Posted on 06/26/2007 7:34:56 PM PDT by FARS
Here’s another theory: infrastructure development in Iran basically stopped after the Shah’s ouster. Everything is being held together with chewing gum & bailing wire like those ‘57 Chevys down in Cuba.
Think about what this country would look like if nothing had changed since 1979.
Industrial accidents happen all the time...
Thanks for the ping!
that’s not a theory... what you made was an obvious observation. a theory goes to the “why”. at least in this case.
Guess “I DA MEAN MAN” is trying curb Global Warming.
nooooooooooooooo!!!!! Please no more handing out guns and arming our enemies to hopefully kill the bigger enemy of ours. Our funds could be better spent elsewhere, like on our border fence.
OH OOH Busted ittttt
Not to mention every time we’ve armed the enemy, it comes to bite us in the buttocks.
OK then, I'll venture a guess: we're dealing with a 12th Century mentality that values religious purity over material well-being. It would appear that a sizeable percentage of the Iranian population would not agree with their nominal leadership.
Bottom line: It would not occur to the ayatollas to 'invest', except in 1 area -- nuclear weaponry. That's Ahmenajahd's function: he's the technocrat. The interface between the ayatollas & the physical world.
the Islamic Regime signed imnprovements an dupgrades for existing gasoline refineries with China as part of a WAIT FOR IT - 300 BILLION Dollar contract with China signed on a Sunday a few amonths ago. Basically all refining, exploration, distribution etc., will be owned by Chinerse interests (with iranian participation) but Chinese investment.
What a thought.
Why the A-10? One sub-launched Cruise Missile will take out THE sole refinery.
again.. all observations. of course the islamic mullahs are living in the 7th century.. that’s their definition. you still haven’t explained why they chose to ignore the future of thier own rule...
Again, i’ll reiterate i believe it’s because something very near-term is going to happen (from their POV) that will moot the need to do neccessary things to perpetuate their rule.
You’re not thinking like a twelver which is why you knee-jerk to argue with me even though all you’re doing is stating the obvious and offering no insights.
The murderers have a clearer eye than this dust up’s dust-uppers. This dust up serves their purpose, in a way — it gives hope to the waiting game, when action is needed.
Small single shot .45 or .40 caliber hand guns dropped with half a dozen rounds each would never threaten us but would increase the sudden deaths of regime bad guys in back streets, instilling both a chill factor and removing them from the scene.
This is a standard ops.
good point.. they probably realized thier hold on power wasn’t going to be as long as they had hoped they could rest on their laurels.
now it’s a race against time.. who wins...
the means by which this regime can perputuate itself economiclly...
the people rising up to dispose of them
the regime getting nuclear weapons and starting a war to cause the Imam Mahdi to show up..
the West obliterate the Iranian war-making capibility.
tick tock.
I read that 150,000 women had been arrested in the last months for minor infractions of the dress code.
We have never lived under that kind of government terror. Who knows how any of us will really react to someone holding a sword to our neck or feet or hand or eyes or private parts until we actually face it?
I can't bring myself to be judgmental about the average Iranian nor about the survivors of Saddam.
i been hearing about the imminent People’s revolution in iran since i was in high school.. 1990ish... i’m with the other guy... they’re never going to do it.
I didn’t mean to come across as argumentative. It’s certainly the case that the religious rhetoric of Ahmenijahd indicates that HE, and probably his key ayatolla-backers, believe the End is near. But I don’t think that’s nearly all of the equation. They still have to get the ‘mandarins’ — the people that actually run things — to go along. I believe those people are just coasting. Waiting for an opportunity to exercise political power.
China had the same problem. Mao, as a political force, was spent by 1970, or so. But nobody dared rock the boat, and nothing much happened economically, either.
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