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[Encarta.msn.com] Iran-Iraq War: After the Ottoman Empire conquered present-day Iraq in 1534, making it the easternmost part of its empire, Iran, its eastern neighbor, became a frequent rival. More recently, when Iraq was made a separate state in the aftermath of World War I (1914-1918), Iraq and Iran disagreed sharply over the precise border between them, especially in the area of the Shatt al Arab, a river channel providing Iraq's only outlet to the sea, via the Persian Gulf.
[Riverbendblog.blogspot.com] Riverbend - Baghdad Burning: There’s a saying in Iraq which people are using right and left lately, and that I've used before in the blog, “Ili ishuf il mout, yirdha bil iskhuna.” He who sees death, is content with a fever. Allawi et al.
[Blogs.washingtonpost.com] Early Warning by William M. Arkin - washingtonpost.com: Bragg and Pope air force base in North Carolina for the 4th of July -- that's the scuttlebutt -- he'll likely barbeque and hang with special operations personnel and their families, singing his usual refrain that the war against terrorism is "long war," necessary to preserve American independence, secure liberty, and, well, you get the idea.
[Theglitteringeye.com] The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Options on Iran II: The undeclared tanker war led to the devastation of the Iranian navy and was at least partially responsible for the end of the Iran-Iraq war. I don’t think the Iranian leadership is irrational enough not to realize that a nuclear attack would get a nuclear response.
[The_City_Troll] Oh God SeeLess Hersh is Babbling Again: Leverett, a project director at the New America Foundation, added that the White House’s proposal, despite offering trade and economic incentives for Iran, has not “resolved any of the fundamental contradictions of U.S. policy.” The precondition for the talks, he said””an open-ended halt to all Iranian enrichment activity””“amounts to the President wanting a guarantee that they’ll surrender before he talks to them. Iran cannot accept long-term constraints on its fuel-cycle activity as part of a settlement without a security guarantee”””for example, some form of mutual non-aggression pact with the United States.
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