Arrogance & megalomania

From the Arab Times (Kuwait), 24/2/07, by Ahmed Al-Jarallah Editor-in-Chief ...

ARROGANCE and a craving for power are dominating the mind of political leadership in Iran. Usually regimes which are totalitarian fall prey to this kind of arrogance, but Iran although being totalitarian feels its reign is immaculately supported by religious ideology. Arrogance, hunger for power and boastfulness usually bring sad results.

...how can one explain Iran’s challenge to the international community and its refusal to comply with the UN Security Council resolutions with regards to its nuclear program? How can we explain Iranian claims that it has control over its enemies or that a final say in the Gulf — in the words of (Iran’s spiritual leader) Khamenei — will come from Iran? How are we to understand the threats which have been issued by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incumbent Iranian president, to the superpowers of the world in case of an attack on Iran?

All this muscle-flexing ... will only deceive the poor Iranians who are unaware that their country is a lot less powerful than what their leaders claim. ... The wise Iranians, who are unable to speak out their minds like the rest of the world, are fully aware of the fact that Iran’s diplomacy hugely depends on deceiving others that it is powerful although in actual fact it isn’t.

...It looks like Iran is pushing the region on the brink of disaster just like Saddam Hussein did earlier, but very soon Iran will face the truth ..... Iran’s arrogance has brought to the Gulf a crowd of military fleets which are capable of attacking vital and strategic targets inside Iran. Iran’s leadership is fully aware of the fact that it will not be able to stand this sort of attack even for a short time, but this leadership still insists on deceiving their people and themselves by its sick megalomania.