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Erasing Ahmadinejad from the map
By Bradley Burston
Tags: Israel News, Ahmadinejad, UN 

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The wager of the year goes something like this: A year from now, which is more likely to remain on the map of the world - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the state of Israel?

The call is no cinch, since:
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  • Two weeks ago, the head of Atomstroiexport, the state-run Russian company building Iran's first nuclear plant, said that work on the project was in its final stage, and that by the end of the year the company would take steps that will make the launch of the Bushehr plant "irreversible" by February next year.

  • In a wide-ranging report issued last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency declared that it was "gravely concerned" over Iran's stonewalling inspectors seeking to evaluate its uranium enrichment projects, and its refusal to answer questions about 20 years of past research into designing a nuclear weapon. The IAEA revealed indications that Iran may have received foreign expertise in experiments on a detonator that could be used in the implosion of a nuclear weapon.

  • Russia has been providing advanced anti-aircraft systems and upgrading Iran's air defenses to protect nuclear facilities against possible Israeli and/or American aerial offensives. Reports have said the system is slated to be operable by January. At the same time, the IAEA believes Iran has acted to modify Shehab-3 missiles, whose range includes Israel, to carry nuclear warheads.

  • The U.S.-Russian-Chinese-French-British-German initiative to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program in return for a package of political, economic and technological incentives appears to be deadlocked for good, with Iran insisting that it will never give up the project. On Saturday, Russia went on record as strongly opposing western pressure for tougher UN sanctions against Iran.

  • Iran has markedly increased the efficiency of the centrifuges at the heart of the enrichment program. The chief of IDF Intelligence' research division said Sunday that Tehran had produced about 480 kilograms of low-level enriched uranium, up to one-half of the amount of fissionable material needed to create an atomic bomb.

    Perhaps most troubling of all, media reports have said that 50-60 tons of uranium, which if enriched to weapons grade level would be sufficient to produce five or six atom bombs, have gone missing from the Isfahan complex, which enriches raw uranium "yellow cake" into material that can be used for either nuclear power or atomic weapons.

    Before you resolve to put your money on Mahmoud, however, you might note and factor in the following:

  • Iran, the world's fourth largest oil exporting nation, is a society in growing economic distress. There are mounting and potentially incendiary discrepancies between rich and poor. Despite, and to an extent because of, its energy resources and the high price of oil, the inflation rate is fast passing an annual rate of 25 percent. Merchants in the open market of Tehran have complained that electric power to the bazaar is often cut off six to eight hours a day. While consumption of fuel is rising, output of oil is falling. If European states cut fuel imports further, the government will be in a very vulnerable position.

  • Ahmadinejad faces re-election on June 12, 2009. Analysts believe that the election will center on economic issues, particularly inflation, and not on foreign relations, the nuclear issues, or conflict with Israel.

  • . The Islamic Revolution of 1979 is increasingly showing its age. It is the nature of revolutions to turn pathetic as they gray. Yet they often surprise us when they do. Next year will mark three decades since Iran's Islamic Revolution and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power.

    It bears consideration that it was the Soviet Union, not Ronald Reagan, that in the end toppled the Soviet Union. Iranians are not unaware of the freedoms and the prosperity of their brethren in the west.

    It is true that failing revolutions often turn especially dangerous toward the end, and the bottom-line risk implied by a nuclear Iran is world war.

    But if the Iranian people, pragmatic and perceptive as they are, can see their way past Ahmadinejad and the excesses of radical rule, a new Middle East could be the true result.

    After all, this month marks the 30th anniversary of an impossibility, an event which at the time beggared all belief.

    Israel's largest, most implacable and powerful foe, a Muslim nation which had threatened the Jewish state with annihilation and had sought to acquire nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them, agreed in writing to a permanent state of peace.

    There is no small irony, then, in the timing of Ahmadinejad's annual field trip to Manhattan this week, a spectacle which makes the 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt seem all the more distant, and, sadly, all the more singular, all the more unrepeatable.

