http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/12/23/obama-and-iran/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:29:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/12/23/obama-and-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-1538 macaquerman Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:54:35 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/12/23/obama-and-iran/#comment-1538 <p>In response to Medea Benjamin’s remark that the Iranians don’t want democracy brought to their country by the US, I would say that few people here envision the US attempting such. The goal is to frustrate Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons which they would use to underpin their own efforts to impose their sociopolitical system on their neighbors.</p> In response to Medea Benjamin’s remark that the Iranians don’t want democracy brought to their country by the US, I would say that few people here envision the US attempting such. The goal is to frustrate Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons which they would use to underpin their own efforts to impose their sociopolitical system on their neighbors.

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