Monday, January 22, 2007

Ahmadinejad’s Days May Be Numbered

This according to the LA Times, via NewsMax:

In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, Dariush Zahedi, who teaches in the departments of political economy and peace and conflict studies at the University of California-Berkeley, and Omid Memarian, an award-winning Iranian journalist, write: "The Bush administration's decision to step up pressure against Iran by going after Iranian agents inside Iraq, coupled with the Islamic Republic's increasing economic and diplomatic isolation, have pushed conservatives inside Iran to further distance themselves from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."

Here's what else the President is doing to bring about change in Iran:

The U.S.-led campaign to dry up financing for Iran’s oil and gas and other industrial projects will further increase the country’s economic troubles.

While reading Reagan bio: Crusader, I was astonished at the sophistication of the latter's economic warfare against the former Soviet Union that did much to bring about the end of the Cold War. Could work in the oil-wealthy Middle East as well.