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John H. wrote (Feb 5, 10:37) The real problem with Iran is the peamxle it sets of defiant independence from the US agenda. yup.That came front and center a few days before the 2007 peace conference in Annapolis. The Israel Project hosted a panel discussion on why the conference should be about excluding/punishing/demonizing/hating/lying about Iran. David Wurmser reached back to the gates of vienna or some damn distant historical reference point, to draw the conclusion that Muslims wanted to reimpose a caliphate on the world (zionists so often project upon others their own urgencies. My brother-in-law once asked his wife to get an aspirin for him; I have a headache, he told her. She went to the other room, got an aspirin from the medicine cabinet, poured a glass of water, took the aspirin and returned to husband feeling much better. Irrelevant but funny). Wurmser argued that Iran with nukes is not the problem. The problem is that Iran is self-confident, and it pokes the other Muslim states to stand up for themselves and assert their own rights and dignity. THAT is the problem that Iran presents to US and Israel.Israel and the US do their best to keep the Arab and Persian Islamic states and Sunnis and Shiites in conflict, lest all the Islamic states unite and force Israel to either recognize that it's in Rome and really needs to do as the Romans do, rather than have this transplanted organ demand that the entire Islamic world surrounding it conform to zionist demands and recognize the Jewish state. Khomeini laid that challenge in the region when the shah was deposed in 1979: Khomeini called upon the Islamic states to unite in the name of Islam and claim the sovereignty that had been denied to them since the breakup of the Ottoman empire. The US quickly incited a war against Iran to derail or at least defer the possibility of Islamic unity.