On 17 août 06, at 00:43, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Aug 16, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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>> In any case, what Iranian women have achieved ought to be publicized
>> better, so that Americans and others can see that it is worth
>> defending from the threat of economic sanctions and worse.
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> I'll be interviewing Val Moghadam in about 2 hrs - any questions
> you'd like me to ask her.
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> One can be object to sanctions without getting starry-eyed about
> the Iranian regime. Just like Iraq.
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> And why is one of the world's biggest oil producers a lower-middle-
> income country? Its income & social indicators are on a par with Peru.
The cost of rebuilding the country after the war with Iraq ? Where would be Venezuela today with an 8 year war with anyone of its neighbor heavily supported by the US ?
Jean-Christophe Helary