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Curt</font></b><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>is<a href="books.html"><br> </a></b></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b> (310) 204-8700</b></font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><i>Copyright July 17, 2010<br>All Rights Reserved. </i></font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <bAbout the Author</u> <p class="MsoNormal"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="style8">&nbsp;B</span>eating the war drums, the Iranian government continues its pernicious propaganda campaign, blaming the U.S. for the July 15 double-suicide blasts that killed 28 and injured 306 at the Zahedan Mosque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Iranian authorities know that the Pakistan-based Sunni group Jundollah avenged the June hangings of its leader Abdulmalik Rigi and his younger brother Abdulhamid, captured in Pakistan and extradited to Iran in 2008.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Pointing fingers at the U.S. and Britain serves Iran s propaganda machine, hell-bent on brainwashing the population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Warning of  fallout, Iranian authorities linked the U.S. to the Sunni insurgent group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span> Jundollah has been supported by America for its terrorist act in the past . . . America will have to await the fallout of such criminal and savage measures, said Massoud Jazayeri, deputy head of Iran s Republican Guard, hinting at some consequences.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Iran knows that the U.S. has battled Sunni insurgents for years, especially Bin Laden s al-Qaeda attack of Sept. 11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Telling the Iranian people that the U.S. was behind the Jundollah attacks directs Iranian hatred toward the U.S., not its own government for its failed economic and social policies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory and stole the June 14, 2009 election, reformers rioted around the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span> Opposition candidate Mir-Hossain Mousavi led nationwide protests until the government cracked down, arresting, trying and liquidating untold numbers of pro-reform protestors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Blaming the U.S. gives Iran deceptive cover from its atrocious human rights abuses, where any dissent is met with brutal repression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Despite rejoicing on Sept. 11, Ahamadinejad knows that the U.S. has been at war with thugs and outlaws from Sunni Isalm, especially al-Qaeda.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <![endif]>Iran s own internal dissent stems from the mullahs intolerance of any religion or political group that doesn t further its grip on power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Sunni rebel groups in Iran, like today s Iraq, face unrelenting discrimination and hostility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Jundollah acknowledges its attacks on the Sunni mosque were retaliation for the June executions of Jundollah s leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Iranian authorities, while blaming the U.S., admit that Jundollah has ties to al-Qaeda, and archenemy of the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>While Iran was fingering the U.S. in the Sunni mosque bombing, President Barack Obama strongly condemned the attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span> The murder of innocent civilians in their place of worship is an intolerable offense, and those who carried it out must be held accountable, Obama said in an official statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Whatever issues stand between Tehran and Washington, the two countries agree on the crackdown of Sunni terrorists.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Iran s latest shenanigans blaming the U.S. for the recent Shiite bombing reveals the desperate propaganda war to keep the Islamic republic intact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Iranians with any connection to the outside world must be either liquidated or brainwashed, erasing history, and, most certainly, obliterating reality that a dangerous and corrupt regime has hijacked the Iranian people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Any minority group has no prayer in today s Iran, driven by an insane need for power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Jundollah is just one among many other dissident groups, unwilling to let the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei control every facet of Iranian society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>At loggerheads over its nuclear enrichment program, Iran resorts to only taking cheap shots at the U.S. government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span> Keeping its people paranoid and misinformed is the only way to prevent Iran s protest movement from eventually toppling the current mafia-like mullah-based government.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Iran s Shiite government is aligned closely with Iraq s Nouri al-Maliki, coddling thugs like Moqtada al-Sadr whose al-Mahdi army massacred 1,350 U.S. troops in the bloody Battled of Fallujah, Nov. 7, 2004 to Dec. 13, 2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Al-Maliki and Ahamadinejad are on the same page unifying the Persian Empire, despite Iraq s phony support of the U.S. mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Iran has nothing but bad things to say about the U.S., fearing a fledgling Democracy movement could eventually topple the Ayatollah s regime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Thursday s bombing occurred in the Sistan-Baluchesian region bordering Sunni-dominated Pakisatan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Iran blames outside forces for its recent suicide blast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Ahamadinejad has warned the U.S. about endless waves of Iranian suicide bombers, should the U.S. or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Israel attack Iran s nuclear program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Iran knows that the U.S. doesn t sponsor or condone suicide bombings.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>U.S. officials must confront Iran s toxic propaganda machine, busy fingering the U.S. for the recent suicide mosque bombing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Ahmadinejad and Khomenei know that the real battle is won or lost on the propaganda front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Blaming the U.S. for the mosque bombing panders to the Arab street, where telling any lie about the U.S. accomplishes the mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>More blood-and-treasure wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan make dealing with a far more dangerous Iran more difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Iran has already arrested 40 individuals  who wanted to create instability in Zahedan, whose real identities may never be known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Wholesale arrests and liquidations prevent the mullahs from revealing to the world the true identities of Iran s enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Killing the messenger gives the Iranian government the perfect excuse to not identify the homegrown Iranian dissidents responsible for the twin suicide-blasts.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <b>John M. Curtis </b>writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He&#x2019;s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of <a href="books.html">Dodging The Bullet</a> and <a href="books.html">Operation Charisma</a>.</p> </td> <td width="1" height="2576" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="1" height="2"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="2"></td> </tr> <tr height="2574"> <td height="2574" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0" class="style7"><img height="172" width="111" src="images/johninframe3.jpg"></td> <td width="1" height="2574"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="2574"></td> </tr> <tr height="1" cntrlrow> <td height="1" class="style7"><spacer type="block" width="133" height="1"></td> <td width="7" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="7" height="1"></td> <td width="182" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="182" height="1"></td> <td width="300" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="300" height="1"></td> <td width="1" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="1"></td> <td width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="597"> <tr> <td><font size="1" face="Arial,Geneva,Helvetica"> <hr noshade size="1"> </font><a href="index.html"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"><strong> Homecobolos> <p><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">©1999-2005 <a href="aboutdiscobolos.html"> Discobolos Consulting Services, Inc.</a><br> (310) 204-8300<br> All Rights Reserved. </font></td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>