Iran Sanctions: doomed to failure

Prof. R K Ramazani, a real Iran expert (as opposed to the gas-bag TV news guests who mostly have never actually set foot in Iran and yet are annointed as "Iran experts" by moronic TV news producers) explains why US sanctions on Iran are bound to fail:

Historically, Iranian national sentiment soars in the face of foreign pressure. Like the leaders of the past, the current regime can benefit internally from resisting coercion by foreign powers such as the United States.

As I pointed out before, unlike folks like Dr Ramazani, most of the fake TV new "Iran experts" don't know anything about Iran's history of grappling with foreign bullies - going all the way back to the Russian and British colonialist forces of the late 19th/early 20th century. So, they don't understand how these US sanctions plays in the minds of Iranians and in the context of Iran's historical experiences.

Dr Ramazani continues . . .

In the 19th century, the Iranian people rejected imperial Britain's bid to impose a monopoly on the Iranian tobacco industry. Led by opposition leaders, the public stopped using tobacco, and in 1892 the Qajar monarch, Nasser-edin Shah, was forced to cancel the tobacco concession he had granted to the British.

The flame of national awakening thus kindled led to the Iranian Constitutional Movement at the turn of the 20th century. The movement aimed primarily at ridding Iran of foreign domination. Its nationalist and religious supporters created the first representative government in Iranian history to limit arbitrary powers of the shah in foreign as well as domestic affairs. The failure of the Qajar monarchs to share power with the religious and political opposition brought their dynasty to an end.

In short, this isn't the first time in Iran's history that foreign powers have issued ultimatums and threatened Iran with military attacks unless Iran gave up her rights. And the politicians in the Qajar dynasty who were seen as weak-willed and subservient before these foreign impositions are reviled to this very day by Iranian people.

Now, under such circumstances, do you think that any Iranian politician is going to make the same mistakes as the Qajar dynasty officials by giving up Iran's right to have an independent nuclear program?

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[Americaneocon]

Iran Sanctions: doomed to failure? So, bombing's the remaining alternative, or acquiese to a whacked out regime's nuclear capabilities?

Just returning the drive by!