In Defense of Iran

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 00:22

I don’t know about you but it sure does seem strange in this day and age to insist that an autonomous nation like Iran be coerced by international pressure to willingly dumb itself down. Whatever happened to science and the pursuit of knowledge? Knowledge is a dangerous thing. With knowledge crimes against humanity can be made or exposed. Last I heard Iran, like Iraq was an independent nation painstakingly wrought from greedy Anglophone manipulations from a previous colonialist era. That nasty age the Anglophone world of today has pretty much forgotten and out of that forgetful haze a lot of Imperialistic attitudes still remain unwittingly to this day. I cannot say I am a fan of Iran’s present form of government but then I don’t care for what the US is up to these days either. The people of Iran ultimately are the power in Iran not the few bearded men at the top of the few chain there. The people of Iran – like the American’s are not taking to the streets in bloody protests over who has the power. When the people of Iran are ready they will decide for themselves if their governance is repressive – is it up to we in the West even to say it is repressive?

Any nation in the pursuit of knowledge, science and excellence is going to explore nuclear options and all the other curiosities in Pandora's Box. Perhaps in so doing Iran will uncover the next form of safe energy to rescue our collapsing ecosphere on this planet. Or perhaps Iran will uncover a way to make nuclear waste benign. My guess is the real reason everyone in the self called “free world” is up in arms about Iran having Nukes is only a manifestation of latent Imperialism. We should be worried when we in the free world are waging a war only for corporate interests on Iran’s doorstep.

I do not believe there is such a thing as Al Qaeda. This sounds strange I know. But it is an urban myth opportunistically invented to control the masses with fear. Well this member of the masses prefers opium to fear when it comes to being controlled. Maybe there is such a thing as Al Qaeda or a network of it - I don’t care but I choose to believe there is no such thing. In either case I believe Washington more than anyone created Al Qaeda, now that I believe. Al Qaeda fits nicely into Washington's tactical global plans. Probably Al Qaeda is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CIA. Certainly Washington profits off of this concept of Al Qaeda like the Vatican profits off the notion of the Devil and guilt.

Maybe there is a Devil but it is not Iran. Iran is in the pursuit of knowledge and power – literally and figuratively. Can the rest of the world really bully a nation into willful self ignorance? Especially when one considers what is going on in the land between Syria and Iran? Or when one considers what has transpired in the last few decades over land between Iran and Pakistan.

Perhaps Iran is really only interested in exposing some Western contradictions – Nukes these days are like a microphone. It is no secret that Iran is using the Nuke issue to harness media attention to the fact that Israel with its appalling record of human rights and land grabbing from Palestinians is in fact one of the largest Nuke holders in the region. Should a recently self appointed nation have the right to steal land in increments from its own brotherhood while imprisoning its own people and neighbors for their crime of being born with the wrong social-religious genetic makeup? Would anyone in their right mind allow Israel to develop their own Nukes at this point in history?

For what it is worth I believe the history of the remarkable Persians – the present day Iranians – is one of an intelligent well educated society with a grand ornate land, history and culture. Probably the Iranians are better educated on the whole than the Americans or the rest of the Anglophone world for that matter or at least those who claim English as their first language. So what is the problem with Iran like many other nations having a few Nukes to get the rest of the world to listen to their concerns? Iran obviously has something to say. They probably want the world to know that they will not let the US and it’s “allies” march in and turn it into present day Iraqi/Halliburton junk yard. It isn’t unreasonable to think it might just take the threat of Nukes to get the US to listen. It is about time someone on the planet had the balls to say maybe Israel should not have access to their own nuclear arsenal until Israel can improve its human rights violations with its non Jewish citizenry and neighbors. Or at least until it stops building walls of concrete on other peoples property… It might just take a nation like Iran arming itself to the teeth with Nukes to explain to Israel and the world that Israel must stop making it a crime for a soul to born Palestinian on the other side of the wall. The time has come for Israel to renounce its preoccupation with building the Hebrew Master Race.

If we in the West do not like Iran’s religious forms of self governance then we should remind ourselves that the US helped to achieve this problem by undermining Democracy in Iran in 1953. The assassination of Mussadagh was a violation (and first and foremost a crime in and of itself) of Iran’s Democratic movement. This criminal assassination was unjustifiably for the corporate interests of the west with Iran’s resources. How can Condoleezza “I have an oil tanker named after me and I’m smart” Rice talk of bringing (inflicting) Democracy on this part of the post colonial world given the track record of the US who clearly has no interest whatsoever in genuine Democracy for which the 2000 US elections are evidence of to say nothing of our post World War II foreign policies.

I say leave Iran alone. In Defense of Iran – Iran has every right to pursue life, liberty and freedom as they see fit. They have the right to pursue their religious interests and build their nation as they want. Their natural resources are theirs alone and no one else’s. Their resources are not for England or for the Family Bush. They are entitled to a voice on the world’s political stage and their opinion of the nations in their neighborhood are valid. With decades of shamelessness in Afghanistan on the one side – The US meddling in Iraq on the other side – and no one in the west listening to Iran, who can blame them for putting their smart minded scientists to good use. If we in the west don’t like it, tough. We must stop telling Iran what it can and cannot do and we must start listening to Iran even if we don’t like their justified at present cranky manner of speaking. The rest of the world is long over due in listening to Iran’s concerns.

Post Script: On a lighter note Iran must be an unbelievable travel destination for the non-terrorist type of tourist. I don't know about you but I'd love to go road-tripping across the majestic landscape of Iran.