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A Terrorist Gets Terrorized?

There’s something odd about both the timing and the message of the latest media campaign for Iran by their sympathizers:

From Reuters:

Iran defuses homemade bomb on plane-media

Security personnel defused a homemade bomb found on an aircraft during a domestic flight in Iran late on Saturday, Iranian media said, two days after a mosque bombing killed 25 people in the country’s southeast.

The incident occurred less than two weeks before the Islamic Republic holds a presidential election in which the conservative incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faces a challenge from reformers. “The enemies want to create a security-threat environment before the country’s presidential election and to create hopelessness among people,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Mohammad Hassan Kazemi, a commander in the elite Revolutionary Guards in charge of aviation security, as saying.

Sure.

Then Newsweek puts out a piece by Fareed Zakaria entitled “They May Not Want the Bomb.”

By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK
Published May 23, 2009

Religion Versus Reality

Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What’s the evidence? Well, over the last five years, senior Iranian officials at every level have repeatedly asserted that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons.

Analysis here.

Is this any coincidence?

Israel carries out biggest civil defence exercise
The exercise is being watched closely in the region because of speculation about a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which could provoke retaliatory missile strikes.

Faced with the naivety of the new US leadership, Israel may be forced to solve the Iran nuclear issue on it’s own. And it’s starting to look like this will happen soon.