Mullahs' support for Hamas

Just as the United States and the clueless European Union consider pulling the plug and the rug from under the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the role reversal in PA politics after Hamas's victory in the Palestinian parliament, comes words that the Iranian mullahs will step in to "fill the void" and as Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, put it, "We will definitely provide financial aid to this government so that they can stand up against the oppression of America." (Reuters, February 22, 2006)

You may disagree what you want, but this fits a pattern of developing a framework for regional control and aggression by the mullahs in Tehran. Only two days before, Khaled Meshaal, head of the Hamas political wing, said in a meeting with his Iranian playmakers, that Iran's role "in the future of Palestine should continue and increase". Now, we see how!