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Persia the US and Reality – Because Someone Had to Say It!
In response to a comment posted after an article on my Pulse, I couldn’t bite my tongue hard enough. I just won’t mention who made the comment because it’s not my intention to single this person out. Instead, I’m addressing a general ignorance and naivety from a pubic too caught up in repeating the same old bylines without adding any intellectual value to what we’ve already heard a thousand times!
What I read had to be the most short-sighted, illogical and nonsensical garbage I have ever read from someone that should probably focus on Life Science Services as stated in their profile
- First of all, it was Condoleeza Rice that said “Persians are our natural cousins”.
- Second, it was the Iranian Railway that allowed the allies to win WW II by saving the Soviet Union from sure defeat. Just ask any Russian. My wife is Russian.
- Third, the only people on the PLANET, including the U.S., that held a candlelight vigil the night after 9/11 were Persians in Iran.
- Fourth, the largest Jewish population on the PLANET outside of Israel lives and prospers in Iran, and that’s including the US, which ranks third.
- Fifth, the only democracy (albeit one where a so-called Supreme Leader gets to choose the 2300+ candidates that are permitted to run from a pool of tens of thousands of candidates): IRAN.
Those that chant “Death to America” are staged idiots paid in potatoes to make the tensions appear high to give the US Navy’s 5th fleet a reason to stay in the Persian Gulf, like North Korea conveniently gives us a reason to stay in the China Sea to keep an eye on “North Korea” (ya right).
Moreover, Iran is a member of the NPT, has never explode a nuclear weapon, has never carried out nuclear testing, has never enriched beyond 13%, while North Korea, India, Pakistan and Israel are all non-signatories of the NPT and have all detonated at least 1 nuclear device counter to international laws.
If anyone actually watched the four hours of testimony from Secretary’s of State, Energy and Treasury to Congress last week, you would have learned the realities of the actual accord, not the trash we’ve been hearing by those who are using the issue to grandstand. The committee, which was accused of disrespecting these Cabinet members whose individual I.Q.’s are higher than the entire committee combined, is chaired by a Republican from Tennessee who couldn’t avoid contradicting himself at least 15 times during his several long rants and delusional attempts at grandeur. Although I fell asleep too many times to keep track.
Bottom line is, Iran and the US are allies of convenience and shared interests. They have always been. When the Brit’s tried to carve up Iran, the American’s stopped them. When the Russian’s refused to give back territory after WWII, the American’s made them. The Shah tried to break that relationship by leveling the field between weapons prices and oil prices and was ousted by perhaps one of the worst Presidents in the history of the United States, President Carter, who may have had an incredibly high I.Q., but was certainly not bright enough to be President of the United States, and is still paying for his mistakes today and will do so until his last breath.
The true ally of American interests in the GME is Shiite Iran. The difference between Shiite and Sunni has to do with the last wife of Mohammad, Aisha, who was married at age 9 and had her wedding to Mohammad consummated at the age of 11 (give or take a year). Aisha was allegedly witnessed while committing adultery at a time when Mohammad was away in battle. When Ali, Mohammad’s favorite commander and Son-In-Law was asked to tell the truth, he did and thereby incriminated Aisha, making her a sworn enemy.
When Mohammad finally passed, his wish was the first Caliphate and every Caliphate to follow would be responsible for spreading Islam to the rest of the world AND was to be a relative of Mohammad, naming Ali as his first predecessor upon his death. When Mohammad died, Aisha claimed his last wish was for Mullah Umar to become the next Caliphate, who wasn’t related to Mohammad in any way.
This started a 1300 year old feud based bloodlines. Sunni’s say bloodline doesn’t matter, Shiite’s say bloodlines are all that matters. That’s it. Having been passed over, Ali moved to Southern Persia and his grandson Hussein was martyred on the battlefield as he took on the full force of Islam’s army while attempting to right the wrong that was committed upon the death of The Prophet.
Returning to the 21st century, let’s not forget Benjie, the PM of Israel is half Persian. Shimon Peres grew up on the same street as former President Khatami, in the northern hills of Tehran. In fact, half the Israeli Cabinet has Iranian blood. When Iraq invaded Iran under Saddam Hussein, it was Israel that armed Iran to the teeth to push Iraq back on its heels and ultimately sue for peace.
The cage rattling act by Benjie and his “we won’t talk Dollars for Deals” nonsense is only to get more out of the US once Congress once they finally back down, as everyone knows Congress will ultimately back down. Congress is not going to make the U.S. an isolated pariah state by declaring our negotiating partners during the past 8 years which led to the nuclear accord with Iran are all a bunch of idiots and patsies.
Remember, if we walk away from this deal, we’ll be alone. What you’re seeing now in Congress is pre election grandstanding. This is the perfect issue for Republican’s to cling on to in their pathetic attempt to steal the Jewish vote for the first time in history, as if we can forget Prescott Bush was a known Nazi sympathizer whose Union Bank was seized by J. Edgar Hoover under the anti-Nazi laws enacted during WW II.
Thanks to Donald Trump, the Republicans know they’ve lost the entire Hispanic vote to the Democrats.Without the Jewish and Hispanic vote, it’s going to be an embarrassing landslide defeat for the Republicans. Even if they had the Jewish vote, the Republicans will lose again but at least they won’t be humiliated.
Democrats in Congress are seeing this for what it truly is: A charade. Who wins from the deal? $150B gets released to Iran, $100B is required for oil field (i.e. infrastructure) upgrades, Halliburton and Schlumberger are licking their chops. Arms sales to neighboring Sunni states surge at a time when the expiration date on most US weapons are approaching since Obama has pulled us out of every major theater of war. Why not dump a bunch of old Hell-fires on the oil rich Sunni’s?
