Iran, Again
Natasha at Pacific Views has a round-up, Iran: Some Presidential Candidate Perspectives, that features the generally less than informed views of people running for President of the United States.
There’s no point in going over the information I covered last April in my post on Operation Iranian Liberation.
I will re-emphasize the reality that while Iran pumps crude oil, it lacks refineries and must purchase gasoline and other petroleum products from other nations. This problem is the result of having its resources developed by other countries that had no concern for Iran.
This problem is behind the Iranian insistence on having the ability to produce its own nuclear fuel, rather than depending on buying the fuel from other nations. Iran has uranium and doesn’t want to repeat the mistake that was made in petroleum production.
As for why Iran wants nuclear power: a major problem with smog, a growing population, global warming, a finite amount of petroleum, an actual vision for the future. Iran wants to maximize the amount of money it can receive from its petroleum reserves, one of its few assets.
Reality check: the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has less power than the President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, who is on leave to deal with his legal problems.
The head of the government of Iran is the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. If Ayatollah Khamenei doesn’t say it, it means nothing because he is the ultimate authority for everything the government of Iran does.
As the Los Angeles Times reports: U.S. can’t prove Iran link to Iraq strife.
It is getting really tiresome to read crap like the raid on Karbala had to be orchestrated by the Iranians, because the Ba’athist security officials who worked in Saddam’s intelligence services for decades wouldn’t have any idea how to organize a simple kidnapping. If these guys are too stupid to organize the Karbala raid, how did they manage to almost pull off the assassination of George H.W. Bush in a foreign country? Maybe some of these “experts” should read a few newspaper reports about the number of kidnappings that take place every day in Iraq. There are a lot of Iraqis who have a lot of experience in these operations since the invasion of Iraq.
