tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post2700709504339572481..comments2023-10-01T14:37:09.159+01:00Comments on Maysaloon - ميسلون: President Lame Duck or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love IranMaysaloonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826378383173206624noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-50899484647549384702007-12-13T09:39:00.000+00:002007-12-13T09:39:00.000+00:00DJ,It does indeed look like a "jawaz mut3a" for th...DJ,<BR/>It does indeed look like a "jawaz mut3a" for the Iranians and Americans :) the NIE seems like it was the American side of the bargain for a noticeable decrease in violence in Iraq against them. The Iranians just turned the tap slightly it seems!<BR/><BR/>Alex,<BR/>The story is indeed very plausible, how else can we explain all these things or that the Gulf states are "allowed" now to finally sit down with Iran. Of course most commentators still write from the perspective that the United States is in some position to call the shots in the region but events show us this is no longer the case. In a much more serious way than we imagined.<BR/><BR/>Posh,<BR/>It is sad what has happened to Lebanon but I guess this is the world we live in. I'd like to visit there one day as I've heard/seen so much about it.<BR/><BR/>Bzw - My sources are top secret ;) if I told you I'd have to kill you.Maysaloonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826378383173206624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-6377891169785581232007-12-13T02:58:00.000+00:002007-12-13T02:58:00.000+00:00Yeah, what I actually found so absurd is the US in...Yeah, what I actually found so absurd is the US intelligence, Iran's nuclear program, and Bush insisting on impeding it anyways (according to the US intelligence, what's there to impede?) <-- very interesting stuff.<BR/><BR/>Oh, I hate it how external affairs have always and will always affect Lebanese internal affairs. By the way, who are your sources? Am I one of them? heheposhlemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646938223102683769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-38801871628353050812007-12-12T21:17:00.000+00:002007-12-12T21:17:00.000+00:00And what do you think of the very popular view by ...And what do you think of the very popular view by a leading Israeli analyst Obadiah Shoher? He argues (here, for example, www. samsonblinded.org/blog/america-arranges-a-peace-deal-with-iran.htm ) that the Bush Administration made a deal with Iran: nuclear program in exchange for curtailing the Iranian support for Iraqi terrorists. His story seems plausible, isn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-35423457683428026732007-12-12T17:10:00.000+00:002007-12-12T17:10:00.000+00:00I don't like Amir Taheri that much, but he has an ...I don't like Amir Taheri that much, but he has an excellent <A HREF="http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10174190.html" REL="nofollow">piece </A>on the subject matter:<BR/><BR/><EM>The new NIE has something for everyone.<BR/><BR/>The US President George W. Bush can cite it in support of his contention that Iran had been lying about its nuclear programme for years and that at one point it had been actually engaged in building a bomb.<BR/><BR/>Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can also use the new NIE in support of his no-compromise stance against the American "Great Satan". Last Wednesday he told a crowd in western Iran that he had inflicted a major diplomatic defeat on the US and "other ill-wishers" of the Khomeinist revolution.<BR/><BR/>The Congressional leaders in the US can also find something to be pleased with in the new NIE. After all it was the Congress that ordered the new assessment because of the new Democrat majority's desire to tie Bush's hands as tightly as possible.<BR/><BR/>The Europeans are also happy, along with the Russians and the Chinese, because the new American report comforts them in their illusion that the whole dreadful shadow created by the prospects of Khomeinism obtaininga nuclear arsenal may be fading.<BR/><BR/>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can also spin the new NIE in favour of its own exercise in diplomatic chiaroscuro. </EM>Dubai Jazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951647402774044439noreply@blogger.com