Vichy-fied

I really fail to see how the Israelis realistically could put their trust and security in a French lead UN force along the Lebanon-Israeli border when the French Foreign Minister Phillpe Douste-Blazy can issue this kind of a whopper without blinking and with a straight face. Taken from Ynet News.

Iran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East which is playing a stabilizing role, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Monday. "It was clear that we could never accept a destabilization of Lebanon, which could lead to a destabilization of the region," Douste-Blazy said in Beirut.

"In the region there is of course a country such as Iran – a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region," he told a news conference.

Wow.