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Monday, June 27, 2005

Iran

It would be easy to get seriously depressed about the election result in Iran and it certainly raises the temperature a bit.

I have a funny feeling however that the lurch back to a fundamentalist state won't work. Too many Iranians have bad memories of the 1980's and know there is an alternative.

Cross your fingers time!

It will be interesting to see what stance the Iranian state's greatest friend in Europe, Baroness Nicholsson, will take with Ahmadinejad. She has repeated regime propaganda verbatim, excused the most grotesque human rights abuses and actively campaigned against the Iranian opposition. She is the mullahs' Lady Haw Haw.

Hi Clive,

I have to say, I am also a bit worried about the 'neocons' getting into power in Iran, just as I am worried about them getting into power elsewhere.

Fingers crossed.

Regs, Andy

Clive: How does the fact that Ahmadinejad's involvement in the 1979 siege of the American embassy in Tehran affect the UK's relations with Iran? If British politicians refuse to speak to Iranian Arabs due to the involvement of one extremist Iranian Arab organisation in the 1980 Iranian embassy siege in London, then why should Britain have any diplomatic relations with Iran when the country is led by a hostage-taker?