ARTICLE: Iranians Debate Parameters For A Global Role: Analysts say Tehran aims to head Muslim power bloc, By Anne Barnard, Boston Globe
A debate such as this shows that Iran's leaders have many of the same long-term, global ambitions that the Sovs once held.
How realistic?
There will be a Muslim bloc eventually, and Iran is more likely to head it than any other. Being neither Arab nor Asian, it bridges Islam's many regions.
So yeah, I'd say they have a shot.
Now the question is, what do we do with that ambition?
Thanks to Seth Benge for sending this in.
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Comments (2)
Thoughts on this proposed "5 percent solution" for Iran?
http://www.slate.com/id/2148993/
Posted by jason | September 6, 2006 7:35 PM
Sir:
History tells us that the religions of extremism, Christian or Islam, will drive multitudes to violence. I believe we are on the cusp of a tide of extremism (Islamic fundamentalism) that wil parrallel the Moslem tide of the 7th century AD. If this is true, then we should see the same reactions from the same nation states that existed then and are now the Central European states. The conflict will flow from the Mid East north to central Europe vs South to the enviorns of Africa. This goes counter to your prognosis for Islam and failed states south of the Med.
Comments?
Posted by Larry Alley | September 6, 2006 9:55 PM