Iran Threatens Israel Again
In their seemingly weekly diatribe,
Iran threatened Israel again. This time, it came with a new twist.
I suspect that diatribe is designed to (a) produce oil price spikes and (b) keep the nationalist juices flowing inside the country.
Iran knows that action will be taken against them so they're trying to sell as much oil as possible so that they have alot of cash on hand to weather the sanctions. Every time that Ahmadinejad or one of the mullahs or an Iranian general threatens Israel, the oil jumps $2-3 a barrel.
Iran also knows that the only way they don't get overrun by freedom-loving secular Muslims is by talking about Israel and the U.S. The mullahs are hated by the average Iranian. The Iranian population isn't predisposed to the Wahhabist/al-Qaida version of Islam. Most are secularists. While the Iranian population doesn't support the mullahs, they don't like Israel, either.
That's why Ahmadinejad plays the 'Israel card'.
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Tuesday, May 2, 2006 3:38 PM
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Iran will target Israel first if the United States does anything "evil", a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday. The United States says it wants Iran's nuclear standoff with the West solved diplomatically but has refused to rule out military action.While threats like this must be taken seriously, the truth is that the U.S. has supplied Israel with the Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile system, which is designed to knock missiles out in flight.
"We have announced that wherever America does something evil, the first place that we target will be Israel," Revolutionary Guards Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani was quoted as saying by Iran's student news agency ISNA. The Islamic Republic has never recognized Israel and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map." Dehqani said naval wargames held in the Gulf last month "carried the warning to those countries that threaten Iran, including America and the Zionist regime".
I suspect that diatribe is designed to (a) produce oil price spikes and (b) keep the nationalist juices flowing inside the country.
Iran knows that action will be taken against them so they're trying to sell as much oil as possible so that they have alot of cash on hand to weather the sanctions. Every time that Ahmadinejad or one of the mullahs or an Iranian general threatens Israel, the oil jumps $2-3 a barrel.
Iran also knows that the only way they don't get overrun by freedom-loving secular Muslims is by talking about Israel and the U.S. The mullahs are hated by the average Iranian. The Iranian population isn't predisposed to the Wahhabist/al-Qaida version of Islam. Most are secularists. While the Iranian population doesn't support the mullahs, they don't like Israel, either.
That's why Ahmadinejad plays the 'Israel card'.
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Tuesday, May 2, 2006 3:38 PM
No comments.
