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War W/ Iran: The Perfect Storm Rises??
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
In 1979, radical Muslim clerics led a revolution to overthrow the Shah of Iran. The American embassy was overrun and its staff were held hostage until President Reagan’s January, 1981 inauguration. Shiite Persian Iran became pro-West as British and American companies developed their oil industry. The Ayatollahs rejected Western modernism and capitalist economics. The new extremist theocracy once in control, sought to dominate the oil-rich Middle East. Although Sunnis, the Assad family-ruled Syria partnered with Iran. Iran fought a 10 year stalemate with US-backed Saddam Hussein’s Sunni Iraq. Syria invaded democratic Lebanon and supported Hezbollah’s terrorist attacks on Israel. They took advantage of the PLO’s inept leadership to fund Hamas terrorists to gain control of the Gaza area. They fund Muslim Brotherhood terrorists in North Africa. Iranian President Ahmadinejad professes to believe in a Shiite end-time prophetic Armageddon struggle necessary to usher in the messianic rule of the Mahdi. He denies the Nazi Holocaust and expresses a desire to drive the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea. The radical Taliban outlasted the Soviets; they will enter Kabul again, and threaten Pakistan as well. Ill-conceived, post-war Iraq has a Shiite-government that now threatens its Sunni minority. Radical Muslim influence permeates the Near East from Turkey across North Africa to the Arab states. Then there is the threat of Iran’s nuclear program. Does a country so rich in oil seek nuclear power as an energy source or to produce a weapon of mass destruction? Is Iran a threat to America? Israel and Arab Gulf states recognize the threat. Talk about strange bed fellows. Radical Islam would annihilate the state of Israel, but also sweep the Sunni monarchs and sheikhs away in a bloodbath as well. The Bush Administration started economic sanctions against Iran to force an end to its nuclear program. President Obama has continued and tightened those efforts. The EU is on board to bring down the theocratic regime. China, Japan, and South Korea are meeting with Gulf leaders to discuss “supply guarantees” if they join the US-led effort. If one questions the reality of the power of the CFR and the need for military industrial complex enemies, witness the unusual geo-political perfect storm this election year. Obama, Muslim fathers- influenced and dove-wing Dem, is preparing for war and with it guaranteed re-election; while the GOP candidates (minus the anti-Establishment Ron Paul) trip over each in their commitment to involve America in a third Middle East war. Iran may be a threat to civilization, but US involvement in regime change has a terrible track record.
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