Iraq and Iran; Not Separate Issues, Pieces of the Same Puzzle

From the point of view of most Democrats in Washington and of course those in agreement, Iraq is an entirely elective “war;” one that we can simply elect to “end.” Where this logic comes from is beyond most of us that support our efforts in Iraq and also consider one front in many in the greater war on terror.

If the surge is allowed to continue and with that continuation, tactics deployed are of the stripe of those being used now (let’s also include continued adjustment, which is always necessary in the realities of battle) things could slowly improve on the ground as they have been. With the confidence of support from the home front and positive results in the various provinces in Iraq, we could begin to see the political improvements that are thus far, wanting by so many.

Setting those successes aside though is necessary to address what is sorely lacking in Washington and that is a policy about what to do regarding Iran. Iran is not just in negotiations with Dr. El Baradei and his IAEA; Iran is part and parcel of the difficulties we face in Iraq. While El Baradei and other invested diplomats ply their chosen trade, which in my opinion is a lot of considering the wrong goals the means to success, Iran continues apace with its infiltration into the daily battles and life in Iraq (set aside the larger picture in the region that include Lebanon, Israel, Palestine through the IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah).

Iran intends to continue to train Sunni, Shia, al Qaeda fighters through its proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; while supplying the financing and weapons through the IRGC that are necessary for the brass ring the Mullahs so covet; driving the U.S. out of Iraq.

Administrations of the past 30 years have pussyfooted around Tehran, backing down most times and/or giving them what they want with the expectation of their coming to see the light like any other normal nation. Iran has no geo-political strategy; it is a religious strategy in preparation for the return of the 12^th Imam. Iran is sewing destruction in Iraq and elsewhere to inhibit any nascent Democracy in the region; they seek peace for the Iraqi people, but peace to the Mullahcracy for the Iraqis is an absence of the U.S.; which resembles peace in Iran…ironfisted and deadly.

This is not some call for attacking Iran, although as many “hawks” have said these military options should not be off the table. The Department of State, many in the CIA and others need to face the reality that 30 years of nothing out of Iran is forthcoming; the tactics of diplomacy is not the answer…revolution from the bottom is a necessity and time is of the essence.

If we just consider Iraq the issue, which is thinking inside the box there is a lot to be said for sticking in out and the perseverance the president has called for; this is not four years of the same tactic as detractors mendaciously claim, but sticking with it to get it right as so much is riding on it.

“While not all the battles of this war will be exactly like Iraq, the bitter experience of the last four years should serve as a reminder that we must adapt to the war as it is rather than pretend we have the option of fighting a war we would prefer. Nor should we pretend that there's something more important for U.S. ground troops to do. If they are ordered to retreat from this battle, their next battle is likely to be a lot harder.”

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Iran and Nuclear Weapons of Peace

A concern about the effort at curtailing and/or preventing Iran and it's nuclear ambitions has always been the international community and whether or not it was going to get on board and seriously economically constrict the Islamic Republic. Well, this hasn't happened, but as Victor Davis Hanson points out this morning at NRO of the current and generally "bipartisan" policy:

"Show the world that Americans tried the European route with the EU3 (Britain, France, German) negotiations that have so far failed; let the U.N. jawbone (so what?); help Iranian dissidents and democratic reformers; keep trying to stabilize Iran’s reforming neighbors in Afghanistan and Iraq; persuade Russia, China, and India to cooperate in ostracizing Iran; galvanize global financial institutions to isolate the Iranian economy; apprise the world that an Iranian nuclear device is unacceptable — and hope all that pressure works before the theocrats have enough enriched uranium to get a bomb and, as Persian nationalists, win back public approval inside Iran."

Hanson writes of "subtle indications" that the policy is having some positive effect and admits that there is "no reason yet to believe that Iran’s megalomaniac plans are stalled," which is a bit of commonsense, yet the entire picture is somewhat more comforting that a glimmer of hope exists.