Now that Iran’s indigenous military industry is more than capable to defeat the conventional arms we’re likely to unload on the GCC, let’s cash in! Those F-35′s Joint Strike Fighters? The Saudi’s get theirs without the core technology required to fly them. Who has this technology? Israel. I’m too young to know this but I’ve studied enough to earn an MA in Political Science & International Relations.
The Nixon Doctrine was always intended to make Persia the dominant strength in the GME because the US wanted to focus on China then, and wants to focus on China now. The Nixon Doctrine is finally going to see the light of day. The US is ultimately going to be safer when Iran is the regional superpower, if it isn’t already. In fact, it already is.
This was true for 2300 years, a 200 year lapse is a brief moment in time. The US is barely older than this lapse, and things are just returning back to their historic norms. The US knows this for their infinite wisdom but finite history. The Europeans remember this a bit more and ultimately, the sanctions were far more deceptive than the public was led to believe, while simultaneously forcing Iran down a path that has them 1 year away from militarizing the nuclear fuel cycle.
With every sanction, there was a proportionate jump in centrifuges. However, the political analysis of 25 years of sanctions require their own article because arming Iran to the teeth with US hardware turned out to be the deal breaker that ousted the Shah. Now, that Iran is mostly self-sufficient when it comes to their own defense, they can spend what will remain from their so called cash windfall after defaulted loans, debts and prior commitments are netted out on infrastructure improvements.
Do you think Kerry would have signed off on the deal if all the back-channel negotiations with American companies just waiting to jump into Iran weren’t already finalized? Throw the Europeans a bone, China gets the short end, Russia is prevented from selling their 4th rate military hardware and the US, in less than 5 years, will have a dead Supreme Leader and pragmatic, democratically elected government that allows women more rights than all the Sunni states combined, while preaching a moderate version of Islam that brings out the rage and hatred of Sunni Arabs more than an American blond wearing a bikini and walking around in Medina TOPLESS.
This is not Obama’s crowning foreign policy achievement, but the work of several Presidents, including Bush II, who started these back channel talks to begin with in order to open up a massive and wealthy economy to western companies. The sanctions helped keep oil prices higher than they would have been otherwise, ultimately benefiting the Seven Sisters. Saudi is pumping all the oil it can not because they want to protect their market from competitive threats but because Royal family is on their last leg, and the balance of power is returning to normal.
Benjie is playing the hand he was dealt perfectly, as the closest ally to a nation who harbors the most Jewish residents outside of Israel, and whose parliament runs red with Persian blood, albeit Jewish Persian blood. Iran was never going to go nuclear, they didn’t need to. Iran is a 5000 year old civilization, while it’s fanatic neighbors like Pakistan and North Korea are younger than most of your children. See politics not for what is said by the talking heads and written by unlearned analysts who might be better off in 5 years without knowing it because in America, we have a sad habit of keeping our heads buried in the sand until one day we look up and realize, hey, this is profitable, let’s dance.
See it for what it really is, and you can find that by looking deep beneath the surface. Only then will you possibly comprehend what Robert McNamara coined “geopolitics”. Understand the true nature of this deal and why Congress will not interfere. We’re already battlefield allies with the Persians. Chanting “Death to America” is as empty as chanting “Freedom Fries” to spite the French.
At the end of the day, everyone wins and the loser is Daesh (or ISIS/ISIL), who’s about to get their a$$ wiped off the battle field from multiple fronts. Oh, and the British aren’t going to be happy but who cares? The mess in the GME is their doing to begin with. All those straight line borders are their artist renderings. With the deal in place and Iran open to the West, when Khamenei, who’s probably 182 years old by now eventually dies from the cancer he’s had for longer than I’ve been around, there’s not going to be another Supreme Leader and the Velay’at E Faqhi concept will be dissolved once and for all.
You think Kerry would spend 3 years in Vienna and Brussels to negotiate a deal involving 5 other world powers only to watch the U.S. walk away? Congress, in all their collective wisdom, can’t be that stupid. On the other hand, using this to grandstand in an election cycle is exactly what Congress does!
Do you think negotiations that started with the Bush II administration in an attempt to re-start the Nixon Doctrine will be stopped? You think saying something like “feeding their people vs engaging in terrorism” isn’t racist and short-sighted? Nobody in Iran is hungry. Iran is a wealthy nation even after 30 years of sanctions as Secretary Kerry pointed out.
They’re self sufficient and have mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, thanks to the sanctions regime. When Iran finally does take their rightful place as the regional superpower, the loudest sigh of relief will come out of the Oval Office because Obama and the next US President will be freed to make their “Asian Pivot” once and for all, to focus on the coming military challenge from China. Not just for land but for global resources, a fight the US won’t lose under any circumstances.
To focus on that theater, this Geo-political nightmare had to be put to rest and those chants of Death to this and Death to that are by brainless unemployed drug addicts paid in opium and potatoes to put on a show when the cameras are rolling. But any American that visits Iran today comes home with an appreciation for Persians that they never imagined and an understanding of humanity they never even knew existed. When a taxi driver in Iran invites you for dinner, he means it. He’s known you for a few minutes and won’t even accept your money. Who does that??
The seat of civilization is Persia, not a bunch of dress wearing, shoe less, new blood money Wahhabi tribes who think their Prophet is going to come back and convert Jesus to Islam.
