From Rodney Shakespeare’s “Stupidities of U.S. government
about Iran”
Excerpt, editing by
Carolyn Bennett
Tough love, hard truths, both… (?)
These are some of Shakespeare’s thoughts mapped out (with
apologies for literary license, see full text link below) for easy reading.
STUPIDITY 1
Claiming knowledge of a country without having an embassy
there
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| USA bullies, targets Iran |
Missing a prime source of
information, the USA’s analysis and understanding of Iran is not only wrong; it
is more than thirty years out of date.
The USA is locked into a
condition of permanent hatred for having been ignominiously booted out for its support
of the brutal regime of Shah [U.S. autocratic ally Mohammad
Reza Shah Pahlavi, pro-Western SHAH
OF IRAN: 1941
to 1979]
Like a spoiled child, the USA is in a
condition of stunted development, unable to grow up.
STUPIDITY 2
Letting prejudice get in the way of objective analysis.
Even when the USA does receive real
information, it wrecks the value of that information by viewing it through the
prism of ignorance and spite.
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| USA Targets Iran |
The USA is therefore unable to
understand that the Iranian Revolution has established deep roots so that Iran is
burgeoning ─ despite sanctions ─ into a modern, technologically advanced
society.
Iran is politically stable so that
the chances of its population wanting a … sell-out to the militarist globalist
financial capitalism now wrecking the world are nil.
STUPIDITY 3
Thinking that sanctions will stop Iran’s progress in
civilian nuclear energy or in anything else
Nothing will stop that progress.
More and more nations are quietly
making agreements with Iran.
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| USA Stupid over Iran |
STUPIDITY 4
Thinking it can bully Iran into a groveling submission.
Such is the bigotry and arrogance
of the USA.
Such is the USA’s supreme hubris, thinking
the world looks up to it instead of increasingly despising it.
Iranians are a proud people with a civilized history that
reaches back many centuries, before the USA stopped slaughtering Native
Americans (just over one hundred years ago). Moreover, in the contemporary context, Iranians remember that ─
…the USA has been militarily
aggressive every year for the past seventy years
…the USA assassinates and tortures
…the USA’s economy is collapsing.
…the USA is experiencing a creeping
internal fascism that will soon be jumping up and stamping on the face of its
population
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| Sanctions against Iran |
“Iranians simply are not amenable to being bullied,” Rodney
Shakespeare concludes. When bullied, “Exactly the opposite happens: Iranian
resolve is strengthened, national pride is doubled, and even more effort is put
into forwarding the Revolution.” The USA government, he says, “is stupid” and “should
grow up.…
“Intelligent people realize
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that the thirty navies deployed in the Persian Gulf are
there to threaten Iran, to provoke Russia, to support vicious autocracies, and
to further destabilize the Middle East.”
One day, which will come sooner rather than later, the world
now quietly and powerfully “rearranging itself will see the collapse of the dollar-USA
[and] a lessening of, even an ending to U.S. militarism and adventurism in the
Persian Gulf.”
U
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nder the headline “New Economic Sanctions on Iran,
Washington’s Regime Change Strategy,” Timothy Alexander Guzman wrote last month
at Global Research:
… It was the same idea that was
used in Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro by the Cuban people with
an economic and financial Embargo back in 1960.
… Obviously that has not worked out
well for every U.S. administration since then.
…It will not work in Iran either.
Sources and notes
“Stupidities of U.S. government about Iran” (Prof. Rodney
Shakespeare, Press TV, RS/HSN), May 2, 2013, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/02/301364/stupidities-of-us-government-about-iran/
Rodney Shakespeare
is London-based writer and lecturer and a Trisakti University (Jakarta,
Indonesia) visiting professor of Binary Economics, teaching in the
international postgraduate Islamic Economics and Finance program. Credentialed
at Cambridge (MA), he is also “a qualified UK Barrister [and] well-known
presenter and lecturer, particularly at Islamic conferences dealing with money,
the real economy, binary economics, and social and economic justice.”
