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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Classic Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold. A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film…

Names of women dead/arrested (English via Google Translator)  6:11 pm: Judiciary has ordered Iranian ISPs and Web based service providers to give them info (including IPs) of users. Evil assclown of the day: Incoming IAEA chief: No evidence Iran seeking nuclear weapons. Those perverse lilliputians over at the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, must be…

3:11 pm: Iran: British embassy staff to be tried. (hat tip Armaros)Is this not an act of war?  The announcement by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati alarmed European nations and fueled calls for tougher action against Tehran. Britain is pressing for members of the European Union to pull their ambassadors out of Tehran to protest the arrest…

Check out the latest in the American Thinker: Honduras and Iran: Obama Betrays Freedom AgainPamela GellerThe real story behind the chaos in Honduras is a huge story that needs to be exposed to the world. And the bottom line is that Obama got it wrong, again. More

Islam is unique in that it is the only religion with a propaganda arm. No other religion advocates for propaganda, deception and disinformation. It is a powerful weapon in their war on the enemy (non-Muslims). The media is indispensable in this aspect of Islam's war on the West (education is too, of course). Sophisticated and…

Terror master on intercept with Muslim terror foot soldiers  in Mumbai: Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims. Keep your phone switched on so that When asked during interrogation why Nariman House was specifically targetted, Ajmal reportedly told the police they wanted to sent a message to Jews across the world by attacking the ultra…

11:52pm: Oppressed peoples of the world unite! Funny — sort of. The Chinese Falun Gong are helping those fighting for liberty in Iran. Regular Atlas readers rememberrepressive Chinese government despises them, persecutes them and harvests their organs. Yes, harvests their organs. CHINESE FALUN GONG HELP IRANIANS BREAK REGIME'S CENSORSHIP Reliapundit ABC-OZ: Computer software invented to…

out to "rally" for Ahmadinejad are pasty faced, lipstickless sows. Just sayin') All Atlas previous Iran: The Revolution archives (liveblogs, etc.) 11:52 pm: Ashkan Sohrabi, an 18 year old teenager who was shot by Basij/Security forces, passed away last night.

Day 19 coverage of the revolution continues here. 10:00 pm: SHOCKA!  They said it was the Jooooooos! Israel's grand Twitter conspiracy. Via NIAC, a major hard-right newspaper in Iran, Kayhan, "reports" that Israel posted 18,000 Twitter messages urging people to complain about voter fraud two days before 9:38 pm: Press TV reports "The killers and…

The hatred of the good for being the good. Ayn Rand Sarah Palin scares the guts out of RINOs, leftopaths and freedom haters. She embodies all that good and fine and decent, and they vomit. You couldn't have written a more charismatic honorable character in a Victor Hugo novel. They will do anything and say…

“….the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated,” said a senior officer of the investigating team, not wishing to be quoted. Part I Part II Part III The other day I ran some of the telephone intercepts between the Muslim terrorists in Mumbai and their Islamic masters in…

Oh, those pious mullahs! So righteous! Is this what they mean by sharia finance? I guess this is their idea of a  "green revolution". And you have to love those little Swiss piggies. Neutral? Yes, just like during World War II. Neutral for Nazis. Neutral on the bloody backs of millions. This century's Nazis………………. Foreign…

I have the lead article at The American Thinker today (and Saturday too!): The Case for Iran: Fighting for Freedom. The ultimate question is what a regime change, or even modification of the regime with a Mousavi as president, would mean to Iran's nuclear program. More It articulates quite clearly my take and thinking on…

Will Obama bow to Syria, too? Exclusive: Pamela Geller predicts U.S. leadership may befriend terror sponsor

New Pictures from today's bloodshed (and the media keeps talking about the addict MJ) 7:28 pm: Perhaps the impotent and perfidious media can stop saying alleged. Check out this video, where you see the Basij firing at people from rooftops. It was shot on the 20th, giving a stark aerial view of the chaos at…

UPDATE: THE ARTICLE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE! CLICK BOTTOM LINK AT POST TO READ THE WHOLE THING. "Even the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated". Remember, the Rabbi's wife was pregnant. There is a stunning piece in today's Mail of the actual phone intercepts between the Muslims…

Back when sanity was in order, fine, decent men governed. Today they stand on the sidelines, hoping against hope that free men will wake up and heed their words of caution, much like  Churchill when he too was cast into the wilderness. John Bolton wrote such words yesterday in the LA Times in his exceptional…

