Iranian Anniversary Threat

Tomorrow Iran Promises Surprise

Will this be the year the Iranian regime follows through on the their threat. We must hope not. If they create an international event it could throw the world economy into a tailspin. May tomorrow be uneventful.

Expect the Unexpected from Iran

February 9, 2010 | By Amanda Reinecker

Iran’s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently warned that his country will deliver a harsh blow to “global arrogance” on Thursday, February 11, the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. But what on earth did he mean?

Heritage Middle East expert Jim Phillips weighs in on what Iran’s latest provocation likely means. He writes:

In Ahmadinejad’s twisted mind, Iran is a world power that leads a global alliance against a United States that seeks to dominate the world. Any action that signifies Iranian independence and progress on the political, military, nuclear, technological or economic fronts therefore is a blow against the United States. Ahmadinejad already has lauded the launch of an Iranian research rocket [last week] — a “big event” and more ballistic missile tests may follow. Or perhaps an announcement on the nuclear front.

One thing seems certain: the “annual regime-supported demonstrations in support of Iran’s Islamic revolution, with their customary chants of ‘death to America’, will not be the harsh blow that Ahmadinejad has in mind,” Phillips explains.

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