Comments on: Iran’s stabilizing role in Mideast? http://www.biasedopinions.org/2006/07/31/irans-stabilising-role-in-mideast/ politics, techology, internet, books, movies, life and other stuff Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jeff Mendez http://www.biasedopinions.org/2006/07/31/irans-stabilising-role-in-mideast/#comment-86981 Jeff Mendez Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:26:06 +0000 http://www.avneron.com/2006/07/31/irans-stabilising-role-in-mideast/#comment-86981 o63wgkdb8kjwj5mr o63wgkdb8kjwj5mr

]]> By: tsella http://www.biasedopinions.org/2006/07/31/irans-stabilising-role-in-mideast/#comment-193 tsella Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:52:42 +0000 http://www.avneron.com/2006/07/31/irans-stabilising-role-in-mideast/#comment-193 in my opinion, this is just cynical use of the war state to make gains for france. france has quite a bit of vested interest in lebanon, much as all past mandated, protectorates or colonies, france still has quite a bit of stronghold on the market. for instance, if you want to start your telco, it better be in sync with france telecom, which in turn will sell you its prefered solutions, and its own services, otherwise you'd have regulatory issues of sorts, difficulties, etc. to maintain the convinience of this situation, it has to has to appeal to the local populance, which probably look up to iran at this point. the other part of this same greed coin is france's <a href="http://www.kentimmerman.com/2004_03_16chirac-oil.htm" rel="nofollow">lust for oil</a>. being friendly to iran would certainly pay off. in my opinion, this is just cynical use of the war state to make gains for france.

france has quite a bit of vested interest in lebanon, much as all past mandated, protectorates or colonies, france still has quite a bit of stronghold on the market. for instance, if you want to start your telco, it better be in sync with france telecom, which in turn will sell you its prefered solutions, and its own services, otherwise you’d have regulatory issues of sorts, difficulties, etc. to maintain the convinience of this situation, it has to has to appeal to the local populance, which probably look up to iran at this point.

the other part of this same greed coin is france’s lust for oil. being friendly to iran would certainly pay off.

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