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American diplomats being held hostage by Iranian terrorists at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran from 1979-1980 Associated Press photo

My Washington Times column for this week has posted. I hope you enjoy it! Please Tweet, Facebook, Blog and spread the word! Thanks!

Washington Times: BRUCE: Confusing an Iranian terrorist with a diplomat.
Obama, Kerry may issue a U.N. visa to a Tehran hostage-taker

As a sign that we have officially entered the Twilight Zone phase of the Obama administration, the State Department is actually finding it difficult to say whether or not it will issue a visa for Iran’s newly appointed “envoy” to the United Nations, a man who also happens to be widely recognized as a terrorist.

This new envoy for Iran, Hamid Aboutalebi, has admitted being involved with the terrorist group that stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days in 1979-1980.

We have a policy barring terrorists from being granted visas, and yet in responding to the outrage engendered by the revelation that Mr. Aboutalebi played a role in that obscene act, the most the State Department could muster was a whimper that the situation “troubled” them and that they “object” to it.

That’s sort of like how the Obama administration is troubled by, and objects to, chemical weapons in Syria, Russia’s taking of Crimea, the Taliban killing, well, everyone, al Qaeda taking over large swaths of Iraq, and North Korea shooting at South Korea.

Click through and read the whole thing at TWT 🙂

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  1. pamelarice says:

    Tammy, as usual this is a great article #crushthem

  2. Alain41 says:

    There is no, low t, in Tammy. 🙂 The more that you can expose the State Dept., the better. Another excellent column.

    Concerning the topic of immigration law and our border, there is a galling NY Post op-ed today by the economic initiative manager at the George W. Bush Institute and the Executive Director of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. They argue for increasing, if not removing, the cap of 65,000 (plus 20,000 for Masters degree immigrants) on H1-B visas (the science high skilled visas). They compare the H1-B visas with the starting pitchers of the NY Yankees, 3 of whom are in the U.S. under the O-1A visa program. So much wrong with that comparison. One simple difference, the NY Yankees will hire the best regardless of salary cost. The business owners who want the H1-B visa holders want to pay less in salary.

    http://nypost.com/2014/04/03/visas-for-excellence-tanaka-fixing-immigration/

  3. Canonbal says:

    The difference between an Iranian envoy and a terrorist………

    Ya mean there is a difference!?

  4. deaves1 says:

    Inspite of what the FBI facial recognition experts say, one of those terrorists in back row of this photo is also Mamood Aach iwannajihad.

  5. Kitten says:

    Thanks for another great column, Tammy. I do love how you point out the absurdity of Obummer’s regime, at every turn. Also, in listening to the Andy Park interviews, I think he really likes your humor. 🙂 (smart guy)

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