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| 2007-04-05 | |
by Reza Pahlavi Hudson Institute Briefing Series Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests good afternoon. Allow me to express my gratitude for the invitation to be with you today. To many of you whom I know personally, I extend my admiration and respect for the great work you have done over the years. To those I meet for the first time, thank you for letting me have the privilege of getting to know you. The Hudson Institute’s proud tradition of service to world peace includes the great work of those, like Herman Kahn, who dared to “think the unthinkable.” You can imagine the depth of my sorrow that today, the “unthinkable” concerns my homeland. The latest Presidential National Security Directive names the Islamic Republic of Iran as the greatest threat to international peace, security and stability. That is principally because permitting the foremost state-sponsor of terrorism to acquire nuclear weapons is unthinkable. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 The USA tightened the economic noose around the Soviets and make them spend more and more money on armaments..........This is also the correct policy with Iran. They have spent a lot of money rearming Hezbollah, Syria and they are spending more and more on trying to get nukes........Slowly the noose is tightening. I venture to say that this policy started as Reagan got the hostages back. It may take a couple of years more, but it will work.........and if you think that Putin, the ex-KGB, will let them have nukes I disagree. Now the Koreans maybe...............but somebody has to get paid, whether in dollars, euros or wons, who cares.The latest is that the USA or whoever is tightening the Iranian money supply and the mullahs don't have that extra cash that helped them buy lots of real estate in Toronto. |
| Posted by: Spuse the Elder7296 2007-04-05 21:42 |
| #5 doc correct; also he is the eldest son so that he was, circa 1978 the crown prince (he was in the USA for college during the 1979 revolutions) |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-04-05 14:48 |
| #4 Isn't Pahlavi the son of the late Shah? |
| Posted by: doc 2007-04-05 14:07 |
| #3 Has Pahlavi renounced any possible role in a monarchy? If not, its too bad because his name is, so I've heard, still a turn off in much of Iran. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-04-05 12:53 |
| #2 I'm with you Joe. I think. . . |
| Posted by: GORT 2007-04-05 08:45 |
| #1 FOX/WORLDTRIBUNE > IRAN may had been subsidizing NORTH KOREA's nucprogs includ nuke testing since the 1980's. IJN any case, post-USSR/Cold War the response of the Failed Left to the probs, defects, and failures of Leftism-Socialism includ Communism is MORE, BIGGER LEFTISM-SOCIALISM = BIGGER BIG GUBMINT + CREEPING TOTALITARIANISM, etal. AS FOR IRAN = RADICAL ISLAM, i.e. GOD-BASED SOCIALISTS > THEY'VE ALREADY PROCLAIMED "REFORM" IN ANY WAY IS UNNEEDED BECUZ GOD DOESN'T WANT THEM TO REFORM BECUZ ISLAM IS ALREADY PERFECT [ditto argument for Secular Lefties-SOcialists-Progressives]. IRAN/MOUD = RADICAL ISLAM must either give up its ambitions in the name of PRESERVATION OF LOCAL POWER, but bearing a real risk of SELF-IMPLOSION; or else CHOOSE TO ATTACK via MASSIVE, UN-RELENTING WMD TERROR ["Taking the World wid them"], ESPEC AGZ US CITIES + USG-NPE, IN HOPE OF FRIGHTENING US POLS + THE WEST INTO PREMATURE, DESPERATE CONCESSION IFF NOT SURRENDER. WOT > both for IRAN/RADICAL ISLAM + USA, WILL ULTIMATELY BE WON OR LOST IN THE HALLS OF THE US CONGRESS + US NPE. Pre 9-11 = Post 9-11 > VICTORY + SURVIVAL FOR RADICAL ISLAM/ANTI-US AGENDISTS WILL BE BASED ON PREVENTING THE USA FROM EMPLOYING OR RETALIATING WITH ITS FULL POWER, i.e. "The USA MUST be Constrained/ Controlled", VOLUNTARILY = FORCIBLY, UNILATERALLY POLITICALLY = BY INTERNATIONAL ANTI-US ARMED-MIL FORCE. AMER HIROSHIMA IS COMING - what will matter then to the Failed Left + Moud + anti-US Globalists will be Amer's POST-HIROSHIMA, IMMEDIATE MILPOL RESPONSE = POTENTIAL MILPOL RESPONSE TO ITS ATTACKERS. US MIL BUILDUP + NAVEX/MILEX's + Airspace > DUBYA KNOWS THIS, AND IS ALL BUT FORMALLY DARING MOUD TO DO SOMETHING AS USA STEADILY CONTINUES ENTRENCHING ITSELF THROUGHOUT THE ME. Moud > it may not be enuff for an anti-US, anti-WOT Democrat or other to win the WH in 2008, espec if Moud is aware of Dem-specific "MURTHA-ISMS". Remember, as per 2008 NPE POLITIX-PC > NO AMER HIROSHIMA + USA ENTRENCHED/STILL IN IRAQ-ME > post-Dubya GOP POTUS candidates can always claim the GOP and only GOP kept Amer safe from Terror from 9-11, 2001 thru Jan 2009. IOW, among other premises, IT IS TO THE DEMS + MOUD'S POL DISADVANTAGE FOR 2008 FOR NO AMER HIROSHIMA TO OCCUR. THE GOP AT THIS TIME CONTROLS ALL THE MAJOR "TALKING POINTS" FOR 2008 - ALL THE DEMS HAVE IS OBSCENELY, ANGRILY WHINING AGZ DUBYA FOR THINGIES THEY AREN'T SERIOUS ABOUT STOPPING. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-05 02:03 |