Foreign Correspondence

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The high voter turnout in Iran changed things and I have already posted I don’t see how Bush can do anything to affect this election to the point where his man is put in office, too little, too late. Yet this doesn’t change the fact that he wants his man installed in the future.

Trying to figure out how to invade Iran without invading Iran.

How’s this? If I were Bush I would use the Sunnis.

He has already armed the Sunnis in Iraq and he looks to be behind the Sunni uprising in Ahvaz. Iran claims to be under attack from its western border, that would be the United States and the Sunnis, sprinkle in some Kurds. #msg-6715484

Islam has two major branches: the Sunnis, with 940 million believers, and Shiites, with 120 million.

And the Sunnis will come to the aid of other Sunnis. All Bush has to do is promote the Sunni/Shiite ethnic tensions in Iran.

Some references:

"It has become clear that several counter-revolutionary groups in Iraq have been dispatched to Iran from the region where the Americans and the British are deployed," he said on Monday.

Gholamreza Shariati, the deputy provincial governor for security affairs, suggested that the reason for the attacks was the destruction of Iran's territorial integrity and the deterrence of voters from participating in the upcoming presidential elections.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2EA85595-A597-4786-85F6-2CF185776D7D.htm

"If they see the Sunnis getting beaten up by the Shiites, there will be extensive Arab support," agrees a U.S. Army officer. "There will be no holds barred."

Turning the Arabs against the Persians or using the Arabs to take out Iran is a strategy long used by Bush. A case in point is the Persian Gulf Island dispute.
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The Sunni Arabs know they have an education and experience advantage over the more numerous Shia Arabs. They know that powerful Sunni Arab nations in the region, particularly Saudi Arabia, will back them in many ways. The fear of Islamic conservatism from Shia Iran can also be manipulated.
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Islam is the second largest religion in the world, with over one billion followers, and growing at a rate of about 20% per year.1The religion has two major branches: the Sunnis, with 940 million believers, and Shiites, with 120 million. These two sects also each have their own branches and divisions, including the well-known Wahhabi sect of the Sunnis. The major groups have some very important distinctions that continue to affect the history of the world.

http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw11sunnishiitesplit.htm

On April 15, a letter, which was said to be written by Iran'sformer vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi to promote a coercive migration of Arabs in the southwestern province of Khuzestan,touched off riots in the provincial capital of Ahvaz.

Iran disclaimed the letter and reined in the unrest, claiming "some foreign agents" were behind the incident.

US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on April 11 that Washington had earmarked 3 million US dollars to "promote democracy in Iran," a move criticized by Tehran as "interfering in Iran's internal affairs."
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