Posted on 11/12/2009 2:37:47 AM PST by Scanian
For almost a decade, Arab regimes have worried about alleged Iranian plans to create a "Shiite crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and a yet-to-be liberated Palestine. Now fresh fears have grown that the "crescent" may take another shape as well -- from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden, and including chunks of Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Since January, for instance, Iran has intensified pressure on Bahrain, where a Shiite majority has grievances against the Arab Sunni ruling elite. An archipelago connected with the Saudi mainland by a bridge, Bahrain provides the natural link to the oil-rich kingdom's Asharqiyah province, where Shiites form a majority.
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The Arabs were wetting their pants of Iran as early as 1971, when the Shah seized the Abu Musa and Tunb Islands, at the bottleneck of the Persian Gulf.
The scenario of Iran conquering the Arab side of the Persian Gulf was also subject of this equally amusing as eyebrow raising fiction of Paul Erdman from 1974...
"The Coming Oil War: How the Shah Will Win the World"
The novel was extended into Erdman's ridiculous book "The Crash of 79", in which the Shah (supported by Israel... harhar) conquers the Gulf, nukes the Arabs (while dying in the blast) and makes the oil fields unusable to the poor World.
The Crash of 79 came, but not as predicted, but in form of mad mullahs deposing the Shah, the duplicitious Arab Wahhabis are our "new friends" (as idiots like Bill Simon and Paul Erdman always wanted), and the world is stuck with the mad mullahs being a real threat... unlike the Shah, who was the favorite boogeyman of the 1970's within certain circles.
Oh yeah, and don’t forget that Turkey is gravitating towards the Iranian axis too. Erdogan’s Islamist party is turning away from secularism & from Israel and the West.
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