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| Obama opts for engagement over Iran opposition as unrest grows |
| 2009-11-08 |
| From Geostrategy Direct, subscription. IranÂ’s government continues to face problems with controlling the population following the riots that broke out earlier this year over the disputed election that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the post of president, according to Iranian dissident sources. The opposition extends beyond the business and cultural elites and includes nascent opposition forces within the military, the intelligence services and even the Islamist shock troops that are the main power in Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to the sources who were recently been inside the country. Despite the growing opposition, the Obama administration recently cut off support for anti-regime opponents as part of its new initiative to seek a diplomatic solution to IranÂ’s refusal to halt its illicit uranium enrichment program. The cutoff of U.S. support for several opposition groups was one of TehranÂ’s conditions for engaging the Obama administration. So the Obama administration conceded to the MMs in the naive or delusional hope of halting uranium enrichment......and got absolutely nothing in return. And he sent a message to the opposition to the oppressive regime: Under the bus w/ye. This is somewhat old news, but it points out the moral bankruptcy of this administration. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #1 If unrest grows into a full-fledged revolution the people will become afraid. This fear will be jumped on by the hardliners and a new president will come to power, one that will ease his people's fears by using their (by then) full nuclear arsenal as a kind of national pride. Then Iran will actually use it. The End. |
| Posted by: Yo Adrian 2009-11-08 12:08 |