Friday, March 9, 2012

Iran an Active Volcano?

Once again the Prime Minister of Israel has rattled saber on Iran. In a speech in the US he seems to have urged the US to bomb Iran by saying that the US did not bomb Auschwitz during the Second World war.
It is an advice to come from a 'friend' with far-reaching disastrous consequences. It is against the international law either for Israel or the US to attack Iran while Iran is not attacking any country.
It is but natural that Mr.Obama has placed emphasis on the importance of a peaceful mode of solving the Iranian question, if only for the reason that she is running out of her materials for fighting another war after a full decade of fighting.
We should keep in mind that this decade-long fighting has been fought on both sides of Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, and as such it has been nothing less than sabre-rattling by the US against Iran.
It is not only these ten years. The US, or the Anglo-American, intervention in Iran started in the CIA-backed toppling of the legitimate and popular Prime Minister of Iran, Mr.Musaddiq, in August 1953. It continued in supporting the oppressive monarchy of the Shah's regime. After the fall of the hated monarchy, they took the side of Iraq when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980 to 88, supposedly to contain a storm which started blowing over the Middle East. Very soon the Gulf War followed. And the 9/11.
I am not in support of the deterrent theory, as I have often written in these columns. But if there is one country in the Middle East which would like to take the help of this theory, is it not Iran, under the constant US surveillance, with her carrier fleet or two just in her front, with Israel in the striking distance, with Russia in the north again believing in the might(in the months preceding the anti-Musaddiq coup the Soviet Union stopped buying oil from Iran, thus weakening the position of the government)?
So this is far from a simple 'Iranian question'. But what about her nuclear threat? What about her oppressive regime, which succeeded in silencing the most developed civil society in the region in 2009?
Yes, these questions do exist. But the military is not the solution. The US with its nuclear arms and with her past record with Iran has no right to say anything on Iran's nuclear policy. Both Iran and Israel should support the idea of the nuclear-free Middle East. It would change the entire atmosphere. Iran should withdraw from assisting Syria's Asad, whose hands are stained with his people's blood beyond repair.
Anything possible between the US and Iran? I would sincerely propose an exchange of soccer teams between the two, as quickly as possible. The hospitable Iranians will immediately respond. This is what Mr.Obama must have got in mind when he said 'There is still a window of opportunity'. Or, would it turn the Jewish votes against the Democrats in the coming November?

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