Jonathan, if this really was an inside job, I’d be reluctant to call them freedom fighters and suggest that they’re the good guys. A mobster who kills another mobster for purely selfish reasons is still a mobster.

would anybody accuse me of being predictable if i were to ask why they’re not “freedom fighters”?

Has Mahmoud Ahmadinejad become the Islamic nihilist version of Mafia gangster Albert Anastasia?:

ìUnfortunately, as boss, Anastasia became more brutal than ever. In 1952, he even ordered the murder of a young Brooklyn salesman named Arnold Schuster after watching Schuster bragging on television about his role as primary witness in bank robber Willie Sutton’s arrest. It is alleged that Anastasia raged to his men “I can’t stand squealers! Hit that guy!”

In killing Schuster, Anastasia had violated a cardinal mafia rule against killing outsiders, which ran ñ as Bugsy Siegel once quaintly put it ñ “We only kill each other.” Schuster’s murder brought unnecessary public scrutiny on mafia business. Luciano and Costello were horrified, but they could not take action against Anastasia as they needed him to counter Genovese’s growing ambitions and power.î

http://www.answers.com/topic/albert-anastasia

Could it be that the sensible Iranian leadership is worried Ahmadinejad could bring about a major conflagration with both the United States and Israel? Hey, this could mess with their affluent lifestyles.

Useful comment thread over at WoC and The American Thinker re Iranian situation.

Scroll the thread from my comments and the links to other sites:

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