"Don't Bomb, Bomb Iran; For now, we should avoid a smoking Tehran"

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Friday Sermon From Iran

Nothing but tough love from Tehran's substitute Friday prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati this morning. Speaking to the congregation of recent talks with the U.S. he said:

“Iran is ready to do whatever the Iraqi people and government demand to provide Iraq with security. In the talks, we tried to make the Americans understand their mistakes in Iraq. The Americans were frankly reminded about their mistakes in Iraq and they were asked why they were still lingering in an Islamic country which has an elected government."

“There is a collection of hooligans in Iraq now. If the Americans and the British were not in Iraq, the government in Baghdad could deal with these terrorists and mischief-makers."

"The more the occupiers remain in Iraq, the more loss they would inflict on themselves. They are getting more and more hated by the world people and they would eventually have to withdraw from Iraq with shame.”

The minister of love also made note of the anniversary of the “33-day war” between “Lebanese Hezbollah” and the “Zionist regime,” and said:

"The victory was not only for Hezbollah but also for Islam and the Muslims. The Lebanese are for a government which would not be a puppet regime and do not let the dirty Zionists bully them."

"Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamic government in Iraq are also the winners."

Praise Allah, Mohammed (PBUH) and all that rot.

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Never Jump Too Quickly on an Offer from Iran

UPDATE (of sorts): July 3, 07

This update has no newsworthy content, but is being done two include to images this blog did not include with this post as the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez love fest was not posted on. However, it is very likely these images would have been forgotten by me and never used.


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From The NY Times today:

“BAGHDAD, July 2 — Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today.”

“Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has used operatives from the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah as a “proxy” to train and arm Shiite militants in Iraq.”

“American military officials have long asserted that the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has trained and equipped Shiite militants in Iraq. The Americans have also cited extensive intelligence that Iran has supplied Shiite militants with the most lethal type of roadside bomb in Iraq, a bomb called the explosively formed penetrator, which is capable of piercing an armored vehicle.”

In response to the news of intelligence gleaned by the U.S. through interrogations that have led to a comfort level by the U.S. of stepping up the accusations, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa “Who Loves You Baby?” Mohamad-Najjar blamed the U.S. and CIA:

"Occupation of Iraq followed a big lie, escalation of tension in the occupied regions and resort to terrorist tactics have been the customary methods of the CIA to justify the US presence in the region, cover up Washington's past failures and mislead public opinion in the US.”

Iran denies any involvement as they have repeatedly said that Iraq security is Iranian security and of the utmost importance to them. However that is antithetical to what would most likely provide the most security to Iran. The U.S. presence in Iraq is not good for Iran and Iraq has a Shia majority.

On June 25^th an opportunity for “jumping on Iran’s latest offer,” in which it was reported that, “Iran has invited an International Atomic Energy Agency team to Tehran to work on clearing up suspicions about its nuclear program, an IAEA spokeswoman said Monday.” Oddly just a little more time will be necessary to make it happen….SURPRISE!!!!!! What was considered, “the latest move in possibly allowing Iran further time to continue with its “peaceful” nuclear research,” is appearing to be just that.

From IRNA this morning:

“Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said that Tehran is ready to continue its nuclear talks within the next three weeks, it was reported on Monday.”

This was reported in a interview on the “Arab-language news channel Al-Jazeera broadcast Sunday evening.”

Additionally he indicated that all sides of the debate should be supportive of this new initiative. Iran also wishes to get the talk continuing with a new suggestion of taking this from the U.N. Security Council and back into the purview of the U.N.’s IAEA.

Time is all that Iran needs; let’s continue giving it to them.

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Lugar and the New Highway of Death

"It may even be that the United States military would be subjected to the reverse of the notorious “Highway of Death” of Desert Storm, albeit on a smaller scale."


According to the NY Times:

"After offering a bleak assessment of the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq, Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, said today that he was urging lawmakers and President Bush to change course quickly to protect a further erosion of America’s standing in the world."

