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2004-06-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranians Face Crackdown on âImmoralâ Behavior

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Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-06-02 1:00:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 All that's needed is a nice push. Is anyone in the Bush Administration paying attention to these developments and readying their plans? Do they even have a plan?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-02 1:05:26 PM|| 2004-06-02 1:05:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ok, i understand that Bush cannot do anything before novemeber.
But could Iran be next in line, please?

Posted by Anonymous5098 2004-06-02 1:42:57 PM|| 2004-06-02 1:42:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "All that's needed is a nice push. Is anyone in the Bush Administration paying attention to these developments and readying their plans? Do they even have a plan?"

See Allawi, friend of CIA, new PM in Iraq. See plan for very large US embassy in Baghdad. See recreation of Iraqi intell service, with historic penetration of Iran. See Karbala and Najaf shrine cities, with constant movement of pilgrims to and from Iran, an eary route for moving agents. IF they have a plan, the infrastructure looks like its starting to come into place.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-02 1:44:20 PM|| 2004-06-02 1:44:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 yes it is libhawk....these things take time and unfortunetly we live in a society used to immediate results..thus we have people crying about quagmires...things are getting worse ect...stay the course and we will prevail.
once the mad mullas are out - either internally or externally - we will see the benifits of our policy over the last 4 years..

Posted by Dan 2004-06-02 1:52:22 PM|| 2004-06-02 1:52:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Next: a airlift and dropping of millions of issues of 'Playboy Special Edition: The Girls of Iran (gone wild!)'.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-02 2:03:23 PM|| 2004-06-02 2:03:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 See Allawi, friend of CIA, new PM in Iraq.

I would trust this "friend" about as far as I can throw him. What real friends we do have there are not likely to be this visible.

See recreation of Iraqi intell service, with historic penetration of Iran.

Recreated with what? Former Baathists? If such is the case (and it would have to be to a certain degree if this "historic penetration" is to be exploited), then how many of them could be really be considered trustworthy, given that the possibility of Saddam-style punishment for perfidy no longer exists? How can one be reasonably confident at this early point in a dictator-free Iraq that an intel agent is going to put their country before themselves and/or their tribe (or religion even)?

See Karbala and Najaf shrine cities, with constant movement of pilgrims to and from Iran, an eary route for moving agents.

What does this mean? Agents don't spring up from the ground. This stuff takes time to organize, and the time that's passed (a year, at best) can't possibly be enough. The Mad Mullahs are no doubt hurrying along their nuclear program and by the time an effective cadre of agents are in place, it may be too late to avoid a very messy situation. The longer that people in Washington sit on their hands with regard to Iran, the more dangerous the situation becomes.

Now if some third party decides to take out Iranian nuclear facilities, then going the patient route is perfectly fine, but that's something that shouldn't be counted on.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-02 2:50:36 PM|| 2004-06-02 2:50:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "A serious fight has started to tackle the spread of social corruption in society..."

Infidels! The affrontery of your wicked Western ways! Next thing you know, women will be demanding vaginal delivery for male babies! The world is going to hell!

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-02 3:26:21 PM|| 2004-06-02 3:26:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lol! I LOVE the Black Hats! Their "do the wrong thing at the wrong time" batting average is 1.000. Truly amazing.

Hey, keep it up guys! Close those city parks where the lovers and potential lovers meet. Cut everyone off from the Internet. Strictly enforce your barbaric flavor of Islam. Buy missile tech from NorK and upgrade your missiles so they can reach Israel. Beg, borrow, and steal centrifuge tech and parts. Frantically seek to make your own fissile material while claiming you need it for energy generation. Build a nuke pkg to tip your Shahab-3/4/5 missiles. Publicly threaten that you will, immediately upon acquiring a deliverable nuke, wipe out Israel. Force even the lapdog IAEA goofs to report you're liars, recipients of all sorts of proscribed nuke tech, and a threat to the region.

Now pretend you're innocent victims. Right.

Yep, you've covered all the bases, alright. Somebody, somewhere, is gonna hang your dumb asses from Teheran's lampposts. BTW, Thx!

Posted by .com 2004-06-02 4:12:22 PM|| 2004-06-02 4:12:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 bomb - im not saying that as of today, there is an Iraqi intell service that is competent, loyal, and is running hordes of agents into Iran. I was responding to your nice push suggestion. If thats ALL thats required, we're very close to it I think. Perhaps thats NOT all thats required. In which case a different kind of plan would be required. Perhaps I simply dont understand what you mean by "a nice push".

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-02 5:03:05 PM|| 2004-06-02 5:03:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 When I say push, I mean to make it nice and clear that the U.S. supports the Iranian's growing desire to be free of their mullahs, and to make public pledges of assistance, if necessary, which just might spur the Iranians to throw off mullah rule. I mean, nothing inspires confidence more than knowing one has the support of the heavyweights, no? The more the mullahs resort to ever more repressive measures to keep their citizens under their thumb, the closer that day comes when the Iranians will have had enough of it and decide to take matters into their own hands. I'd like to see that date moved up a bit. Normally, I'd agree that taking our time would be a prudent course of action, but the mullahs' efforts to get their hands on nuclear weapons doesn't give us that luxury. Either we start stirring up Iran very soon, or we end up dealing with them after they have a working Bomb. That the latter scenario is something that can't be allowed to happen is beyond question.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-02 9:31:18 PM|| 2004-06-02 9:31:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 They are just following the Wahabi playbook.

Posted by Phil B 2004-06-02 11:21:03 PM|| 2004-06-02 11:21:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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