Re: Newsday: Iran wanted US to invade?

[soula avramidis]

 

What was forgotten in all this is that when saddam screamed mercy as he was losing the war in 1984, the Israelis moved in to support Iran (Iran-contra) and the Americans provided intelligence to Iraq. in one good analytical document that came out of Sweden the principal reason for turning against saddam later was the fact that he insisted on stopping the war.. the mullahs were so rigid that Khomeini replied stopping the war is similar to drinking poison.

Iraq was never out of war since its inception as a weak and fabricated state in 1921... see M. Tarbush, ali alwardi etc... on the other hand, modern Iran is continuation of a medieval state. 

Iraq was at war continuously with Iran during the shah's regime. in both turkey and Iran a demonisation of the Semitic Arab was carried out as official propaganda at the state level.

the Arabs turned out to be a people with many states and the Kurds a people without a state.. in both instances designed and implemented by the British with perfect foresight that instability will rein. and decisively so according to the international country risk guide the Arab near east is the region with the longest conflicts.

 

"Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

and didn't the US say to Saddam "let's you and him fight," encouraging Iran & Iraq to have a war? Jim D.

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From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Newsday: Iran wanted US to invade?



Why would Iran want more US bases next door?

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:22:19PM +0000, Mohammad Maljoo wrote:
> < > goes to show that the real reasons behind the rise of the mullahs and the
> iraqi iranian war was a resurrection of the farsi nationalism.>>
>
> A few meaningless words!“Bazaar class”? “Farsi racism”? “resurrection of the
> farsi nationalism”? What are these at all? The mullahs in Iran are a
> continuation of Arabian fundamentalism with other mask. “The real reasons
> behind…the iraqi iranian war” can be found in Saddam phenomenon rather than
> the illusory “resurrection of the farsi nationalism”.
>
> MM
>
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