A recent visit to Tehran by Jordan’s foreign minister Nasser Joudeh has raised questions about the purpose of the trip, notably whether it was the first step in building a future relationship between the two countries, Al-Jazeera reported. This recent Jordanian overture surprised many political observers and analysts in Amman including entities both supporting and opposing the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, since neither Iran nor Jordan gave any indications of a shift in relations before the visit.
Another capital caving to the inevitable?
We may see things as a temporary cycle and an R president in 2016 will ‘set things right’ Others do NOT see things that way.
Iran has believed since AT LEAST 2005 we are bluffing
Iran has believed since AT LEAST 2005 GB, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are in TERMINAL DECLINE
Iran has believed since AT LEAST 2005 that all sanctions will ultimately fail
Iran has believed since AT LEAST 2005 that the US can only play chicken
The sole issue they have been mistaken on so far is the price and supply of oil, due to US fracking.
But it CAN BE a critical error if WE ACT AGRESSIVELY ON IT AND WITH CONFIDENCE.
2006, Dr. Hassan Abassi, Iranian ‘Kissinger’, adviser to the Guardian Council. Abbasi heads the Center for Security Doctrines Research of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (RGC). His friends call him “The Kissinger of Islam”, after Henry Kissinger who served as US secretary of state in the 1970s.”To Iran’s new ruling elite, Abbasi is the big strategic brain,” says a European diplomat in Tehran. “More and more officials quote him in meetings with foreign diplomats.” According to Abbasi, the global balance of power is in a state of flux and every nation should fight for a place in a future equilibrium. The Western powers, especially the United States, still wield immense military and economic power that “looks formidable on paper.” But they are unable to use that power because their populations have become “risk-averse.” "The Western man today has no stomach for a fight," Abbasi says. "This phenomenon is not new: All empires produce this type of man, the self-centered, materialist, and risk-averse man." Abbasi believes that the US intervention in Iraq, which involved “slightly higher risks” than the invasion of Afghanistan, was the very last of its kind. And even then, the US went into Iraq because of President George W Bush’s “readiness to do what no other American leader would dare contemplate.” According to Abbasi, the US knows that the only power capable of and willing to challenge it across the globe is the Islamic Republic. The reason is that the Islamic Republic not only enjoys “strong backing from its people”, but also has the support of millions who are prepared to kill and die for it across the globe. Abbasi claims that the US and its allies have played three games against Iran. The first was a “carrots and sticks” exercise designed to tempt a section of the Tehran leadership away from radical politics while frightening another section into submission. The next game was “good cop, bad cop” and had the more sinister objective of confusing and dividing the Islamic leadership. Finally, and starting just over a year ago, the “satanic powers” played a new game which Abbasi has dubbed “trigger-at-the-ready.” In this game they put the metaphoric gun at the Islamic Republic’s temple with their finger on the trigger. Abbasi believes that the trigger was pulled, firing only a blank, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed an anodyne resolution on the Islamic Republic’s pursuit of nuclear power. ”Now that the satanic powers have failed to achieve their goal with all those games they are preparing for a new game,” Abbasi says. ” This new game is known as the Chicken Strategy in which the two sides move toward each other with speed until one side quits.”It is not clear whether Abbasi or other mullas have seen Nicholas Ray’s “Rebel Without A Cause”. But it was in that film, starring James Dean, that “playing chicken” was introduced to broader audiences. According to Webster dictionary, the phrase refers to “any of various contests in which the participants risk personal safety in order to see which one will give up first.” The quitter is designated as “chicken livered.”Abbasi and his disciples in the new Islamic elite believe that this is the best time to engage the US in a “game of chicken.”“The Western regimes lack popular legitimacy,” Abbasi told his audience. “The Western economy is based on shaky foundations that depend on oil. Divisions within the Western camp, the West’s economic fragility, and the distrust of the people (in Western countries) toward their governments render their side vulnerable.”Abbasi believes that when President Bush says that no option is off the table, implying that force could be used against the Islamic Republic, he is only playing chicken.”The Americans are not ready to send a million men (to defeat the Islamic Republic),” Abbasi said. “Even economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic will fail thanks to opposition from the Western public opinion and the refusal of most countries to implement (them).” A brief military clash with the US at this time could do wonders for the Islamic Republic. The regime would be able to crush growing internal opposition in the name of national solidarity. It would also revive the regime’srevolutionary credentials. The raid on the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 gave the new Islamic regime an aura of radicalism that it lacked because a revolution led by the mullas was hard to sell as a progressive, anti-imperialist movement. Abbasi also recalls that Iraq’s invasion of Iran in 1980 was “a blessing from God” because it gave the revolutionary regime another chance to prove its resilience.”In true Nietzschean form he believes that since a limited war with the US will not kill the Islamic Republic; it is bound to make it stronger. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
Iran is completely confident THEY are the ascending force IN THE WORLD, and they are so because god blesses them and confounds us.
ISIS, AQ, AL NUSRA, BOKO, IRGC, HIZBALLAH, ALL SPROUT IN A VACUUM LACKING POLITICAL OPPOSITION.
53% are you happy?
It is YOUR VOTES which have given heart to these ass holes.
There are a LOT OF WAYS to oppose all of these assholes, and behind them all is the need to MAKE AN EXAMPLE.
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