tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post8180797784649247761..comments2024-03-19T01:48:39.709+00:00Comments on Power and Control: Squeezing IranM. Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-32719653678814307402007-03-26T19:38:00.000+00:002007-03-26T19:38:00.000+00:00From the Captain's Quarters post:Perhaps even more...From the Captain's Quarters post:<BR/><EM>Perhaps even more importantly, Ahmadinejad has undermined confidence in the Iranian stock exchange, comparing it to gambling.</EM><BR/><BR/>How often I've heard American liberals utter the same bilge.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-53429969739453670662007-03-26T19:08:00.000+00:002007-03-26T19:08:00.000+00:00A couple of more points to add to aj's list: Iran...A couple of more points to add to aj's list: Iran can't be too popular with the Turks for reneging on it's natural gas supply contracts during this last winter. Also, the intelligence personnel absentee problem began about a year ago with the disappearance (defection?) of a number of agents who may have had reason to feel threatened by internal regime purges. Add to that the fact that armanidinnerjacket has been running his printing presses to make more currency to appease the masses.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-84182502424989859532007-03-26T13:23:00.000+00:002007-03-26T13:23:00.000+00:00Simon - My thanks!Iran is starting to see a multit...Simon - My thanks!<BR/><BR/>Iran is starting to see a multitude of things now hemming it in: the over 300 Iranians kept in Iraq, the pointed use of Iranian made explosives in Iraq, support flowing through Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon and al Qaeda in Western Iraq, Russia cutting off funds for nuclear development as Iran can no longer pay them, China bowing out of its $10 billion input into the Iranian oil infrastructure, and the problems of an elderly leadership. Not to mention the problems with Kurds, Azeris and the folks in the Baluchostan areas. It does appear that the fractures are starting to show up in the regime and trying to focus attention outside the Nation is now focusing attention on the problems *inside* it.<BR/><BR/>I don't know where this will end, but the chances of Iran as currently configured surviving appear to be diminishing. And the regime has prepared its Hezbollah network so the leadership has places to flee to and continue the fight...A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.com