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His political approach has become a byword for populism and yesterday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endowed it with a hi-tech dimension by launching his own weblog. The hardline Iranian leader's debut on the international blogosphere came in the form of a 2,300-word tract that asked readers to decide if the US and Israel were trying to start a new world war. Mr Ahmadinejad, who has identified himself with Iran's army of poor people, also described his humble origins in an impoverished rural village. His entry into the mass ranks of bloggers marks the latest step in a concerted effort to communicate directly with ordinary Iranians over the heads of the elites. Mr Ahmadinejad's first year in office has been distinguished by a series of old-fashioned mass rallies throughout Iran aimed at wooing mass public support. His resort to more up-to-date means appears on the presidential website at: http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/. His first missive is available in English, French and Arabic - as well as Farsi - suggesting he is also aiming at an international audience. It includes one of Mr Ahmadinejad's bluntest statements yet on the conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group, Hizbullah, in Lebanon. "Do you think that the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another world war?" He invites readers to vote yes or no. In an autobiographical passage, the president attempts to explain the personal circumstances behind his radical Islamist political beliefs, including his fervent desire for Iran to pursue nuclear technology in defiance of western opposition. "During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village," he writes, labelling himself the son of "a hard-bitten toiler blacksmith". He ascribes his rapid rise to academic excellence which enabled him to finish 132nd out of 400,000 in university entrance exams. He also describes reading newspapers with the help of adults while in first grade at school, from which he learned how Americans in Iran had been granted immunity from the country's laws by the shah. "I realised that Mohammad Reza [had] attempted to add another page to the vicious case history, which was the humiliation and indignity of the Iranian people versus Americans." source: www.guardian.co.uk           Readers have left 2 comments.
Basil:
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Who is America? If not the sum of its people then it is the ruling party, the Government, currently the Neo Conservatives, some would say polite for Fascists or the Judo-Christian alliance.
And what is America's, (not foreign policy but), empirical ambitions on the world? It is IMPERIALISM (Blair is punch drunk with American imperialism). Imperialism: policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires. This is either through direct territorial conquest or settlement, or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. Who is their partner “big brother” running the show in the Middle east and working for its own interest around the world? If not Zionist Israel then it must be the State of Israel a gift from the Americans and the willing to the Zionst in 1948. That is like a father giving his son a toy. But the gifts did not stop there. They continue in the form of monetary aid and state of the art weapons positioning Israel as the region’s superpower and I am not just talking about their neuclear weapons. Really intersting: Edgar J. Steele reports from Dr. Stauffer's work: "Policy in the Middle East has been very costly to the US, as well as to the rest of world. The cost to the US of its policies in the region has accumulated to over $ 2,500 billion, an amount greater than the cost of the Vietnam war...About two-thirds of those costs - circa $1,600 billion - arose from the US defense of Israel since 1973...Since 1973, however, protection of Israel and subsidies to countries such as Egypt and Jordan, willing to sign peace treaties with Israel, has been the prime driver of US outlays or the trigger for crisis costs."$2,500 billion, or $2.5 trillion. Boggles the mind, doesn't it? Lessee now, America has a population of 290 million and about 80 million households, so that amounts to $31,250 from your family to Israel. And that doesn't include some other items which could easily double that figure, as demonstrated by Dr. Stauffer as he continues: "Rescue of Israel in 1973 by President Nixon cost the US almost $900 billion in lost GDP, ." What is ironic, if not pathetic, is that an incredible amount of our own tax dollars, given to Israel, come back in the form of campaign contributions to American politicians, funneled through American jewish hands and foundations, making Israeli/jewish interests the single largest lobby in Washington, DC. Any politician that dares vote or speak against zionist interests faces a withering campaign at election time, ultimately funded by the country's own taxpayers, in the main. Now you see just why Ariel Sharon's statement about controlling the US is true, quite aside from the considerable direct control exercised by American jews. Who is Iran’s and Syria’s arch enemy? No prizes for getting it right ISRAEL Both countries are scared not of America but Israel to mount an attack on them at any time. We nearly got it with the recent invasion of Israel into Lebanon code name PRETEXT HIZBOLLAH. That is just testing the international pool of opinion. It backfired on Israel. They are scrimmaging for a pretext to attack Iran and Syria because America is too bust to do it for them busy with a previous errand in Iraq and the miss up in Afghanistan. Who invented the doctrine of PREMITIVE STRIKES and COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT (killing of innocent 100’s to get one person)? Correct America and Israel. So who is going to start a war with Syria and or Iran? YES AMERICA or and ISRAEL will start the war with Iran and or Syria
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2006-08-18 14:08:01
wendy mann:
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interesting blog because it gives an insight not from a third party - invariably western - but directly, what i find even more interesting is that france is only prepared at this moment to send 200 troops to the lebanon, why? is their caution because they knowing something about a possible attack on iran/syria?
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2006-08-18 20:17:53
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