Iranian president meets militant Palestinian leaders in Syria

[lovuian]

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/21/71496.html

01:56 2006-01-21
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met Friday with the leaders of the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Syria, expressing his support a day after 20 people were wounded in Tel Aviv in a suicide attack claimed by Jihad.

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has said Syria planned the attack and Iran funded it. But Iranian and Syrian officials have denied any involvement by their countries.

Shortly before he left Syria at the end of a two-day visit, President Ahmadinejad reiterated that Syria and Iran had formed a "front" to oppose what he called world "arrogance and domination," a reference to the United States and its Western allies.
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Iranian Prez is definitely lining up his allies...

[applegrove]

1. Don't expect the GOP to solve this one any time soon. All it would

take would be for Australia to stop shipping lamb to Iran.

[oblivious]

2. Why would not New Zealand or other lamb exporters take the business?

Somehow I can't see a country that fought an 8-year war 20 years ago, with over a half million dead and over a million wounded, surrendering to a new enemy because of a shortage of lamb.

[applegrove]

3. Well they are rattleling the cage now because some say - the embargo

on airplane parts for 30 years has really hurt them of late. Their planes crash every few months. So - to rattle the cage - some say he has gone on the offensive in order to get some embargoes lifted.

Read that somewhere.

I doubt if Australia did an embargo that New Zealand would step in. I think more likely Russia or some Iranian ally.

Anyway - all sorts of carrots have been offered to North Korea. Some say that is what Iran is up to.

[oblivious]

4. Carrots is the solution, isn't it. Sanctions will hurt us more than them.

[sarcasmo]

5. Kick and Nom here comes WWIII.