Forget about all the details no one seems to want to deal with, like what exactly leaving Iraq means, Frank Gaffney had an interesting essay this morning at NRO.

From Frank Gaffney, Jr. at NRO; "Dunkirk in the Desert"

"It has become fashionable for politicians of both parties — mostly Democrats, but a few Republicans, as well — to promise the rapid removal of U.S. forces from Iraq. In fact, a sort of bidding war has broken out with would-be presidential candidates outdoing each other to come up with ever-shorter timelines for the abandonment of our positions there."

Democratic presidential candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson: “I would withdraw all of our forces, without any residual troops, by the end of this calendar year.”

Democratic presidential candidate and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards: “I would continue to draw combat troops out of Iraq over the course of about the next 10 months.”

Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton, speaking on the recently defeated Iraq withdrawal bill: “I support the underlying bill [to cut off funding after March 2008]…This is consistent with what I’ve been saying for several years.”

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul: “I’d come home. I’d just get out of there.”

For the rest of the story....

Let's face it, no one is really going to continue to give this subject enough thought to do the right thing. Suggesting politicians get a clue to consider the result of acting on their rhetoric is like asking them to not take themselves too seriously.

We will one day soon leave Iraq and that day will be too soon. We will spend the next decades paying for that shortsighted decision with more battlegrounds around the planet. In perhaps what is the first time this nation took a pro-active stance or entered into battle early in a preemptive manner so as to address an issue head on; we will fall back and write off all those that have sacrificed to the point at which we do leave.

We will do this; the time is coming. We will have to go back too, but the circumstances and the battlefields will be that much more difficult to enter into. They will be in the deserts, in the cities of Europe and the U.S. and elsewhere. It will be an ugly inferno and I told you so will have no meaning or satisfaction.

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Iran Taking Hostages?

“Iranian Hostage Crisis; Where’s the outrage?” Indeed. Katherine Jean Lopez is somewhat pissed that the U.S. and media doesn’t appear to worked up about the five Iranian-Americans that are being held hostage by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

As stated by Lopez it may be because we are presently in “diplomatic mode” with Iran. Said Katherine Jean Lopez this morning:

“A diplomatic mode that — with the names Parnaz Azima, Haleh Esfandiari, Ali Shakeri, Tajbakhsh, and Robert Levinson on our minds — should have all Americans angry, nervous, and praying that the Bush administration is working on something good they’re keeping close to the vest. Praying that they are as skeptical of Iran as they should be. Praying that they are willing to put in place a debilitating sanctions policy and send clear signals of support to the good men and women of Iran who want another kind of life there, free of the terrorists who run the country.”

We can only “hope and pray” that something good is up our sleeves, but of course no one can be sure. Initially, upon the hostages abduction reaching Reuters; Reuters pretty much reported it a no more than an issue of “dual citizenship,” (the page with this report is unfortunately “missing). This sites reaction that day couldn’t help but think of Navin Johnsons reaction to a the shooting of oil cans.

May 31^st found WebMemo #1479 by Kim R. Holmes and James Phillips at The Heritage Foundation reacting to the situation as “Iran’s latest round of hostage-taking,” which of course it is.

Interestingly WaPo published a report this past Friday June 21 regarding the U.S. refusal to release five Iranians detained in Iraq that Iran not surprisingly refers to as “diplomats.” In an odd reaction to this report, Scott Horton of Harpers posted on the “refusal” as part of a childish schoolyard game:

“What does the detention of the Arbil Five have to do with the detention of the Americans in Tehran? Everything. If you look at the Iranian statements, you’ll see that both the number and the accusations against the Americans have been carefully made to parallel what happened in Iraq. This is a simple case of one gross injustice being countered with another one. Of two nation-states behaving like schoolyard bullies. And who suffers? Well, my sympathies are with the Americans in captivity in Tehran, of course. Some of these folks are well-respected scholars, voices of moderation–voices that are badly needed just now. But I can’t deny being a bit angry about what has been done in America’s name with the Arbil Five. It’s an outrage, and it’s shameful. This elementary-school situation cries out for the principal to come and intervene.”

