Iran Shells Kurdish villages in Iraq

I wonder what the far reaching will be.

When will it end?

Well, Bush may have accomplished a goal of getting Saddam Hussein. I don't think we want to be over there long term. We may be over there trying to make things better for businesses. The military is a group who is vital to ensuring our freedoms. I'm not positive what the leader of Iran is trying to do. But I think that our presence in the region probably prevented Syria and Iran from widening the conflict with Israel.

I'm with you, Olga!

The Kurds are likely to be a problem for some time, given the fact that their country has basically been chopped up in three pieces. The extent to which the "Iraqi" Kurds become powerful and autonomous is the extent to which Iran and Turkey have problems.

Saw on the Daily Show that the Kurdish area of Iraq is actually trying to attract tourist trade! It's a little early for that, but apparently, that's the one area of Iraq that's managed to get its act together pretty quickly. Being bombed isn't going to help that any.

R.E.,

It's actually called "ethnic cleansing." The Islamic regime in Iran is doing the same thing to the Arab-Iranian minorities who live in Southeast Iran in the Khoozestan region (Ahwaz). It's not a matter of sectarian violence because the government itself is targeting ethnic minorities and systematically executing them.

Lily, wow! That is profound. Thank you for clarifying where the power is coming from.

R.E., I think Lily's right, when governments are behind the violence, it's not "sectarian violence".

Actually, being that it is Iran, firing upon Iraq's Kurdish populations, it should be properly classified as an act of war. If Iran was doing it to it's own kurdish populations, it would be ethnic cleansing.

Marty,

In recent months, the Islamic regime has been cracking down on Iranian Kurds, and the much smaller Iranian Arab population (only 2% of Iran's population is Arab, btw) in Ahwaz.

Given Iran's vast influence in Iraq since the fall of Saddam, I can hardly think of Iraq as a soverign entity these days! (Just to give you an idea, if you call a business, hotel, etc. in certain parts of Iraq right this minute, the person answering the phone would be speaking Farsi, not Arabic.) As such, in my humble opinion, the atrocities committed against the Kurds "on the other side of the line," is simply an extention of the atrocities that the Islamic regime has been committing against the Kurds within within its own borders.

Perhaps the more important question is: In which direction are the short-range missiles that Iran tested yesterday are aiming these days???

Hmm, thanks Lily. Well, the UN probably recognizes different borders. The language spoken may Farsi, the dominant culture may be Persian, but officially, Iraq is still the country between Iran and Syria.

Well as i see it we really didnt get Saddam Hussein. I mean, we spent at least a million bucks per missle. WHY cant we spent an extra 25cents and put a bullet in the back of his head. That is one of the major factors,as i see it, that encourages domestic violence in the Middle East.

Now you have a former terroist who runs Iran. He is a Radical Muslim. His only intent is to strike while the iron is hot. The fact that Israel did suffer some damage isn't just a minor victory for Hezbolla. The men who fund them have empowered their religous agenda. I think it's just starting .

Well, we may decide that Action must be taken against Iran, but I don't think that it'll happen before the elections in November, unless Iran takes active steps to cause an apocalypse.

No satellite photos of the alleged bombings were presented in that article to confirm that the Iranian government was the source. While it is true that Kurdish freedom fighters and civilians have been killed by the Iranian government, FAR more such people have been killed and continue to be killed by the Turkish government. Yet, for some reason this has gone unnoticed and uncriticized by the West.

Tens of Thousands of Kurds Killed By Turkey


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"Turkey has a huge Kurd population. The government has strongly resisted Kurds seeking their own statehood.

Tens of thousands of Kurds were killed in Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s while the Turkish government put down revolts aimed at establishing a state of Kurdistan. "



Kurds have been killed by Iran, Iraq, and by Syria. But if all the numbers of these killings were combined, they would not match the numbers murdered by Turkey's racist and brutal government.

As for Iran, it is more troubled by MEK terrorists than by PUK. And yet, when Iran has been the victim nobody seems disturbed by that.

As for Iran's difficulties in its Ahwaz province, the government has attributed sabotage to British agents (it will be recalled last year that British agents were caught trying to plant bombs in Iraq) =


Khuzestan Problems


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The attacks on oil installations have come amid growing political unrest within Iran's five million-strong Ahwazi Arab population. Attempts to sabotage Iranian oil production in Khuzestan could have serious implications for the global economy.

The Iranian government has blamed "British agents" for the attacks, which they claim were orchestrated from London."

How the Bush regime sold the idea of invading Iraq and how it is selling the idea of invading Iran:


Bush Duplicity



for those of you who are so enthused about another war, are you sure you really want it?



"Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon officials were plotting to invade another country. Their covert campaign once again relied on false intelligence and shady allies. But this time, the target was Iran."

For the record, I am not really advocating Invasion of Iran, I am saying it might happen. Also, Bush may not move to invade Iran. We may decide that Iraq is enough trouble already. I don't really think that it is likely, but it is possible. If Bush had a solid idea on what he wanted to do, I'd think that it would happen before the democrats might possibly take back control of the house of representatives.