As for Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran has kindly stepped in with $80 Million dollars in aid to Hamas when Israel decided to unilaterally stop any payments to them after Mahmoud Abbas's gang took over the west bank. Iran's mullahs were told to do so by the US.

In a twisted turn of events for Iran's Mullahs, the United States has decided to use Iran as Israel's bogey man to persuade it to make peace. On the one hand, the President can sound very pro-Israel, very anti-Iranian, yet simultaneously scare the pants off the Israelis with the potential threat of Iran's 'nuclear missiles' landing in Tel-Aviv. Suddenly, Israel has a viable and legitimate enemy – large enough to support Hamas and Hezbollah; and a formidable military rival. Bush can pretend to hate the Mullahs, be very pro-Israeli (maintain Jewish Lobby support) ...and at the same time scare Israel into making a deal. It's brilliant.

The Jewish lobby in the United States has become a power onto itself. No American politician can challenge Israel directly on anything...and get elected. It's both sickening and frightening to America's political elite. One of Jimmy Carter's biggest mistakes was the 'neutralization' of Egypt as a political foe to Israel. Israel, no longer fears any of its neighbors. And with the political influence it has in the United States, Israel can unilaterally dictate any settlement – without fear. We all know, anyway, that Christian fundamentalists in the United States hate the Jews (and Bush is their puppy).

The whole Nuclear issue with Iran is absolutely bogus. Everyone knows it. Iran has substantial domestic Uranium reserves. Also, Uranium enrichment is a fairly well known and relatively well established. Every western nation has in the past tried to sell Nuclear plants to Iran and participated in educating and training Iran's (fluent English speaking) Nuclear Engineers. Nothing will change...its all a bogus spat.

Sanctions against Iran are essentially symbolic and meaningless in terms of their real impact. For the past 30 years, virtually every product available in the West through Dubai. Dubai has a huge roll on- roll off port, where all products are brought in duty free, and then re-exported to Iran with amazing efficiency. Traders can legitimately claim that the destination for all their goods is Dubai, and then legally re-export items to Iran with impunity. Iran has been able to execute all its banking transactions through friendly banks. The only goal sanctions achieve is to reduce the 'direct' market share of European exporters with Iran ...forcing them to trade through Dubai too...and thus level the playing field between all players in terms of export costs to Iran.

A bogus invasion of Iran may be a by-proxy attack by Israelis. Who knows? What ever they do, it will be symbolic (like sanctions); and the Mullahs will remain in place. Nothing of substance will change. Make no mistake about it a bogus attack on Iran's nuclear facilities will reinforce the Mullahs and the Theocratic regime NOT destabilize it. An attack will play into the Mullah's hands by reinforcing their domestic support and their bogus anti-American rhetoric.

Using Iran as a bogey man has had other benefits too. Do you recall the recent, multi-billion dollar deal to sell arms to the Saudi's and United Arab Emirates in case they get into a war with Iran. Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant! Iran, the bogey man, is being used to sell 'American Protection' for Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait ... all the Arab literal states of the Persian Gulf.

And then there was this whole story Bush fed to Putin about how US had to install missiles pointing at Russia, stationed in Poland and Romania incase the Iranians decided to fire missiles into Europe!?? Absolutely Brilliant Bullshit!

There is nothing new in this. After all Iran's Mullahs were uniquely able to eradicate Russia's agents in Iran. They killed over 300,000 communists in the first 10 years of power in Iran.

And it is now old news about behind the scenes Republican deals with Iran's Mullahs to hold US embassy hostages in Tehran to humiliate Jimmy Carter and win the presidency for Reagan. It was after all, George Bush (senior), who flew to Paris to finalize the deal with the Mullahs... in exchange for security assurances to them. A secret treaty with the Mullahs was ratified and signed in 1981 guaranteeing security with Iran (Algiers Treaty).

The Bush clan has long-standing relations with the Mullahs. And the Democrats are not any cleaner. The Mullahs have served the United States in ways the Shah of Iran never could! It has been 30 years of non-stop back room deals. Nothing has changed, nothing will change.

American politicians are unscrupulous. Do not be fooled.

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