Iran: The War Within and Without
A week ago, something went seriously wrong in the underground tunnels beneath the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz. I don’t know if it was an explosion, on-site sabotage, an accident, or a cyber attack, but eight people were killed, and several others are being treated for irradiation. The tunnel leading to the damaged sector has been walled off. And another disaster, several days earlier, took place at the heavy-water facility at Arak, whose existence has been public knowledge since the mid-nineties.
Along with the explosion in a gas line leading to a new, secret, nuclear facility in a mountain near Fordow, this makes three setbacks to the Iranian regime’s nuclear program. Maybe their feng chui has gone negative in anticipation of the oft-dreaded Year of the Serpent, but whatever the explanation–no doubt the supreme leader sees the omnipresent satanic activity of the Jews hard at work–things are not going swimmingly for the terror masters in Tehran.
And that’s not counting the ongoing crash of the currency, the inflation, the many strikes throughout the country, the Hobbesian war of all against all among the ruling class, dramatic signs of technical incompetence such as a new oil rig that sank unceremoniously beneath the waters of the Persian Gulf, and the mounting death toll of Iranian killers on the Syrian battlefields.
Take President Ahmadinejad, for example. As he flew off to Cairo for what he hoped would be a triumphant performance in the Egyptian capital, his close ally Saeed Mortazavi, the former chief prosecutor responsible for thousands of brutal arrests, torture, and executions, was arrested and thrown into Evin prison in Tehran. That this was a slap at Ahmadinejad rather than a serious move against Mortazavi was demonstrated by his release within 48 hours. Many of the adepts who analyze Iranian runes and tea leaves saw this in the context of the public screaming match between the president and the Larijani brothers who currently head Parliament, the Judiciary and the “human rights” bureaucracy, which is true in part, but there are many warring factions within the thin veneer of the fabulously wealthy, powerful and corrupt ruling elite. These include the Revolutionary Guards Corps, with their military, intelligence and economic domains, the Khamenei mafia–notably the supreme leader’s son Mojtaba and their chief henchman Ali Akbar Velayati–and their allies, the “hard liners,” mostly in the clergy, who want an even more violent crackdown on what’s left of public opposition to the excesses of the regime, and the bazaaris, suffering mightily under the combination of Western sanctions and the RG’s iron grip on valuable foreign trade in everything from medicine to food.
Ahmadinejad is on his way out (presidential elections are slated for June, and he can’t run again), and knows that his enemies will not be kind and gentle once he leaves office, so he’s using his final months to damage as many of them as he can. He can’t attack Khamenei directly (capital punishment awaits even a president for such blasphemy), so he goes after the leader’s factotums, such as the Larijanis, whom Ahmadinejad publicly accused of corruption in recent days. Hence the suspicion that the Mortazavi arrest was ordered by one of them. Meanwhile, the Cairo trip was highlighted by a tongue lashing from the top Egyptian cleric, and two thwarted physical attacks, apparently enraged by Iranian support for the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad. Just a couple of years ago, Ahmadinejad was lionized by islamists throughout the Middle East; now he is at least equally an object of scorn. Some Egyptian even launched a shoe at the Iranian president shortly after his arrival.
You will not hear many of the country’s leaders admit the gravity of their current situation, but in private Khamenei has stressed the urgency of “winning” the war in Syria. If Assad falls, according to the supreme leader, Hezbollah is likely doomed, both in Syria and Lebanon. For many years, Nasrullah and his minions played a double-track game in Lebanon, serving as both a powerful army and a wealthy network of social services. But now, with thousands of them killing fellow Arabs in Syria, they are increasingly seen as an alien force, the long arm of Shi’ite Iran in the suffering body of the Sunnis. If they are defeated in Syria, their Lebanese enemies will turn on them.
To pull our geopolitical telescope one notch back, the same grim future awaits the Iranian regime. Khamenei knows that most of his people hate him, and he fears that an Iranian defeat in Syria will encourage those Iranians to turn on him and his failed regime.
Which brings us to the sad subject of the humiliating behavior of President Obama, who, according to Defense Secretary Panetta, vetoed a proposal to support the saner elements of the Syrian opposition–which might have brought down Assad and set in motion a crisis in Iran–and sent his buffoonish vice president abroad to beg the Iranians to talk to us. Leading with his behind, as is his wont, Obama received a swift public kick from the supreme leader. And yes, Khamenei’s reported dismissal of the very idea of talking to the Americans was a deception (as you know, having read it here first, there have been secret negotiations with the Obama crowd even before the 2008 elections), but it was both predictable and richly deserved.
