Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts

Sunday, May 10, 2015

If US Iran Nuclear Deal Fails

American politicians and media are trying their best to derail the US Iran Nuclear Deal. There are several reasons, but the sense of American superiority is playing a major role, the sense that Americans do anything they want.
When we look at the concerns in speeches of American politicians and talks on American media, we can easily see that the deal is between Americans and Iran. The P5 + 1 is only a show.
Americans are dragging around the other nations only to show that it is supported by others as well. But the other nations are silent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5%2B1If the deal fails, then the Iranian people will suffer, and the responsibility will be on extremist politicians of USA and irresponsible propagandist American media. At this point, Iranians are ready to reduce nuclear enrichment capability but then they will be forced to increase it as there will be no point. Iranians will suffer because they have rectified NPT and they are not allowed to benefit from it in any way.
Americans are shouting that the world should not trust Iranians who say that nuclear weapons unethical. But should the world trust Americans who were making a lot of noise about Iraqi WMD in 2003 and then attacked Iraq and found nothing? Americans know that the world has no other choice but to comply with Americans.
The world already distrust Americans after the Snowden spying scandal, and how Americans handled that. It has already started to affect American economy as the world no longer trusts American technology companies and products. The failure of US Iran nuclear deal will make the Americans even less likable and trustworthy to the world. And the world will try to come back on Americans in future in any way they find practical.
USA is giving the world an impression that it doesn't care about anyone and anything as long as its interests are involved. USA is losing its status as a champion of democracy and human rights. USA is also destroying its soft power by playing in hands of extremist politicians, religiously and racially motivated Israeli Jewish government, and religious extremist Saudi government. Americans are losing a lot by playing in wrong hands but they don't realize it and it is becoming very expensive to recover.

Power Projection is Aggression in Polite Words

I am reading a comment on an article by Armchair Officer who say:
The US military invading countries like Iraq and Afghanistan isn't deterrence, it's basically just power projection.
We can see that Power Projection is a very nice little technical term, with no bad connotative meanings. Does this means that aggression is not a bad concept anymore? Or is attacking weaker nations is no longer morally questionable by the technical-policy makers of the Western world?

Friday, May 8, 2015

Allegedly Sponsoring of Terrorism by Iran and USA

On the website of Republican Senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton has released a statement on incoming US-Iran nuclear deal. The statement summary is here on his website.
In the statement, he calls Iran an adversary (enemy) while claiming: terror-sponsoring, Islamist Iranian regime. This statement seems to be far fetched when we see the role of Saudi-e-Arab, USE, and Qata in the region, all of which are very close allies of USA. They are the ones funding ISIS in Iraq which USA itself has described a terrorist organization. Even in Yemen, they are bombing Al-Houthis but are not touching Al-Qaeda there. And don't forget that Al-Qaeda was responsible for 911 attacks.
The Senator Tom Cotton is also presenting USA as an angel who has never supported any terrorist ever, or USA is currently not supporting any terrorists at this time either. It is USA who has been arming Syrian rebels against government which resulted in a bloody civil war. It was also USA who armed and supported Libyan rebels against government which has buried Libya in in a deep fog of civil war. And don't forget about dropped high-tech weapons to ISIS by US, Baloch rebels in Pakistan, and secret support of Jundallah against Iran, and open unconditional support of any Israeli action against Palestinians whether its new illegal settlements of foreign Jews or carpet bombing civilians.
On this point, the "honorable" Senator might say that every country has to support anyone for its interests. But when USA is doing it then it is ok, but when others are doing it while making USA unhappy, then it is not ok. This is called American logic. Anything that is good for Americans is ethical and anything that goes American interests is illegal.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Why does Iranian People not Matter to USA

USA had been helping its puppet Shah of Iran for decades as a tyrant in suppressing Iranian people while forwarding American interests. Iranian people were hating Shah of Iran and also USA for the atrocities. This is no secret.
After Iranian revolution, there was a harsh response which resulted in the American Embassy Crisis. Americans loath Iranians for the Embassy Crisis but they never acknowledge their own mistake of supporting a tyrant Shah of Iran against Iranian peoples wishes, rights, and interests.
I was talking with someone more familiar with American politics and foreign policy. He said that when USA was supporting Shah of Iran, it was because of American interests. In that matter, Iranian people didn't matter at all. Iranian people didn't matter to USA when it was supporting Shah of Iran. Because American financial and strategic interests were involved.
Iranian people didn't matter to Americans. Human rights of Iranian people didn't matter to Americans because American interests were involved. 
Even today, Americans don't care about Iranian people. They are forwarding their own agenda. In American capitalism and democracy, non-American people don't matter at all.