Beyond the fact that this is only so much moral equivocating, I’m struck by Horton’s reliance upon “Iranian statements,” as though the word of the Tehrrorists of Tehran can speak any truth. I don’t believe this is the type of reaction Katherin Lopez is speaking of in her post. Considering the five detained in Iraq, the Iranian so-called “diplomats,” are members of the Iranian Quds Force, which even msm paid member MSNBC see as nasty fellas. Wiki “whatever you want it to be” pedia; doesn’t appear to think to highly of them either. Hamad Karzai, the president of Aghanistan is outraged over Iranian “diplomats,” and their efforts at “diplomacy” in in his country as well.

Where does one suppose Horton gets the gall to compare the two detentions? Perhaps it’s from the same schoolyard he refers to in his reaction. At the least he feels for those in Tehran, which is I guess a start in the right direction.

How dare the U.S. play these childish games! For the sake of the planet and peace in the Mid-East region we should be sitting down with the Iranian leadership to resolve the Iraq war, which Iran has done much to foment; after all Iran’s intentions are entirely peaceful, and truly so if one takes them at their word. At least Iran offers good faith; and their assistance in sewing peace would go a long way.

To Mr. Horton and others that seek a peaceful solution to this latest Iranian crisis; this offering from Michelle Malkin on Sunday June 24, is a must see/read for those that want to bone up on who it is we will/would be negotiating with. This “schoolyard” playground is centuries behind any schoolyard in the U.S.; and the monitors enforce the dress code in a slightly aggressive manner.

Iranian Hostages

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Friday Sermon from Iran; Iran Ready to Talk

This Friday Sermon from Iran is much shorter than usual; the reasoning for this is twofold. One, you can click the link and read the ludicrousness for yourselves and two, who cares; it’s the same garbage spouted 24/7 from Tehran.

Of the most interest is the warning and imparting of wisdom from Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Khatami when he said:

“Passing a chain of resolutions against Iran is not going to solve any problem. The only solution to that problem is through negotiations, since logical and rational talks always yield fruit."

Ah, yes the “logical and rational” mind of the mullahs, leadership of the tehrrorists of Tehran. Note that resolutions is not the answer as they will get you nothing, oddly though the only yield from “talks” is more time for Iran to continue with its peaceful nuclear development.

In order to grasp rational logic one must accept that neither option bears any fruit, just like Iran bears no peace only the offer misery.

The peaceful pastor also gave warning to the U.S.’ President in reaction to his saying all options, including military are on the table with:

"The US president had also better know that the Iranian nation, too, has all options, including a big fist on the mouth, on the table for countering America severely."

Wonderful, peace be unto you but consider that while all you can muster is a “big fist on the mouth,” the U.S. could and should cut off Tehran’s communications, what little oil production and refining capacity it has, all electrical and anything else of the paltry offerings of a positive nature the Islamic Republic allows from within its borders. One on the U.S. side could say, remember how Saddam and his punks were cut-off and down? From Tehran the expected response might be, yes and look at how you have been mired in Iraq and elsewhere? At this point in these talks it might be fun to point out much like Iraq Iran would be once it has been turned upside down worse than it. Tehran could then enjoy its own quagmire within its own borders as it attempts to continue all its Middle Eastern proxies.

The situation being tough for the U.S. does not mean it would be easy for Iran; although the media wouldn’t portray it accurately like that though.

Watch your mouth and what you wish for little man. As much of a pushover the U.S. can be civility-wise, you might push just a wee bit too much sometime soon. You could then moan and whine about how much it is the U.S.’ fault, but you will know better.

On the bright side however, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali “Larry” Larijani said:

“Iran is ready for talks as a means for return of peace and tranquility to the region.”

