At Crucial Juncture, Iran Seeks Edge on U.S.

Washington Post reports Iranian hardliners ever militant attitudes towards the US.

"If America uses military means against Iran, even if it attacks only one point, the result here will be a rise of militarism in Iran -- and the suppression of any democratic trend," said Mohsen Mirdamadi, a ringleader of the embassy seizure 25 years ago, who later became a pro-democracy member of parliament. "This is a problem for reformers," he said. ...

"The problem America has with Iran is not political, not economic. It's religion, now that the new conservatives . . . are behind Bush," said Mohammed Hashemi, a U.S.-educated member of Iran's Expediency Council, a body that weighs in during deadlocks between parliament and a top clerical panel. "U.S. policy toward Iran is based on a religious war." more

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