamist militant group that seized control of the territory from U.S.-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's militia last June. A full-scale assault, say military strategists, might cause "over a thousand" Palestinian casualties and the loss of "a few hundred Israelis," but it would smash Hamas's military capability and seize an estimated 40 tons of explosives and tens of thousands of weapons, including...
...that his militia had studied Hizballah's tactics against Israeli in last summer's Lebanon war. That may be bravado, but since its takeover of Gaza, Hamas has been busy fortifying itself against a possible Israeli attack. And Palestinian militants may get increased support from Iran. On Thursday, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is hosting a Palestinian militant jamboree with envoys from Hamas and other resistance groups. Israelis say Iran is providing Hamas with funds and military training...