- Tittle-tattles regarding the possibility of a military
strike against Iran are being renewed these days. President Obama, to whom
I still wonder why the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, is confessing that former
President Bush was right in his belief that Iran poses a serious threat
to the international community. Russia is cowardly retreating from
its position, joining the rest of world's tyrannical powers who favor the
imposition of new sanctions against Iran. All of this being fueled
by Israel and AIPAC and the American corporate media which are laying the
groundwork to forcefully shape public opinion, convincing the world that
Iran is the most dangerous country in the Middle East and should be disarmed
as soon as possible, otherwise it may attack Israel and 'wipe it off the
map.'
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- All of what's happening right now resonates with the
developments which we've been witness to two years before the invasion
of Iraq. The New York Times is replaying the exact unpleasant scenario
it had devised to convince us that the late dictator Saddam Husseinhad
Weapons of Mass Destruction. History is being repeated once again and Iran
is now subject to backbreaking, multilateral psychological warfare in addition
to the previously-running economic embargo.
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- The very fact that Iran is still standing on its
own feet demonstrates the powerful will and strong capability of this nation;
however, what's really happening behind the scenes? What will happen if
U.S. or its Middle East subordinate, Israel, attack Iran?
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- * Who made Saddam out of Saddam?
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- Even a 7-year-old child could easily distinguish that
Saddam Hussein, who was deplorably executed by the U.S. in 2006, was a
marionette of the very same United States that waged and imposed the 8-year
proxy war on the newborn Iran of post-revolution days, taking the life
of more than 350,000 people human beings relentlessly. Comically, this
is the very same United States that perpetually drums its commitment to
"human" rights and brands the other countries human right violator.
Weren't those 350,000 Iranian people human beings?
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- In his 1991 book "The Death Lobby: How the West
Armed Iraq", Kenneth R. Timmerman implies that U.S. should have sought
a new puppet in the Middle East once its crony, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
was ousted overnight by the Iranian people who could not tolerate their
country being a pawn of the foreign powers: "Islamic revolution in
Iran upset the entire strategic equation in the region.
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- America's principle ally in the Gulf, the Shah,
was swept aside overnight, and no one else on the horizon could replace
him as the guarantor of U.S. interests in the region". So, they sought
refuge in Iraq's dictator and promised to support him unconditionally,
provided that the dictator also sticks to his pledge of paralyzing the
Iranian revolution.
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- In 1982, Iraq was suddenly removed from the U.S.-fabricated
list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, demonstrating the falsehood and baselessness
of the list. At the outset, nobody figured out that what could lead a country
to be qualified to the list of States not-Sponsoring Terrorism at once;
however, everything made known progressively.
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- President Ronald Reagan dispatched Donald Rumsfeld as
his special envoy to Saddam Hussein so as to restore ties with the former
"State Sponsor of Terrorism". Two cordial meetings between Rumsfeld
and Saddam took place in 1983 and 1984 where they reached different agreement
over the supports U.S. would provide to Iraq as to the artilleries, ballistic
missiles, aviation facilities and intelligence services. Iraqi troops received
tactical battlefield advice and advanced military training along with unconventional
warfare schemes which were exclusive to U.S. Department of State doctrine
of defense.
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- However, United States did not even spare sending chemical
weapons to Iraq so as to be dropped on the roofs of human beings' houses.
This was another representation of United States' commitment to human rights.
In May 1994, a report by the U.S. Senate Banking Committee disclosed that
"pathogenic (disease producing), toxigenic (poisonous), and other
biological research materials were exported to Iraq pursuant to application
and licensing by the U.S. Department of Commerce."
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- A British expert of biological weapons and former UN
inspector of chemical weapons to Iraq, David Kelly, confirmed that "Iraq
purchased 8 strains of anthrax from the United States in 1985".
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- Anyway, U.S. did whatever it was capable of, in order
to fortify and strengthen a dictator who could never foresee, even in his
dreams that will be shortly eradicated by the very people with whom he
shook hands affectionately.
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- A 2003 May report by the "LA Weekly" published
a list of 41 American companies that assisted Saddam in his mission to
destroy Iran and bring down the Islamic Revolution which ended in the elimination
of a U.S.-backed king. Interestingly, Caterpillar Inc, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, Carl Zeiss and Phillips Exports were among these companies that the
LA Weekly listed.
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- As an instance, NRM Corp. "supplied $3,310,485 worth
of tire-manufacturing machines and $950,000 worth of presses and accessories
to Iraq's State Establishment for Heavy Engineering Equipment". One
may wonder whether Saddam could have practically employed all of the facilities,
apparatuses and facilities he received from a total of 150 foreign companies,
introduced by the German newspaper "Die Tageszeitung"; however,
the conclusion might be that the Western world consciously elevated Saddam
to the position of an invincible and indomitable tyrant and then decided
to being him down all at once.
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- *The story of Iran
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- Iran is a different country. It endeavors to maintain
its difference and distinctiveness. Iranian people don't need a foreign
supremacist to decide for them. Even if a devastating civil war happens
in Iran and different political groups quarrel with together severely,
they won't for good seek refuge in foreign saviors to help them, because
the history of Iran's developments demonstrates the fact that foreign powers
have not ever come to Iran with goodwill and pure intention. A relentless
enemy which is already busy with the bloodshed it has mounted in Palestine
possesses 200 nuclear warheads that are targeted towards Iran while the
"human rights" activists continue keeping silent.
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- Iran is a country of peace. Literature and culture is
intertwined with every piece of an Iranian citizen's life. Iran is home
to one of the world's ancient civilizations along with Roman Empire and
Hellenic Empire.
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- I'm personally opposed to any kind of weaponry; whether
it's chemical, nuclear whatsoever. If all of the countries in the world
put their military and armed forces aside, no war will take place and nobody
will lose his life; however, we all now that such austere statements can
be exclusively the ambitions of a primary school student who sees his surrounding
word with the eyes of innocence and purity.
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- If Israel's "right of existence" and "right
to self-defense" is important, then Iran's right of "peace and
tranquility" is important, as well.
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- As John Pilger implies in his recent article, go and
seek the nuclear stockpiles of Israel, not Iran, because you don't find
anything of worth in the nuclear power plants of Iran; nevertheless, if
you are adventurous and are highly interested in excitement, Israel has
much more to offer to you.
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