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02/24/2003 Archived Entry: "Iranians Eager for Hussein to Be Ousted"

IRANIANS HAVE NO LOVE FOR IRAQ: Which shouldn't be a surprise. Good LA Times story about how many Iranians want to see Saddam Hussein removed from power.

"At least 300,000 Iranians were killed in the war, and more than half a million were wounded.

However, the depth of Iranian antipathy for Hussein predates both the war and the Islamic Revolution of the late 1970s.

Iranians and Arabs are ethnically and culturally distinct, and a prejudice against Arabs has run through Iranian history for centuries. After the Iranian national soccer team lost a game to Iraq in 1977, the shah wept openly before fans at Tehran's Azadi Stadium.

Because Iranians speak Persian instead of Arabic and identify with a culture that predates Islam, most of them do not have the emotional ties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that reinforce the anger Arabs feel toward the United States, which they see as Israel's sponsor. Iranians do not sleep and rise with televised images of Palestinian suffering, as Arabs throughout the region do."

Read on. (Free registration or use name: esrmusings pass: coffee)

The best part may be the final paragraphs in the story which recount how some young Iranians want an U.S. invasion of...you guessed it...Iran.

Replies: 2 comments

I agree with you completely. Some of the most fanatic people in that part of the world are Iranians and Saddam Hussein is relying on a contingent of fanatic Iranians to seal off the borders so the Iraqi army can't flee into Syria.

That said, I think the recent demonstrations have shown that there is a significant dissident movement forming in Iran and the U.S. would be unwise to ignore it as it seems to be doing these days. I may be out to lunch, but it would be nice to topple two members of the axis in short order.

Posted by Steve Martinovich @ 02/25/2003 08:46 AM EST

Don't be lulled here. Iranian's DO wake up to the deification of certain "martyrs" who also happen to be terrorists. Ever seen the billboards in Teheran?

Posted by judge dredd @ 02/24/2003 09:50 PM EST