Whenever imperialists penetrate a territory they pilage it devastatingly and subjugate the juggernauts therein almost irredeemably. That is surely their act”. Q. 27:34
Monologue
Conspiracy is the most deadly instigator of war. It has consistently been the the most reliable weapon for the survival of imperialists whether in the primordial or contemporary times. But where a strong conspiracy is countered by another equally strong conspiracy within an imperial hegemony the tendency is for the bubble to burst. That has invariably been the cause of the fall of empires and the undoing of powerful regimes throughout human history. The break up, in 1991, of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is the latest example of this assertion.
The gathering Clouds
Now, there are indications that some clouds are gathering in the horizon with the threat of a tempest which consequence is quite unpredictable. It is all about the recently sealed agreement between the Western Powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear programme which had given the Western Powers many sleepless nights before now. Subsequent to that agreement, a controversy ensued, especially in the United States, on whether or not the agreement that allowed Iran to continue but reduce the tempo of her nuclear programme was desirable at all. One of the foremost proponents of that agreement is the United States herself led by President Barack Obama who has become the self-appointed spokesman for its support and is now championing a campaign for it.
It may sound ironic that the same Obama who championed the opposition to the Iranian nuclear programme and even initiated and recommended sanctions to American allies against Iran is also the one championing the campaign for the acceptance of that country’s nuclear programme. But in international diplomacy, that cannot be strange as it only shows the momentary reality on the ground. Based on experience, Obama’s contention is that the Western Allies only have a choice between acceptance of Iranian nuclear programme and a war as he emphasized that the alternative to the earlier is the latter. Apparently, Obama has seen what other members of the alliance are yet to see.
The Jewish Position
On the other hand, Israel, the only nuclear power in the entire Middle-East, which now feels threatened by Iran’s seeming rivalry, has become so jittery over Obama’s stand on this nuclear issue that she has quickly initiated a massive media campaign against it and voted an initial $1.7 million for that campaign. Incidentally, the current recess of the American Senate has provided an opportunity for that Jewish State to lobby the American Senators against passing a bill which Obama is planning to present to the Senate very soon on the matter. Thus, a battle line of propaganda has been drawn between Barack Obama’s Democrat regime and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jewish fright. And, of course, the American Senate is the main arena of that diplomatic battle.
Just two days ago (Wednesday, August 5, 2015) while President Obama was addressing the American citizens, through the media, on this volatile issue, some hundreds of American Jews took to American streets to protest against Obama’s proposed bill and continuation of Iran’s nuclear programme. Meanwhile, some analysts have been toying with some diplomatic questions relating to this matter: Can Israel really confront America, her surrogate parent (that helped her to acquire nuclear power) on this issue? Is America, a well known belligerent nation, only dramatizing for the world to see with the intention of giving an excuse to make a u-turn if she fails in this controversial issue? Can America sincerely jettison Israel, her surrogate child and dedicated policeman of the Middle-East? There are many more pushing questions for which the days ahead must provide answers. And the world is waiting.
Genesis of the Crisis
Retrospectively, the genesis of the face off between the West and Iran took roots in the latter’s unexpected revolution of 1979 which shut her door against the West’s economic exploitation of her citizens. It was 36 years last February (2015), since Iran jumped on the world stage with a surprising revolution that beat the West hands down. February 11, 1979 was the climax of a struggle, in that country, which began in 1963 between the oppressed people seeking independence from the shackles of imperialism and the implacable oppressors that wanted to keep that country’s innocent peasants in perpetual subservience by using the imperial stool of Shah Pahlavi.
The success of that revolution has since changed the grand design of the Western powers for the Muslim world. That grand design was first expressed by a British Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bennerman in 1907 when he observed as follows:
“There are people who control spacious territories teeming with manifest and hidden resources. They dominate the intersections of world routes. Their lands were the cradles of human civilizations and religions. These people have one faith, one language and the same aspirations. No natural barriers can isolate these people from one another….If, per chance, this nation were to be unified into one state, it would then take the face of the world into its hands and would separate Europe from the rest of the world. Taking these considerations seriously, a foreign body should be planted in the heart of this nation to prevent the convergence of its wings in such a way that it could exhaust its powers in never- ending wars. It could also serve as a spring board for the West to gain its coveted objects”.
Sir Bennerman’s observation, following a discovery that the Middle-East would control 1/5 of the world’s wealth was in further pursuance of an earlier demand by Theodor Herzl, a leader of the Zionist movement founded in 1879. Herzl, an Austrian Jewish lawyer and journalist demanded as follows:
“Let sovereignty be granted us (Jews) over a portion of the globe large enough to satisfy the rightful requirements of a nation; the rest, we shall manage by ourselves…”
The Balfour Declaration
In response to Theodor Herzl’s demand, another British Prime Minister, James Arthur Balfour issued a devastating declaration that now bears his name (Balfour Declaration). That 1917 declaration has since put the entire Middle East in an incessant turmoil. The declaration that conceded a major part of Palestine to the Zionists as a home read in part:
“His majesty’s Government views which favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use its best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this objective…. The rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country shall not be prejudiced by the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”
To facilitate that objective effectively, some other Middle East countries had to be incapacitated economically and politically by excising from them, a juicy chunk of their lands. Thus, Lebanon was excised from Syria and Kuwait from Iraq. The strategy was to cause a dissension among the citizens of those Countries with the intention of breaking the bond of Muslim unity which Bennerman had targeted in his infamous 1907 speech quoted above.
