LOS ANGELES - Two mullahs gaze out on a crowd of protesters in Tehran. The one says, "Arrest the correspondents." To which the despondent reply is: "But they re all correspondents!"

"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, whereas the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option.". Benjamin Netanyahu 2009? Try again. These words were in fact uttered by another Israeli prime minister (and now Israeli president), Shimon Peres, in 1996. Four years earlier, in 1992, he d predicted that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999.