Iran: US has "Iranophobia" over Iraq

by Infidelesto on April 20, 2008 · View Comments

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Yea, of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that Iran is fueling the insurgency and killing Americans in the process.

Reuters

TEHRAN, April 20 – Iran accused U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of “Iranophobia” on Sunday for trying to blame Tehran for Iraq’s security problems.

Rice said last week she would press Iraq’s Arab neighbours at a meeting on Tuesday in Kuwait to do more to support Baghdad’s government and shield it from Iran’s “nefarious influences”. Iran, as a neighbour of Iraq, will also attend the gathering.

“Regarding Rice’s statements, these statements are not something new. American officials follow the policy of Iranophobia,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters in a weekly news conference.

hattip: LGF

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  • Storm-Rider

    Phobia is defined as an irrational fear – as opposed to regular old rational and justified fear.

    I would classify Iranophobia today right beside Germanophobia of the 1930′s. Fear of totalitarian Islam within Iran today, and fear of totalitarian Nazism in 1930′s Germany is in fact rational – it is rational to fear any kind of totalitarian tyranny.

    German Nazi tyranny was based on an anti-Judeo-Christian pagan ideology and political system, whereas Iraninan (and Saudi) Islamic tyranny is based on an anti-Judeo-Christian religious ideology and political system.

    I think Thomas Jefferson said it well, and he speaks for me:

    “I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

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