Show me where James says that Iran is an Arab state

I would suggest actually reading it.

Note that even at the link James cites, the responses all speak about Arab states, even though the speech is also directed at Iran, indeed having an entire section on the topic.

The trouble here, is that you refuse to acknowledge is the idea that the word 'arab' tends to be applied, (Perhaps unfairly) to the entire region as a catch all.

Again, you're simply looking for a point to stick the pry bar... and it ain't working for you. Why not just own up to the idea? Is your position so thin you need to stand on this kind of nonsense?

So, does that mean you're going to be jumping into this thread then, andtake James to task for the same thing?

Show me where James says that Iran is an Arab state. Bit, why not just man up and take responsibilty for your own remarks? Do some research, study some history, and come back when you are informed. I suggest adding "Cyrus the Great" to your Google list.

The Buddhists (especially those in Thailand getting their heads chopped off)are waiting....

Wait, what? What does that have to do with anything?

.Immaculate conception theorists hold that once the shah was restored, his repressive misrule made the Ayatollah Khomeini inevitable.

That would be inaccurate, in some ways, it was the Shah's liberal policies that led to his downfall. Does not change the fact that our meddling in the affairs of a sovereign state and use of them as a proxy made a large contribution to the mess today.

But your saying that Iran is an Arab nation does

So, does that mean you're going to be jumping into this thread then, andtake James to task for the same thing? You're a poor argument looking for an excuse to exist, Anjin.

What makes the Muslim world so special that the President of the USA had to travel half way round the world to give a speech?

Christianity - 1.637 billion - 1.923 billion
Islam - 1.450 billion - 1.514 billion
Buddhism - 489 million - 1.512 billion
Hinduism - 965 million - 971 million
Judaism - 14 million

That's why.

Hinduism - 4000 to 2500 BCE
Judaism - 2000 BCE
Zoroastrianism - 1000 BCE
Buddhism - 560 to 490 BCE
Shinto - 500+ BCE
Confucianism - 500 BCE
Jainism - 420 BCE
Taoism - 440 CE
Christianity - 30+ CE
Islam - 622 CE
Sikhism - 1500 CE
Bahá'í - 1863 CE

A non-fiction book on MI6 discusses the 1953 coup, saying the Brits and USA were involved in the coup. The book goes so far as to say that the CIA wanted to back out at the last minute but the Brits refused to broadcast the recall messages.

Foreign Policy Immaculately Conceived By Adam Garfinkle - Hindsight is not necessarily 20/20

I recommend reading the complete section on Iran as the small portion included below does not cover the complexities of the situation.

"The immaculate conception theory of U.S. foreign policy operates from three central premises. The first is that foreign policy decisions always involve one and only one major interest or principle at a time. The second is that it is always possible to know the direct and peripheral impact of crisis-driven decisions several months or years into the future. The third is that U.S. foreign policy decisions are always taken with all principals in agreement and are implemented down the line as those principals intend — in short, they are logically coherent."

"...Immaculate conception theorists hold that once the shah was restored, his repressive misrule made the Ayatollah Khomeini inevitable. Not only is the shah’s repression distorted and exaggerated in their telling of it, but it was the bungling of the Carter administration that allowed the clerics to seize power. Illustrating the difference between an ignoramus and a fool, some of that administration’s cabinet members not merely believed — they actually said it publicly — that Ayatollah Khomeini was a “saint” who would soon retire from politics. Worse, the administration actively dissuaded the Iranian military, via the infamous Huyser mission among other modalities, from preventing the mullahs from taking power. Supporting the shah was good policy. Failure to adjust when the shah’s touch slipped was unfortunate but not fatal. The mismanagement of the endgame was disastrous, but it was also entirely avoidable."

"As serious students of modernization know (alas, that leaves out almost all write-from-the-hip journalists), land reform is absolutely essential to economic and eventually political modernization; by almost any standard the shah’s efforts in this regard were impressive. Iranian modernization as directed from the Peacock throne probably went farther and was more sustainable than any that Mossadegh and his disputatious colleagues and successors could have achieved. Indeed, had Iran come under a form of even limited neo-imperial Soviet influence like that from which Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, and other countries have so much suffered, its “reforms” might have actually been retrogressive."

"More than that, though the immaculate conceptionists tend not to know it, the shah granted the vote to women in 1964. It was this act that first galvanized clerical opposition to the regime and was the catalyst for the first occasion upon which Ruhollah Khomeini went out and got himself arrested. We know how the story turned sad in 1978, but the success of the shah’s reforms went so deep in Iranian society that the rule of the Islamic Republic will, in the end, not stick. Perhaps the best illustration of this is that the mullahs have not dared suggest that the vote be taken away from women, though this is precisely what their theology would mandate."