Iran's Neighbors Finally speaking Up to a Bullying Iran.

Posted in Middle East


Aug. 17, 2008 at 14:52


by BrendaBee

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GCC chides Iran over facilities on UAE-claimed island
AFP via Yahoo! News Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:19 PM PDT
Oil-rich Arab monarchies in the Gulf chided Iran on Saturday for setting up facilities on an island claimed by the United Arab Emirates, two days after Abu Dhabi protested to Tehran over the move.
So Iran is already pushing it's muscle with it's neighbors.  Much more and worse to come if they get Nuclear weapons and the neighbors know it.  BB
 

Turkish president says more time needed for gas deal with Iran
AFP via Yahoo! News Sat, 16 Aug 2008 9:04 AM PDT
Turkey and Iran need more time to finalise a major natural gas deal, President Abdullah Gul said Saturday, playing down reports that US pressure on Turkey to abandon the project is behind the delay.
I would imagine a few more countries than just the US have advised Turkey not to get involved with Iran. BB
Egypt: Iran Should Not Test West Over Nuclear Question
Fox News Sat, 16 Aug 2008 1:35 PM PDT
Iran should not give Western nations the justification to "drag the region down a dangerous slope" by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt's presidential spokesman said Saturday.
Egypt finally speaks up.  The other Middle Eastern countries are right to be concerned  about this issue.  First because if Iran goes nuclear their pot is in the fire too.  Second, if Iran is attacked to take out the nuclear the Muslim populations in the other countries are sure to riot.  Mobs destroy a lot of property and there is alw3ays the threat to take over the current government when the mobs are in the streets.  Every country in the Middle east has one or more rebel groups fighting the government in power.  There ar4e no "stable" governments ion the Middle east because they are all bing held together by force and a dictator.  BB
Air force commander: Iran to repel any attack
Al Bawaba Sun, 17 Aug 2008 5:51 AM PDT
Commander of Iran Air Force Brigadier General Pilot Ahmad Miqani said in comments quoted on Sunday that no country would be allowed to invade Iran. "No country will be allowed to invade; we will not also permit any foreigner to step in and attack the Iranian soil," Miqani told a group of the Islamic Republic Army Air Force's former Prisoners of War (PoWs), forces and personnel.
Yeh. do you a  remember the "Mother of all .......".  Well, this will be the same response given by   the army of Iranian soldiers. The soldiers feel no loyalty to the government.  This is why it is going to be impossible to democratize Iraq.  The elected government will have no backing from the military or even the police forces if their power is challenged  unless  the people in power are known to be tyrants and can force with threats of death to any disobeying soldier.  You may notice that the military and police forces are brutal with putting down opposition by  any groups of opposing citizens of their country, but threw down their weapons readily when attacked by an outside force they were sure could take  over the current regime.  BB
Air Force Commander: No country to be allowed to strike Iran
Islamic Republic News Agency Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:07 PM PDT
Iran - Air Force - Miqani Commander of the Islamic Republic Air Force Brigadier General Pilot Ahmad Miqani said here Saturday that no country would be allowed to invade Iran.
(see above)
Persian Gulf under Iran’s surveillance: navy commander
mehrnews.com Sun, 17 Aug 2008 6:17 AM PDT
TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (MNA) – Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayari has announced that Iran monitors all movements in the Persian Gulf, Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.
This could be more of a problem for the other countries in the Middle east than for any outside country and I am sure the neighbors do not care for it.    It is merely Irans first miove to dominating the Middle east. We have to remember  two things:  no government in the region is stable as in secure within it's own borders from internal unrest.  and two, countries in the Middle east trust the US more than they trust each other.   BB
U.S.: Iraqi killers train in Iran
Worcester Telegram & Gazette Sun, 17 Aug 2008 0:22 AM PDT
WASHINGTON - Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq.
This is traditionally the type of "fighting' at which the Middle eastern soldiers excel.   BB
Iran: Joint foreign investment in petrochem sector reaches dlrs 4.5b
Zawya Sun, 17 Aug 2008 1:10 AM PDT
16 August 2008 Joint foreign investment in the National Petrochemical Company of Iran (NPC) in the past three years reached a record dlrs 4.5 billion, Deputy Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nejabat said on Saturday.
Russia has subsidized this effort, China and India have  gone in with big bucks  in order to secure their own needs for oil.  These are just three oif the most evident countries that have made deals of some sort with the current Iranian government in return for oil.   And, the US is also one of these countries!  So the irony will be that our soldiers will be sent in the front door to fight and die in a country  our government is dealing with at the back door.  BB

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