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...Jaafari's Dawa party, SCIRI's alliance partner, has opposed creating a Shi'ite region in the south. There is suspicion that Iran is behind Hakim's call because of fears that Iraq, under the new constitution, will have a weaker central government than it has now, meaning any Iranian influence via Baghdad will be curtailed as well. The proposal alarms the Americans, who never anticipated the emergence of an Iranian-influenced southern region. Iranian influence is widely perceived as one of the greatest challenges in post-Saddam Iraq...
...Ironically, Iran's decision to begin conversion of yellowcake uranium to uranium hexafluoride gas this week does not bring it significantly closer to a bomb. Iranian scientists have not actually begun enriching uranium. Arms control experts predict that it will take at least until the end of the decade before Iran is in a position to produce a bomb...
...Ahmadinejad's conservative camp, which means they had no apparent motive to protect him. This lent their words credibility. The allegations against Ahmadenijad lost credibility in Iran when it was revealed that the photograph purporting to show a young Ahmadinejad escorting a blindfolded hostage was dug out by the Iranian Mujahedeen-Khalqh Organization, the Marxist-Islamist exile opposition group classified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. The MKO fought alongside Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war, and is despised by most if not all Iranians inside Iran. Still, many Iranians that I spoke to said they...
...Despite the difference in their status and prospects, what Rahimi and his comrades share is their romance with the notion of Iranian power. Rahimi can rattle off the range of the Shahab-5 missile and fantasize about what closing the Strait of Hormuz would do to U.S. oil supplies. "We really should not have signed the additional protocol to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty," he laments. "Iran's legitimate right to nuclear technology should not be checked by the West's politics...
...Iranian politics, Ahmadinejad has been quoted as saying, "We did not have a revolution in order to have democracy." Perhaps he needs to be reminded that it was the democratic process that elevated him to the presidency. Fred Hayes Rauland, Norway...