>From: "Seth Ackerman" <sia at nyc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Iran & Israel Re: Afghanistan...
>Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 18:12:57 -0500
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > >Israeli officials constantly denounce Iran, even more >than they do
>Iraq.
> >
> > They do, but aren't they primarily for domestic consumption, as are
> > denunciations of Zionism by the Iranian government?
>
>Iran doesn't just denounce Zionism with words. It also supports Hamas and
>Islamic Jihad, as well as Hezbollah. I guess it's conceivable there could
>be
>a rapprochement in the future, but it certainly hasn't happened yet.
>From what I've heard at a talk at Columbia in October, Iran has been giving
hardly any financial support to Hezbollah in the recent past, and Hezbollah
has been giving Iran decreasing say in its activities.
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