Posted on 02/28/2008 5:33:02 PM PST by Kaslin
Geopolitics: Americans preoccupied with the presidential campaign can't be blamed for not listening too closely to Iran these days. But it's time to lend an ear. The rhetoric over there is getting a bit scary.
Presented with stunning and incontrovertible evidence — contrary to the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate's faulty findings last November — that Iran continues to develop a nuclear weapon, Iran's leaders are getting aggressive.
On Thursday, for instance, Ahmadinejad declared Iran the world's "number one" power — despite that country's collapsing economy and open public discontent, both in the streets and in Tehran's intellectual circles, with the mullahs' incompetent rule.
"Today the name of Iran means a firm punch in the teeth of the powerful, and it puts them in their place," he crowed.
Why so cocky? Simple. Ahmadinejad is convinced he's outmaneuvered the U.S. and will soon have a nuclear weapon.
Even Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader but a frequent political foe of Ahmadinejad, had kind words this week for the president's handling of the nuclear issue, calling it a "great victory."
By elevating their rhetoric to the boiling point, they hope to cow us into believing their status as a nuclear power is inevitable. Given our failure to stop them so far, maybe it is.
On Tuesday, documents presented to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency showed Iran still was trying to build a nuclear weapon — despite its repeated denials and a U.S. intelligence report last year suggesting the program was halted in 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
Iranians have figured this much -
a) No ground invasion based on headaches and troop shortage in Iraq.
b) No Bombing by US due to Election Year and they are counting on Dems to Win.
c) If Isreal takes their reactors out, they will get sympathy and support from every Islamic Country and when its all said and done, may come out ahead then what they lost.
Hence the chatter.
from the article...
“According to Lt. Col. Moshe Marzuk of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, there are worrying signs of growing linkages between Hezbollah and IRGC officials stationed in Iranian embassies around the world.
The possibility of a terrorist attack, abetted by Iran but delivered by Hezbollah or even al-Qaida, can’t be ignored. Nor can the grimmer possibility that Iran will give one of these groups a nuke. Just as happened with Hitler, some may find Ahmadinejad’s words silly or even humorous. We think they are deadly serious.”
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I think they're trying to distract us from something.
If there are any men left in the west...
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