Your assertions were that the Thai Government has ties with Iran. Please provide a source to back up your statement.
BTW, the straw man crap about sources does not work with my assertion and how I presented it.
The source will be in the results of this coup as it plays out.
Personal assertions are what they are. Logic, common sense and recent history regarding Iran. If you don't think they have their hooks in Thailand, Google is your friend as to how deep they go, and recent efforts.
As you said yourself, the rest is my assertion.
This is from the article that this thread is about!!!!!!
The appeal for talks with insurgents came a day after bombs in 22 banks across the province of Yala exploded almost simultaneously, killing a retired official, and injuring 28 people.
The highly co-ordinated attacks on the banks, including two state-owned Islamic banks, demonstrated the militants’ rising technical capacity, and their willingness to strike at the foundations of the economy of the region, an ethnic Malay Muslim-majority enclave in Buddhist-majority Thailand.
While I do not yet believe this coup is fomented by foreign sources, you must understand American concern over Muslim activity, particularly in the South. American intelligence has reported connections with Al Qaeda and Jamal Ismaliya, one of the groups involved in the South. Thai police have reported discovery of laptops, etc., with pointers to Indonesian and Malaysian terrorist groups. It is not a stretch to believe that those groups are being funded by foreign sources and right now Iran and Syria are the biggest money launderers. I DO know for a fact that Sondhi is now offering deals to the terrorists. That does NOT sound good. Terrorists need to be killed; not given deals. That may reflect falang thinking, but the da*n terrorists are trying to kill us falangs, and are doing a good job in the Thai South.
It is possible that Sondthi will appoint pro-US civilian Ministers and will permit elections in which even Thaksin is permitted to contest (which, if true, Thaksin would win). It is also possible that Sondthi will throw in with Muslim powers.
There is a great deal of American unease right now and you need not to call us all "stupid" or "ignorant" because we are suspicious in the manner the conspirators took over.
Some of us REALLY believe that Thaksin has been good for Thailand and that in any event the way he was removed is unconstitional and unlawful and potentially detrimental to American-Thai relations. For those of us who really care to Thailand because our relatives are there and we are planning to live there, it is of great concern.