IRAN UNDERSTANDS & KNOWS ITS ENEMIES WELL

Reasons Behind Iran’s Intransigence
by Tashbih Sayyed

Iran’s intransigence on the nuclear issue confirms its confidence that the U.S. will not be able to mobilize an international coalition to dissuade it from pursuing the nuclear program. This confidence is a commentary on the state of world affairs as they exist today. On one side, there are indications that Russia and China will always find an excuse to provide Iran with diplomatic protection at the U.N. Security Council while, on the other side, some of the United States’ friends are also finding it uncomfortable to go along with the sole superpower. These attitudes are not aberrations, but stem from historical reasons.

As the Soviet Union disintegrated, the U.S. emerged as the world’s sole superpower.
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But what everyone failed to realize was that it was historically incorrect to expect Russia to play a second fiddle to any power for long. The optimism also didn’t take into account that Germany and France, with their own nationalism to satisfy, were nurturing their own ambitions. The success of the European Union gave them reasons to believe that they could compete with the U.S.

The People’s Republic of China was another state that had a history of fighting off the Western influences: it too couldn’t have accepted U.S. leadership. The demolition of the Soviet Union actually encouraged China to accelerate its efforts to become a superpower itself.

And then there was political Islam, which felt a religious obligation to do everything possible to prevent a “Judeo-Christian” power from being in control of the world affairs. The manner in which it interpreted its holy book instructed it to seek each and every opportunity to get rid of the Judeo-Christian-Hindu influences from this world. To fulfill this “holy” obligation, political Islam had been fighting Judeo-Christian and Hindu powers for centuries.
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The recent developments in the Middle East and South Asia clearly indicate that all these contenders to the status of world superpower have joined hands against the U.S.
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It seems that the U.S. will have to act alone as the world at large doesn’t share the U.S. view of Iran being an imminent threat.



Why is it that everyone has this need to somehow obfuscate the fact that it is ISLAM that is the problem, it is not a religious islam, a political islam, a benevolent islam...

IT IS JUST ISLAM ! ! ! Plain, old fashioned islam as created by old mo' himself...

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1) Reasons Behind Iran’s Intransigenceby Tashbih Sayyed