[MadIvan]

I hope Israel is warming up the jets as I write this.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[dixiechick2000]

"I hope Israel is warming up the jets as I write this."


You, and me, both.

You know what I don't like?

The very fact that they are considered "conservative" in some corners.

[MplsSteve]

"World reaction to Ahmadinejad’s victory was mixed. Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, urged him to address international concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme."

Ahmadinejad won't address the issue of Iran's nuclear program.

OTOH, the Israelis will address the issue...in an loud and explosion-filled statement of their intentions.

I wonder if Israel has been holding off until the elections were decided. Now there is no doubt. Iran won't turn back...and now the Israelis likely won't either.

[LibertarianInExile]

Yeah, well, it's damn sure that Europe and the U.S. aren't gonna do shit about it. I sure hope you're right. And I hope Tehran glows when they're through.

[martin_fierro]

While Rafsanjani rarely left his office in affluent northern Tehran during the campaign, Ahmadinejad traversed the provinces, often in his ramshackle orange campaign bus, repeating: “I have no money to spend on my campaign. No party is supporting me. I am the people’s servant.”

What could've been, eh, Dennis?

[Criminal Number 18F]

A whole story about the Iranian election, and no mention of (1) turnout (which was very low) and (2) rigging (which was patent).

About now Jimmah Carter should dodder on to the world stage to say that the beards were elected by a nore honest system than in the US, and it's all Bush's fault.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[JSteff]

"Ahmadinejad, who has promised to give the poor a greater slice of the Islamic republic’s abundant oil wealth, swept to victory after a campaign focused largely on the hardships of the majority of the country’s 68m people. "

Politicians the world over are exactly the same. Buy votes to win elections. I guess he feels their pain.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Do you think there are, as another poster put in on another thread, hard assed Iranian rednecks that don't like having their toes stepped on. Do you think there are hard assed Americans and Britss that don't like having their toes stepped on ? Do you think, there are hard assed Holy Land rednecks that don't like having their toes stepped on as well.

The point is, is there enough time and space so that can we all dance together without intentionally stepping on each others toes ? The Middle East is one hell of a big dance floor.

P.S. I use the word "hell' above in it's fondest sense.

[hershey]

This is big, big trouble. We should have taken out their nuclear sites months ago.

[Semper Paratus]

Turn back the clock.

From the 12th Century to the Fourth Century BC.

[FreedomNeocon]

"His slogan during the campaign — “We did not make a revolution to have a democracy” — appeared to anticipate a closing down of what had been a gradual relaxation of social and political controls."

Well at least that should increase the # of revolutionaries that we have started to fund/train in the oil areas. Syria/Iran's meddling has really retarded the Iraqi reconstruction effort and they each need to at least be put on the defensive. Eventually revolutionaries will have to revolt in Iran, but it would probably take some catalyst (perhaps this 'hardline' guy getting elected will lead to it)

[null and void]

On the bright side, at least they elected a moderate...

[caver]

Does electing this guy paasify the youth that are over there protesting? They can't be too happy with is election. He doesn't sound like a figure that will modernize the country, other that building nukes.