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Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124139838660282045.html
As the U.S. Retreats, Iran Fills the Void
[Wall Street Journal] Amir Taheri - Convinced that the Obama administration is preparing to retreat from the Middle East, Iran's Khomeinist regime is intensifying its goal of regional domination. It has targeted six close allies of the U.S.: Egypt, Lebanon, Bahrain, Morocco, Kuwait and Jordan. Last month, Egypt announced it had crushed a major Iranian plot and arrested 68 people. According to Egyptian media, four are members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Tehran's principal vehicle for exporting its revolution. Tehran expects Lebanon as its first prize, spending massive amounts of cash on June's general election. Iranian strategists believe the Jordanian kingdom, where Palestinians are two-thirds of the population, is a colonial creation and should disappear from the map - opening the way for a single state covering the whole of Palestine.