The LA Times is reporting that these days, Ahmadinejad if feeling kind of isolated:
- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev publicly greeted Ahmadinejad at a recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, but did not grant him a private meeting as he had the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan
- In Belarus, the Iranian leader was met not by President Alexander Lukashenko, but by the speaker of the upper house of parliament
- Authorities in Jordan withdrew licenses for two Iranian news organizations this week
- The sultan of Oman reportedly canceled a trip to Tehran
This follows news that Ahmadinejad was unwelcome in parts of Iran itself:
- Last Friday, his visit to Shiraz, Iran's cultural capital, was called off on "security grounds."
- On Monday, the Foreign Ministry canceled what was to be the first-ever visit by an Iranian leader to Libya.
- On Tuesday, it was announced that Ahmadinejad will not be traveling to Sharm-el-Sheik in Egypt to address the summit of the nonaligned movement.
- Ahmadinejad's campaign to lead the "nonaligned" group and host its next summit in Tehran in 2012.
- Long-planned visits with six leftist leaders in their Latin American capitals were placed on the back-burner.
If Iranians get the idea, the Arab world gets the idea, and even the Russians get the idea--how much longer will it take Obama?
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2 comments:
This only makes him more dangerous, not less. The man is a raving lunatic paranoid, a crazed religious fanatic - the only cure is like what you do to a dog with rabies, he needs to be put down.
If he feels his position is insecure (which it very well may be) he will be even more aggressive, more inclined to take risks. And the more weakness he sees from the West, particularly that Islamic tuchas-kisser Obama, the more he will think he can get away with anything.
Terry.
And now he wants to come to the UN and talk publicly with Obama--which will solidify his position.
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