IRANIAN MISSILIERS IN NORTH KOREA - AT 9:46 A.M. ET:   My friend Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi alerts us to this story, which once again shows the respect and warmth that Iran is directing toward President Obama and his "outreach" policy.  From AFP:

TOKYO (AFP) — A group of Iranian missile experts is in North Korea to help Pyongyang prepare for a rocket launch, Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported on Sunday.

North Korea has said it will launch a communications satellite over northern Japan between April 4 and 8, and the report said the 15-strong Iranian delegation had been in the country since the beginning of this month.

It includes senior officials with Iranian rocket and satellite producer Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, the daily said, quoting unnamed sources.

The Iranians brought a letter from their President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il stressing the importance of cooperating on space technology, it added.

COMMENT:  One rogue state deserves another.  Iran continues to show contempt for President Obama's extended hand.  When will we learn that this is what the mullahs are actually like?  It ain't an act.

March 29, 2009