Posted on 01/28/2011 7:48:42 PM PST by Innovative
Hopeful that the protests sweeping Arab lands may create an opening for hard-line Islamic forces, conservatives in Iran are taking deep satisfaction in the events in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, where secular leaders have faced large-scale uprisings.
While the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confronted its own popular uprising two years ago - and successfully suppressed it - conservatives in Iran said they saw little similarity between those events and the Arab revolts, and instead likened the recent upheavals to Iran’s own 1979 Islamic revolution.
In comments published Friday on the Web site of the semiofficial news agency ISNA, Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, who favors a political system in which elections merely endorse "ivinely chosen" clerical leaders, congratulated the people of Tunisia and Egypt, stating that they had acted "based on the principles" of Iran's Islamic revolution.
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Highly recommend the editorial in Investor’s Business Daily:
Editorial: Will Obama Lose Egypt?
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/561401/201101281851/Fright-Of-Egypt.aspx
“In 2009, the Egyptian daily Almasry Alyoum reported that President Obama secretly met in Washington that year with representatives of Egypt’s jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, the Hamas ally that, while banned, dominates the opposition in the country.”
The Sunni hate the Shia. Iran should be terrified to see lethargic corrupt dictatorships replaced by fanatical Sunnis.
You've got to be kidding me!?
All New york Times articles are written in the title and/or first two three paragraphs, at which point the regular readers are on to the next article quickly. The liberal will never risk there world view and can say they read the paper.
The emphasis is that you read twice: “conservatives in Iran” ...and associate that with so called conservatives here.
It’s how the articles are written regularly, they understand conditioning of what audience they have left.
All New york Times articles are written in the title and/or first two three paragraphs, at which point the regular readers are on to the next article quickly. The liberal will never risk there world view and can say they read the paper.
The emphasis is that you read twice: “conservatives in Iran” ...and associate that with so called conservatives here.
It’s how the articles are written regularly, they understand conditioning of what audience they have left.
Watch the MSM! Zer0 will get total credit for the uprisings of the Arabs, based on his Cairo speech!
But, only if it comes out ok. Hardliner Condi and Bush will be villified, regardless of the outcome!
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