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To: tejek who wrote (282027)	3/31/2006 2:44:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574042

Iran has over the past few decades been perhaps the biggest state supporter of terrorists in the world. Also Iran has at times presented a threat to the flow of oil in the gulf. Links please. ------------------------- Re: Terrorism Why bother to ask for something so easy? state.gov terrorismfiles.org newsmax.com cfr.org cnn.com abc.net.au rferl.org intelligence.org.il brookings.edu kross.ro cambridge.org milnet.com foreignaffairs.org Re: presenting a threat to the flow of oil globalsecurity.org foreignaffairs.org "A victory by Iran would risk the spread of Iranian Islamic fundamentalism into the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. As the Iran-Iraq war expanded into the Gulf and attacks against non-belligerent shipping increased in 1987, the U.S. agreed to the reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers and providing them with U.S. naval protection in Operation Earnest Will. Force levels of the Middle East Force (MIDEASTFOR) which has been operating in the Persian Gulf since the 1940s, routinely with a flag ship and four surface combatants, were substantially increased in size with the deployment of the Joint Task Force Middle East (JTFME) in support of Earnest Will. At the height of the protection action, as many as 40 U.S. naval vessels were operating in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea." fmso.leavenworth.army.mil web.umr.edu ----------------------- Certainly it would not have been in the US interest for Iraq under Saddam to have decisively defeated Iran, but the opposite was not in our interest either. The idea at the time was to maintain a balance of power between them. Why were we involving ourselves in a lose-lose situation? It's lose for us if Iran decisively one, and lose for us if Iraq decisively won. So our interest was to keep either of them from decisively wining and dominating the gulf.