His back against the wall, Khamenei is going all out to increase Iranian power where he can, and that means Iraq, Africa and Yemen, and of course Egypt. Were you surprised to read that the French found Islamists in Mali training Nigerian terrorists? Are you wondering why Egyptians don’t need visas to visit Iran? Clue: some of them will get special training.
And what is Obama doing about all this? He’s retreating. We’re down to one carrier group in the Gulf.
As I keep asking, if you wanted to design a policy to favor the success of our enemies and the despair of our friends (not just in the Middle East), how would your policy differ from what we’ve got now?
The war is on, and we are in full retreat. And the tandem of Kerry, Hagel and Brennan love it.
Oh, my!
Obama is leading with his behind!
Delicious!
Will Hezbollah use their weapons to protect themselves or attack their Jewish neighbors?
The failure of a U.S. Navy CBG to put to sea and sail to a combat zone was shocking.
Bit imprudent to use 60,000 rockets on fellow Lebanese, at any rate without uniting everybody else in the neighborhood against them, but easy enough to target Israel and shout that their “Brother Arabs” should support them in the struggle against the “Zionist Entity.” They might hope even to get the Wahhabist Entity to look favorably on them in such an event. Probably not, but when you are desperate you take desperate chances.
No good is going to come from Syria for the USA, for Israel, for Turkey, and probably not for the Syrians themselves, either. Overthrowing Assad’s tyranny will be a good thing for us, for it damages Iran, but beyond that it is likely that there will arise a Taliban-like regime in Syria, ethnic cleansing (or worse) for the religious minorities, and another terrorist-supporting dump, this time under a religious dictatorship instead of a secular-socialist one.
By withdrawing from Iraq, Obama gave up our best position to influence events in the region and stymie further Islamist gains. Obama threw away a strong position out of a combination of ignorance how the world works and an ideological and partisan hissy-fit against Dubya.
I thought tandem referred exclusively to pairs too, but I looked it up and I was wrong. –AGF
Why is it that the foreign policy acts of the Obama administration, when recited aloud, come out like a comic failing on stage. Instinctively you want to wince. Kerry, Hagel and Brennan – think Larry, Curly and Moe 20 years after they should have quit.
Kerry, Hagel, and Brennan: They’re a triumvirate. It takes two to tandem.
hah! well said. tks.
That CBG didn’t _fail_ to deploy, as that implies that the Battle Group had a say in the process. Instead, we, as in the United States, and by extension, our Navy, feel so uncertain about it’s funding that it reasoned it couldn’t _afford_ to deploy it.
And the entire financial uncertainty crisis can ultimately be laid at the feet of one man, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has refused to allow a budget to pass out of his house since FY 2009.
Teddy Roosevelt put the Great White Fleet to sail around the world, without it being fully funded, essentially daring Congress to not fund it. Not all progressives are cut from the same cloth.
Neither are all Congresses.
Krauthammer is advocating that Congress call Obama’s bluff: The sequestration cuts should NOT be rescinded, not even the cuts to national defense.
“The war is on, and we are in full retreat. And the tandem of Kerry, Hagel and Brennan love it.”
You lost your argument with this last line. You’re assuming bad faith, even treasonous behavior, against your political opponents.
It might be effective to stir up emotions against the left, but those of us who refuse and resent the playing of that game need more to convince us why staying out of this is a bad idea.
holding a conviction different from years–documented for years in considerable detail–is not evidence of “bad faith.”
Obama always assumes bad faith on the part of those who don’t agree with him.
“You lost your argument with this last line. You’re assuming bad faith, even treasonous behavior, against your political opponents”
So your argument is, its NEVER POSSIBLE for an American Politician or appointee, to act in bad faith?
Assumptions of Character and Motive are required to make decisions…
To do otherwise, to assume ‘everyone” has the same ethical standards and honest motivations, is a dangerously naive concept
i’m claiming good faith for myself, which you seemingly denied.
You have full credibility, full transparency, full proof of your love of country. Obama can only play at all of it. What that says about the American people in 2012 – unless massive vote fraud was involved in the re-election – is disturbing and frightening.
