MORE ABOUT OUR NEW IRANIAN FRIENDS – AT 9:18 A.M. ET:   Why, they're just well-meaning and misunderstood.  But Barack, come to save us, will bring us together with our Iranian brothers and sisters.  And all will be joyous.  From Business Week:

A former engineer for defense contractors was charged with trying to ship military documents to Iran, including materials related to the U.S. Air Force’s F35 Joint Strike Fighter program and jet engines.

Mozaffar Khazaee, 59, was arrested yesterday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey as he attempted to fly to Tehran, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut said in a statement.

Khazaee, a native of Iran who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1991, formerly lived in Manchester, Connecticut, and recently moved to Indianapolis, prosecutors said. He was arrested after arriving from Indiana and before he was able to board a connecting flight to Frankfurt.

Federal agents began probing Khazaee, also known as Arash Khazaie, in November when U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Homeland Security Department inspected a shipment he had sent to Long Beach, California, from Connecticut, bound for Hamadan, Iran, prosecutors said.

While documents accompanying the shipment indicated it contained household goods, a search revealed boxes of documents, including technical manuals, specification sheets and other materials related to the Joint Strike Fighter program and jet engines, according to court filings.

COMMENT:  I didn't see this in any mainstream paper, and didn't see it covered on TV.  I guess it isn't as important as Chris Christie's bridge problem. 

Iran is an enormous threat.  As we weaken our position in the Mideast, Iran is poised to step right in.  Obama doesn't care because he clearly has no problem with Islamist regimes.  I think he rather admires them.  But our children will care when their world is affected.

January 13,  2014