If USA government was a dictatorship or kingship, then it was an act and a policy of a few individuals. But USA was and still is a democracy. USA is a long-time and civilized democracy with one of the world's best constitutions and several democratic institutions. It has a free media for a long time.
Isn't this strange for a democracy like USA to violate human rights of another country for several decades?
Isn't it strange for a land-of-free to enslave people of other countries through dictators and tyrants? 
Isn't it strange for a civilized country to help a tyrant and dictator to suppress his countrymen for decades?
Isn't even more strange for a democratic country to not acknowledge its undemocratic and inhuman behavior against another country people even after several decades?

What a strange nation....

Monday, April 20, 2015

Pre and Post Iranian Revolution Perceptions



Before Iranian Revolution of late 1970s, Shah of Iran had complete authority over almost every aspect of Iranian government. He had suppressed the Iranian people in almost every aspect.
But USA and Iran were great allies. USA was major supporter of Shah of Iran, and rarely objected about his any undemocratic acts of suppression of Iranian people.
Shah of Iran had given several kinds of facilities to Americans to do whatever they wanted to do in Iran. In Shahs Iran, there were least number of problems for Americans, but Iranian people were facing all kinds of problems.
The Shah of Iran had subjected Iranian people through secret and securities agencies and Americans where happy with that. Americans where very dear friends of Shah.
In short, Americans were best and dearest friends of Shah of Iran, while the same Shah was the worst enemy in the eyes of Iranian people.
After revolution, the Iranian hostage crisis occurred. It was a very complicated and long event. This event made Americans very surprised and angry. Their anger was natural but their surprise and claiming a moral higher ground was strange.
As mentioned at the start about the dirty romance of Americans with Shah of Iran, similar event should have been expected by Americans. What Iranian people viewed of the American embassy was not of as a source of diplomacy but a gateway of strength of Shah of Iran and the gateway of troubles of Iranian people, and the home of Shahs dearest friends. And Iranian people hated Shah a lot for his cruelty, while Americans loved him just for his money and power. Naturally, Iranian people considered Americans has a major source of their suffering.
I am making a simpler assumption here: A democratic government is from the people, and its any acts put strong responsibility on the people.
So, when American government was a dearest friend of Shah of Iran in suppressing Iranian people in very cruel manner, then American people were also very  responsible for the suffering of Iranian people by hands of Shah.
After the crisis, American people didn't thought about their past behavior and romance with the Iranian Shah. They didn't transcend about their active support of undemocratic behavior of Shah of Iran. American people and American intellectuals and American media just blamed Iranians for everything and declared them their enemies.
If American people and intellectuals had thought about their past mistakes,and acknowledged them, then the intensity of the enmity with Iran would have been very low. Both parties might have recognized their own mistakes and very soon people of both countries might have been in good relations.
But Americans didn't do this. They didn't thought about their mistakes and didn't acknowledge their wrong behavior in dealing with Iranians from the beginning.They acted like psychos with no guilt and dead conscience.
We can say that Iranians were uneducated, religious extremists, so we can't expect the thinking from them.
But Americans were not like Iranians. They were educated and intellectuals and had free media and democratic government. Why didn't they think about and acknowledge their mistakes and try to compensate for them, while improving the situation with the Iranians?
This is a big why?

Several reasons and factors can be  presented. I have the following ones:
  • There is a very powerful lobby of weapon manufacturers in American government. Declaring Iran as an enemy would brighten their prospects.
  • They knew that Iranians were Shia and there were historical religious disputes with Arabs.So, they needed an enemy in the middle of Arabs to sell them weapons, a lot of weapons.
  • Israeli Jews have a huge influence in American politics and policy making. They felt threatened by Iranians and they wanted Americans to contain it.
  • The free median in American is not as free as it seems. When it comes to government plus money plus powerful lobbies of weapons manufacturers and Israeli Jews, they just go with in any direction they are directed.
  • Some very few American intellectuals tried to talk about it, but median blocked them out, so no one got a clue of the matter at all.





Saturday, April 18, 2015

Media Brainwashing and Polls

Media Brainwashing and Polls in American Population

Almost all America media outlets repeatedly tell Americans that Iran is bad, Iran is deceiving, Iran is untrustworthy, Iran is terror-sponsor, Iran is dangerous, Iran is this and Iran is that. American people hear this from so-called scholars and experts who take huge sum from the media to tell the people that Iran is bad. By the way, is Iran really bad? Who knows and who cares?
At the end, American media conduct polls: Do you trust Iran?
Obviously, answer will be No.
By the way, in the poll, those people are asked who will not be able to locate Iran in the world map. 
There is only one image of Iran in Americans mind, and that is what the media tells them. So, they don't trust Iran.
Isn't this brainwashing?