Valin Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Power Line: Scott Johnson October 2, 2014 Our friend Michael Ledeen spoke last night with Mark Levin by telephone on Levin’s radio show to discuss the secret trip undertaken by an emissary to Tehran on behalf of Obama during the 2008 campaign. Jim Hoft picked up on the Levin show segment here and posts the audio (below). In the segment Michael revisits his disclosure of the trip taken by Ambassador William G. Miller to Tehran in 2008 on Obama’s behalf to assure the mullahs he was a friend of the regime. Most recently, as Jim notes, Michael wrote about the trip here (now reposted by Michael in connection with his appearance on Mark Levin’s show). In that post Michael writes: (Snip) http://youtu.be/sj2rixwF7ao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 And on a related note...... Opinion: The struggle to succeed Khamenei has already begun Amir Taheri Friday, 3 Oct, 2014 During his recent stay in New York, President Hassan Rouhani hosted a private dinner for a number of former US officials, oil executives, and lobbyists. According to several participants, Rouhani tried to pass on a simple message: If the US does not help him clinch a deal on the nuclear issue, the next elections in Iran could return people like that man to power. Earlier, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had relayed the same message at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. If you dont help us, you could get that man again, he warned. But who is that man, the person whom Rouhani and Zarif are trying to present as a bête-noire for the Americans? The answer is former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. To be sure, Ahmadinejad does not have a constituency of his own and is unlikely to win any elections without the say-so of the deep state, that is to say the military-security apparatus, the network of political mullahs, and interest groups within the business community. Rouhani and his political mentor, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, however, hope that a deal with the US would give them momentum to seize control of the Islamic Majlis, the ersatz parliament, next year, and then capture the Assembly of Experts, which, in turn, chooses the Supreme Guide. There is no doubt that within the Khomeinist establishment, * the Rafsanjani faction is the least hostile to the United States. Rafsanjani has always fancied himself as an Iranian version of Deng Xiaoping, the leader who closed the chapter of Maoist revolution and opened the way for Chinas inclusion into the global system. (Snip) * That makes me feeel sooooo much better, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber_Liberty Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Is there a transcript of the Levin interview available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Is there a transcript of the Levin interview available? I don't believe there is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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