    It may be said that it is the nature of aging revolutions to repeat themselves, first as tragedy, later as farce. The 10-year Iran-Iraq war was the tragedy, a million lives lost senselessly, needlessly, in what was called the The March to Jerusalem.

    Herewith the farce:

    This week, Ahmadinejad will headline a series of events in Manhattan, beginning with a Tuesday address to the UN General Assembly and a toast and ceremonial dinner from General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the Los Angeles-born, Sandanista-raised friar of radical chic.

    Two days later, in what may prove a perverse echo of his appearance at Columbia University exactly a year ago ["In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country."], Ahmadinejad is to take part in a Religions for Peace dialogue with church leaders. Perhaps, in full farce, he'll try his hand at comedy again, as he did at Columbia a year ago ["So let me just joke -- try to tell a joke here. I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs or are testing them, making them, politically, they are backward, retarded."]

    Ahmadinejad may well be having the time of his life over all of this. He may be tickled 12 shades of pink over the Hillary Clinton-Sarah Palin debacle. He may believe he has Israel, the EU, Washington, the UN, even his Russian creditors, exactly where he wants them. Just a matter of time, he must be humming to himself, before the stinking corpse disappears.

    For the record, though, I'd put my money on Israel.

    In fact, as dark as these days certainly are for Israel and the west, if I were Ahmadinejad and the ayatollahs, I'd begin to worry. Not so much about an aerial onslaught and the attendant World War III. I'd worry more about the society they've created. And about the cost-benefit analysis which ordinary Iranians are increasingly forced to draw. How Ahmadinejad has benefited the Iranian people by his exploitation of - and damage to - the Palestinian cause, by turning Iran into a pariah state, by his Holocaust denial and smirking disingenuous death threats to Israel, by the billions dumped in pursuit of the bomb, by a fortune wasted on funding suicide terror half a world away, by a fortune wasted on colonizing and arming south Lebanon and destabilizing the north.

    This coming year, Iran will celebrate three decades of a terrible social experiment. The lessons learned may not be kind to Ahmadinejad, nor to radical Islam. Age and folly and the brutality of self-righteousness are beginning to catch up with both of them.

    Never trust a revolution over 30.

