Behaving like the “strong horse” Osama bin Laden used to talk about, Iran: …has named a member of the militant group that held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran for 444 days to be its next ambassador to the United Nations. The Iranian government has applied for a U.S. visa for Hamid Aboutalebi, Iran’s former ambassador to Belgium and Italy, who was a member of the Muslim Students Following the Imam’s Line, a group of radical students that seized the U.S. embassy on Nov. 4, 1979. Imam was an honorific used for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution. (via Kambiz Foroohar of Bloomberg) Obama’s rapprochement policy toward Iran has worked out almost as well for him as ObamaCare, except that ObamaCare doesn’t threaten to use nuclear weapons. Obama faces some tough political times ahead: “There’ll not be any rapprochement with Iran until hostages are compensated for their torture,”...(Read Full Post)