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2011-03-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran Orders Terrorist Attacks on Saudi Interests Worldwide

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-21 13:14|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 kinda schadenfreudish. The Wahhabis getting their own handed back to them

Posted by Frank G 2011-03-21 13:35|| 2011-03-21 13:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Hold it. Syria supports Gaddafi.
Syria is a client state of Iran.
Therefore, it is logical that Iran supports Gaddafi.
Gulf states and Jordan are supporting the bombing campagin. They are clients of the Saudis.
Therefore Iran sees the Saudis as behind the attack on it's friend Gaddafi?

I know it's the MidEast so logic isn't logic... just trying to figure out the various entanglements...

Perhaps quantum entanglements?

Posted by Water Modem 2011-03-21 14:15|| 2011-03-21 14:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Importantly, the way the Iranians do things is to let the hot heads spew, but with no official government backing, so that if it turns out more than they bargained for, they can disavow it, and claim that the hot heads were speaking out of turn.

In high risk brinkmanship, they will try to cover the whole gamut as insurance, so no two Iranian leaders will say the same thing.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-21 14:20|| 2011-03-21 14:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Popcorn.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-21 14:49|| 2011-03-21 14:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Um, no, Water Modem, this has nothing to do with Libya. It's posturing over the invasion/crackdown in Bahrain. The Iranians were sort-of supporting a Shia uprising, and the Saudis invaded with a fig-leaf invitation from the threatened Sunni monarch of that flyspeck. It's a Gulf thing.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-03-21 15:07|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-03-21 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 No surprise here, as I'd been wondering how long it would take IRAN + HEZBOLLAH to exploit the the various regional "Jasmine" Protests, + bust-a-move [PCorrrect-Deniable] agz the KSA.

TEHRAN MAY HAD BEEN PUBLICLY RANTING OER GCC INTERVENTION IN MOSTLY SHIA BAHRAIN, BUT THEIR REAL TARGET/FOCII WAS THE SAUDIS + HOW TO STRIKE AGZ SAME.

Iff true this is an informal, but tacit, declaration of war by Shia Iran agz the Sunni Saudis - INFAMOUS HOWEVER, the Saudis, as Guardian + Protector of the [universal]Islamic Holy Places, are mostly abridged as such from taking any direct = strong Milaction [offensive] agz fellow Muslim Iran???

Again, GWOT > is as much an INTER-MUSLIM WAR FOR CONTROL OF ISLAM + DESIRED OWG CALIPHATE [NUclear?], ETC, AS ANYTHING ELSE.

SAUDIS = JAPAN = being allowed by the International Community + UNO to not only possess indigenous NUCWEAPS, BUT ALSO TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN INTERNAT EXTRA-BORDER ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING "OFFENSIVE" MIL OPERATIONS + INTERVENTIONS????

Test of "Globalism" for the Saudis, + in more ways than one.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-03-21 22:52|| 2011-03-21 22:52|| Front Page Top

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