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High on Hate?
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich & Nader Bagherzadeh
06/13/07 "ICH"
-- --- - While the poppy fields in Afghanistan are thriving
in supplying the demands of millions, this White House and their
neo-cons accomplices are cultivating their own fix - hate. But
in order for them to get their high, their hate must be
transferred into people's fear – A fear they plan to turn into
another bloodbath. Pushing forward with their latest
warmongering idea that Iran is planning to extend the reach of
its Shahab 3 missiles from 1200 to more than 2500 kilometers in
order to reach Rome, the media beats the war drums, hoping the
fearful sound will drown out reason and logic.
This White House and its foreign policy architects, Dick Cheney
and National Security Council (NSC) boss Stephen Hadley accuse
Iran of planning to extend its strike ability to one of the
major countries that has billions of dollars of commerce with
it, Italy. Not only are the Italians involved in oil exploration
in defiance of US sanctions, but they also sell Iran high tech
equipment and technology[i]. What makes these groundless
accusations even more preposterous is that the head of the Roman
Catholic Church seated in the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI
supports Iran's right to use nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes.[ii]
Lies and deception come easily to an administration which
'cooked up' intelligence in order to invade a sovereign country
and cause the death of more than 655,000 people in order to
further its agenda. The US, finding itself unable to pressure
Iran into abandoning its enrichment program, which is nothing
short of a pretext for a regime change, has opted for military
strike as sanctions are not delivering the desired outcome, and
Iran is making progress towards a full enrichment capability.
Had John Bolton been successful in his quest to push Iran out of
the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), perhaps the American
people would hear less lies. John Bolton had purposefully
attempted to have Iran leave NPT by making unreasonable demands.
In an address to AIPAC, he was dismayed at not having succeeded
in compelling Iran to leave the international treaty thus
'justifying' a reaction from the United States, presumably,
militarily.[iii]
Left without a pretext for a military assault on Iran, the Bush
administration finds itself in a position where it needs to
prepare the world opinion for mass genocide with a compelling
reason. With its control over the media, it is accomplishing
this by denouncing Iran as the killer of American troops while
causing civil unrest in Iraq. Tragically, the majority of the
public has been paralyzed by fear and believes that the letting
of blood is the only cure that will rid them of their unfounded
panic. Iran's woes are not limited to the ambitions of the
neo-cons.
Reza Pahlavi who thinks that he can in turn dupe Iranians, and
peoples of other nations, has sent out a statement to the world
from a conference in Prague asking for "solidarity for the
people of Iran,". At this conference he was in good company
where he conferred with U.S. hawks, including an all-star
contingent from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
consisting of Richard Perle, Michael Rubin, Michael Novak,
Joshua Muravchik, and Reuel Marc Gerecht; Herb London, John
O'Sullivan, and Bruce Jackson a former director of the Project
for the New American Century (PNAC). Names of the Iraq war
planners must be noted among the aforementioned.[iv] No doubt
Reza Pahlavi's friends had innovative ideas for giving him the
ruins of Iran, but none were as original as Senator Lieberman
who 4 days after the Prague conference announced that the U.S.
should use military force against Iran based on false
allegations. The presence of the group in the conference is a
telling sign, for many were the same disingenuous politicians
that were accusing Iran of the Khobar Tower bombing in 1993; an
accusation rejected last week by William Perry, Clinton's
Defense Secretary at the time, with the assertion that the
bombings had been the work of al-Qaeda all along.
It seems that the tragedy of Iran goes beyond the treason of the
MEK, all the 'chelabis', and the dangerous ambitions of Reza
Pahlavi; she is equally abandoned by Iranian-Americans. While
the Iranians take pride in their history, they shun away from
defending her from the imminent danger she is in, or
contributing to the future in a meaningful way. The movie '300'
caused an uproar among the Iranians – rightly so. The affront
caused by this movie, a movie that insulted the history of Iran
of 2000 years ago, united Iranian-Americans and caused them to
take action. Yet they are insensitive to the threat of war,
death of millions of fellow Iranians, and destruction of their
country.
If Iran is attacked under false pretense, all those who defend
her history have no reason to celebrate their heritage. Making a
movie is easy, maintaining a legacy - that takes character,
national character.
Notes
[i] http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05722579.htm
[ii] http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=246637
http://content.msn.co.in/News/International/InternationalIANS_050507_507.htm
[iii] http://www.stopaipac.org/bolton_aipactranscript.pdf
http://www.stopaipac.org:80/boltontape.htm
[iv] http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=27
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