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| Iranian Government Seeks Regional Power Base |
| 2006-09-12 |
| Non-Arab peoples in the vicinity of Iran could care less either about Ahmadinejad's threats against the US and Israel, or US led UN anti-proliferation efforts. In fact, they are aiding Iran in creating a regional power base. First, Central Asia, then the world. The destabilization effect of indulging Shiite power, would be catastrophic. Reliance on worthless UN sanctions, would license a future Homeland ICBM threat. We have the pretext; we have the means; but do we have the will? ...After an absence of many centuries, Iran is going back to Central Asia, or at least trying to regain a foothold in the region, which is politically, economically and strategically important for it and with which it has common cultural and historical roots. In the early 1990s, immediately after the Soviet Union's breakup, Tehran launched a massive attack on the newly sovereign states in Central Asia, primarily Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, following its official foreign policy concept - export of Islamic revolution. It failed. Still, it deserves some credit for being able to assess the situation impartially and abandon its attempts to export Islamic ideas to Central Asia. It also understood that the new states were interested first of all in developing economic cooperation with leading regional and Asian powers, especially if it meant attracting investment. But they were not willing to jeopardize their relations with the western countries, especially with Russia and the United States. Iran's Central Asian policy under the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is based on these considerations... |
| Posted by:Snease Shaiting3550 |
| #1 Will say again that iff and when the USA-West ever goes down for the count, the day after the marriage between Secular Socialist + God/Faith-based Islamist/Theo-Socialist will end. Incidents of nonconsensual emptying of bank(s) accounts + adulteries, etal. will likely occur before then. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-12 23:22 |