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| Iran Marches On -- Into Lebanon |
| 2010-10-16 |
| Beyond providing TV foot age of welcoming throngs of Hezbollah supporters, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon this week served a number of purposes -- none good. ----------------------- Pro-West parties in Lebanon feel betrayed by the Obama administration, which appears to have subcontracted its Mideast policy to the Saudi Arabia-Egypt-Jordan trio. By announcing a US retreat, notably from Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama is creating a power vacuum that Ahmadinejad is trying to fill. The Iranian president underscored that point by declaring America to be a "bankrupt empire" that betrays its allies. To show who is boss in Lebanon, he brought with him a 300-man delegation that included dozens of officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He offered to build power plants in Lebanon and train the Lebanese army. More important, perhaps, he received Hezbollah's "Supreme Council" at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, driving home the claim that he -- and not Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary-general -- is the real leader of the Shi'ite group. Nasrallah, believed to be hiding in the Iranian embassy since 2006, used the occasion to declare himself to be a "soldier" of the Iranian "supreme guide" and ready to give his life for the Islamic Republic. According to Iran's official news agency, Nasrallah also claimed that in Ahmadinejad he found "the scent of Imam Khomeini's perfume" Perfume? As they contemplate their country's takeover by Iran and the threat of a new civil war, many Lebanese would smell a rat. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #1 "Pro-West parties in Lebanon feel betrayed by the Obama administration" Really?! Welcome to the club. |
| Posted by: Knuckles Elmaimp7473 2010-10-16 01:29 |