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This High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran is Unlikely to Succeed

Tariq Ali July 23, 2006

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#5 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on July 26, 2006 11:08:54 am
Joint American/Israeli/Saudi/Egyptian/Jordananian strategy to weaken Iran

Ali Sahib,

Speaking of rocket-rattling against Iran, CNN was actually speculating that the US, Israel, Soodi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan all have a common aim in thwarting the growing Shiite menace in the Middle East. The interests of these various parties are coming together in Lebanon, where the Sunni Soodis, Egyptians, and Jordanians welcome the prospect of the hated Shia Hizbollah being decimated even by Israelis. Soodi Arabia has been very unhappy at the dominance of Shias in the new Iraq and the growing influence of Iran in the neighborhood.

So, Chowk`s own right-wing fundo whacko Sunni Wahabbi mullahs need to get with the agenda and start chanting the Soodi mantra of Sunnihood.

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#4 Posted by ballukhan on July 25, 2006 12:46:49 am
``.........the most likely constituency to be disappointed is Ahmadinejad`s own: the millions of young, working-class jobless, crammed into overcrowded living conditions, in desperate need of a national development policy that neither neoliberalism nor Islamist voluntarism will provide.........``

Ahmadinejad is an utterly incompetent idiot. He is using jigoistic slogans and channelizing the frustrations of the unemployed youths into anti-semitic and anti-west hatred. He is promising them heavens after death when he has failed to provide them any hope in this life.................I hope he does not take innocent Iranian people into destruction like Hitler did with Germany...............
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#3 Posted by echoboom on July 24, 2006 4:23:37 pm
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#1 Posted by bbabu on July 24, 2006 8:52:17 am

``Ahmadinejad reaped the vote against Khatami`s miserable record between 1997 and 2005. Economic conditions had worsened and Khatami was prepared to defend the rights of foreign investors ``

Which foreign investor has poured money into Iran ?
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