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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran
Posted by: John Hawkes
Date/Time: 15/01/26 13:37:00

Boysie

'Anyway, hope the Iranian authorities stop murdering and punishing their people for their very reasonable expectations of a competently managed economy and country.'

A sentiment most on this Forum would support.

Unfortunately the expectation is unlikely to be realised.

There are no countries in the Middle East apart from Israel that can be described as competently managed either politically or economically.

Realising this expectation seems to be totally beyond them.

Hence their recourse to blaming Israel for their circumstances and relieving their frustration by attacking it.

I wonder if anyone has researched if these attitudes and circumstances have a religious foundation or a socio-historic one of tribal conflict.

Though I am not sure how much historical fact it was based upon but I was always struck by the impression of the region's conflicts in David Lean's great film 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

Here it implies that it took a white British Arabist to bring the feuding Arab tribes together to defeat the Ottoman Turks.

When this was achieved they then went back to reviving and re-instating their traditional animosities.

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Iran13/01/26 22:50:00 Gerry Boyce
   Re:Iran14/01/26 10:41:00 John Hawkes
      Re:Re:Iran14/01/26 11:01:00 Gerry Boyce
   Re:Iran14/01/26 11:00:00 John Hawkes
   Re:Iran14/01/26 12:34:00 John Hawkes
      Re:Re:Iran14/01/26 22:58:00 Steven Rose
         Re:Re:Re:Iran14/01/26 23:05:00 David Ainsworth
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:32:00 John Hawkes
         Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 07:29:00 Michael Brigo
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 08:26:00 Steven Rose
         Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:03:00 Gerry Boyce
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:14:00 Robert Wheeler
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:18:00 Lucille Grant
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:26:00 Gerry Boyce
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:27:00 Gerry Boyce
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:59:00 John Hawkes
                  From far beyond the reach of reason15/01/26 12:01:00 David Ainsworth
                     Re:From far beyond the reach of reason15/01/26 12:21:00 John Hawkes
                        Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 08:51:00 Michael Brigo
                           Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 11:13:00 John Hawkes
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 12:15:00 Michael Brigo
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 13:30:00 John Hawkes
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 14:19:00 Michael Brigo
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 15:39:00 John Hawkes
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 16:35:00 Michael Brigo
                                    Reply16/01/26 16:52:00 Sue Hammond
                                       Re:Reply16/01/26 17:16:00 Michael Brigo
                           Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 17:10:00 Andy Pike
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:From far beyond the reach of reason16/01/26 17:15:00 Michael Brigo
                                 Reply16/01/26 21:58:00 Sue Hammond
                                    Re:Reply17/01/26 09:47:00 Michael Brigo
                                       Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 10:32:00 Andy Pike
                                          Reply17/01/26 11:19:00 Michael Brigo
                                             Re:Reply17/01/26 12:14:00 Sue Hammond
                                                Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 12:36:00 Michael Brigo
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 12:47:00 Sue Hammond
                                          Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 12:05:00 Gerry Boyce
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 12:31:00 Andy Pike
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 12:34:00 Michael Brigo
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 13:41:00 Andy Pike
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 14:20:00 Lucille Grant
                                                Reply17/01/26 15:23:00 Michael Ixer
                                                   Re:Reply17/01/26 16:01:00 John Hawkes
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply17/01/26 16:13:00 John Hawkes
                                       Re:Re:Reply18/01/26 14:52:00 John Hawkes
                                          Re:Re:Re:Reply18/01/26 17:58:00 Gerry Boyce
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply18/01/26 19:03:00 Michael Brigo
                                    Re:Reply17/01/26 15:30:00 John Hawkes
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 18:19:00 Lucille Grant
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 11:56:00 John Hawkes
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 13:01:00 Gerry Boyce
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran15/01/26 13:37:00 John Hawkes
   Re:Iran15/01/26 16:03:00 John Hawkes
      Re:Re:Iran16/01/26 11:01:00 Steven Rose
         Re:Re:Re:Iran16/01/26 11:29:00 John Hawkes
         Re:Re:Re:Iran16/01/26 12:03:00 David Ainsworth
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran16/01/26 13:57:00 John Hawkes
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran16/01/26 16:56:00 John Hawkes
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Iran16/01/26 17:17:00 Michael Brigo
      Re:Re:Iran16/01/26 11:07:00 John Hawkes

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