Re: Who is MEC ?
Posted: 2009-12-28 13:50
If Iranians and Arabs decided to ally and fight together (and if they had a common threat that was big enough, I'm sure even that would be possible) wouldn't they speak Arabic? IIRC, most muslims learn how to speak (or atleast read) Arabic so that they can read the "proper" (original translation) of the Quran. So, the "they don't speak Persian so there aren't any Iranians among them"-argument is not very good. Just like Europeans use English to communicate with each other, people from Muslim contries use Arabic.
Then there is the good old "Arabs and Iranians hate each other". History has proven to us that things like this can change, actually quite dramatically, if two old foes are confronted by a common threat. Western influence is something that, I can imgaine, is somthing both Iranians and Arabs (or atleast some of them) oppose. An Alliance between anti-American Arab nations and Iran wouldn't be impossible.
Iran is getting more and more influence in the region since they lost Saddam, their main rival. I can imagine a future were Iranian influence leads to pro-Iranian governments in Arab countries. Arabs that doesn't like Western influrnce might look at Iran as their only chance to battle the Americans.
So. MEC, as I see it, is the result of growing Iranian power and influence in the Middle East. It is headed by Iran, but pro-Iranian and anti-Western Arab countries are also part of it. The troops speak Arabic to each other for practical reasons (it is a language both Iranians and, of course, Arabs know).
Then there is the good old "Arabs and Iranians hate each other". History has proven to us that things like this can change, actually quite dramatically, if two old foes are confronted by a common threat. Western influence is something that, I can imgaine, is somthing both Iranians and Arabs (or atleast some of them) oppose. An Alliance between anti-American Arab nations and Iran wouldn't be impossible.
Iran is getting more and more influence in the region since they lost Saddam, their main rival. I can imagine a future were Iranian influence leads to pro-Iranian governments in Arab countries. Arabs that doesn't like Western influrnce might look at Iran as their only chance to battle the Americans.
So. MEC, as I see it, is the result of growing Iranian power and influence in the Middle East. It is headed by Iran, but pro-Iranian and anti-Western Arab countries are also part of it. The troops speak Arabic to each other for practical reasons (it is a language both Iranians and, of course, Arabs know).