Iran vowed revenge on Britain and the US yesterday after blaming them for a devastating suicide attack against the elite Revolutionary Guards that killed 42 people, including six senior commanders.
Why stop there why not blame the great Satan and the UK for future crop failures, wet weather, and bad TV reception. I wonder on what basis they believe that Great Britain and the US have moved into the suicide bomber business, I know that Governments like to deflect blame but even by Iranian standards this is ridiculous.
Responsibility was swiftly claimed by Jundallah, a militant Sunni group that has regularly attacked the Guards in its battle against the Government and the Shia majority. It is thought to operate across the lawless border with Pakistan. Though this group have claimed responsibility it appears that does not cut any ice with the mad Mullahs in Tehran or indeed their unstable President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The power struggle in Iran is far from over after the fraudulent elections recently, and the status quo is maintained with ruthless efficiency by the feared Revolutionary Guard who wield enormous power in Iran, they number around 120,000 highly trained and highly motivated soldiers, and it is they that keep the Mullahs in power. now that they have come under attack maybe it will embolden the opposition to keep up the fight to remove the President from power.
This news caught my eye too. Every time something happens in Iran, they blame the West. As if they simply don't have any dissent in their own country, that all and every incident must be sourced from the UK or US.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolute nonsense, and just a cheap ploy to deflect any internal criticism - and it's easily done because most of their public is brainwashed from an early age to believe the West is behind everything that's bad.
It makes me both angry and puzzled.
Many years ago I had a lively debate with a Muslim about the achievements of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Modern Turkey, and how - almost single-handedly, he overthrew the Islamic Ottoman Turks and established a Secular Turkish State, whilst fighting a war of independence on several fronts. On winning, Ataturk (who was probably a century ahead of his time) clearly saw how Islamic driven nations fail to prosper, and created a secular state, banned Islamic schools, head scarves, ditched the Arabic language and alphabet and drove out the influential Imams.
The man I had been talking too told me that Ataturk's achievements were massively overstated, and that he had secret American and British "agents" that helped him along. This would have been 1922. I reminded him that one of the wars he was engaged in was infact against Britain at the time, and so how could British Agents have helped him do this. "It's all a smokescreen" was the reply.
When this kind of conspiratorial minds exist - it's almost impossible to win any argument.