Iran on the Rise, Courtesy of the United States

The Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution

W.J. Astore





But let Peter Van Buren tell it:





Mission accomplished — for Iran.

4 thoughts on “Iran on the Rise, Courtesy of the United States

  1. Try to wrap you mind around this one. We have been sold a bill of goods about how dangerous Iran is by Israel and Saudi Arabia for their reasons not ours. The Saudis want to disappear Iran for two reasons 1. they are a commercial competitor in selling oil, and 2. they are Shia Muslims who have a semi-religious country with more democracy while the Saudis have a backward medieval kingdom which fronts a vicious proselytizing Wahhabi form of Islam which is creating havoc throughout the world of Islam.

    The Israelis legitimately fear Iran because their Iranian democracy has produced, in the past, a belligerent anti-Israel government under the previous government.* But Israeli paranoia has produced a mythical Iran with their limited democracy (forget ours and Israelis limited democracies) that can rival the U.S. dominated Iraeli-Saudi appearance of middle east “stability”. Now this stability is just a fond memory of the past before our foolish interventions in the region fro Libya, through Egypt to Iraq-Syria.

    Here’s the mind warping idea to consider. A strong and peaceful Iran who dominates in oil and at least has fair elections that produce an approximation of democratic rule under Islam may have a powerful effect in bringing down the very dangerous Wahhabi medieval kingdoms of the Gulf States and bring a more progressive form of Islam to this region and, in the long run, bring peace with Israel.

    That’s a helluva lot better than the murderous chaos now wracking the Middle East from Yemen to Iraq-Syria.

    * this previous nutty Iranian government, which was strongly anti-American and anti-Israel, was elected after Dubya Bush killed the chances of a more liberal reformist being elected. Dubya, you’ll recall, included Iran in his infamous “Axis of Evil” speech (which occurred before the Iranian election) at the probable behest of Saudi Arabia, following the Wahhabi inspired 9/11 attack by 15 Saudi citizens.


    1. For militant Islam to succeed, it must hold Persia. The first US or Israeli bomb to fall destroys Persia and delivers its millennia-old corpse to the Ayatollahs. Surely, in their hearts, the Ayatollahs cheer Tom Cotton and John McCain.


  2. Whether due to design, or serendipitous coincidence, or simply sheer American hubristic lunacy, in regards to Mideast geopolitical realpolitik the 21st century Mightiest Empire Ever is pretty much just the Israeli/Saudi bitch.


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