The Middle East
Posted on June 30, 2009
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Iran, the 400 point pink elephant in the room no one wants to talk about, that is unless you’re the media spending every waking moment obsessed with twitter pages of people claiming to be in Iran. Please don’t let twitter get in the way of real news regarding the actual state of Iran. Little back story, a few days ago Iran invaded the British Embassy claiming they had video proof of suspected spies working to incite riots in their country.
Gordon Brown’s spokesman said: “We are deeply concerned at their arrest and their continued detention. These arrests are completely unacceptable and unjustifiable.”
Yesterday, the Iranian intelligence minister, Gholam Hossein Mohseini Ejehi, said Tehran had video proof that Iranian employees at the embassy “were distinctly present at the scene of clashes” following the 12 June election.
What a mess, it’s fairly impossible to know who to believe, and even if you believed one side or the other you still wouldn’t know how to respond. Iran claims to have proof of British and US involvement while the British and US claim it’s impossible, and no country is at all trustworthy. You still have a small set of people, mainly the one’s who rally against theocracy rule, protesting but it’s getting smaller every day. The worst part is the military we see in the streets isn’t like the military here , it’s mainly volunteer, people who believe they’re protecting a leader who speaks for god, so they’re willing to kill anyone who gets in their way. I mean they still get 71 virgins when they die right?
Iraq is a whole different ball game, the oil that’s left is slowly starting to see more bids but everyone says it’s a giant security risk. No shit, some American company coming in and practically stealing your natural resource and you’re supposed to sit on the sidelines and watch because a bunch of people in Baghdad told you that you had to? The military isn’t protecting their assets anymore as well, because many of those resources are being transported to Afganastan and soon to be Pakistan, so the oil companies are butt hurt that they’d have to secure the area themselves after so many years of leaching off my tax dollars to do it.
I’m only just past the intro on Life Inc, I picked it up the other week, and it’s really interesting to read the stories that brought him to write the book. I’m excited to get into a little history!
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