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Kamangir | March 2, 2007 | Category Iran
Baztab reports that the oil fields in the southern part of the Persian Gulf, which belong to the Arab countries of the region, have been equipped with air defense systems. Also, reportedly, military forces in Kuwait, Qatar, and Emirates are in full alert. Baztab adds “recently, the Supreme Leader talked about the obstruction of energy flow in the region in case of any Western offensive again Iran”.
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The mullahs Must Read this article:
The key to understanding Iran’s contemporary role in the middle east is less its millennia of statehood or its Shi’a identity than its political dynamic as a revolutionary state, says Fred Halliday.
A few years ago, during a visit to Tehran to give some lectures at the foreign ministry research and training institute, I was taken to lunch by a senior Iranian diplomat at a once fashionable Italian restaurant in the northern middle-class suburb of Tajrish. Educated as a scientist in the United States before the 1979 revolution, he had been an important figure in the post-revolutionary regime, and later a senior diplomat. I had met him at various conferences on European-Iranian relations and we had struck up something of a rapport. On this occasion, after the usual semi-official tour d’horizon, we began talking about the early history of the Iranian revolution and of its foreign policy.
“We made three big mistakes”, he said: first, in holding the American diplomats hostages for a year and a half and thereby deeply antagonising the US; second, by not accepting the very favourable peace which Saddam Hussein had offered in the summer of 1982, when Iran had the upper hand in the war, then already two years old; and third - to me the most surprising of his points - in not supporting the communist regime that came to power in Afghanistan in 1978, and instead backing the pro-American guerrillas that (with eventual success) opposed them.
The reflections of this diplomat are of considerable relevance to the situation in which Iran finds itself today.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=6&articleId=4396
Do you think he’s that crazy, to go as far as attacking the oil fields of foreign Arab states? I guess it’s a good way to save face if Israel or the U.S. blows up Iran. The mullahs can just say other Arab countries defeated us, not the Americans. Still, it so self-defeating.
Lesly,
I don’t know. The IR has a distributed brain, in a bad sense.
Most of these countries have allowed Israel to over fly their countries to attack Iran.
Now in typical Arab fashion they are getting ready to shoot the Jews down when they do.
Barry,
You made my day. :)
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