Tag Archives: Iran

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Calls for Including Lebanon in Sanctions Against Syria and Iran

Raghida Dergham:

Lebanon was, until recently, barely on the [Obama] administration’s radar. Today, however, in the wake of the popular uprising in Syria, it has once again come under its microscope [because] the geopolitics that makes Lebanon, with the kind of government it has today, an artificial lung for both Iran and the regime in Damascus to breathe through.

The Obama administration has finally acknowledged that regardless of whatever bilateral or multilateral UN sanctions it imposes against major figures of the regime in Damascus and in Tehran, they will remain of little use as long as the Syrian and Iranian regimes can still find air to breathe through Lebanon. The administration consequently recognized that Lebanon was the decisive element for completing the task — the task of shutting off the life support system sustaining Damascus and Tehran. This will require sanctions that are not restricted to Syria and Iran, but which also include leaders in the government of Lebanon.

Fasten your seat belts..

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Vultures

I like Rami Khoury’s “Vultures” metaphor to describe Saudi Arabia and Turkey’s attitude to Syria:

This extraordinary spectacle of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran focusing on Syria is not yet a bevy of vultures hovering over the wounded Syrian body – but it is the first step toward that […]

For now, the most interesting and historically important aspect of the situation in Syria is less the behavior of the top-heavy, security-based Assad regime – an endangered global species – and more the continued awakening of regional powers intervening in Syrian affairs more openly

The only slight change I’d make to that is that Iran is not one of the vultures. It’s a ground guardian of the Syrian corpse trying to both resuscitate it and defend it from the approaching vultures..

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From Iran’s Chutzpah Department

Press TV:

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast urged the British government to order the police to stop their violent confrontation with the people, IRNA reported in the early hours of Tuesday.

Mehmanparast asked the British government to start dialogue with the protesters and to listen to their demands in order to calm the situation down.

This is real. This is not a joke. Now read it one more time..

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Time For Adventure!

Ambassador Ghazanfar Roknabadi, Iranian ambassador in Lebanon:

After the 33-day war against Lebanon, the Zionist regime (has not dared and) will not dare to wage a new war on Lebanon. And this regime has been on the verge of collapse since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, and will not attack Lebanon again,

Translation: Hezbollah can go back to kidnapping Israeli soldiers and “resisting”. The Syrian regime needs a distraction.

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Coming Soon: Iran Leaks ?

A treasure was unearthed:

Anonymous has hacked into Iranian government servers and procured over 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry’s website is still down as of this writing, and the servers are under Anonymous control. [...] “It’s near the election’s anniversary. We had to do something,” said one of the Iranian members of Anonymous

Just imagine the kind of emails that can be among them. emails that could prove to be very embarrassing to the regime..

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Internet in Iran To Become “Internal”

Exciting times ahead for our Persian neighbors:

Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran’s telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time, all Iranians would be forced to use a state-censored, fully-internal Internet. About 60% of the nation’s homes and businesses are expected to be on it much sooner than that, he added [...] The country first plans to roll out its new network in parallel with the existing, open network, but expects to eventually make a full switch.

This is astonishing for a country that aspires to be a great nation. I wonder if gaza and south Lebanon will be part of that internet. Maybe Charbel Nahas can help them in that department..