While Congress has mandated that the US maintain 11 Carrier Battle Groups, this administration on December 1 decommissioned USS Enterprise (CVN-65) leaving only 10 carriers.
The Bush CV78 is in trials. (It was christened before Bush 44 left office.)
It’s expected to join the fleet, with ceremonies in the late Spring.
For all practical purposes, it’s good to go right now.
Cancel that comment.
Bush was CV77.
“Which brings us to the sad subject of the humiliating behavior of President Obama, who, according to Defense Secretary Panetta, vetoed a proposal to support the saner elements of the Syrian opposition”
What is this, 2 or 3 guys who aren’t stark raving Islam mad? Haven’t we been burnt enough already supporting Muslims?
“Burnt” by supporting Muslims ? Why yes, starting with your sitting President.
With all this Hope of Change in Syria Lebanon and Iran the surface still looks gloomy. At least Mr. Ledeen is informing us of events not likely to be found anywhere else especially MSM. At least someone is sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program. Maybe it’s us. In that case Obama has to get some credit. Politics in the Middle East is never what they seem. At the surface two countries could be spewing all kinds of vitriol against each other yet under the surface they conduct business as if nothing happened. Vice versa, Obama could be cozying up via Biden while sending saboteurs to put a monkey wrench in their nuclear cog wheels. The Syrian insurgency is extremely bloody, an Iranian one would make Syria’s look like a paper cut. Remember a few years back many were hoping for a peaceful change while I opined it’ll be bloody. At best we could hope for an implosion within Iranian government as Ledeen seems to be alluding to but there are too many factions with lots of arms for any peaceful changes especially for the common Iranian. How are they going to get into the fray, oust the various monsters already in place and install a Westernized government? That’s for Ledeen and other experts to figure out.
Hard to imagine Barry is behind the sabotage given his reaction to the attempted Green revolution in ’09. My money is on the Israelis especially given that they seem to be better at this sort of thing than we are.
could also be internal opposition as I’ve suggested in the past…and accidents do happen, after all.
Sir, if your sitting president is behind the sabotage of Iranian nuclear assets he would make sure the world knows it–he cannot help it.
No–the man has never met a mirror he didn’t like, especially your press–he would blab it via a news conference with “I” and “me” and “Myself” led statements in every sentence. All credit accrues to him and away from your servicemen or CIA operatives. But I too think it’s “Those Joos” who are responsible. They tend to react to existential threats that way. Can’t imagine why.
Your analysis seems absolutely correct.
So, Michael, you are saying that the end of Ahmedinejad’s career is not just bad news for him, that it is also a marker for the approaching end of the regime? I still remember a conversation with an Iranian woman 3-4 years ago who hated the regime and said it was doomed. When I asked her ‘how long’ she began to hedge, and then said it would take a long time.
I’m not predicting the end of the regime unless the “civilized world” supports the regime’s enemies. On the other hand it would not totally surprise me to see the whole rotten thing implode tonight.
I agree that at some point it will implode. Also, events in Syria will hasten its end. End of Assad could mean the end of Hizbollah in Lebanon, and that might encourage dissidents in Iran. So, yes, it could happen within a year if things break a certain way..
We are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. We could leverage the Syrian situation and the other advantages we now have to collapse, or seriously eclipse, Hezbolla and Iran.
The Burgas bombing findings should be used to pressure the EU to blacklist Hezbolla.
What are we to make of the the fact that most Iranians support the nuclear program even as they chafe under the sanctions? This regime has more popular support than we are sometimes led to believe. Heh, lets poll Iranians on what they think of Israel and America. I think if they overthrew this regime the next one would have the same foreign polcies. I have very little sympathy for the Iranian people as a whole although there is an opposition we should support.
Michael,
I am interested in this apparent incident that happened at Natanz. I have not seen this reported anywhere. Can you provide us with more information or links?
Also, do you have any information on whether anything happened at Fordow a few weeks ago?
Thanks,
DD
WORLD NET DAILY has been reporting about the explosions and the subsequent deaths of 13 North Korean scientists/military at the Fordow site for TWO WEEKS.
NO MENTION ON THE LAME STREAM MEDIA. They’re EMBARRASED to admit they’ve been “scooped”!
