Guardian’s War on Iran — Continued
May 26, 2007
New Labour rag Guradian continues its disinformation campaign against Iran with with a follow up on Simon Tisdall’s frontpage propaganda piece with a new one by neocon favorite, Robert Tait. In classic eco chamber approach, Tait follows the usual banalities about political repression in Iran with a reiteration of Tisdall’s unsubstantiated claims.
With Iran this week defying yet another security council deadline for suspending its uranium enrichment and the International Atomic Energy Agency declaring its nuclear programme to be making dramatic progress, the image projected abroad is one of powerful menace by a populist self-confident government. That view has been enhanced by US claims of an Iranian summer surge designed to force American troops out of Iraq.
A journalist covering Iran would surely know that Iran is well within its rights to enrich Uranium under the NPT. The UN resolution he refers to was obtained under pressure from the US, and it deals with the inspections agreed to voluntarily by Iran, not with its NPT obligations. The IAEA, on the other hand has been turning over information gathered during the inspections to US and Israel. Both the countries have prepared the detailed target lists for their planned bombing of Iran through the information provided by IAEA inspectors. There is no reason, therefore, that Iran should cooperate with an organization, whose sole purpose is to legitimize US-Israeli aggression against other sovereign states — especially, when it has shown no interest whatever in preventing, or for that matter containing, the vast Israeli nuclear program.
In a display of total contempt for the reader’s intelligence, Tait then goes on to dump Tisdall’s load of unsubstantiated tosh on the reader once more. As I had shown earlier, Tisdall’s airy claims are based entirely on unnamed official sources.
It is not until the last paragraph that the real purpose of the article becomes obvious. Tait ends by saying,
If the west really is headed towards a full-frontal confrontation with Iran, it will find itself up against a country not at ease, but at loggerheads, with itself.
While it is clear why the neocon extremist, Michael Ledeen should sing praises of Tait, it isn’t clear why a British liberal daily should have its foreign correspondent easing the apprehension of would-be invaders. The only thing missing here is a promise of ’sweet and flowers’.
GREAT NEWS:IRAN ON WAY TO NUCLEARIZATION!
Not quite a Grauniad headline is it?It should be!
A nuclear-capable Iran will likely derail US plans for regional domination with the Shia state requiring US renunciation of its proclivity to change regional borders and governments by force,or to impose sanctions.
Since the US and the West have studiously refused to address Iranian security concerns there will be no pause in Iran’s bid for nuclearization.
Energy price rises post-2003 have made Iran a global player,especially in its trade with China.Its stance on public diplomacy,especially its abject humiliation of the UK during the recent hostage crisis,have won it friends on the Arab street in Sunni countries like Egypt and Saudi.
What the Grauniad reports omit naturally is that with the changed circumstances created by the US failure to pacify Afghanistan and Iraq,Iran can effect a profound strategic failure on the US this summer and the Yankee scum know this.
US ability to deal from a position of strength with the other great powers:China and Russia,will be greatly compromised when it fails in Iraq.The strategic competition for influence in the Persian Gulf will likely see China and Russia ready to help Iran develop its hydrocarbon oil and gas resources which are on a par with those of Saudi,and dwarf those of Russia.
The Grauniad,evidently colonised by Israeli Lobby hacks like Brockes and Tait,is a thoroughly useless source on the Persian Gulf.Their bloated Israeli banana republic sponsor is in crisis.Its leader has a poll rating of 3% and 47% of its citizens believe,
rightly I think,that their country will have disappeared by 2048.
Iran and the rest of the world now require the defeated US to recognise and acknowledge Iran’s increased regional standing.
If the US has made such a pig’s ear of coming to terms with a non-nuclear Iran,imagine what a disaster it’ll make of coping with a nuclear one.
Short of a Middle East security network wherein Iran plays a prime role the already rapid deterioration in the US position in the region will proceed apace.
Dumb papers like the Grauniad would have failed to report the decline of the Roman Empire,they’ll likely miss the Yankee retreat as well.