Again it is very interesting and revealing that Iran is always ready to talk and repeats this as often is humanly possible; all the better to point later to the fact that Iran said, ‘it’s ready to talk.” The only problem with this is talk is what diplomats love as that’s what they’re paid to do and Iran knows the talk codeword will make those same diplomats fall all over themselves; thereby giving Iran oddly more time to continue with its peaceful nuclear development.

Iran wishes to talk overtly, whilst it sews murder, destruction and mayhem on civilians in the region of the world they claimed to be the purveyors of peace for. Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Hamas, Hezbollah and all the rest of the covert peaceful initiates that Iran embarks on.

By all means, talk that way Iran can continue its course of action. Eventually there may be peace once enough people have been killed and all submit to Iran and its dreams of Islamic hegemony over the entire planet.

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In the Service of Global Peace and Security – Iran has Your Back

In a news conference with foreign news entities during the 18^th anniversary celebrations of the “departure of Imam Khomeini,” president of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmadinejad said:

“Iran serves international peace and security,” and that ‘"big powers want to retain their monopoly over the nuclear energy and in order to achieve the goal, they sow discord and differences among the developing nations.”’

Asked by an Indian reporter about US claims of Iranian involvement in Iraq, the good leader responded in proper Leftist form (which requires dropping various details and facts):

‘"The US, equipped and supported Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi dictator, during his imposed war on Iran and Kuwait, has occupied Iraq under the pretext of WMD and creating democracy in the country."’ He added that no WMDs were found and aiming to interfere in regional issues, the U.S. remains in Iraq.

Just to help the Iraqi people, Iran “expressed readiness to establish security in the country,” when “the occupiers raised the plan of negotiation when they were unable to create security, peace and tranquility.”

Further example of Iranian interests in security, peace and tranquility in the region the president spoke of the Zionist regimes and his warning to that nation missing from various Middle Eastern states maps:

‘"In my statement I gave a warning to the Zionist regime not to repeat the crimes it perpetrated in Lebanon last year."’ Continuing that if the enemy does not refrain from its attempts at sowing discord among Muslim nations; ‘"If they are not after strengthening friendship with regional nations and prefer to continue their crimes, the nations will eliminate their presence in the region."’

This ‘elimination’ one must presume is with the assistance of Iranian peaceful nukes since he did also reaffirm that Iran has a strategy of “non-interference in Lebanese national affairs and called for unity and success by Lebanese.”

Evidence of this non-interference was offered on March 5 of this year by Israel’s Shin Bet Intelligence Service Director Yuval Diskin in an interview with reporters:

‘“Hamas has started to dispatch people to Iran, tens and a promise of hundreds…"’ [1]Cooperation between Iran and Hamas dates back to the early 1990s, but their relationship strengthened significantly after Hamas was elected to lead the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in January 2006.

Additionally from The Israel Project:

“On March 6, Hamas' Damascus-based political chief, Khaled Mashaal was in Tehran to discuss financial support for the Hamas-Fatah unity government and the current international monetary embargo on the P.A.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who advocates for Israel to be "wiped off the map," [2] encouraged Hamas to continue attacks against Israel. "The [Palestinian] government should use its brave and pious forces to continue resistance against the Zionist regime [Israel]," said Ahmadinejad, according to Iranian state-run television. [3]”

Chalk this one up as a misinterpretation of meaning from one society or culture to another I guess. For a timeline of Iranian “non-interference” dating back to 1990 see “Timeline of Hamas-Iran Ties.”

On this the 40^th anniversary of the start of the Six Day War, The NY Times notes:

“In Gaza, fighting between the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, flared up again, two weeks after the sides had declared a cease-fire.” As well as the fact that “Israeli peace advocates protested against four decades of occupation in Hebron, a tense and conservative Palestinian city with a biblical past, and tried to drown out a small counterdemonstration of local Jewish settlers with their chants.”

On this 40^th anniversary, let’s not forget what truly happened by ignoring historical rewrites from fanatics in the region, namely Hamas, Fatah, apologists, and appeasers as well as others.