I haven’t seen anything in print on Natanz, I got the story from sources that have been accurate in the past. Same with Arak. Re Natanz, see what I posted above.
Michael,
Was there really an explosion at Fordow? The USA and the IAEA have said there is no evidence of one. And the “consensus” in the press is that nothing significant occurred.
what i wrote was that there was an explosion in a gas line to a new facility “near Fordow,” not “at” or “inside” Fordo…I’m pretty sure the information on Arak and Natanz is correct, I like “Reza Khalili” and know that he works hard, but I don’t have any independent information about an “explosion at Fordow.”
War in Iran, war with Iran, war on the streets of Europe, Army majors screaming “Allahu Akbar” and murdering their own men.
There’s an undeclared war going on in England’s cities and the government has even resorted to political prisoners. There’s a great take on that in: “Don’t Push It!” at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
I don’t want to make light of the seriousness of the Iranian nuclear menace, but how can we ignore the comedic value of various petards going off down the bowels of nuclear installations underneath the footprints of Xerxes the Great? I only hope that reality will indeed surpass fiction, because I don’t detect a Brennan doctrine measuring up to the zealotry of Ayatollahs trying to outpace the Wahabi.
yes, professor, there is definitely a comic component to this regime.
I think Obama’s plan is to bankrupt America at every turn, the final wound
being the collapse of the dollar and the timing there of.
When opec oil is no longer traded in the dollar the SHTF and
we are economic toast. Everything he does or does not do is for the
execution of the bankruptcy plan. Iran wants to trade in the EURO.
I think you are right but nobody listens and when the S will HTF all the elitists will say that “nobody could have foreseen this”…
What military options do we have available, other than launching another pre-emptive war?
Because after Iraq, I really don’t want to do that again.
You dont need a war just an airstrike. Nobody is even thinking about regime change or boots on the ground.
What are they going to do? They could send some missiles at our bases or try and attack the USN. They wont get far with that.
Number one target on the should be all the oil refineries in Iran. They are already struggling to produce enough fuel for road and rail transport. Shutting down their transport will speed up the process.
i don’t want to do it either. military families hate wars. i want to support the internal opposition.
“And what is Obama doing about all this? He’s retreating. We’re down to one carrier group in the Gulf.”
Not true. Obama is sending F-16′s to our loyal ally, Egypt.
Fortunately, I doubt that they can fly them.
“We’re down to one carrier group in the Gulf…..” Well yes, last time I checked, the country has a $16 trillion dollar debt and running annual budget deficits of about a trillion. How many carrier battle groups can we afford, until our fiscal house gets re-ordered?
“Obama is sending F-16s to our loyal ally Egypt…..” And doing exactly what the defense industry wants him to do.
#21 ghilmeini: I haven’t heard of those incidents. But your logic makes sense.
I hope everyone posting here supports the call by Senator Ron Paul (R-KY) for an audit of the Pentagon (and no, I’m not a Paulista_
steve, we make choices about how to spend our money, don’t you think?
There were reports that there was an explosion was at Fordo, if Fordo was also hit it means that all the big sites suffered accidents- Fordo, Nantanz, and Arak. Even just Arak and Nantanz is all good news.
If true, it is the biggest commando/intelligence knockout punch ever delivered. Some western intelligence agency or agency has totally penetrated Iran’s most secure sites and blows them up at will.
I think the carriers were called back as what would have taken a major war has been done by cloak and dagger. Why put armed forces in harms way when you can crush the enemy without war? Iran has sent billions on their insane efforts to become a nuclear power and now all they have are craters and russian bill collectors. And Assad is finished, he is a close to a Khadafy style dog’s death. His regime has fully imploded. So much for the second persian empire.
I don’t know if it was an explosion, on-site sabotage, an accident, or a cyber attack, but eight people were killed, and several others are being treated for irradiation.
My guess is simple incompetence by people who think they know what they are doing but are actually acting like the “sorcerer’s apprentice”. Iran’s claims of technological prowess are increasingly looking like a Potemkin village. After all, how can Iran have a “secret” facility if I know about it?
This soap opera gets more interesting day by day.
The American humiliating defeat makers like the qualities of a gentlemen “Obama, Hagel, Brennan, Kerry and others of this sort” they attempting to shirk their responsibilities…they of course are seeking to destroy the America’s status as the world’s lone superpower.
