What can one make of the dovish comments emerging from Tehran in regard to President-elect Barack Obama? Is this the antique Persian leadership looking to take advantage of a young and inexperienced American leader, or a genuine olive branch? This article, which is particularly warm given that it’s been published in Iran’s state-run Tehran Times, worries about whether – if he really wanted to – Obama could ‘seize’ true power from the ‘trilateral commission,’ which the author claims really controls the United States.
By Hamid Golpira
November 25, 2008
Islamic Republic of Iran – The Tehran Times – Original Article (English)
When the Annapolis conference was held in 2007, Arab pundits said the name said it all, since “anna polis” in Arabic means “I’m the police.” And George W. Bush and his neocon handlers certainly adopted an “I’m the police” policy in regard to Palestine and the rest of the Islamic world. As a matter of fact, the neocons adopted an “I’m the police” policy toward the entire world.
And now along comes Barack Obama. He’s seems reasonable. He seems like a man of dialogue rather than of dictates. He seems sympathetic toward the Palestinians, or at least he did some years ago. He’s Black, so he knows what racism, prejudice, and discrimination are all about. His father was a Black African. His grandfather was the first in his Kenya village to convert to Islam. He lived in Indonesia for some years as a child. His middle name is Hussein. He’s obviously not going to be another wonder bread president.
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