Sunday, May 22, 2016
The Ayatollah Khamenei Has Himself to Blame for Growing 'Iranophobia'
Iran's aggressiveness following the catastrophic Obama nuclear deal is seen in the law passed by the Iranian parliament demanding that the US compensate it for damages from events dating to the 1953 coup that increased the power of the pro-American Shah. The bill requires Iran's government to demand compensation from the US for "spiritual and material" damages. The CIA and British Intel have acknowledged directing the 1953 coup that ousted Iran's elected prime minister during a complicated dispute over control of oil. The figurehead Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was given real power and ruled until the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The bill does not ask for specific damages, the Islamic Republic News Agency reports, but the parliament seeks compensation for things including 17,000 victims of assassination, the "martyrdom" of 223,600 soldiers in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, and recently for damages for "blocking, confiscating or seizing of assets belonging to Iranian government, organizations or public and state-owned organizations and officials of Iran." ~~~~~ At the same time, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council voted to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the US over last month's US Supreme Court ruling that approved confiscation of $2 billion in Iranian assets frozen in US banks to be used to compensate victims of a 1983 terrorist strike in Lebanon linked to Iran. The Iranian Justice Minister said the ICJ complaint is just one way Iran will pursue the case -- "overt and covert political" efforts also will be pursued, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported. ~~~~~ More worrisome -- RT, the 'independent' Russian media outlet, reported on May 19 that Iran has deployed a Russian-supplied S-300 air defense system, bringing a decade-long controversy about the shipment almost to an end. Russian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan was cited by the Tasnim news agency as saying the long-range S-300 system was placed at Iran’s Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base,:which contains Iran's air-defense system, and is controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Russia Beyond the Headlines, a pro-Kremlin media outlet, reported this week that Iran will use the Russian S-300s to protect missile plants, and scientific and industrial facilities, from "possible Israeli attacks," quoting Russian expert Said Gafurov, the marxist pro-Kremlin scientific director of the Moscow Institute of Applied Middle East and Africa Studies. In October 2015, Teheran showed a video of a new underground missile base located, according to Iran's military, at a depth of 500 meters. At that time, Commander of the Iranian Aerospace Force Amir-Ali Hajizadeh said the underground base was only one of many in Iran. ~~~~~ The $900 million S-300 deal was signed by Russia and Iran in 2007, but Russia canceled it after Iran was accused of clandestinely developing nuclear weapons. The contract was revived in 2015 during the nuclear talks. Dehqan was also reported by RT as saying the domestically-produced Iranian Bavar-373 air defense system, copied from the S-300, will be mass-produced later this year. ~~~~~ In another missile dispute, Dehqan said, when it was launched in October 2015, that the Emad missile is a technological achievement for Iran. It has a 1,000-km range, can be controlled until the moment of impact and hit targets “with high precision.” Dehqan later seemed to deny this. The UN Iran oversight panel said video footage of the launch identified the Emad delivery system as “the Ghadr-1 medium-range single stage liquid-fuelled ballistic missile." The US and UN fear it is capable of being used offensively and of carrying nuclear warheads. ~~~~~ Dear readers, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, says the United States is creating "Iranophobia." Given Iran's lawless anti-West behavior, it is Iran that is creating Iranophobia. The best advice for Ayatollah Khamenei is from Socrates : "Know thyself."
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"No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law.
ReplyDeleteWhenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea,whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic."
~ H.L. Mencken
This whole idea comprised in the Obama Nuclear Arms Agreement with Iran is not a bad idea, it is not even idiotic - it is very dangerous.And it will in the end require United States soldiers on the ground and in the air to put an end to Iranian nuclear arms and fuel manufacturing.
This involvement will be after Iran uses her new nuclear weapons against our Israeli friends and various other Middle East countries that do not stand with Iran and their 800 year old ideas of human rights and Rule of Law.
We have people in this country that knows exactly what the Obama Administration is up to in Iran. The problem they are also the ones who stand to profit greatly with the embargo’s lifted from Iran being able to do business using the United States Dollar (USD).
ReplyDeleteAs the real reason why 2 atomic bombs on japan killing nearly 200,000 people was not to end the war as soon as possible, or the reason circulated as to why 9-11 happened is less than plausible. There is under our very noses a group of Integrationists and Neocons pulling the strings most of the time. Elected leaders seem to happy in being just elected leaders and not selected individuals that can (if they wish) direct the world.
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” – Woodrow Wilson, from his book The New Freedom (1913)
Ben Rhodes (Obama deputy national security Advisor) had to sell the Iranian nuclear deal to a skeptical American public. He freely admits that he did so by manipulating a select group of reporters that he and staff think are idiots and molded them into his own personal echo chamber.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn’t difficult. “All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” he told Samuels. “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
This sentence, though, is incredible: “They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo.” What on earth could a White House official possibly know about what’s happening in Moscow or Cairo? Journalists should only call Ben Rhodes if they want to know what’s happening in the White House.
Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration has been carried out by a bunch of unexperienced kids playing “diplomat” thinking they know what they are doing because they have a passport.
This is exactly why we are in trouble today friends - ”If you don’t understand the problem, you will never recognize the solution when it appears.”
Iran is what happens when foreign policy is entrusted to the unqualified and under educated people.
ReplyDeleteOur upper echelon of Foreign Service (not the State Department) has become a cesspool of political hacks and a haven for political donors payoffs.
Ayatollah Khamenei should understand 2 things -
ReplyDeleteTo quote Senator Cruz ... "there will come a President who is not Barack Obama." and
To paraphrase Socrates ..."Know your boundaries."