The question is, what they think about the great victories that the US has won in the 20th century?! that great victories which have made Japan and Germany into stable democracies?!
I think (destabilize the security and stability of some powerful countries, and impose democracies and also maintain stability in the bloody areas MUST be an initial essential priority of priorities of U.S. national security strategies!)
Michael, I’m not sure about this conclusion: “…If Assad falls, according to the supreme leader, Hezbollah is likely doomed, both in Syria and Lebanon…”
“Inside the Revolution” by Joel Rosenberg deals primarily with 3 groups. Muslims in favour of jihad, Muslims not in favour of jihad, and former Muslims who are now Christians.
There are words about Bashir Al-Assad, how he had things in common with Mubarak, and the heads of Algeria & Tunisia (This was before the Arab Uprising, as Daniel Pipes calls it). (There are two other groups that receive about a paragraph, each, in the book. The more plentiful are those Muslims which will be swept up in the direction of whomever is leading the parade.)
The four concluded that each day in power that they enjoy, this is a day that the Muslim Brotherhood is not in charge.
Nonetheless, that only goes so far, because Syria is in Iran’s orbit, and I don’t have to tell you, or your readers, as to relations between Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
I saw this in the National Post, and I hope that it is duplicated in more places:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/08/hind-aboud-kabawat-a-place-where-syrians-all-get-along/
Mr. Lincoln, in fact all dictatorial regimes in the region and their followers of terrorist organizations got doomed that is since the United States of America dropped a very brutal and repressive regime is considered one of the worst regimes after World War II. As usual, America doing the right job!!!
Yes, Al-Assad’s regime is a sectarian regime politically but a secular religiously, yet, it is a very bloody, brutal and repressive regime which has made it a very despised and hated by its own people. Syrians has suffered horrendously under Al-Assad family. During the reign of Assad’s family there were myriad ways of torture and death in the right of their own people, and today, they commit the most heinous massacres against them! But there has been no sectarian violence in Syria but sectarian violence may could explode if the Assad regime falls and WITHOUT the help of the West!?
Sunni Muslims who I dissident from them and rabidly AGAINST them, are the majority in the country, almost they make up about 74 % of the entire Syrian population, after all, they are virtually shut out from most of the key government jobs that is under the control of minority group “the Alawites”. nearly all the key political and military positions in Syria under the hold of Alawites, because the Al-Assad family came from Alawitic family. They also are supported by most of Syrian Christians because there is a warm relationships between the Alawites and Christians in Syria…The Alawites celebrate many Christian ritual and festivals, including Christmas, New Year’s, Epiphany and Easter. they tend to show more friendliness to Christians than to Muslims, which makes them seem like heretics to many Muslims although they belong to the minority Muslim religion of the country “Shiites”, where both Sunnis and Shiites are the two major denominations of Islam, both share the most fundamental Islamic beliefs. But between them political differences not spiritual that led to the bloody conflicts which is the centuries-old…
However, the Alawites are a secular sect of Islam follow a branch of the Twelver school of Shia Islam. Today they constitute some 12 percent of the Syrian population. Alawites have been strongly backed by Shi’ite authorities in Iran and Lebanon, by Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian-born head of the Shiite Supreme Council in Lebanon, Imam Musa Al-Sadr. In 1973, Imam Al-Sadr issued a fatwah recognizing them as part of the Shiite Muslim community in the interest of Arab nationalism. At that time, and in the early 1970s, Musa Al-Sadr has became a confidant, political ally, and close friend of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad. Since then the common enemy of all is, the Great Satan “America” and the Little Satan “Israel.” They sworn to combat the satanic influence everywhere that is since the Ayatollah Khomeini had been declared in 1979. They slaughtered Americans every single day, while the dirty goal in their sinister schemes is to destruct the Great Satan and wipe out the little Satan off the map. Hezbollah AND the Iraqi’s Mahdi Army are considered the major military fronts for these evil regimes to confront Israel and America…and nowadays the Alawite militias in Syria ALSO are receives weapons and money from Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Today the facts on the ground became more complex in Syria and in the region generally than a simplistic formula. in general “Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria” are a states in Iran’s orbit, they are crucial protagonists in the specter of a Shiite crescent. let alone the warm relations in these days between Shiite Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood those who rule Egypt. while there is some Sunni Arab leaders are trying to pry Syria out of its alliance with Iran, because they became very worried about Shiite crawl. for example, the Saudi royal family today is overwhelmingly worried about the situation in the region. They are a great supporter of the Sunni Islam that is in favour of jihad.
