Comments on: Two points on Iran… https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/ Tue, 02 May 2006 16:03:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ht https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-132 Tue, 02 May 2006 16:03:27 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-132 Hassan Rowhani, , called the embassy the “Den of Espionage” in a recent speech.

Well he to, has a point. Just look over some of the documents recovered/taken from the building. They where shredded before the surrender. However, religious students manged to put them back together again. (I guess I could plug Atheism here, but I understand these kids also get to censor the photos in foreign newspapers and magazines which has to be one of the cooler jobs in Iran 😉 ) These documents where published under the title: “Documents From the U.S. Espionage Den”. (Get your PDF copy at http://www.thememoryhole.org/espionage_den/)

The embassy may have been a regional CIA base. You can also learn some other interesting stuff from them. Think about, for example, the fight within the CIA over whether soviet “defectors” should by default be trusted as poor people fleeing a horrible “regime” or distrusted as disinformation sources send by the KGB. (http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/teheren.htm)

I guess the more things change the more they stay the same, just ask Washington’s favourite bank robber 😉

Also, on the Iran bilateral talks thing, this stuff is complicated. But to me it will never make sense without remembering that Cheney`s daughter is planning a “orange flags and tents appearing out of thin air” operation on the central Tehran square in her capacity as state dept. “democracy czar”. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2070419,00.html (Does Tehran even have a central square?)

Hey, with there being such a neat correlation between bases being planned, soviet armies being cleaned up, countries being promised to join the EU and “regimes”* being denounced by the NGO`s of “former” CIA bosses… you kinda wonder if the new US embassy in Tehran will be a regional CIA base again. (http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/4cb91617-5402-4fcd-8266-c31318fe4107.html)

*) “regime” : A goverment that can’t eat at the cool kids table

]]> By: dan https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-131 Tue, 02 May 2006 05:04:10 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-131 It’s a hilarious juxtaposition: Rowhani converses intelligibly, analyses the past coherently and critically, and offers lessons learned.

I don’t know how to begin to characterise Bush’s statement.

]]> By: Amit Joshi https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-130 Mon, 01 May 2006 23:00:06 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-130 Whether the India-US deal leads to the disintegration of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty remains to be seen. However as far as India’s part of the world goes, the NPT has never had any utility or relevance. Whether it was India’s acquistion of weapons or Chinese behavior on proliferation, the NPT appears to have been an insignificant variable in the equation.

]]> By: Yale Simkin https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-129 Mon, 01 May 2006 12:47:32 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-129 I was aware of your target….

I was just taking an opportunity to editorialize on the India-US nonsense while in an irritable mood.

I did appreciate the irony of of your comments.

]]> By: Paul https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-128 Mon, 01 May 2006 11:41:55 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-128 To be more precise, I was not arguing that Bush was actually referring to the India deal. But I used his comment as a vehicle to criticize that deal.

]]> By: Yale Simkin https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-127 Mon, 01 May 2006 11:38:54 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-127 Why was the India reference a joke? The disasterous India-US agreement is more properly a tragic farce, accelerating the disintegration of the ironically mis-named Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

yale

]]> By: Paul https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-126 Mon, 01 May 2006 09:41:20 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-126 The India reference was obviously a joke. He was probably referring to the Agreed Framework.

]]> By: Amit Joshi https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-125 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:50:33 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-125 While the world focuses on Iran, former Indian Army chief Gen. V.P. Malik has now gone on record about Chinese involvement in the 1999 India-Pakistan war over Kargil.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1687034,0008.htm

]]> By: Amit Joshi https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/04/30/two-points-on-iran/#comment-124 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:40:32 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/two-points-on-iran/#comment-124 Pretty presumptous assumptions about the US-India nuclear agreement. Are you sure he wasn’t referring to Clinton and the US-China nuclear agreement or the Administration’s inability to brand China a currency manipulator (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/28/AR2005112801050.html)?

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