[Angelus Errare]

The amount of naive mentality present in this article is staggering. They haven't attacked us yet, so the ayatollahs are our friends?

BS.

Who killed Ayatollah al-Khoei?
Who's gotten Muqtada Sadr to form his Mahdi Army?
Who killed those British troops down in Basra?
Who is protecting over 24 al-Qaeda leaders at IRGC military bases?

If you can answer these questions, you get a silver star.

[yonif]

Of course. Its the NY times, after all.

[mvonfr]

They haven't attacked us yet, so the ayatollahs are our friends?

Don't be too surprised if they will be within a couple of months. It is realpolitik: we need them. The easiest way to suppress the Sunni uprising is to use Shiites, and this cannot be done without a deal with Tehran. We know this, mullahs know this, so a deal is possible.

This has happened before: a deal with Stalin against Hitler, a deal with Red china against Red Russia, now possibly a deal with Shiites against Sunni.

As another omen, Iran released a supporting statement for IGC on Nov 15 (and nobody noticed).

The biggest unknown is their nuke program...