The logical Question
How does Iran come into this when she is not an Arab Country? That is the logical question that anybody who is not quite familiar with the Middle East and the intricacies of its political and economic set up will ask. Naturally, Iran is affected by three major factors: Politics, economy and culture. And by culture here, we mean ISLAM. Iran is a foremost Islamic Country even if her official language is not Arabic. And, as an Islamic Country, whatever affects other Muslim Countries must affect her.
Iranian Revolution
No one believed in 1979 that what started like a small political billow, initiated by Iran’s unarmed Mullahs in the city of Qum, could grow into such a great magnitude of political ‘earthquake’. And so, by the time the foggy dust from that billow settled, a new Iran had emerged from the debris of the old. Thus, against the wish and expectation of the capitalist West, the secular, monarchical Iran became an Islamic republic. The drama was quite electrical.
Characteristic of the West, all hands were on deck, at that time, to ensure that an Islamic republic did not succeed the tyrannical monarchy headed by the Shah Pahlavi, heavily backed up by the oppressive West. America was most active in that ambitious but vain effort. She would not easily allow the massive benefit she had been enjoying for years in that oil-rich country, under the Shah regime, to slip out of her hands just like that. Thus, under the pretext of wanting to rescue her citizens from the siege laid by Iranian students on that country’s embassy, in Tehran, the US attempted an invasion of the country. The espionage activities by the American diplomats, inside that embassy, against the new Islamic government in Iran had warranted the siege.
While a number of US F15 bomber jets were approaching Iran, the then American President Jimmy Carter engaged his country’s press in a momentary chat without giving any hint of the impending military operation. The tactics was to divert the attention of the press and that of the country from the illegal Pentagon’s military expedition. But no sane person can ever fault the contents of the Qur’an. More than 1400 years before that incident, a verse of the Qur’an had been revealed to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) thus: “They (the unbelievers) scheme, and Allah schemes. Allah is the supreme schemer”. Q. 3:54.
Why Jimmy Carter failed
Jimmy Carter’s thought was that by the time he would be finishing with the press the news would have reached him that America had successfully invaded Iran. He had therefore intended to announce the news of his ‘great’ successful scheme to the press. And that would have served as his impetus for wining that year’s election for a second term in office. But, as Allah would want it, instead of the expected success news, what he got was a shock of his life. Two of the F15 fighters deployed for the operation miraculously collided in the air just at the point of entering Iran crashing with their contents, and consuming the lives of 16 top air force officers on board while the other jet fighters had to turn back having run into confusion. When this devastating news reached Carter, it was too much to hide and it quickly became a public knowledge.
Thus, the mighty, imperialist America failed woefully with her technology, in circumstances she has never been able to analyze and explain convincingly. With that scheme, it became obvious that Jimmy Carter of the Democrat Party had dug his own political grave. And of course, he lost that year’s election to the cowboy turned Politician, (Ronald Reagan) of the Republican Party. For about 444 days (well over a year), thereafter, the 52 American diplomats held hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran remained under the siege of the Iranian students. It took high-level diplomacy, through third party countries, to get them released.
The current Nuclear Concern
Thus, the cold relationship between Iran and the West further deteriorated recently when Iran started a nuclear project with which to prop up her economy. America responded with a threat saying the United States would not tolerate any nuclear project in Iran because she could not trust that Islamic Republic of Iran. And of course, America’s voice was re-echoed by the United Nations, through the mouth of the latter’s Secretary General, Ban Ki-moo. After all, it is only a fool who will not know that the UN, as presently constituted, is the greyhound of the US through which the latter randomly barks at the rest of the world.
But for the recent Iraqi episode that became regrettable for America and of course, the North Korean case, which has become a cancerous sore on the head of a rabid dog that the US represents, another Gulf war would have been in plan by now. What most people did not know is that the secret of American military gangsterism around the world is neither due to technological advancement, nor military superiority per se. America’s 1979 failed rescue mission in Iran has confirmed this. That secret is rather in her ability to cause dissension among other nations and races of the world.
Conclusion
Iran has never been a prey to America’s direct military aggression because she has never played a fool dancing to the sour music of that predatory country. But one fact that has become clear about the US political trend, ever since her withdrawal from isolationism in 1945, needs to be mentioned here. Her internal politics has regularly been dictated by her foreign policy. Thus, many American Presidents have either won or lost elections at home due to their adopted foreign policies. Will this also repeat itself? The days ahead will answer these questions as events continue to unfold.
