Latest NeoCon meme: The Iranian dissidents want US to bomb Iran

[sabra]

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1D7641E9-5820-4BC8-A74E-75BF57FEB5DE

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Emissaries from inside Iran have been meeting with Iranian exiles in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in recent weeks to deliver this provocative message, which they claim comes from pro-U.S. dissidents at the upper-most levels of the regime.

“U.S. airstrikes must be powerful and sustained enough to break the myth of the regime’s absolute power and reveal the weakness of the leadership,” a former official who traveled outside of Iran recently said.

The United States should target the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards Corp, the offices of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and that of his predecessor and rival, Mullah Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Iranian sources say.

The goal should be to carry out sustained airstrikes over a 48-72 hour period that would “decapitate” the regime.

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“However, if the U.S. launches a major strike that goes after the leadership in Iran, that’s different,” he told Newsmax. “Most Iranians hate the regime. People would be very happy to see a major strike that took out the leadership.”

Mr. Ahdiyyih and other Iran analysts speaking at an American Enterprise Institute conference on Monday painted a picture of a bitterly-divided regime in Tehran that is “unstable” and fighting for its survival.

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[Lerkfish]

1. ah yes, the shiny new name for the PNAC: American Enterprise Institute.

:puke:

[magellan]

2. Now there's a novel idea, let's do what the "dissidents" want!

Oh, wait....

[Mountainman]

3. Looks like front page what ever likes David Horowitz pretty much.

Quoting Newsmax also? I would not put much stock in anything printed there.

[sabra]

4. for sure - but it shows AEI (PNAC) pushing these ideas...

[Jim__]

5. Kenneth R. Timmerman was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

From the signature to the article:

Kenneth R. Timmerman was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize along with John Bolton for his work on Iran. He is Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, and author of Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran (Crown Forum: 2005).

I wonder who nominated those clowns for the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Lerkfish]

7. anyone can be nominated, btw.

[Indenturedebtor]

6. We'll be greeted as liberators! n/t

[ProgressiveFool]

8. my god, how fucking delusional are these people?

I hate our current administration here in the US, but if somebody tried bombing it, I would drop everything and rally to its defense. I'm sure the Iranians would do the same. Who the fuck would be happy to see their own country bombed? Like we really have some magic bomb that only targets the "evil-doers" and doesn't blow up innocent people, or destroy their culture and way of life.

[annabanana]

9. And his name is Chalabi.. . . .n/t