Please note that in addition to Iran having your back, "a former Israel Broadcasting Authority news editor, Carmela Menashe and Shelly Yechimovich" also have your back Israel, according to The American Israeli Patriot
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[1] Erlanger, Steve, "Hamas gets training in Iran, Israeli official says," The New York Times, March 5, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/world/middleeast/
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; Boudreaux, Richard, "Israel intelligence chief: Iran training Hamas," Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2007,

[2] Pryce-Jones, David, "A Particular Madness - Understanding Iran's Ahmadinejad," National Review, May 8, 2006.
[3] Daily Star Staff, "Abbas to meet Olmert before cabinet formed," The Daily Star, March 7, 2007, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=80230
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The US and Iran Talk and Iran Offers Good Faith?

The US talks with Iran in Baghdad about Iraq, which further emboldens the Tehrrorists in Tehran. Iran covertly operates in Iraq to keep it off balance; although the covertness of it all is only so to our msm. Why are we supposed to believe that Iran’s nuclear intentions are peaceful?

According to the Islamic Republic News Agency:

“Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said on Tuesday that Ministry of Intelligence lodged complaint with court of justice against Ms. Haleh Esfandiari.”

From DeMediacratic Nation:

“Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

From the Statement of her Arrest from the Center for Scholars (very interesting and worth a read): “Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a dual Iranian-American national, was arrested in Tehran on May 8 and incarcerated in the Evin Prison.”

On Friday May 25, in a Navin R. Johnson moment it appeared to Reuters that these people were being detained for their dual Iranian-US citizenship.

Reuters gives more detail this morning, at least regarding charges pressed against the three people from Friday’s post; Haleh Esfandiari, Kian Tajbakhsh and Radio Farda reporter Parnaz Azima:

“Iran has charged three Iranian-Americans with spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.”

“The espionage charges were announced just one day after the United States and Iran held their most high-profile talks in almost 30 years. The Baghdad discussions between the two foes were restricted solely to Iraq.”

Talking with Iran only emboldens it to take more aggressive steps; 15 victims of a misunderstanding was one such moment and nothing came of it other than for Ahmadinejad’s gift.

As evidenced in IRNA, “Iran adopted proactive diplomacy to help restore Iraq security.” The way to resolve the issue in Iraq is to leave it to leaders like those of Iran…they only wish peace…it’s within Iran’s interests to have the M.E. free of U.S. intervention. During talks with the U.S. in Baghdad:

"Iran declared many times that withdrawal of occupiers is the only solution to help restore security of Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran spares no efforts to attain the goal,"

Occupiers rather than covert instigators…

At NRO this morning, Ilan Berman sees the steps taken by the Islamic Republic as a sign the Mullahs are getting a little uncomfortable and “deeply fearful of democracy:”

“The current clampdown, therefore, represents a logical reaction on the part of the Iranian regime. By imprisoning Esfandiari and other advocates of accommodation, the regime hopes to send the message to advocates of more lasting change that working with Washington could be hazardous to their health. In the process, it hopes to chill interest in American-style democracy among the constituency most susceptible to it: the Iranian “street.”’

Iran does nothing in good faith!

Iran and the Greater War on Terror

Iran in Iraq

Iran and the peaceful nukes

Victims of a misunderstanding

15 Hostages

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Friday Sermon from Iran and the Carnivorous Wolf that is the U.S.

If you can stand it read some of the sermon from one of the Mullahs of Peace. Why would anyone believe their nuclear intentions are for peaceful purposes? I would say more, but it isn’t really necessary.

Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Khatami continued Iranian professions of peace, with regard to talks with the U.S.:

"The late grand Imam's stand on refraining from entering talks with the Americans was an ideal of the Islamic Revolution."

"That carnivorous wolf is not of the type to enter negotiations. America is only after securing its own hegemony. The Supreme Leader denounced entering talks with the United States last week, even on Iraq, and that stand of the Supreme Leader is exactly in line with the grand late Imam's relative stands."

