Posted on 11/04/2005 10:34:44 PM PST by F14 Pilot
There is an upside to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's shocking call to wipe Israel off the map: it is a good thing that the Iranian leader has revealed his hopes. For by doing so, he has helped those who are still undecided as to how to relate to the Iranian regime. Those European leaders who suggest that Israel get used to the idea of life in the shadow of an Iranian nuclear bomb - and who offer as an example Western Europe, which faced the threat of Soviet nuclear arms - should take into account that the Soviet Union never threatened to wipe any country off the map.
The new president's pronouncement was no slip of the tongue. It was part of a programmatic speech planned for the last Friday of Ramadan, and is part of a recurring phenomenon in Iran since the revolution. It was begun by the father of the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, followed by former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, who once said that all it would take is one nuclear bomb to wipe out Israel, and now they are joined by the new president, who has adopted a style that brings to mind the threats that Adolf Hitler used to make. One after another, three important leaders of "revolutionary" Iran have sent the Nazi message. Incidentally, for Ahmadinejad, this is only part of a broad radicalization that is expressed in other areas as well. He also has appointed five cabinet ministers from radical conservative bodies - the Republican Guards, intelligence community heads, and the Basij, volunteer militias that support the conservative regime, which some observers have likened to the SA brownshirts.
Maybe someone in Ahmadinejad's office thought that a voluble squabble with Israel might push the nuclear dispute with Iran to the sidelines. If so, he was wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
What happened to the Iranian lovers of freedom that were just about to conduct an overthrow of the radical religious government?
biding there time?
Could it be the CIA handlers of the leaders are having them hold until the right time?
Sorry for the wild speculation, back to our regularly scheduled thread... :)
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