Daniel in The Netherlands serves up this halal morsel:Prisoners in several jails around the Netherlands will only receive Halal food from now on. This is the result of a trade agreement between the Justice Department and cheap food delivery services which "happen to be" Halal. The Justice Department says it is too expensive to offer…

The Dictator Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Godard (who is the bomb)  The Great Dictator is a comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirise Nazism and Adolf Hitler. The film…

10:00 pm: The Guardian is reporting: Iran opposition alleges plot to implicate Mir Hossein Mousavi Jailed Iranian reformists have been tortured in an attempt to force them into TV “confessions” of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime, it was alleged today, as the country’s guardian council buried hopes for any significant revision of the…

North Korea’s March to War Pamela Geller North Korea has been busy, busy, busy since the election of our weak President. More

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) says jump, and BO says, how high, master? Obama had the OIC head, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, at the White House, where he “urged the U.S. to quickly appoint an envoy to the Islamic bloc” — which prompted BHO to create “a new office that is responsible for outreach with…

THE revolution goes on…. updates, day 15 here A goodbye on Facebook. “I got a very disturbing good bye message on Facebook from my cousin (who has been active in the Tehran protests). Please share my cousin’s words with the world because I don’t think people will know how many people are being killed and…

Despite repeated warnings to "Say No to Koh", Harold Koh was confirmed. This is a dark day. American sovereignty, R.I.P.  Say no to Koh? With a vote of 62-35, we didn't even say maybe. This is an indication that so few knew what was at stake, and once again the media abdicated its role of…

Now the anti-semites are going to criminalize Jewish law. Now the anti-semites are going to tell us who is and who isn't Jewish. They have no right. Jewish School Held "Racist" For Preferring Jews Legal Insurrection A court in Great Britain has found that a religious Jewish school engaged in racial discrimination by applying the…

In a stunning and incomprehensible move, Obama reaches out to the Iranian foreign legion, Hezballah. The same Hezballah that blew up Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1981. A Hezbo suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives at a U.S. Marine barracks located at Beirut International Airport; 241 U.S. Marines were killed and more than…

Jamie Glazov did an interview with me here. Go, read it all – here's an excerpt: FP: You’ve been following the trial of the torture and murder of a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, in >. Tell us about the case and the trial./span> Geller: The death of Ilan Halimi can only be described as…

Obama to restore ties with Chavez The attacks on Jews in Venezuela are escalating (previously at Atlas here and here). Chavez and Ahmadinejad speak with one voice when it comes to the Jews. CHAVEZ STEPS UP ATTACKS ON JEWS Tim Mack, The New Majority (hat tip Rut) From the beginning of his rule in Venezuela,…

As sad as the passing of Farrah Fawcett (anal cancer) and Michael Jackson (drug abuse) is, the media is breathing a heavy sigh of relief (as I am sure the jihad US President is as well). The media is devoting their entire newscasts – yesterday the death of Ed McMahon, today Farrah and then Michael…

I guess macadamia nuts are Hawaii's second largest nutty export. The crazy councilman is begging Obama for Gitmo's Islamic terrorists, citing Pearl Harbor. "We have forgiven the people who bombed Pearl Harbor". Ugh, we defeated the Japanese, nuked that enemy and remade and rebuilt Japan. WTF? We have not defeated Islamic jihad; it seems they…

I asked great American Lt Colonel Allen West for his thoughts on the terrible events in Iran. This, dear readers, best embodies American exceptionalism. This best represents our future. I have sat and watched the situation in Iran post the fraudulent elections and just shake my head. When I departed Kandahar Afghanistan in late October…

This map shows the how the Iranian government is organized. (hat tip DJM)

Day 13 updates here 11:17 pm: Jane spoke to my friend with family in Iran – she can't call her family on their cells – everything has been shut down. 10:52 pm There has surely been a terrible blackout, as the most reliable Iranians on twitter, whom I have been following for days, have gone…

Earlier today I posted Ahmadinejad and Yazdi Going Nuclear? and had asked for a translation of this video. The video first posted on translation of the video here: This is a summary transcript of the conversation that took place between Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and others in Qom immediately after the elections (23/3/88 Persian calendar)….

