Hey, you think they invited any Jews?

Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan and several former European leaders attended a conference on religion in Tehran on Monday, offering what some saw as a gesture of support for the moderate opponent of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hosting the gathering. Mohammad Khatami, the moderate former Iranian president... hosted the event. Former Irish president, Mary Robinson, and former prime ministers of Italy and France, Romano Prodi and Lionel Jospin, are also attending the conference, entitled "Conference on Religion in the Modern World." However, the soft-spoken critic Khatami reacted angrily when asked whether the high-profile visitors at the conference reflected a backing for his possible bid for the presidency. "This conference has nothing to do with presidential elections," Khatami chided reporters. Some of the other prominent names at the venue included former Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio, Sri Lankan ex-president Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sudan's former prime minister Sadeq al-Mahdi and former UNESCO director general Federico Mayor.

I'm thinking no Jews, which is what happened when Saudi Arabia tried to hold a similar conference. We're talking about a country where state TV theorizes about how George Soros is conspiring with John McCain and how Meet The Parents pushes "the character of the Jew". And if there are Jews there they should be criticized - along with these other tools - for legitimizing a genocidal anti-Semitic regime. This "boosting Khatami" pretext is asinine: he won't run and if he did this conference wouldn't help and if it did he still wouldn't win and if he did he still wouldn't have any real power and if he did he still wouldn't be a moderate. But hey, it sounded good!

Just for completion's sake: here's a report from a week ago that says that Israel won't attack Iran and here's a report from last week that says that Israel will attack Iran. Conclusion: we don't know anything about whether Israel is going to attack Iran. What we do know, though, is that the mullahs are most definitely building a nuke.

References:
* Former global leaders in Iran to support moderate [iStockAnalyst]
* Why not hold it in Mecca? Oh, yeah …. [Hot Air]
* Iran: McCain plotting Iranian revolution with, um, George Soros [Hot Air]
* Good news: Hidden Zionist agenda of “Meet the Parents” exposed [Hot Air]
* Iran's New Moderate Cleric Not A Moderate, Will Lose Anyway (Plus: Even The French Are Laughing At Obama's Idiotic Iran Policy) [MR]
* MR Reacts to Bloggers' Conference Call With Israeli Ambassador Uri Lubrani - Public Diplomacy Probably Won't Work, and Counting On It Is Probably a Bad Idea [MR]
* U.S. won't allow Israeli attack on Iran: TV report [Reuters]
* Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran [Times Online]
* Mere Rhetoric: Helpful Reminder - We Don't Know Anything About US And/Or Israel Plans To Hit Iran [MR]
* Israeli Military Intel: Iran "Halfway" Toward Nuclear Weapon (Plus: Syria, Hezbollah, And Hamas All The Way Toward Every Other Kind Of Weapon) [MR]

Previously:
* Syrian-Based Palestinian Terrorist: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, And Palestinians Prepared To Attack Israel
* Iran Takes Over Hezbollah After Hezbollah Takes Over Lebanon (Plus: State Department Naturally Urging Israel To Cede More Land... To Hezbollah)
* Skewz.com Podcast: Mere Rhetoric Gets Interviewed About Israel, Iran, Politics, Etc.