by Robert Scheer

The Nation

02/08/05

In a heightened display of saber rattling, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been saying nasty things about Iran's 'unelected mullahs.' This is apparently so we'll be able to tell the difference between the theocracy in place in Tehran and the one coalescing in Baghdad. ... In his State of the Union address, Bush denounced Iran as 'the world's primary state sponsor of terrorism.' At the same time, he celebrated an Iraqi election that handed power to Shiite ayatollahs who were sponsored for decades by their co-religionists in Iran and who share much of Tehran's vision of religion and politics. ... The final returns from the Iraqi election are not in, but it seems clear that the slate headed by the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution is going to have a clear majority in the new constitutional assembly...

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