August 16, 2005

Israel: The warning shot option

By James Lewis
"Iran may now have its Stalin," wrote Niall Fergusan in the Sunday Telegraph of London this week.He is right. The new Stalinist President was "elected" with the active support of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who evidently thought that the previous top mullahs had grown far too fat and corrupt to lead the revolutionary regime. In his Inaugural Address, the new President Ahmadinejad proclaimed that "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution ... will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world," he said. "The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world." He has just appointed his war cabinet. The world may therefore be coming to the most dangerous point since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It has now been officially confirmed that Iran has been waging undeclared war against the US—led coalition in Iraq. I have previously argued that the Sunni Arab nations like Saudia...(Read Full Article)