By Mohamad Shaaf
February 01, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
Since the end of WWII the US, as the
world
hegemon,
has conducted coups against
many nations,
including
Iran in 1953.
Although actions in 1953 are officially
confirmed by
unclassified CIA
documents, the role of the
CIA in creating the IRI
still remains classified. After the
revolution in 1979, the IRI was very
popular. However, that popularity was
short lived; it was encouraged by the US
and allies in an effort to topple the
IRI by the establishment and support of
four fifth columns:
1.
MKO,
with Saudi’s financial support
Opposition criticism of the IRI since 1979 has
been as follows:
First, the IRI as a
theocracy
has been breaking the promise of democracy and
deceiving Iranians,
therefore, needs to be replaced by a secular
democracy.
Second, the IRI committed executions and
imprisoned many Iranians in the name of god,
Islam, and the revolution.
Third,
indications
suggest that IRI, as an anti-communist force,
came to power with the help of the US. It is now
known that the IRI has
helped the US in Afghanistan and Iraq,
though it has been campaigning against the US
since coming to power. Those contradictions
suggest that, IRI may be a US puppet, as was the
Shah.
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Fifth, many Iranians have felt the need to
immigrate, resulting in hardship, loss of income
and wealth, and a steady and
massive brain drain.
Sixth, the IRI war with Iraq, promoted and
supported by the US, lasted from 1980 to 1988,
costing more than
600,000 lives.
Seventh, the IRI has made life much more
difficult economically as well, including
double-digit inflation rate and unemployment,
poverty, and inequality.
Eighth, the state budget has been growing,
including massive waste, dependent mainly upon
exports of oil.
IRI
Advancing Military Power to Resist the US:
Since the
Collapse of the USSR
in 1989 the strategic value to the US of IRI
declined, US threats of war against Iran
increased and, after 9-11, the frequency and the
level of threats have been increasing steadily.
Moreover, as
General Clark
revealed, the US planned to invade Iran. In
response,
IRI made a Defense Agreement with Syria
in 2005. In December 2011 Iran’s cyber warfare
unit
seized a US drone,
safely landed and
successfully copied
it; they then started
domestic mass production
with improvement
in precision and range.
After the war in Syria, the IRI recruited two
army divisions of zealous Muslims, one from
Afghanistan and one from Pakistan
(video in Farsi).
In 2012, IRI moved those forces and those of
Hezbollah
to Syria. With Russian air protection they
defeated US-created
ISIS
and the Obama doctrine of terrorist proxy war.
That was a major strategic success for both Iran
and Russia. In November 2016,
Iran acquired
Russian S-300 air defense, which they copied and
reproduced, thereby arming itself with home-made
defense and retaliatory weapons for relatively
low cost.
Uniting Iran:
Several vital factors encouraged Iranians to be
united with IRI:
First, since 1979, the US has been increasingly
hostile, causing the general population of Iran
to become united in support of IRI. That unity
peaked and was confirmed recently by the funeral
of General
Soleimani inside and outside Iran
(video).
Second, Iranians worry that the US, using its
established fifth columns mentioned earlier,
might induce another “revolution” and replace
the IRI with another US-puppet that might be
even worse than IRI, as the IRI was worse than
the Shah.
Third, IRI has created a semi-welfare state by
subsidizing basic necessities, and lately
providing free medical insurance to all, a
situation that does not exist even in the US.
Fourth, overt US existential threats including a
steady increase of sanctions, as
economic terrorism
have had a direct impact on ordinary Iranians.
Sixth, Trump’s “maximum
pressure”
on the Iranian people rather than IRI via
sanctions has had a significant impact on
ordinary Iranians.
Seven, by now Iranians, as well as the world,
have recognized that western democracy is based
on wealth and is
not true democracy.
IRI Strategic Planning and Calling the US Bluff:
IRI moved on many fronts to thwart the US:
First, going to Syria and
defeating US-created ISIS
and western backers was a vital strategic act.
Because Iran stopped ISIS in Syria, devastation,
as in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, was prevented in
Iran.
Second: Policies and the ability to produce
defensive and offensive weapons have made the
prospect of a US invasion
costly;
the US backed down.
Third, development of strategic alliances with
Russia and China, with their UN veto power has
effectively made overt US aggression illegal.
Fourth, IRI making a major strategic shift to
the balance of world power in favor of Iran,
Russia,
and
China,
against western imperialists.
Ninth, IRI developed a policy of changing
US assets into liabilities;
also showed that the sole purpose of US weapons
has been to increase corporate profit, not for
defense.
Tenth,
according to Duff,
Trump’s
attempts to force Iraqi’s PM to resign, by
suggesting he and his defense minister could be
killed, failed when the PM refused and made it
public. Then Duff concluded: “We now enter a new
world, not just one with America “schooled” but
with America’s actual role exposed, occupier,
terrorist and thief.”
Conclusions:
While the Iranian people had low approval of the
IRI for years, they have been gradually uniting
as the government counters US provocations,
sanctions, sustained hostility, aggression, and
existential threats against Iranians.
Recently, they have been more critical of the US
than the IRI. There is general support of IRI’s
series of
major strategic achievements
including defeating ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and
their strategic alliances with the emerging
world powers of China and Russia. Most
importantly, IRI prevented US from invading
Iran, made history and changed the world balance
of power against US aggression, hopefully moving
toward a more peaceful and safer world. However,
fifth columns in Iran still exist, but with less
support from Iranians; the feeling of
independence has not been as strong since
nineteenth century.
Mohamad Shaaf, MBA, PhD, is a Professor of
Economics Emeritus at the University of Central
Oklahoma, an empirical research-analyst and has
published on a variety of economic issues in
professional journals, using Artificial
Intelligence, Dynamic Programing, and Econometric
Models. His email is: mshaaf@uco.ed
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