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      1.   Erasing the bad boy the correct way 08:54  |  Shimon Cleopas 23/09/08
      2.   Ahmadinejad 08:59  |  Jean Van Daem 23/09/08
      3.   Bradley Psss! I`ll Whisper It! 09:01  |  Yosemite 23/09/08
      4.   Bradley Confusesious Say! 09:11  |  Yosemite 23/09/08
      5.   When will be the day Ahmadinejad will be "finished"....???? 09:15  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      6.   This is why the UN is a sad joke 09:21  |  Rick & TC 23/09/08
      7.   As always brilliant 09:28  |  ScotGuy 23/09/08
      8.   Enough is enough: Fix the CAUSE, THE OCCUPATION, not the symptoms 09:32  |  Ivar 23/09/08
      9.   #5 The Swiss Dinosaur strikes again 09:33  |  Hastaroth 23/09/08
      10.   #5 The Swiss Dinosaur strikes again (part 2) 09:37  |  Hastaroth 23/09/08
      11.   Re: Ivar 09:42  |  Nick 23/09/08
      12.   Cutie Burston`s wishful thinking which had also led to Oslo disas 09:43  |  Absolute Sweden 23/09/08
      13.   Man, that`s bad propaganda 09:47  |  Johnboy 23/09/08
      14.   #8 Ivar, Israel did not invent Wahabism 09:51  |  Rick & TC 23/09/08
      15.   Mr.Ahmadinejad and "his future"..! 09:53  |  Stephen. 23/09/08
      16.   Man, that`s bad journalism 09:55  |  Johnboy 23/09/08
      17.   Raising the stakes....no free lunch 10:01  |  allang 23/09/08
      18.   While you are at it... 10:09  |  Natallie Durson 23/09/08
      19.   # 9 / # 10 Hastaroth, instead of making rather silly puns..... 10:15  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      20.   Father Miguel d`Escoto Brockman and the Sandinista. 10:19  |  Maureen Ann 23/09/08
      21.   #15, Stephen, "religious crusade of Shia dominance" 10:23  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 23/09/08
      22.   #8 ivar has finally passed the point of no return 10:24  |  victor hardman 23/09/08
      23.   Why did Haaretz hire Bradley? 10:25  |  Iranian 23/09/08
      24.   Natalie "18" sweetheart, you forgot one thing darling 10:31  |  Harvey 23/09/08
      25.   Ivar - Peace is an abused word... Whores are also abused.. Your 10:33  |  Ben 23/09/08
      26.   Swiss: what dose one have to do with another? 10:46  |  David G 23/09/08
      27.   As usual #20 MORON-ann posts on the subject 10:47  |  Ari ben Yisrael 23/09/08
      28.   Natalie - #18 10:48  |  Michael 23/09/08
      29.   #23 - Iranian - I`ll explain you why 10:58  |  ScotGuy 23/09/08
      30.   this guy A has to be hospitalised "dakhouf" 10:59  |  guy 23/09/08
      31.   JONBOY Deliberately avoiding the critical point made.ENRICHMENT 11:02  |  PETER SM 23/09/08
      32.   # 26 David G, actually the topic of the article was Ahmadinejad.. 11:21  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      33.   Bradley misses the mark by a mile 11:22  |  Natallie Durson 23/09/08
      34.   Bradley Burston 11:25  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 23/09/08
      35.   #.21Cipora Julliana Kohn. Cette la vie. 11:26  |  Stephen. 23/09/08
      36.   daydreamers 11:29  |  Al 23/09/08
      37.   Nuti-dinejad is not so liked by a lot of Iranians 11:33  |  roberto 23/09/08
      38.   Under International law it is illegal 11:51  |  Rab C Nesbitt 23/09/08
      39.   Why Zionists Cry from NAJAD 11:53  |  Abdul 23/09/08
      40.   #23 Iranian 13:03  |  EZ 23/09/08
      41.   WOW 13:11  |  samos 23/09/08
      42.   #41 - You`re wrong Samos 13:26  |  ScotGuy 23/09/08
      43.   What is the Jewish religion meant for? 13:30  |  Edith 23/09/08
      44.   fear not 13:37  |  albert paul ortiz 23/09/08
      45.   Nuti-dinejad`s audience 13:41  |  roberto 23/09/08
      46.   Erasing Ahmadinejad from the map 13:46  |  Gabi 23/09/08
      47.   Rab C 38, I know your Dad Rab B, and your mum, Elaine C 13:52  |  Harvey 23/09/08