"Let us not forget that the late Imam said that America is the Great Satan, wishing for the severing of ties with that country. I ask those that promote entering negotiations with the Americans whether intrigues of the United States (against Iran) have got any milder during the course of the past 27 years, or not?"

"Regarding our country, ever since the victory of the Islamic Revolution all the plots hatched against us have been in a way related to the United States.”

"In case of the ethnic unrest, the plot aimed at flickering the flames of ethnic wars, support for the terrorists, launching the Iraqi imposed war, supporting all coup attempts, and lastly, ratification of a 109 million dollar budget to support groups that intend to overthrow the Iranian political system, you can easily see the US hands involved."

"At the international scene, too, wherever the Americans have been able to bite Iran using their poisonous sting, they have not hesitated. In Iraq, they entered the country claiming they want to establish democracy, leading to the most inhumane torture of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib Prison.”

"They claimed they had come to Iraq to restore security, but they deprived the civilians of peace of mind and security, ambushing into their residential homes every now and them, violating the privacy of people's wives and daughters. The self-claimed democracy of the Americans is interpreted in getting killed of 67,000 Iraqis ever since the US-led occupation of Iraq, and that is probably what American style security is supposed to mean."

"In Iraq's case the entire plots there are hatched directly or indirectly by the Americans, and we have strong proofs and documents for this claim. Member of Leadership Experts Council, focusing on devastating 33- day Israeli war on Lebanon, said, ‘"Beyond doubt, one of the main flickers of the flames of that war was the United States, and of course, Israel in no less to blame, but thanks Allah, the only fruit they gained from that wretched act was being humiliated."

"Today, too, it is the Americans that keep hatching plots in Lebanon, depriving the Lebanese nation of tasting security and peace of mind even for a single day."
AMERICA, AXIS OF EVIL IN REGION. We can with most certainty announce today that the United States has become the obvious manifestation of the Axis of Evil in the region."

"Regarding Iraq, today we hear the Iraqi officials and reputable personalities there, asking us to enter talks with the Americans aimed at solving the problems there. That does not equal entering negotiations. The matter is sitting at the same table where the Iranian officials would tell them (the Americans) that when a country is occupied by another, in accordance with the international laws, the occupier country has full responsibility for the occupied country's entire affairs."

"Therefore, the first people to be blamed for any human being that gets killed in Iraq are the occupiers, and we pray to God that the Iranian officials would succeed in convincing the Americans about this fact during their meeting.”

"There would be no negotiations, and when we say so, this is not a sentimental comment."

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Democrats, Mullahs Break on Agreed Timeline Scheme

Unfortunately for “Anti-war Democrats” the reality has sunken in to a degree; “acknowledging the political realities of the Democrats' narrow control of Congress,” they have abandoned their troop withdrawal demands…for now.

This is upsetting to Reuters and “will be a disappointment for many Democrats who think they won control of Congress in last November's elections largely because voters wanted to see an end to the four-year-old war in Iraq.” Further many Democrats will be additionally peeved that not only was the 2000 election stolen; but the reality of stealing it back with lies doesn’t cut the mustard either.

Lines of Communication Muddled

Today’s announcement that congressional Democrats have dropped the withdrawal timeline reveals the inept lines of communication between the Democrats and Tehran as Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini “emphasized the need for the US to present a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.”

In an interview with ‘Der Standard’ Hosseini speaking of talks with the U.S. said:

"We will hold the meeting because we regard ourselves as duty-bound to remind the occupying forces of the necessity to correct their performance. “

"Occupiers of Iraq should know that the time is ripe for them to give more power to the Iraqi people and leave them free to determine their own fate."

Hosseini was said to have been surprised that the Democrats dropped the ball, but his outlook later rebounded when he realized that it was not Tehran’s fault as much as it was the price of doing business with the decadent and weak West.

Note that I may have made some of this post up.

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