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The Iranian Labyrinth

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November 2005
By Morgon Mae Schultz, Utne.com 
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Second one is a military strike on military and nuclear targets in Iran. Those have been checked out. There's 40 of them. The only problem is that ten out of forty are in urban areas and near urban areas. And so there's no way that you can hit them without killing a lot of civilians. Iran is a Shi'ite Muslim country. Already Sunni Muslims are up in arms against America and you know what'll happen. A lot of negative things. And also, whatever they destroy, Iranians can also reassemble in a new place.

The third thing is that you actually have local discontent and [people] come out in demonstrations. A lot of people in northern Tehran came out one night and the local police and security forces bashed them up. Next night, fewer of them and the third night there was nobody. So that has been tried. It hasn't worked, in terms of creating popular discontent, et cetera. Of course there is a combined scenario -- when America attacks, the people will rise up and they will, you know, welcome Americans as liberators. And that is nonsense.

So what other options does Mr. Bush have? The fourth option is, stay on the diplomatic side. Work with the sanctions. If there is any fighting, I'm afraid things will get much worse than they are now in terms of terrorism and so on.

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