Some intelligence experts who had questioned previous orange alerts, suspecting them of being politically motivated or complaining that they were too vague to be useful, this time praised Mr Ridge for providing detailed warnings about specific targets.
This week Mr Larijani praised Mr ElBaradei for an earlier controversial suggestion that Iran might as well be allowed to continue limited enrichment, since it had already mastered many of the skills.
Simply because Microsoft has, this time at least, written a fast and efficient OS. For which they should rather bepraised I would have thought, despite it upsetting the people who make memory.