Iran: You’re interfering with our interference.
So in case your have not heard, Iran is complaining about Saudi Arabia sending in troops to Bahrain. Even as going as far as declaring this action a declaration of war. But some of the quotes are just priceless considering if people remember what was going on in Iran in 2009.
“The peaceful demonstrations in Bahrain are among the domestic issues of this country, and creating an atmosphere of fear and using other countries’ military forces to oppress these demands is not the solution,” he told the semi-official Fars news agency.
“It is expected that the demands of the Muslim people of Bahrain … be seriously considered by the authorities and that they prevent the situation from becoming more complex by making right decisions and not allowing foreign interferences in Bahrain,” Amir Abdollahian added.
Really? Did he just say that considering how Iran handled their own?
Oh but it gets better.
Iran has welcomed Arab uprisings in the region as an “Islamic awakening” against despotic rulers and has said they were influenced by its own 1979 Islamic revolution.
You mean like that are doing now?
Category: Foreign Policy
It seems fairly obvious to me that Iran is behind more than a few of these uprisings. Isn’t it coincidental how every time the world starts getting serious about their nukes program something serious develops in the middle east to divert attention?
Time to stick with priority 1, Stop the Iranian Nukes program.
Talk about chutspah!
And most remarkable? A large number of Americans will read both the reports of Iran’s handling of its internal affairs, and of the Iranian reaction to Saudi intervention, and Simply.Not.Understand.