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What the blogosphere will be discussing ... but you probably knew that.

General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will deliver their report on Iraq to a joint hearing of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees at 12:30 today. Gen. Petraeus is scheduled to testify on his report on Iraq in the Senate on Tuesday.

Michelle Malkin and Hot Air follow-up on the Scott Beauchump affair with video.

Al Qaeda to air another new Osama Bin Laden tape?

Iran remains defiant and of course the IAEA's nuclear enabler El Baradei will continue to abet the regime.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator says it is "impossible" for Tehran to yield to the key Western demand over its nuclear program, even if the UN Security Council imposes further sanctions.

The reaffirmation by Ali Larijani of Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment activities comes a day ahead of a crucial meeting in Vienna of the UN atomic energy agency on the Iranian nuclear program.

IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei will have to defend the deal in the face of US criticism when he presents his report on the Iranian atomic program to the agency this week.

Comments

[seekeronos]

More of the same-old, same-old on Iran. The message from Tehran is pretty clear: They want nukes, and they are going to get their nukes and the missiles (from Russia and the ChiComs) to put themselves as a major Islamic nuclear power, to contain the West.

Nothing short of a drastic "regime change" will prevent Iran from joining the nuclear weapons club, unless we can somehow foment a revolution inside Iran for a secular republic or (constitutionally limited) restoration of the Shah.

Neither option seems terribly likely, so we might otherwise start getting used to the idea of a nuclear armed terrorist state -- which will have the longer range effect of nuclearizing the entire stinking middle east.

[mensablonde]

Iran has already had its revolution. It is true that there are moderates inside Iran who dislike the regime and want it overthrown. But it is foolish for us to expect some sort of regime change from within, even with coaxing and support from without. Sadly - at least in this case - moderates are typically not revolutionaries.

The choices are simply military action from without, or a nuclear Iran. I'm hoping for the first, painful though it may be.