Secretary Of State John Kerry: Iranian Government "Elected"

Foreign policy reports:

“Iran is a country with a government that was elected and that sits in the United Nations,” Kerry said in France standing alongside French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. “And it is important for us to deal with nation-states in a way that acts in the best interests of all of us in the world.” 

The comment is similar to what Hagel said on Jan. 31 when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee Iran was “an elected, legitimate government, whether we agree or not.”… Hagel had to walk back his declaration that Iran was “an elected, legitimate government” after being challenged in the hearing by Democratic New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. “I can understand if you meant it’s a legal entity that has international relations and has diplomatic relations, that is a member of the UN, I do not see Iran or the Iranian government as a legitimate government, and I’d like your thoughts on that,” Gillibrand said.

Iran is not led by an elected leader. Its Supreme Leader is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and he does not stand for popular election. The current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad partook in a sham election, and the American Secretary of State should know that the 2009 vote was rigged rather than legitimize the radical Islamist regime that remains the chief sponsor of global terrorism.  After the mock election, Ahmadenijad then brutally and violently suppressed the opposition protesters in the streets.    Tweet

Bob Woodward: White House Threatened Me For Challenging Them, "You'll Regret This"

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Lebanese Terrorist Murderer Released By Israel Samir Al-Quntar Calls For Killing Collaborators With Israel

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U.S.-Based Iraqi Cleric Qays Bin Khalil Al-Kalbi: God Chose The Jews To Be Apes And Pigs, Slayers Of Prophets

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Senate Confirms Anti-Israel Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel

The final vote: 58-41.

The Republican Senators who voted for cloture, thus assuring that his nomination would head to the floor for a full Senate vote where the Democrats were certain to give him the nod, are named here:

Alexander
Ayotte
Blunt
Burr
Chambliss
Coburn
Collins
Corker
Flake
Graham
Hatch
McCain
Murkowski
Sessions
Thune

The Republican Senators who actually voted in favor of Chuck Hagel when the full Senate took the vote: Cochran, Johanns, Shelby, and Rand Paul. Tweet

Israel Calls For Removal Of All Uranium From Iran

The Jerusalem Post reports:

As Iran and the world’s major powers begin talks in Kazakhstan on Tuesday on curbing its nuclear program, an Israeli official said the goals needed to be clear: an end to Iran’s uranium enrichment, and the transfer out of the country of all the uranium already enriched. It is much preferable if these goals were met though diplomacy, the official said, but added that if diplomacy did not work, these goals needed to be met “through another method.” The official said that Israel has been conducting ongoing discussions with key players in the international community in advance of the renewed talks. A US official said on Monday that the P5+1 – US, Russia, China, Britain, Germany and France – would offer Iran some sanctions relief during the talks in Almaty if Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program.

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Rocket Falls On Israel From Gaza For First Time Since Cease Fire

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Palestinian terrorists broke a three month ceasefire on Tuesday and fired a rocket from Gaza into southern Israel. The rocket fell on a road south of Ashkelon causing some damage to a road, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

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Obama Removes Press Before Taking Questions From Governors: "Clear Out The Press So We Can Take Some Questions"

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Republican Governors Bobby Jindal And Nikki Haley Upset After Meeting Obama

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House Republican Sequester Press Conference

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Prager University: The United Nations vs. Israel

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Louis Farrakhan Endorses And Applauds Chuck Hagel

National Review Online reports:

“Now wait,” Farrakhan told the crowd. “He said this to Aaron David Miller in the book The Much-Too-Promised Land. And guess what? I said the same thing 30 years ago at the National Press Club in Washington, and they have not left me alone since. Special interests along with Zionist AIPAC are robbing America of the principle of democracy and representative government. The record is there. Now, 30 years later, after beating the heck out of me for all those years, they’re finally getting up enough courage to tell it like it is.” After arguing that the media is controlled by Jewish interests, he applauded Hagel’s nomination. “Senator Hagel is in trouble,” Farrakhan said. “But America needs a man in Congress like that, who’s not a rubber stamp for others. You need a man like Senator Hagel as your secretary of defense because a man with a mind like that will keep you out of fighting somebody else’s wars. You need a man in government that has another opinion that is not controlled, and if the Senate does not confirm him as defense secretary because of his opinion on Israel, that only proves that the Senate in the U.S. Congress is controlled by the Israeli lobby. And it also sentences America to war with Iran for the state of Israel.”

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia And Professor Bryan Garner On Constitutional Interpretation

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