The following story was sent to the left wing web site Salon, a site I can barely tolerate (so, no, I won't link). What is so irksome is why these stories are being sent to left wing sites. The comments are vile. This horrible story of torture and beating generated comments like this: We're worse…

This cartoon, funded by the Saudis, is timed for a Ramadan release. All of which points towards the preparation for a new intifada. A Cartoon to Inculcate the Next Generation of Muslims about the  fake “Palestinian Cause”: As the US government works to force an Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" forward, a significant obstacle to winning Arab…

The prevailing wisdom in Middle Eastern circles is that the Iranian protests will only grow …………. here is a translation of an influential editorial in CAIRO. I have reviewed a number of pieces like this …. EDITORIAL EXPECTS FURTHER ESCALATION OF IRANIAN PROTESTS CAIRO AL-AHRAM IN ARABIC 23 JUN 09 P 11(U) Editorial: "Escalation of…

How lovely …………and Carter threw it all away with both hands in assisting the Ayatollah Khomeini. The second worst President US history, Jimmy Carter, did not back our ally. Here we are 30 years later ….. and in what is shaping up to be the worst Presidency in the history of the US, we will…

Earlier this morning I posted this video asking for translation. It has been attributed to Twitter, when in fact it was first posted on the blog Raye Man Kojast blog (where is my vote?): Ahmadinejad and Yazdi preparing a coup (unconfirmed), an excellent blog I have been watching since the start of the revolution.It has…

Obama's silence in the face of the violent and brutal Islamic crackdown on the Iranian people peacefully demonstrating for freedom is in keeping with Obama's previous silences: 1.  Silent on the Black Muslim Riverdale bombers.2.  Silent on the release of the Black Panthers voter intimidation case. His department of justice ordered the case dropped.3.  Silent…

Obama and the Rogues WSJNorth Korea and Iran intrude on his diplomatic hopes. President Obama took office loudly promising to be the anti-George W. Bush of foreign policy, vowing to "extend a hand" to adversaries "willing to unclench" their fists. What he has received instead is an education in the reality of global rogues, and…

26 year old murdered by Islamic rulers in Iran. Her name, Neda, means "voice" or "the call"………….. The most extraordinary aspect of the Iranian revolution is the leading role women have taken — indeed, the leadership role they have assumed. They are the heart, the soul, the fuel of this enormously courageous effort. I do…

There is, it seems, a power struggle going on behind the scenes, between wannabe Islamic dictators. Is there no voice for Persian nationalism? That would be discouraging; it remains to be seen. This is a tipping point; we don't know what is happening. Firstoff, on Mousavi, I wrote of who and Mousavi really is 10…

If the mad mullahs crush dissent…….what will become of those freedom fighters and citizen journalists who beamed those messages, tweets, pics and reportage, without which the world would never have known of the brutal oppression and violence of Islam? Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology WSJ …………..in confronting the political turmoil that has consumed…

Iranian riot police block protesters. "Iranian state radio said Monday that 457 people were arrested in clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tehran that took place late Saturday. The arrests were made around the Iranian capital's Azadi square, the radio report said, quoting the police." Forty police officers were wounded and 34 government buildings…

I hope to see a struggle, with the Persians winning out over the Islamic supremacists. The people who supported the Westernized lax-Sharia Pahlavi regime haven't gone away or all been killed.  A secularized Western Iran — what a wonderful turn that would be.  There is a leadership vacuum and a scramble by Iran's Islamic leaders….

Actual Caption: President Barack Obama steers the cart with his golfing partner, Vice President Joe Biden, left, as they finish 18 holes at the Fort Belvoir Golf Club together on Father's Day, Sunday, June 21, 2009. Think about the howls of outrage from the Left if George W. Bush played golf while people were being…

Dear Atlas, First of all, thank you for showing the pictures of the casualties in Iran. They are graphic and disturbing but their exposure is necessary. People need to see what is happening in there. My heart goes out to those brave people in Iran, they are fighting for freedom and I admire them. They…

"The word is a simple one: freedom."  Israel Matzav had this: On Sunday's Meet the Press, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came out in favor of the student demonstrators in Iran. Let's go to the videotape. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Netanyahu is masterful – he's everything the…

Wow, I just got my daily alert from CAIR, and not so much as a word on Iran's bloodiest day yet. Just their daily Islamic obsession with the Jewish people. Muslim Jew hatred — they cling to it, like the "Palestinians" cling to "occupation," even though there is not so much as an Israeli toenail…