“Michael A Ledeen, resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works closely with the better-known former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle, has been a fixture of Washington’s neo-conservative community for more than 20 years. But he is now out front, in a public campaign for the United States to confront Iran, warning that Tehran will cause Washington problems in both Iraq and Afghanistan and that ‘the mullahs are determined to obliterate Israel’. ” Asia Times [props to walker] Ledeen is apparently the international affairs analyst Karl Rove consults when he wants a ‘fresh idea’, and he increasingly sees his fax transmittals to Rove turned into official policy statements.