      48.   #38 the govan man and international law 13:57  |  victor hardman 23/09/08
      49.   The madman from IRan 13:57  |  Baruch Hashem 23/09/08
      50.   The madman from IRan 13:57  |  Baruch Hashem 23/09/08
      51.   The madman from IRan 13:57  |  Baruch Hashem 23/09/08
      52.   Bradley has run out of ideas and he has to keep Haaretz readers 14:03  |  lakshmi 23/09/08
      53.   swiss (dino) 14:06  |  scallywag 23/09/08
      54.   Ivar # 8 14:09  |  Christian Van Nieker 23/09/08
      55.   TRUTH IS NOT ANTISEMITIC 14:17  |  Big Pimpin 23/09/08
      56.   lakshmi`s " intelligent zionist propaganda" is THE oximoron... 14:23  |  S 23/09/08
      57.   Iran is 3000 years old, Israel is 60 years 14:26  |  Lori 23/09/08
      58.   Always Israel will be more vulnerable, because of bigotry 14:58  |  Israeli citizen 23/09/08
      59.   #14 Rick & TC 15:11  |  Said 23/09/08
      60.   Both. Better learn to get along. 15:23  |  Moshe Mahmoud 23/09/08
      61.   # 53 scallywag, once again you got it (slightly) wrong.... 15:29  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      62.   History did not start with Ahmadinejad 15:33  |  Raad 23/09/08
      63.   I saw a pic of Blair`s in-law in a store in Gaza 16:04  |  Lynn 23/09/08
      64.   #32 DINO: Israel`s lost moral high-ground 16:05  |  Alicia 23/09/08
      65.   There is an Israel in Iran and an Iran in Israel 16:10  |  elinor from Iran 23/09/08
      66.   #57 Israel / Jews are 4,000 years old; not 60 16:13  |  Liliane 23/09/08
      67.   #57 That`s a half truth Lori 16:25  |  ScotGuy 23/09/08
      68.   The world must awake to the threat this man poses to all of us. 16:31  |  Jean Van Daem 23/09/08
      69.   Lori #57 Please read the book of Esther 16:34  |  Tzfonit 23/09/08
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      71.   Bradley, it`s a matter of the ticking clock 16:44  |  Tzfonit 23/09/08
      72.   Bradley, What`s happening to your mind? 17:10  |  Lou Medel 23/09/08
      73.   Iran vs Israel 17:12  |  Kenneth Binkley 23/09/08
      74.   Revolutions 17:13  |  Steve 23/09/08
      75.   Spare Me! 17:14  |  Omri Goldberg 23/09/08
      76.   The state of Israel is 60 years old 17:21  |  Lori 23/09/08
      77.   Did you hear the one about the ageing revolutionary runt who.... 17:29  |  PL 23/09/08
      78.   Soviet Union lasted seventy years 17:34  |  MarkC 23/09/08
      79.   Iran 17:34  |  P. Brune 23/09/08
      80.   The truth is, the imperial west 17:40  |  Bitin Dawg 23/09/08
      81.   #57, Lori , I Put My Money On Israel 17:57  |  Gary 23/09/08
      82.   #35, Restez Ou Vous Etes ! 18:07  |  Gary 23/09/08
      83.   #35. Restez Ou Vous Etes Part 2 18:10  |  Gary 23/09/08
      84.   LET THE MIDEAST SOLVE THE MIDEAST PROBLEM 18:19  |  DENNIS MI VI 23/09/08
      85.   Iran vs Israel 18:28  |  Wayne 23/09/08
      86.   Israel and Iran 18:29  |  Judy Campanella 23/09/08
      87.   Good luck nuking each other 18:29  |  Ali (Avi) 23/09/08
      88.   I wonder if ... 18:33  |  Edith 23/09/08
      89.   Swiss (Dino) Why can`t Iranians take responsibility? 18:40  |  David Israel 23/09/08
      90.   Silly Cipora #34 18:47  |  Roo 23/09/08
      91.   Swiss (Dino) Wher did you blame Israel? 18:53  |  David Israel 23/09/08
      92.   Israel is just as much a threat to world peace as Iran! 19:32  |  Tom Clark 23/09/08
      93.   #31 Peter S M **Today Johnboy is confused,and bewildered.. 19:34  |  Israeli 23/09/08
      94.   #57 Lori I should double check your math,, 19:40  |  KATHY 23/09/08
      95.   # 77 / # 79 David, I`m afraid the only one "unmasking" himself... 19:41  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      96.   #63 elinor from Iran....Amen to that 19:44  |  Lynn 23/09/08
