Sweet Talk As A Weapon

It is becoming clear that “Sweet Talking” is an essential part of Iran’s quest for dominion.

First, a quiz: “The way out of the present crisis is through […] dialogue without preconditions on the basis of no winner, no loser; a government of national unity,” 

Who made the above statement today?
You’d be excused to think it was Hassan Nassrallah. After all, it’s filled with those nice Lebanese wishy washy terms. But no it’s not, that was Hamas’ Ismail Haniya laying out his vision of the best solution to the Palestinian crisis.

In other words, after militarily taking over Gaza and brutally killing many fatah members, Hamas wants “dialogue” and a “nationaly unity government”. 

This is a classic Iranian charm offensive, or what I call “sweet talking”, where after violently creating facts on the ground, like invading a territory or descending to the capital’s central district, you pretend that all you want is friendship and brotherhood (mousharaka). 

Of course, when those initially attacked (like Abu Mazen and P.M Sanioura) see right through the deception and refuse to give in, Iran, Aljazeera and Assafir immediately play their P.R. Ace: America and Israel are preventing Arabs and Muslims from dialoguing with each other.

And it actually works! It’s amazing how many people keep falling for this gambit, which is an essential part of Iran’s Modus operandi (step 3) as described by Barry Rubin (Via Tony):

Step 1: promote a client group with funding, weapons and training. Urge it to violence.

Step 2: provoke a split between your client group and the others.

Step 3: negotiate a deal in which your clients have about half the power.

Step 4: use the deal to get stronger, then break it and take over completely.