Hardliners Rule in Iran

"Iran's new president nominated a Cabinet on Sunday that has hard-liners in all key ministries and is likely to lead to more confrontation in the country's dispute with the Washington and Europe over its nuclear program."  Yahoo News

In the decades long search for "moderates" and pro-Western Iranians that has been a perpetual obsession with many Americans, this would seem to be a new low point. 

There are many people in the US who are so opposed to the Bush afministration and so offended by the chicanery  and internal propaganda that led us into war and occupation in Iraq that they do not want to hear or read anything that points to the possibility that Iran is taking a path so foolish and transparently hostile that it is increasingly probable that further combat in the region is likely.

Let's not kid ourselves, Iran has been the major state sponsor of Islamic terrorism and subversion ever since the Iranian Revolution.  Its sponsorship of both Sunni and Shia Jihadi groups over the decades was a foreshadowing of the subterranean role it is now playing behind the scene in Iraq.  Iran is now hard at work on its nuclear program and maneuvering skillfully behind a screen of negotiations  to fend off foreign inference in that program.

Does anyone think that Iran, a major oil producer, needs this program to produce electricity?

Let's not let irritation with the mendacity and manipulation of the Jacobin neocons blind us to the real risks posed by Iran.  pl

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