Article

2007-04-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by ryuge 2007-04-22 02:24|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Whatever happened to that ruckus that started when he ogled the cheerleaders? Isn't he still on the MMs' $hit list?

Posted by gorb 2007-04-22 02:31|| 2007-04-22 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Every conversation here last week seemed to revolve around the imposition of petrol rationing on May 21. Subsidised petrol will rise from 800 riyals (about 4p) to 1,000 riyals (5p) per litre. Far worse in this sprawling traffic-choked city, only three litres a day will be available at that price. Ration cards will be issued and any purchase over the limit will be at a nonsubsidised rate that has yet to be decided.

Cool. Being a Rantburg reader, I'm not surprised, either.

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-22 07:29|| 2007-04-22 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Faster, please.

Posted by doc 2007-04-22 07:53|| 2007-04-22 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Rationing hasn't resulted in regime changes in Cuba or N.Korea. As long as they have enough thugs and have no qualms about using them, they don't have a real problem, just one wished for by the outside. Wishing is not a strategy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-22 08:03|| 2007-04-22 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 nice blurb at the end:
Former FBI man held

A former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran last month is being held by Revolutionary Guards in a safe house in Tajrish, northern Tehran, according to a source within the guard, writes Uzi Mahnaimi.
They want to swap Robert Levinson, 59, a private investigator from Florida, for Ali Reza Asgari, an Iranian general who vanished in mysterious circumstances in Turkey in February.
Levinson, who is said to be unwell, has apparently been interrogated by guards who intend to broadcast his testimony on television once Tehran acknowledges that it is holding him.
He disappeared on March 11 while on the island of Kish, an Iranian free trade zone where a visa is not required.

sorry, Bob. Ain't gonna happen

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-22 10:52|| 2007-04-22 10:52|| Front Page Top

Redacted by moderator. Comments may be redacted for trolling, violation of standards of good manners, or plain stupidity. Please correct the condition that applies and try again. Contents may be viewed in the sinktrap. Further violations may result in banning.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-22 11:28|| 2007-04-22 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 Hear, hear!

Posted by gromgoru 2007-04-22 12:45|| 2007-04-22 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 his Sweet Smell of Service party suffered dramatic losses in municipal elections last December.

I don't think I can add anything here.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-22 15:54|| 2007-04-22 15:54|| Front Page Top

#9 To foreign diplomats, however, it is another sign that Ahmadinejad - who once claimed to have been surrounded by an aura while speaking to the UN and who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map - is becoming, in the words of one western official, increasingly divorced from reality.

We need to finalize that "divorce".

There will be dissatisfaction, unrest and more inflation. At worst, there will be an explosion in the social structure.

Here's hoping.

a country that earns £100m a day from oil revenues.

While

a teacher is paid about £30 a week.

Where does all the money go? These stupid shits are so hell bent on military supremacy that they can't even build more gasoline refineries. Even when gas shortages threat Iran's very stability. We must crush Iran's military, if only to denude the mullahs of so much ill-invested oil wealth.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-22 19:32|| 2007-04-22 19:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Where does all the money go?

Hisb'allah, the Quds Force, Hamas, Mookie Sadr, the Taliban...

It isn't so much military supremacy, as it is ideological supremacy. One needs to neutralize the Pasadran, not just their military.

Posted by Pappy 2007-04-22 21:47|| 2007-04-22 21:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Pappy, the distinction you make between ideological and military goals is valid. As I've learned more and more about Koranic doctrine, I no longer differentiate between them. Islam sure as hell doesn't. Iran probably has one of the largest proxy military forces in the world. Sooner or later, the global community needs to lay the atrocities of these proxies at Iran's feet. The mullahs have much to answer for.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-22 23:29|| 2007-04-22 23:29|| Front Page Top

23:59 Seafarious
23:59 JosephMendiola
23:44 JosephMendiola
23:37 Zenster
23:36 JosephMendiola
23:35 trailing wife
23:35 Zenster
23:32 trailing wife
23:29 Zenster
23:25 Zenster
23:20 JosephMendiola
23:06 trailing wife
23:01 trailing wife
22:57 Captain America
22:54 trailing wife
22:18 trailing wife
22:14 Frank G
22:07 gorb
22:06 Uninens Big Foot5550
22:03 Icerigger
22:01 gorb
21:55 trailing wife
21:50 Zenster
21:47 Pappy