Why is US so angry and upset with Iran? What leads US to think that Iran is an irresponsible state that threatens the world’s peace? Is the “Iran threat” only a pretext for US to yet again undertake another military adventure against a Muslim state after it is almost finished accomplishing its agenda in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or is it time for again a Muslim country to become a ladder, climbing which US Presidents normally run for re-elections?
Consider what the world looks like to Iran. It is surrounded by nuclear powers (Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel) and across two of its borders sit tens of thousands of US troops (in Iraq and Afghanistan). Is Iran not being encircled by US troops’ deployment? For what else is the objective of the aggressive US policy towards Iran if not to eliminate Iran’s potential as a rival power in the region as well as in the Middle East? If you were in Tehran, would this make you feel like giving up your nuclear programme? I guess not.
Iranians are proud people with ancient culture and history. The US accuses it of sabotaging peace process in Middle East. Alright, but has US pumped any oxygen in the dead peace process that remains at the mercy of Israel? Iran is accused of supporting international terrorism. Can’t the US see the brutal policies of the Israelis against the Palestinians? And why shouldn’t the Iranians protect their interest in Afghanistan? Northern Alliance fighters may have trained in camps in Eastern Iran but has the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan not trained and supported Taliban when it suited them?
Even if Iran’s nuclear technology is for military purposes and it wishes to make a nuclear bomb why would it want to use it? It is more likely to turn out as an insurance policy against the joint US and Israeli military threat rather than a weapon threatening world’s peace. Surely, the chances of a military conflict between US and Iran would minimise if Iran goes nuclear. Israel may also realise that it’s time it resolved the Palestinian issue. If ‘balance of power’ is a guarantee of peace then acquiring nuclear capability is what Iran needs to balance against the joint threat posed by US and Israel.
Israel never carried out hot nuclear tests to demonstrate its nuclear capability. If the whole world including Arabs could live with its nuclear blackmail then the US and the world must learn to live with a nuclear capable Iran as well.
Half of the 75 million people in Iran today were born after the revolution and are not older than 32 years. These young people form part of a proud nation state. US cannot impose its will on them through threats (military action, sanctions), insults (Iran termed part of axis of evil) or doctrine of preemption. What the US needs to do is not to condemn and isolate Iran but respect a nation that represents an old civilisation that wants to survive and progress.
It would do well to help Iran come out of ‘international isolation’ and open itself to the West. This will not be possible through military threats. Iran has demonstrated in the past that it could sacrifice a million soldiers (Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988) if it comes to resolving issues through conflict. It is hoped that this region will not witness yet another conflict and the US ‘war appetite’ is over after its stint in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wars are never short, and they hardly follow the paths that are anticipated by the actors in war, that is one lesson the US must have learnt by now.
LT COL (retd) MUHAMMAD ALI EHSAN
Karachi
they hate iran because it is trying to take oil from OPEC in euros instead of dollors. this threatens the american dollor which has been monopolizing the oil market since 1970s.
Would it have something to do with Islam teaching to kill all Jews, Crusaders and Infidels, according to their holy books? Would it be Islam’s followers have butchered men, women and children around the World? Maybe its support of terrorism, suicide bombing, piracy, abduction, murder, slavery and mutilation of innocents according to your ‘way of life’ that is abhorrent to civilizations!
Would it be your Ayatollah and his puppets are the bearers of false gifts and their promises are broken. The people have suffered much pain and more will come unless you open your minds and hearts. There is still time to reject your ‘way of life’ and there is good out there. Oppose the deception of the ‘way of life’ and you will survive and live in freedom.
You have been deceived by those who use your ignorance for their own benefit? Do you know the world was not created 4,500CE and is 13,750,000,000 years old and the dinosaur died out over 65,000,000 years BC?
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