LA Political Buzz Examiner
Stuart Rowlands
Ladies and gentlemen-for the defense the sovereign nation of Iran charged with threatening the United States of America, its western allies, all the members of NATO, Israel, and of course its neighbor Iraq . The prosecution on the other hand is made up of most of the nations who already own weapons of mass destruction including the USA, Great Britain, France and Israel and who categorically refuse to let Iran build its own nuclear arsenal because, they say, Iran is a danger to us all. Iran incidentally has few allies either inside the Middle East or without with the exceptions of the Palestinians, Pakistan, possibly North Korea and when it suits them – the Russians.
The Western Allies are determined to prosecute Iran before the world court of opinion as the harborers of terrorism and the most likely country to attack anybody at any time. Again, according to the Western Allies Iran is the only rabid terrorist nation currently on earth, conveniently forgetting both Pakistan, India and North Korea are/were in breach of UN sanctions for developing weapons of mass destruction, testing missiles, selling enriched uranium and/or centrifuge technology and that the 9/11 Al Qaeda operatives were in fact Saudi Arabian. Plus the fact that Iran hasn’t invaded anybody in the last 50 odd years which is more than can be said for the Western Allies led by the USA who have invaded Vietnam, Granada, Panama and Somalia plus bombed the heck out of Cambodia and Kosovo.
The Western Allies daily seek to present an open and shut case of Iran’s intimidation of their neighbors by trying to prove that Iran is providing money and arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan, funding Sunni opposition to the Shiite led government in Iraq and harboring Al Qaeda - all of which is likely but unproved. They are reinforcing their opposition by promoting a worldwide publicity campaign via the headlines of major daily newspapers, focusing on huge civil unrest in Iran (and possibly funding it) hoping that it will cause a regime change toppling Iran’s supreme leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his handpicked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. All the while continuing to follow the policies that began under President Obama’s predecessor George Bush and Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The Western Allies are also hoping that World opinion will forget the US backed coup which toppled Iran’s last democratically elected government way back in 1953. This of course ushered in one of the most oppressive regimes in Middle East history led by the Shah who promptly set about imprisoning 30,000 of his closest enemies sadly leading to the 1979 Islamic revolution whose followers rule Iran today. In other words the Western Powers who are trying to convince a jury of their peers in World opinion that the current state of Iran is not their fault and the Iranians have no reason to fear anybody.
Iran on the other hand has its own problems with convincing world opinion that it is basically harmless especially as it does not have direct access to Western media. Its reasons for wanting a nuclear option or even a hi-tech military make a lot of sense when their position is viewed on a map. They are in fact surrounded by enemies. On its western border lies its old enemy Iraq still hosting nearly 120,000 US military since 2003 and on its eastern border yet another US led Western Allies coalition is fighting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda since 2001.
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