Posted on 06/21/2009 7:14:52 AM PDT by libh8er
Suddenly, there appears to be an Iranian people. Not just nuclear technology, extremist ayatollahs, the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad, and an axis of evil. All of a sudden, the ears need to be conditioned to hear other names: "'Mousawi' or 'Mousavi,' how is it pronounced exactly?"; Mehdi Karroubi; Khamenei ("It's not 'Khomeini'?"). Reports from Iranian bloggers fill the pages of the Hebrew press. Iranian commentators - in contrast to Iranian-affairs commentators - are now the leading pundits. The hot Internet connection with Radio Ran (the Persian-language radio station in Israel) is the latest gimmick. And most interesting and important is that the commentary on what is taking place in Iran is not being brought to the public by senior intelligence officers, but via images transmitted by television.
Israel is now gaining a more intimate, accurate familiarity with the Iranian public. The demonstrations have made quite clear that there is not one Iran or even two, but rather a number of Irans. There is the Iran that belongs to those who screamed, "Death to America and to Israel," and there is the Iran that screams, "Down with the dictator."
The entire world intently listened to Iran's supreme leader with the same anticipation and focus with which it received Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, perhaps even more so. The political sermon delivered by spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which included couched threats against his opponents, proved that not everything is done on the command of the supreme leader. He too needs to heed public opinion, he too needs to compromise, he too is operating within a system that includes religious and political adversaries. In short, it was not the son of God who spoke on Friday, but a politician who needs to preserve his system of rule as well as his own legitimacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Nuclear facilities are not going to be near any population centers from which the nascent revolution springs now. They are buried under mountains of earth in sparsely populated areas.
Zvi, YOU are the one who is just waking up to this... NOT Israel; they and most everyone here at FR probably ‘’gets’’ that. (Zvi, write again in four years when you get some epiphanies on what a disaster Obama is/was, or maybe share some thoughts on how all Iraqis are not like Saddam.)
Which Iran would Israel bomb?
DUH...
The one where the nuclear bomb is being built...
Stupid question!
Israel does not bomb people, they would bomb the nuclear sites making a bomb to destroy them!
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