Comments on: The Persian Game http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/ änðü.mät/Sylheti...Pointless, baseless, unnecessary blabber Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:29:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Michael Tim http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-87 Michael Tim Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:05:12 +0000 http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-87 I love your site! _____________________ Experiencing a slow PC recently? <a href="http://tinyurl.com/makemypcfaster" rel="nofollow">Fix it now!</a> I love your site!

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]]> By: Scuba http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-33 Scuba Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:42:57 +0000 http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-33 @Elliott: Thanks for the comment. The hostage crisis is now being mostly interpreted as a victory of the pragmatists over the extremists in Iran, specifically Ali Larijani, who, as you mentioned in your post, was the main force behind the final negotiations. I also look at it as a moral victory of sorts over the warmongers in the Bush administration, who were trying to use Britain’s lack of progress on the issue as an example of how diplomacy can never work with nations like Iran. @Samrat: Thanks!…high praise indeed, when it’s from The Calumnist! I’m a big fan of your blog! @Sandesh: Yes, Iran, of course, is scrambling to get nuclear weapon capability, not entirely unjustified. I may regret saying this someday, but somehow I’m more comfortable with the idea of a nuclearized Shia Iran than a nuclearized, mostly Sunni Pakistan, or maybe Saudi Arabia. The reason is that most Iranians look at nuclear capability as a means to regain their legitimate standing in the world, regain the lost glory of the great Persian Empire. Not very different from the wave of nationalism and visions of a missile-tipped Bharat at the head of the world table that swept through India during the Pokran days, don’t you think so? That way I feel that they are more interested in attaining and ’showing off’ that capability rather than actually using it. Which can’t be said with certainty of our Western neighbour. Of course, this hypothesis does not take into account that major thorn in the side of Iran’s psyche…Israel. So it may not hold much water. @Elliott:
Thanks for the comment.
The hostage crisis is now being mostly interpreted as a victory of the pragmatists over the extremists in Iran, specifically Ali Larijani, who, as you mentioned in your post, was the main force behind the final negotiations. I also look at it as a moral victory of sorts over the warmongers in the Bush administration, who were trying to use Britain’s lack of progress on the issue as an example of how diplomacy can never work with nations like Iran.

@Samrat:
Thanks!…high praise indeed, when it’s from The Calumnist! I’m a big fan of your blog!

@Sandesh:
Yes, Iran, of course, is scrambling to get nuclear weapon capability, not entirely unjustified. I may regret saying this someday, but somehow I’m more comfortable with the idea of a nuclearized Shia Iran than a nuclearized, mostly Sunni Pakistan, or maybe Saudi Arabia. The reason is that most Iranians look at nuclear capability as a means to regain their legitimate standing in the world, regain the lost glory of the great Persian Empire. Not very different from the wave of nationalism and visions of a missile-tipped Bharat at the head of the world table that swept through India during the Pokran days, don’t you think so? That way I feel that they are more interested in attaining and ’showing off’ that capability rather than actually using it. Which can’t be said with certainty of our Western neighbour. Of course, this hypothesis does not take into account that major thorn in the side of Iran’s psyche…Israel. So it may not hold much water.

]]> By: Sandesh http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-31 Sandesh Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:19:03 +0000 http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-31 Nice Analysis man...Keep this going.. For me its a dilemma when it comes to supporting Iran. I feel they are entitled to have nuclear power just like the rest of the world. But their track record is such that you cannot trust them with that. What if they fire a nuclear missile into India if we are in a war with Pakistan? Nice Analysis man…Keep this going..
For me its a dilemma when it comes to supporting Iran. I feel they are entitled to have nuclear power just like the rest of the world. But their track record is such that you cannot trust them with that. What if they fire a nuclear missile into India if we are in a war with Pakistan?

]]> By: Samrat http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-29 Samrat Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:55:22 +0000 http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-29 I have a complaint: This isn't aandu maat at all! In fact, it's neither pointless, nor baseless, nor even 'blabber' :) I have a complaint: This isn’t aandu maat at all! In fact, it’s neither pointless, nor baseless, nor even ‘blabber’ :)

]]> By: Elliott Joseph http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-26 Elliott Joseph Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:24:54 +0000 http://aandumaat.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-persian-game/#comment-26 It's round 1, round 2, and knockout to Iran. American policy in the Gulf remains a curate's egg; but Britain has been deftly humbled by the theocrats. The hostage endgame leads to <a href="http://elliottjoseph.blogspot.com/2007/04/endgame-in-iran.html" rel="nofollow">triumphant checkmate for Iran</a>. It’s round 1, round 2, and knockout to Iran. American policy in the Gulf remains a curate’s egg; but Britain has been deftly humbled by the theocrats. The hostage endgame leads to triumphant checkmate for Iran.

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