Who is threatening nuclear holocaust in the Middle East? It isn’t the Iranian mullahs, that’s for sure.[...]
At this very moment Israel has a great deal of its nuclear arsenal – containing at least 200 atom bombs– aimed straight at Tehran.
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It is the US that has occupied nations on Iran’s borders, in Iraq and Afghanistan, while you have to go back a thousand years to pin down the last time the Iranians (then the Persians) crossed their borders and invaded another country. It was the US that backed Saddam Hussein when he invaded Iran, in a war in which hundreds of thousands were slaughtered. So who is the real aggressor here?
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The Russians and the Chinese are not going to go along with the "get Iran" lynch mob now lining up behind French President Sarkozy and the vehemently anti-Iranian Germans. More importantly, the Iraqis aren’t going to go along with it, either - and good luck enforcing a blockade when goods can pass freely between Iraq and Iran. It can’t be done.
Our president knows this, and is by no means eager for a conflict with Iran: this is what has the Israelis furious with him, and it has the Lobby in a tizzy.
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The battle for public opinion is going to be decisive in the coming months. [...] You can bet your bottom dollar we’ll be treated to more surprises – sudden "revelations" of "secret intelligence" that will somehow find its way into the spotlight.
Again, if you have not already done so, read Juan Cole's piece: Top Things You Think You Know About Iran That Are Not True
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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