Iranian President's Got Game. But Which Game?

Enoch · Jun 14, 2006

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199536,00.html

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
By John Moody

TEHRAN, Iran — In his soccer-playing youth, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was renowned for two valuable skills: speed, and his ability to fake out an opponent with fancy footwork. Of course, he mostly played indoor, or salon soccer, on a smaller-than-normal field.

Today, the fleet-footed footballer-turned-president of Iran is using the same tools in his war of wills with the United States. There are many within Iran, however, who suspect that “the monkey,” as the bearded president is known among detractors, is playing a game whose rules he does not understand, on a playing field too vast for his skill set.

“He can’t comprehend the situation he’s facing, and he can’t even understand the consequences he’s talked himself into,” said Ebrahim Yazdi, a former foreign minister who now heads the Freedom Movement of Iran, a leading opposition group.

Speaking at his home, where songbirds lighten the mood outside, Yazdi, who served as foreign minister in the first days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran in 1979, suggested that Ahmadinejad might not be able to serve out his full four-year term, which ends in 2009.

“He is not competent for the job he holds, and more people are saying it out loud,” said Yazdi, who remains under investigation by the government for his outspokenness and, until recently, his frequent trips to the United States.

Yazdi says he is no longer welcome in America, where his grown children live. Instead, he whiles away the days in his pleasant Tehran villa, fielding calls from fellow opponents of the conservative regime, and worrying about the outcome of Iran’s cat-and-mouse game with the U.S.
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Enoch · Jun 14, 2006

And now Iran is offering to help the US with Iraq... :laugh:

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KenH · Jun 14, 2006

We need all the help we can get to extricate our troops from the quagmire that they are in in Iraq due to the Bush administration's poorly planned attempt to force a democracy on a non-industrialized country.

KenH · Jun 14, 2006

“He can’t comprehend the situation he’s facing, and he can’t even understand the consequences he’s talked himself into”
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This could be applied to President Bush and his failure to understand what he was getting our nation into when he foolishly had our country invade Iraq.

Enoch · Jun 14, 2006

:laugh: Ok Cindy Sheehan the jokes over where is KenH???

poncho · Jun 14, 2006

Enoch said:

:laugh: Ok Cindy Sheehan the jokes over where is KenH???

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Enoch, here's a couple trivia questions. Which two nations originally radicalized the Iranians? And how did they do it?

Hint...this took place before the "hostage crisis".

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