Is Iran next??

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Israel’s foreign ministry says it has information that Lebanese guerrillas are trying to transfer the captured Israeli soldiers to Iran, The Associated Press reports. CNN is working to confirm.

www.cnn.com

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1. this was also

reported on www.haaretz.com . Im still cant fathom why Iran would involve itself this way, but things seem to be getting worse regardless.

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2. Yep! And aslo Syria

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3. Could be propaganda

It doesn't seem like it would really make sense - but who knows.


I posted this is editorials - It's a good article on Syria and Iran - and why they might get involved....


Syria's one true friend - Iran
By Sami Moubayed

Jul 12, 2006

DAMASCUS - Since former president Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970, the Syrian government has managed to rally the street behind its foreign policy. Time has proven the regime correct since all the steps it took in foreign affairs, which seemed questionable to many at the moment, turned out to be wise....

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The history in Syria's friendship with Iran paid off when Syria came under international pressure after the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq al-Harriri on February 14, 2005. The world asked Syria to leave Lebanon, but Iran would not make such a move, prompting Syria's Prime Minister Mohammad Naji al-Otari to visit Tehran in the midst of the international crisis over Lebanon and proclaim an alliance between Damascus and Tehran.

Syria and Iran have much in common. They have a mutual friend and ally in Hamas in Palestine and Hizbullah in Lebanon. They have a common enemy in the United States. They are both committed to the Palestinian cause. At a grassroots level in the Arab and Muslim world, the masses are pleased at Iran's success story and support for Damascus. Why should Syria oppose Iran, or not cement its relations with Tehran, if the Iranians are being good and supportive of Syria?

The Syrian street sees the relationship as a natural and much needed response to the US and Israel's offensive against Damascus. After all, here is Ahmadinejad - a man who one year ago was a political nobody - defying and challenging the US, much to the pleasure of the ordinary Syrian. Washington does not really know what to do about him. Nor does Europe. Nor does the United Nations. Ahmadinejad is not playing the victim, like most Arabs have been doing since 1967. He insists that he is the victor in this undeclared war with the US, speaking to Americans in the same defiant language they use when addressing him. The Iranians are showing the world that Syria remains a regional power to be reckoned with, one that cannot be ignored, relative to Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine.

One question arises: if Syria does not ally itself with Iran, what country in the neighborhood is an alternative? The Syrians, at daggers end with the US since 2003, are surrounded by a pro-American regime in Jordan, an anti-Syrian regime in Lebanon, an American regime in Iraq, and Israel. With such a neighborhood, Syria naturally sides with the Iranians. Gone is the Arab nationalist regime in Egypt. Gone is the Soviet Union. With such an anti-Syrian neighborhood, Iran, it is believed, is the only true friend to the Syrians.

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst.

(Copyright 2006 Asia Times Online Ltd)

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HG12Ak01.html

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4. Of course it is

just another one of many chess moves in this game of global domination.