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2007-02-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-20 12:19|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Btw, the iranian media situation and access to foreignnews strangely reminds me of France's (well, except for arabic-speaking sat TV, of course, which are freely available, unlike, say, FNC).

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-20 12:30|| 2007-02-20 12:30|| Front Page Top

#2 ... then their colleagues might be tempted to take Dire revenge and perhaps kidnap US soldiers ...

This is the stuff that has me worried - that some Quds Force idiot is going to decide on his own to start the Third Persian Gulf War without the Mullahs' permission. It sounds a lot like the beginning to WWII in Asia, if you think about it - Japanese officers, having convinced themselves that they were doing the right thing, pretty much started a war with China on their own. And the Japanese government - unable to repudiate them because their next target might BE the government - had no choice but to back them up. If Quds Force or an RG unit decided to take matters into their own hands (and there's a strong possibility that the original hostage crisis in '79 wasn't planned by the Ayatollahs - they just went along with it once they realized nothing was going to happen)the MMs wouldn't dare try to stop them for fear that they'd be next.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-20 16:44|| 2007-02-20 16:44|| Front Page Top

#3 It took the U.S. four years to build a bomb with the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, and we had to invent all the theory and the engineering. The Mad Mullahs already know what the end-object is and roughly how it works, they just have to purify enough uranium and do the machining. They have today's knowledge, skills and technology. Why is that going to take six years?

Because here in America we don't have 60-80% of our cash going to graft and kickbacks, 50-80% of materials "Vanish", And Work Stoppages 5 times a day to listen to brainwashing propoganda.
6 years sounds incredibly short given those "Conditions".

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-20 19:10|| 2007-02-20 19:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I guessing 75% of the Iranian nuclear program is just a Potemkin village.

The other 25% scares the bejesus out of me.

Posted by john">john 2007-02-20 19:53|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-20 19:53|| Front Page Top

#5 And why WOULD the citizens of Iran be afraid of an American attack? It is obvious that we're tied down in Iraq, so there is not going to be any ground invasion. Very likely, it will be a short and precise air campaign with most of the ordinance dropped on suspected nuke fabrication sites. I think there are only two or three in subterranean bases built under university buildings. The JDAM has changed the way warfare is done, and soon will change the way warfare with the United states is regarded: "I don't live near a military base, so why should I worry?" will be the response of a large proportion of the population.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-02-20 20:37|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-02-20 20:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Independent websites in Persian have been filtered by the government, including the BBC's own Persian language site

I wonder how much the BBC has self-filtered?

Posted by Pappy 2007-02-20 21:12|| 2007-02-20 21:12|| Front Page Top

#7 The BBC is the subcontractor doing the censoring for the Ayatollahs, so it is in their interest not to self censor too much, at least in the Farsi version.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-02-20 21:19|| 2007-02-20 21:19|| Front Page Top

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