Well, it didn't take long. Some Iran pundits and analysts saw some sort of minor light at the end of the tunnel in recent leaks to the NY Times and Washington Post about the US's supposed willingness to compromise with Iran in upcoming negotiations, but todays statement by the White House spokesman who reiterated the same old demand (left over from the Bush administration) that Iran must give up all enrichment, doesn't make it sound at all as if the Obama administration is willing to really engage Iran in the upcoming negotiations. No, this sounds like more of the same old same old; of deliberately imposing impossible demands so as to undermine the liklihood of any successful negotiations, so as to maintain the pretext of the "Iranian nuclear threat" to justify a policy of conflict and regime-change. And that's perhaps why, as Pepe Escobar pointed out, the Israelis expressed satisfaction with the US' position in the negotiations.
Remember these words, folks:
آنهائى كه خيال ميكنند اگر ما در قضيهى انرژى هستهاى عقبنشينى كرديم، دشمنى آمريكا تمام ميشود، از اين حقيقت غافلند. مشكل آنها مسئلهى هستهاى نيست. كشورهائى هستند كه سلاح هستهاى دارند، در منطقهى ما هم هستند، آنها ككشان هم نميگزد! مسئله، مسئلهى سلاح هستهاى يا صنعت هستهاى نيست، مسئلهى حقوق بشر نيست؛ مسئلهى جمهورى اسلامى است كه مثل شير در مقابل اينها ايستاده است. اگر جمهورى اسلامى هم در مقابل اينها مثل بعضى از رژيمهاى منطقه، حاضر بود به ملت خودش خيانت كند، در مقابل اينها تسليم بشود، با او كارى نداشتند. مسئلهى اينها زيادهخواهىهاى استكبارى است؛ اين علت دشمنى با ملت ايران است.
My translation:
"Those who think that if we retreat on the nuclear energy issue, America's emnity would end, are ignorant of this fact: Americas' problem is not with [Iran's] nuclear program. There are countries that have nuclear weapons, even in our own region, and [the Americans] don't give a damn. Their problem is not with nuclear weapons or nuclear industry. Their problem is not with human rights. Their problem is the Islamic Republic, which stands before them like a lion. If the Islamic Republic was to betray its people like some regimes in the region, and surrender, they wouldn't care. Their problem is their own excessive expectations for oppression. That's the reason for their emnity with the nation of Iran."
-- Iran's "Supreme Leader" Khamenei (Noruz message '91)
Now, whatever else you may think of Khamenei, can anyone honestly say he doesn't have a good point?
"Those who think that if we retreat on the nuclear energy issue, America's enmity would end, are ignorant of this fact: Americas' problem is not with [Iran's] nuclear program. There are countries that have nuclear weapons, even in our own region, and [the Americans] don't give a damn. Their problem is not with nuclear weapons or nuclear industry. Their problem is not with human rights. Their problem is the Islamic Republic, which stands before them like a lion. If the Islamic Republic was to betray its people like some regimes in the region, and surrender, they wouldn't care. Their problem is their own excessive expectations for oppression. That's the reason for their enmity with the nation of Iran."--Khamenei's Nowruz 2012 message.
I agree with Khamenei's statement 100%. The profound hostility of the west towards the Iranian nation is nothing new, in fact, this is a continuous 3000-year-old aggression. When the slave-owning savage Greeks and Romans attacked, occupied, plundered and brutalized Iranian nation repeatedly; was it because of their concern of Iranian nukes and human rights! When the British and Russians repeatedly attacked, occupied, plundered and annexed several million square kilometers of ancient Iranian territory in the past 300 years; was it because of their concern of Iranian nukes and human rights! When the British starved 10 million Iranians to death (half of the entire population) during the Great Famine of Persia; was it because of their concern of nukes and human rights and democracy! When the west gave Saddam chemical weapons (WMD) in order to mass-slaughter millions of Iranian civilians; was it because of their concern of nukes and human rights and democracy!
The west today as in the past simply wants to continue occupy, plunder and brutalize Iranian nation and force them to become obedient slaves to the White Man. The western mind has not changed a bit, the west has always been obsessed with occupation, plundering and brutalizing indigenous people of the World; and they will never change. Iranian nation must be prepared for a 1000 year of resistance against savage, rapist, racist imperialist White Man.
Posted by: Dariush Azarpour | April 30, 2012 at 06:44 PM
Khamenei said it very correctly. Problem is not the atomic weapon. The problem is a Zionist state that every country in the world must be subservient to her warmongering philosophy.
Why aren't other nuclear bomb states are not any threat to the world peace: India, Pakistan, and Israel (surely the Zionists are an exception?
Posted by: mb | April 12, 2012 at 12:00 AM