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2007-07-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-01 12:01|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Now would be a good time to apply an economic chokehold.

Posted by Maggie Shusort4353 2007-07-01 12:49|| 2007-07-01 12:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Who says it isn't already in the works, 'Maggie'?

Posted by Pappy 2007-07-01 12:53|| 2007-07-01 12:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Mr Ahmadinejad was opposed to the petrol rationing, but was overruled by the Majlis, the Iranian parliament.

Here is the Chinese Peoples daily on the Iranian Parliament and gas rationing.

Note that all Paliamentary decisions have to be approved by the Guardian Council, essentially an Upper House of Parliament. If I interpret this correctly, this means that the mullahs, for the most part, control the laws. If that's the case, then passing rationing over the IRGC-backed President's objections was partly based on intra-mural politics as well as economic factors.

Posted by Pappy 2007-07-01 13:02|| 2007-07-01 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I think Iran is being overcome by a malaise.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-01 13:15|| 2007-07-01 13:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Keep in mind that Ahmadinejad has spent a great deal of that "oil money" on proxy's outside of Iran (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Labanon, Gaza, etc). I'm surprised no mention of this is made in these recent news articles. It would seem that is the 800 lb. canary that everyone is ignoring.

Posted by Throger Thains8048 2007-07-01 13:37|| 2007-07-01 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Hopefully Mahmoud Armageddonjihad will soon be experiencing a more personal crisis in the form a crowd of teenagers playing soccer with his head.

Posted by Jeslar 2007-07-01 14:30|| 2007-07-01 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 "Oil money must be seen on the table of the people."

With the untold billions of dollars whose diversion into nuclear weapons research Ahmadinejad has cheerfully countenanced, I believe his real message is:

"Let them eat neutrons."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-01 15:44|| 2007-07-01 15:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Iran has spent a lot of money fomenting wars through proxies--primarily with a fundamental islamic stamp on these efforts. Hoping the mad mullahs and Mahmoud will go and give way to a more moderate government.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-01 16:34|| 2007-07-01 16:34|| Front Page Top

#9 "Let them eat neutrons."

Let Them Eat Nuclear Porcine Crapulence

Posted by RD 2007-07-01 16:54|| 2007-07-01 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Independent of Iran's other problems, just about the entire country is proud of their nuclear effort, as I understand it. Few other things so easily -- relatively speaking -- put a country in the big league.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-01 17:32|| 2007-07-01 17:32|| Front Page Top

#11 "These guys have the ability to put people on corners with guns. They're not turning back."

And expect some side show to start real soon to take the mind of cornered Iranians off gasoline.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-01 17:39|| 2007-07-01 17:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Iran plans to follow the Pakistani model to achieve world prominence.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-01 17:51|| 2007-07-01 17:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Do you mean by obtaining a nuclear weapon capability? Otherwise Pakiland has a lot of problems--barely hanging together.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-01 18:25|| 2007-07-01 18:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Iran plans to follow the Pakistani model to achieve world prominence.

If you mean by becoming a major exporter of terrorism, they're already there.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-01 18:32|| 2007-07-01 18:32|| Front Page Top

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