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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Of course, American foreign policy is completely to blame.
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yep, back to black and white, good and bad.
here's an interesting piece i found in the guardian (uk) awhile back discussing the dillemmas in dealing with iran as its mullahs and repressive government push the system into full-blown nutjob territory. also a discussion of seymour hirsch's criticisms of washington's iran policy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...392687,00.html
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They think in Iran you can just go in and hit the facilities and destabilise the government. They believe they can get rid of a few crazy mullahs and bring in the young guys who like Gap jeans, all the world's problems are solved. I think it's delusional," the former CIA officer said.
and some ugly ugly stuff on the death of the student reform movement in iran:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/cont...n_onlineonly01
But, ultimately, the reformists weren’t able to deliver all they had promised. They were blocked by the upper clerical establishment, which controlled the most important levers of state, and which acted to crush a lot of reformist legislation, to close about a hundred reformist newspapers, and to violently suppress student activism. So a lot of people concluded either that the elected leadership was powerless or that the reformists were weak and unreliable.
is the us or israeli government solely responsible for iran going further into the abyss? absolutely not. but ask yourself this: overflights, sponsoring terror groups operating inside iran, and sending special forces teams to target locations, is this happening, and if so, is it helping?
i'd say that is helping the mad mullahs of one of the craziest regimes in history.
i'd say that the rhetoric and insanity will hit a fever pitch if policies like this continue.
everyone in this board, in this discussion, in this world had better pray that the united states is NOT sponsoring MEK terror operations in iran.
is NOT overflying. is NOT allowing israel to use iraqi territoty to assist kurdish terrorism in iran.
because if any of that is happening, iran will have no choice but to further radicalize, because everything these crazy mullahs are saying, will in fact be true.