(Gadfly post immediately following) Doug Bandow Senior Fellow, the Cato Institute The Islamic Republic of Iran often is in the news, and usually for all the wrong reasons. Tehran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons, though U.S. intelligence agencies see no evidence of an active nuclear weapons p more ...

When the article states, "One of their leaders in the Islamic Republican Party, Hassan Ayat, criticized me for defining the hostage-taking as illegal, inhumane and illegitimate. Despite this, I won the election with over 76 percent of the vote"  Clearly indicates that the popular view, even at that time, was more ...