[lbo-talk] Iran President Ahmadinejad in trouble

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 1/16/07, Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net> wrote:
> But is the US willng to make a deal?  Furthermore, there is the big question
> over whether any "deal" made with Iran could do much to help the US
> situation in Iraq.
>
> IMO the blame  directed toward Iran/Syria is aimed at domestic US
> consumption more than anything else, in which case a departure of the
> Iranian President becomes inconvenient. SR

If Washington is not willing to make a deal, the balance of power
inside Iran doesn't make any difference.  There's a lot of material
with which Washington can demonize Khamenei and Rafsanjani, given
their long history.  Washington can play up the 1994 bombing of a
Jewish center in Buenos Aires, for instance.
-- 
Yoshie
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