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Kissinger: ‘Iran Is a Natural Ally of the United States’
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 13, 2014 - 11:49 AM | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 10/13/2014 9:15:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “Iran is a natural ally” of the U.S.

“As long as Iran is ruled by the ayatollah and bases itself on its sectarian philosophy, we have to be careful. But basically, as a country, Iran is a natural ally of the United States. It’s the ideological, religious component that makes it an antagonist,” said Kissinger, who served as Secretary of State for the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombbombbombbombiran; cfr; iran; isis; islam; kissinger; kurdistan; lebanon; nucleariran; nwo; rop; turkey
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Sure, our natural allies always chant “Death To America”, Mr. Fifth Columnist.
1 posted on 10/13/2014 9:15:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Why isn’t Hank dead?


2 posted on 10/13/2014 9:16:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Olog-hai; GeronL

Is he having a 60s flashback???


3 posted on 10/13/2014 9:17:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like he’s lost his marbles.


4 posted on 10/13/2014 9:17:50 PM PDT by CountryClassSF
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To: Olog-hai

He’s old - he thinks the Shah is still in charge.


5 posted on 10/13/2014 9:18:47 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Olog-hai

Did someone dig him up for Halloween? I thought Henry checked out not long after Studio 54 closed down. What is he now, about a hundred?


6 posted on 10/13/2014 9:21:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Olog-hai

Senility happens.


7 posted on 10/13/2014 9:25:13 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: Olog-hai

The people of Iran are actually pro-Western. The religious leadership is the “Death to America” crowd.

Ever wonder why Obama did not lift a finger when the Iranian people were fighting against the government?


8 posted on 10/13/2014 9:26:29 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: tumblindice

He’s 91 now.

Funny how his Nobel Peace Prize was a joint award to him and Le Duc Tho of all people (the Vietnamese mass murderer and founder of Vietnam’s Communist Party).


9 posted on 10/13/2014 9:26:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: a fool in paradise

IMO, all of this agitprop is a sign that Obama is going to bow to the mullahs to include them in an Axis with Gulf Arabs to sink Russian budget via oil market and it is how they are prepping a public opinion.

It is not that I disagree with the factual component of this article and that Iran has a potential to become friendly with the West, but here is why they do brings it out.


10 posted on 10/13/2014 9:27:19 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: Olog-hai

Nations, like people, don’t always- or even usually- act in their best interest.


11 posted on 10/13/2014 9:29:06 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: joshua c

If that were true, they never would have put up with the Revolutionary Guard and/or the Mullahs and would have overthrown them already; they would have insisted on keeping the Shah to boot. You can’t repress a whole country of Neda Agha-Soltans.


12 posted on 10/13/2014 9:29:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

There is much truth in what Mr Kissinger says.
The majority of the Iranian people are pro-western.

Jimmy “The Fool” Carter is the one who blundered and turned an ally into an enemy. The Iranian people have been suffering due to Carter’s idiocy for a long time now.


13 posted on 10/13/2014 9:30:06 PM PDT by Bobalu (Hashem Yerachem (May God Have Mercy)
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To: Olog-hai

The people of Iran are very pro-Western. Much more so than almost any other ME country.

It would change the dynamics of the situation and as it currently sits, a nuclear Iran is the single greatest threat to world stability.


14 posted on 10/13/2014 9:30:10 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: joshua c

~The people of Iran are actually pro-Western. The religious leadership is the “Death to America” crowd.

Ever wonder why Obama did not lift a finger when the Iranian people were fighting against the government?~

You are 100% right. Situation is a bit different now when it was at the time though.


15 posted on 10/13/2014 9:30:27 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: Olog-hai
I think that he's saying that the peeps and their deep culture that are our natural allies, and it's the "ideological, religious component that makes it an antagonist...".

Maybe?

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16 posted on 10/13/2014 9:31:19 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Olog-hai

The educated half of Iran is a natural ally, unfortunately there’s a large enough segment that is religious enough to support the regime.

Unlike our alliance of convenience with the Saudis, whose population pretty much universally is at odds with the West.


17 posted on 10/13/2014 9:31:26 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Evil sustains. That’s how Helen Thomas survived for so long.


18 posted on 10/13/2014 9:31:55 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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To: Olog-hai

During the Paris talks, Kissinger privately referred to his North Vietnamese counterparts as “tawdry little shits”.

Nobel peace prize=Crackerjacks prize


19 posted on 10/13/2014 9:32:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Olog-hai

bee ess


20 posted on 10/13/2014 9:32:19 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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