John in Michigan, USA
2010-07-06 04:28:40
Persians fighting Israel to the last Arab? True enough.
“Persians are not dim enough to sacrifice themselves for false rewards” sadly, not true. During the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980′s, a standard Iranian tactic was the human wave attack. For example, sending young men, and children, (mostly Persians, I presume) to clear a path through a minefield in order to preserve the Iranian armor. Those who survived, and their offspring, are the still called Basij. They are now the paramilitary units that (so far) have brutally defeated Iran’s Green Revolution. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij#Origins
So, its complicated, like all things in the ME.