So, if Assad regime falls, many of Syria’s Christians who constitute about one-tenth of the Syrian population are fearful to be ruled by militant islamists who belong to Jihadist doctrine than it is to have a secular government such as the Assad regime, which is why they have not abandoned their strong support for Assad regime. they not considered any kind of political threat to Bashar Al-Assad regime, the greater threat of Al-Assad regime are “the Sunni Muslims and the Kurds.” For instance, the Muslim Brotherhood movement in the case of an ongoing dispute with the regime for decades, on several occasions they have tried toppling the regime by terroristic ways. Today the ordinary Sunnis comprise the bulk of the opposition to President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, including the Muslim Brotherhood and Kurds. Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria and make up more or less 9 % of the country’s population. They have faced routine discrimination and harassment by Syrian government, where they are mistreated and persecuted by Al-Assad regime!
As for Ms. Hind Aboud Kabawat, I think she is probably a close friend of Al-Assad’s regime. She is a liar and a bad woman. She along with her close friends of the purported peace advocates, such as “Peace Rabbi. Marc Gopin and Jim Wallis” they are of the most vocal opponents to George Bush’s policies in the region. In this picture “she with Bashar Al-Assad’s wife and the Rabbi. Gopin.” http://www.new-lebanese.com/?p=54821
Let me play ‘Obama Advocate’ again.
Our non involvement in the civil war in Syria has been, in realpolitik terms pretty successful.
- it has tied Iran down in Syria, forcing them to send some of their best logistics, security and intel assets there – and also taking financial resources
- it has tied Hezbollah down similarly
- it is resulting in the death of thousands of Sunni Wahabbis
- it is giving the Kurds both time and space to set up an autonomous area
There are of course some downsides
- more civilian deaths
- faster destruction of the Christian Syrian community (I assume this community is doomed in the long term anyway).
This gives a big net plus to the Obama admin. It may be true that results are despite their intention, but ‘what difference does it make… at this point’
yes it’s better to be lucky than brilliant. but none of the ‘gains’ even begins to match the benefits of the fall of Assad and Hezbollah, and the chance of the end of the Iranian regime. you’re too narrowly focused on Syria, i think. step back and look at a broader context. and don’t forget that the iranians are killing americans all the time…
First, thank you for engaging the commenters (not just me).
Second, my theory does go beyond a Syria-centric aspect. My theory is that, absent the Syria conflict Iran would be far better able to advance their nuclear weapon program (both because of the relocation of assets back to Iran and the fact that the Mullahocracy wouldn’t be occupied with Syria related matters). Furthermore, if Assad were gone and Hezbollah was thus seriously weakened, they (Iran) would have a far greater incentive to take the next step in enrichment, the next steps in fabrication, the next steps in weapon system integration, etc.
Yes, it I acknowledge that the fall of the Mullahs would likely be every good for the world (the only thing bad about it would be a tendency toward more Sunni supremacy and more vicious persecution of Shia in some countries). However, I didn’t see the quick fall of Assad as significantly increasing the odds of such a fall. Part of the reason for this is that the violent stalemate in Syria keeps some of the cream of the Iran security folks doing Syria related tasks. Personally, I think a long Syrian stalemate with many Iranian deaths and many pro Assad statements by the Mullahs followed by the fall of Assad gives the best chance (although still less than 50%)for a change of regime in Iran.
Gallup is releasing a “neutral” “scientific” poll result on Iran. I hope you have seen it. It seems the genius statesmen of the US are trying their best to compromise with the brutal terrorist regime ruling in Iran and therefore are preaparing pre-determined documents so as to show that they have no other option because the “majority” of the people in Iran are supporting the regime.
It is more decent and honorable not to tell big lies to justify one’s wrong decisions. Also better to keep a polling company its credibility. Gentlemen go ahead and shake hands with the killers of your daughters/sons in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, … but please don’t regard us idiots.
well said.
Michael,serious bussiness here in Argentina because the talks with the iranian regime regarding the AMIA blast.I hope a note in PJM from you or another in this particular.Salutti,Carlos E. Hos