Iran’s Agenda
A friend of mine, who works at the European Commission, explained to me her theory about Iran and it’s president’s intentions. It has the ring of truth.
Ahmoud Ahmadinejad is not particularly evil, (no more so than any number of world leaders, certainly not in a class of evil with Cheney or Rove). Also, he is rather more intelligent than most american pols.
And yes, he is frightened of the Ruff Tuff Cream Puff (aka Bush’s America) which seems to love using its shiny new war toys and its love of warfare to create chaos Here and There. Ahmadinejad justifies this exotic view by looking over his border to Iraq. He is determined to defend himself and country.
So what he’s doing is generating just the credible minimum amount of signal to noise that would make it look like he is preparing a belligerent, nuclear Iran. This is the perfect country image to impress and perturb the imbeciles that create US foreign policy.
He is playing that image for all its worth. It is a very effective strategy.
