US grows a tree of tension with Iran

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH03Ak02.html

A full-fledged tree of tension with Iran has been nurtured by Washington, firmly rooted in a comprehensive regime of sanctions, military encirclement, propaganda and psychological warfare, and a low-intensity proxy war through ethnic terrorist groups. It is now spiraling toward yet another confrontation in the Middle East.

Instead of focusing on how to reduce tensions with Tehran, United States policymakers seem intent on ratcheting up the pressure and leveling every conceivable accusation against Iran - chiefly


nuclear proliferation, regional subversion and terrorism - delivered in rapid succession.

The US has now formally linked Tehran's regime with al-Qaeda in an escalation of anti-Iran rhetoric that is officially justified in Washington in terms of proving that the White House is "in control" of Middle East developments and not swamped by the domestic turmoil over the US national debt. Yet this is a lame excuse and raises the question of who really is in control of the US's Iran policy?

From Tehran's vantage point, the answer is straightforward. According to a Tehran University political science professor, who spoke with the author on the condition of anonymity, "A select group of Jewish policymakers in the White House, State Department and Treasury have hijacked President Obama's policy on Iran and Obama may wake up one day and find the web of conflict with Iran so tightly wrapped around him that he has no choice but to lock horns with us."

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1. This is how PNAC & it's FOREIGN partners protect their US division of MIC from budget cuts.nt

[midnight]

2. Time to end the war.... Bring them home....

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Nice to see anti-Semitism making the rounds.

"According to a Tehran University political science professor, who spoke with the author on the condition of anonymity, "A select group of Jewish policymakers in the White House, State Department and Treasury have hijacked President Obama's policy on Iran and Obama may wake up one day and find the web of conflict with Iran so tightly wrapped around him that he has no choice but to lock horns with us.""

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4. It's only anti-_____________ , Semitism in this case, if one does not think/feel for one's self.

Note the source IS that Asian Times thing that is making the rounds. That sort of trait weighs with some people, including me.

The article at least raises questions about what PNAC is up to during this time of cuts to their U.S. division known as MIC, especially with Egypt in such turmoil, which country was part of their original objective after hopscotching from Iraq, to _____________, to Egypt.

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5. "hijacked" IS too strong a word; it also contains ungrounded assumptions, so there is bias. Thanks

for the catch!

:hi:

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6. I'm beginning to think Asian Times is pulling an "Arianna-the-pony-fairy" for clicks to sell to,

as in the instance of HuffHo, people who can pay $30K for women's purses.

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7. Re: Asian Times, please see my post #6 above. Thanks . . .

There has been anti-alternative energy technologies opinions coming from that same source, not surprising since I've seen that there investments in that milieu are greater than ours, so they don't want the competition.

:hi:

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8. I want to use that, but I've decided not to give Asian Times the clicks. nt