      97.   # 62 Alicia (2nd try) 19:52  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      98.   Burston`s Bets and the ticking clock 20:26  |  Tzfonit 23/09/08
      99.   #54 Christian Van Nieker re:Ivar Sorry to inform,but.. 20:34  |  Israeli 23/09/08
      100.   Swiss (Dino) 20:38  |  David Israel 23/09/08
      101.   To Baruch Hashem 21:00  |  Persian Kitty 23/09/08
      102.   #69, Lori, Israel is 3,000 +60, older than others 21:00  |  David 23/09/08
      103.   # 93 David Israel 21:05  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      104.   100 YEARS FROM NOW 21:20  |  Arik Silverman 23/09/08
      105.   Lakshmi 21:23  |  Persian Kitty 23/09/08
      106.   Utterly meaningless 21:28  |  Clickfool 23/09/08
      107.   #80, Perfect Response 21:29  |  Gary 23/09/08
      108.   Stop Harassing Israel 21:36  |  Elizabeth Shaw 23/09/08
      109.   To Scotguy 21:40  |  Persian Kitty 23/09/08
      110.   #93 Tzfonit No we will not say I told you so.You have put out a 21:45  |  KATHY 23/09/08
      111.   Swiss ( Dino) Your posts are very clear 21:48  |  David Israel 23/09/08
      112.   63 Elinor from Iran,congratulations ! Terrific post! 21:53  |  lakshmi 23/09/08
      113.   Israel and Ahmadinejad 22:04  |  n_erber 23/09/08
      114.   The Map ?, no the earth, this world 22:21  |  chop-chop 23/09/08
      115.   Poor Durson, grasping at straws again 22:25  |  Joe Sittizen 23/09/08
      116.   Dino (90), the problem with your position is ... 22:50  |  Daniel 23/09/08
      117.   Swiss Dino # 32 - You are sooooo wrong 23:05  |  ChanahS 23/09/08
      118.   Whos is going where P1 23:06  |  TonyL 23/09/08
      119.   Who is going where P2 23:08  |  TonyL 23/09/08
      120.   Iran; The Mouse That Roars 23:11  |  Bash`em 23/09/08
      121.   #60, Raad 23:16  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 23/09/08
      122.   # 108 David / # 113 Daniel, let me explain you...... 23:19  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      123.   # 111 David # 116 Daniel, let me explain you (2).... 23:30  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      124.   #5, Dino, misdirecting as always 23:33  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 23/09/08
      125.   Daniel from Switzerland about Dino 23:37  |  David Israel 23/09/08
      126.   38 Ivar....so, it`s you that concerns you 23:41  |  Lynn 23/09/08
      127.   #105 Hey Elizabeth ..Did You see Ahmedinejad as he entered the UN 23:43  |  Israeli 23/09/08
      128.   # 117 Chanah, you have a point, and you haven`t one..... 23:56  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/09/08
      129.   Thank you Bradley 00:19  |  Soraya 24/09/08
      130.   Bash`em 00:53  |  Persian Kitty 24/09/08
      131.   Swiss: I understood your post, but I guess you missed mine 01:05  |  David G 24/09/08
      132.   david Israel # 89&91 re: Swiss (Dino) you don`t get it 01:23  |  American in NY 24/09/08
      133.   Excellent article by Bradley Burston, Ahmadinejad talk unworthy 01:51  |  Smadar 24/09/08
      134.   Cipora needs to learn to Raad #121 01:52  |  Roo 24/09/08
      135.   #120 Bash`em Iran and Mahmoud.An Excerpt: 01:54  |  Benny 24/09/08
      136.   # 122 David G You and being "harsh"....???? 01:57  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/09/08
      137.   # 123 American in NY, thanks very much for doing "my job".... 02:00  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/09/08
      138.   To Cipora Julianna Kohn #121 02:27  |  Persian Kitty 24/09/08
      139.   #125 The Second Part Tomorrow. 02:32  |  Benny 24/09/08
      140.   To Cipora Julianna Kohn - Part II 02:38  |  Persian Kitty 24/09/08
      141.   Benny 02:42  |  Persian Kitty 24/09/08
