Thursday, June 28, 2007

Un-Muzzling The Economist

Increasingly the best press in the UK and other parts of the world, such as The Economist, cannot understand the ground swell taking place in Iran.

Read this:

Either the reactionaries are rattled by the prospect of the general election scheduled for next year, or they are flaunting their confidence. In Iran’s opaque politics, it is hard to say which.


It is so sad, that more and more news media do not want to admit to the fact that; the Iranian youth are totally ambivalent to the Seyyeds; that the Seyyeds cannot control anything in Iran, and that theatrics with the US along the nuclear fiasco is pointless.

Iran's politics is not opaque to the Iranian people. The people of Iran can see right through the Seyyeds.

Ban on shipping

It seems that the ban on shipping from Iran is being taken seriously.

More at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062600710.html

Bolton has no faith in Iran's Internal Opposition

Why is Bolton so negaitve about anything but all out war with the Seyyeds? What bother me really is how he has no faith in the internal opposition.

"Sanctions and diplomacy have failed and it may be too late for internal opposition to oust the Islamist regime, leaving only military intervention to stop Iran's drive to nuclear weapons, the US's former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

More at:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409649665&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull