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The editor of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyassah ~ecent1y ~ote a front-.
page editorial saying ~atHezbollah and Hamas were workingwithSadr,
"backed by th~ ruling religious fundamentalists inTehran and the. nationalist
Baathists ill Damascus. 1I No classified information was required for that claim,
sinceSadr himself has publicly proclaimed that his militia is the fighting arm of
both Hezbollah and Harnas. Nonetpeless, the State Department still doesn't
believe - or won't admit publicly - that there's a co~ection betweenSadr's
uprising and Iran's mullahs. Just last week, State's dep~ty spokesman, Adam
Ereli; told reporters that "We've seen reports of Iranian involvement, c9llusion,
provocation, coordinaqon, etc., etc. But I think there's a dearth of hard facts to
back these"things up.."
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Iraq cannot be peaceful and secure. so long as Tehran sends its terrorist
cadres across theborder.. Naturally, our troops will engage -- and kill-- any
infiltrators they encounter. But we·can be sure that ~here will beothers to take
th~ir place~ The only way to end Tehran's continual sponsorship of terror is to
1;>ring about, the demise of the. present Iranian regime. And as it ;happel19i we
have an excellent opportunity to achieve. this objective, without the direct use of
military power against Iran. There is a critical mass of pro-democracy citizens
there, who woulp1ike nothing more than to rid themselves of.their oppressors.
They ne~d help;fbut they neither need nor desire to be liberated ~y force of arms.
Above all, they want to hear our leaders state clearly and rep.eatedly -- as
Ronald Reagan did with the "Evil EmRire" -- that regime change in,Iran is the
goal of American policy. Thus far, they have heard conflicting statements and
mealy-;mouthed half truths of the sort presented by Mr. EreH, along with
astonishing procl~ations,such as the one by Deputy Secretary of State Richard
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