      142.   #31 PETER SM makes a DEMAND he can`t back up 03:41  |  Johnboy 24/09/08
      143.   Smadar 03:54  |  Persian Kitty 24/09/08
      144.   #120 And who is going to do all those things, Bash `em? 04:02  |  Johnboy 24/09/08
      145.   # 124 Cipora Julianna Kohn 04:11  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/09/08
      146.   Elinor in Iran 04:43  |  Free Gilad Shalit 24/09/08
      147.   Roo 04:49  |  TonyL 24/09/08
      148.   Swiss (Dino) and his new found lawyer - 1 05:43  |  David Israel 24/09/08
      149.   Swiss (Dino) and his new found lawyer - 2 05:44  |  David Israel 24/09/08
      150.   #143 Persian Kitty 05:50  |  Smadar 24/09/08
      151.   Cipora is right once again # 34 08:42  |  Fortuna Benmayor 24/09/08
      152.   #151 What *are* you talking about, Fortuna? 10:05  |  Johnboy 24/09/08
      153.   Fortuna Banmayor #151 Ever tried thinking? 12:07  |  Roo 24/09/08
      154.   Fortuna Banmayor #151 Ever tried thinking? 12:39  |  Roo 24/09/08
      155.   TonyL- wastin time on the Bay #147 14:30  |  Roo 24/09/08
      156.   #139The Letter to Mahmoud (Part Two)Sorry to all,BUT! 15:51  |  Benny 24/09/08
      157.   #141 Persian Kitty.I know,but by emphasizing the letter.I thought 15:57  |  Benny 24/09/08
      158.   Dino or for the "sake" of Israel and the Jews 16:17  |  Daniel 24/09/08
      159.   BUSH OR AL QAEDA? 16:55  |  indrajaya 24/09/08
      160.   # 158 Daniel, I`m afraid you still haven`t seen through.... 17:13  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/09/08
      161.   #159, 1 Year From Now 18:28  |  Gary 24/09/08
      162.   Swiss (Dino) About right -wing 19:39  |  David Israel 24/09/08
      163.   # 162 David, you are absolutely correct..... 20:23  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/09/08
      164.   David Israel # 162 a Reality chck 20:31  |  American in NY 24/09/08
      165.   American NY 20:55  |  David Israel 24/09/08
      166.   #157Persian Kitty..Wow just came back from lisening tomahmoud! 21:57  |  Benny 24/09/08
      167.   Dino 160: Try it again (and differently) fellow countryman... 22:02  |  Daniel 24/09/08
      168.   Swiss (Dino) As a true democrat and libertarian 22:12  |  David Israel 24/09/08
      169.   Natalie Durson #33 And You Too Miss The Mark by a mile 00:29  |  Tim R 25/09/08
      170.   #20 - Maureen Ann 15:07  |  Deborah 25/09/08
      171.   Blame Israel for Arab pathology! 00:07  |  John 26/09/08
      172.   Dropping of little Hitler 06:22  |  Larry Lovelace 26/09/08
      173.   #170 Deborah. 11:26  |  Maureen Ann 26/09/08
      174.   #173 - Maureen Ann 00:32  |  Deborah 27/09/08
      175.   #174 Deborah. 22:58  |  Maureen Ann 27/09/08
      176.   #38 Rab !! 07:36  |  johnymac 28/09/08
      177.   another faked controversy 10:40  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      178.   ethnic cleansing is not necessary 10:55  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      179.   Iran real enemy is not Israel -but USA 11:24  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      180.   Holy Quran says nothing over `Israel` 11:38  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      181.   the end of Wall Street civ. is coming close!! 12:08  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      182.   Less Bible, more knowledge 12:27  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      183.   bikinis don`t made democracies 12:48  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      184.   When `democracy` begun? 13:07  |  Garcia Rodrigo 01/10/08
      185.   #183 - Garcia 15:37  |  Deborah 01/10/08
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      188.   Swis Dino 18:56  |  Pamela 02/10/08
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