What 'They' Say About Iran and Democracy. Iraq Bombings Resume
“Iran was able to surpass (less than overcome?) the conspiracy to saw confusion and anarchy…” al-Manar (Hezbullah TV).
Hezbullah walking a tight rope lately. It has remained loyal to her ally, but without being excessively so, without openly criticizing the ‘opposition’ or the protesters. This is understandable: the Shi'as are certainly the largest group in Lebanon, a plurality, likely a future majority. Yet they were marginalized economically and politically- until after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The Lebanese Shi'as empowerment afer 1979 can't be a coincidence.
“The difference between the Iranian presidential and Lebanese parliamentary elections was afew days, but there is a great difference between the democracies of the two countries…” A. al-Ansari
Except the author, typical of many reporters and columnists in the Persian Gulf region, is concerned about, and gets really analytical about, issues of democracy everywhere else- except at home and in the neighborhood.
“Kuwait’s democracy annoys Gilf rulers: analysts see the regimes in the (Persian) Gulf trying to discredit the idea of parliamentary rule which reduces their huge powers…” M. E. Online
“Iraq’s prime minister al-Maliki blasts Arab regimes that remain silent toward sermons encouraging anti-Shi’a violence…..He said that foreign sectarian parties are behind the latest series of bombings in Iraq…” al-Alam (Iran).
The bombings have
increased in Iraq, both in terms of the number and the intensity of explosions,
and the number of victims. The recent incidents have been mostly below the
radar in the United States, because only Iraqis die from these terrorist
bombings, almost certainly perpetrated by Sunni groups. Meabwile, Saudi ulema
continue their anti-Shi’a rhetoric, the latestbeing the appointed Imam of the
grand mosque at Mecca, who said that Shi’as should not be included within the
multi-sect Council of Senior Islamic Ulema in Saudi Arabia (they are not).
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mhg
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