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Comments on the president of the country this week stating he wanted Israel to be "wiped off the map"? Scary stuff. Opinions on what should or can be done if anything at all?
 
Iran is asking the occidental countries to have a war, and at this moment he is very likely to have what they want.

This affair with this kind of countries does not have a peaceful solution.
 
Spot on, Gareth. Iran's overwhelmingly a Shi'ite country, and not only does it think that Israel should cease to exist, but has espoused the forcible overthrow of all the Gulf sheikhdoms (since the late Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979), especially the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Dubai is on its hit list, too, since it's gone totally beyond the pale into Western decadence and the love of far too much bling.

The fact that all the Gulf countries (if you discount Iraq, although it does have Gulf ports) are governed by Sunni Muslims is no coincidence at all. (To put it into rather over-simplistic terms, the Sunni-Shi'a schism mirrors the old Catholic-Protestant divide. Same religion, different viewpoints on key issues. Both, of course, are guided by the Divine, and each considers the other to be seriously misguided, to the point of putting each other to death from time to time. Not to worry, they'll have worked out their differences in another 400 years.)
 
A rather grim :lol: to that Colin, but they've certainly wiped a helluva lot of Iraqi people off it. Actually, we, as in the European we, already have wiped Iraq off the map, or rather, what was once the kingdom of Mesopotamia, just as we wiped out Palestine to finally act on the Balfour Treaty to create the Zionist homeland of Israel. (We weren't that much bothered, until we got boatlands of Jews fleeing the Nazis, who we really didn't want, and finally, the sight of the concentration camps.) When you're bigger and more powerful than the countries you invade or colonize, you get to cut them up into the bits you want, share them out with your chums like chocolates, and call them what you like. Later on, when you've handed on these badly re-shaped religious and ethnic boundaries, you can accuse their rulers of being tyrants and despots. Funny old world, ain't it?
 
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