Iranian-Canadian blogger to visit Israel


Posted by Helena Cobban
January 23, 2006 9:22 PM EST | Link
Filed in Iran

The Iranian-Canadian blogger Hoder (Hossein Derakshan) has two interesting posts up today. In this one, he writes,

    I wrote a few weeks that the single biggest reason Ahmadinejad is ranting unexpectedly against Israel and the uproar he's made in the past few weeks, has internal purposes.

    Khamenei has effectively prevented Ahmadinejad from having any say in foreign policy. So Ahmadinejad's strategy has been causing problems in major foreign policy issues in order to get into the gaming...

(Read the rest of that short post, too. It's interesting.)

And in this one, Hoder announces that he's en-route for making his first-ever visit to Israel. He says he's going "as a citizen journalist and a peace activist." I think this is great. It'll be interesting to read what he writes.



Comments
Comment from... vadim, at January 23, 2006 10:54 PM:

Hoder's accepting donations to help with his travel expenses. dig deep!

Comment from... Henry James, at January 24, 2006 12:16 AM:

Khamenei has effectively prevented Ahmadinejad from having any say in foreign policy.

Following Israeli political catfights is actually a high art. But one thing is for sure - Israeli political situation cannot be reduced to simple 1-liners like this one. Why should Iran be any different?

Comment from... JES, at January 31, 2006 07:09 AM:

Interesting article from Haaretz on Hossein Derakhshan:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/676697.html
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