Check Iran

Submitted by Yale Zussman (United States), Aug 3, 2006 at 21:23

Another approach might be to recruit troops from Azerbaijan as a component of the UN presence in southern Lebanon. It is my understanding that Azerbaijan has cordial relations with Israel, and that a third of Iran's people are Azeri. Meanwhile the Iranian Azeris are less than committed to the government of the Ayatollahs, and might become even more hostile if Iran's proxy struck at their ethnic kin. Chess was invented in Iran, perhaps it's time to check Iran's king.

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