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The Arab World & Iran
By Micah Halpern

Thursday June 25, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

As the tensions in Iran rise and fall, so goes the rest of the Middle East.

The countries of the Middle East had no illusion as to what Iran was and what Iran stood for, it was just more expedient, safer, to ignore it.
Now that Iran is changing before their eyes, they are openly expressing shock.
Shock because Iran was the voice challenging the West.
Shock because Iran was the voice challenging the US and Israel.
Shock because Iran was so haughty and so sanctimonious.

All along, the verbal critique hurled by Iran at the rest of the world was a political and religious maneuver.
Iran's voice was a lie.
Iran was simply painting the West as an evil anti-Muslim monster in order to give itself gravitas. Those verbal attacks lent Iran leadership power despite the fact that the Iranians are neither Arabs nor Sunni, merely Persians and Shiites.
Now, even those in the Middle East who sang the praises of Iranian leadership are massively disappointed.

The irony of it all is that no Arab Middle East state would have exercised the relative restrain that Iran is using. There could have been bloodbaths on the streets of Teheran but there aren't. There would have been bloodbaths on the streets of Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

The Arab world is beginning to speak out about Iran.
We must listen and monitor what they continue to say.

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