Shakespeare is co-author of Seven Steps
to Justice and is affiliated with the Christian Council for Monetary
Justice and Global Justice Movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rodney_Shakespeare
The global justice movement is described as “a network or
constellation of globalized social movements opposing ‘corporate globalization’
and promoting equal distribution of economic resources,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_justice_movement
“New Economic Sanctions on Iran, Washington’s Regime Change
Strategy” (Timothy Alexander Guzman, Global Research), April 10, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-economic-sanctions-on-iran-washingtons-regime-change-strategy/5330823
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| Mass Movement Iran |
I
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ran is a mountainous, arid, ethnically diverse country of
southwestern Asia; heart of the storied Persian empire of antiquity, Iran has
long played an important role in the region as an imperial power and
later—because of its strategic position and abundant natural resources,
especially petroleum—as a factor in colonial and superpower rivalries.
Persia
Iran’s roots as a distinctive culture and society date to 550
BC. From that time the region that is now Iran—traditionally known as
Persia—has been influenced by waves of indigenous and foreign conquerors and
immigrants, including the Hellenistic Seleucids and native Parthians and
Sāsānids. Persia’s conquest by the Muslim Arabs in the 7th century AD was to
leave the most lasting influence, however, as Iranian culture was all but
completely subsumed under that of its conquerors.
Its capital Tehran, a sprawling, jumbled metropolis at the
southern foot of the Elburz Mountains, Iran ─ consisting largely of a central
desert plateau ringed on all sides by lofty mountain ranges affording access to
the interior through high passes ─ is bounded to the north by Azerbaijan,
Armenia, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea; to the east by Pakistan and
Afghanistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the
west by Turkey and Iraq. Iran also controls about a dozen islands in the Persian
Gulf. About one-third of its 4,770-mile (7,680-km) boundary is seacoast. Britannica note
PERSIAN GULF
(Arabian Gulf)
A shallow marginal sea of
the Indian Ocean that
Lies between the Arabian Peninsula
and southwestern Iran
Bordered on the north,
northeast and east by Iran;
On the southeast and south
by part of Oman and by the United Arab Emirates;
On the southwest and west by
Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia; and
On the northwest by Kuwait
and Iraq
The term Persian Gulf sometimes
refers not only to Persian Gulf proper but
Also to its outlets —
The Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, which open into the Arabian
Sea
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ince World War II the Persian Gulf and the surrounding
countries have come to account for a significant proportion of the world’s oil
production.
In addition, the area has approximately two-thirds of the
world’s estimated proven oil reserves and one-third of the world’s estimated
proven natural gas reserves.
The region thus has acquired considerable strategic
significance for the world’s industrialized countries. Exploration has remained
active, and new reserves are continually being discovered, both on land and
offshore. Control of these reserves has led to numerous legal wrangles among
states about exact territorial limits and has been at least partially
responsible for major conflicts in the region: the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s,
the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s, and the Iraq War of the early 21st
century.
Large amounts of oil are refined locally, but most is
exported to northwestern Europe, East Asia, and other areas of the world.
Petrochemical and other petroleum-based industries, as well as consumer
industries, have been developing rapidly in the gulf region. [Presented also in
Bennett’s book No Land an Island No
People Apart]
U.S. autocratic ally
SHAH OF IRAN
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (b. October 26, 1919, Tehrān,
Iran; d. July 27, 1980, Cairo, Egypt), the pro-Western shah of Iran from 1941
to 1979 against whom domestic opposition rose based upon his autocratic rule,
corruption in his government, the unequal distribution of oil wealth, forced
westernization, and the activities of Savak (the secret police) in suppressing
dissent and opposition to his rule.
These negative aspects of the shah’s rule became markedly
accentuated after Iran began to reap greater revenues from its petroleum
exports beginning in 1973.
Widespread dissatisfaction among the lower classes, the Shiite
clergy, the bazaar merchants, and students led in 1978 to the growth of support
for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite religious leader living in exile
in Paris.
Rioting and turmoil in Iran’s major cities brought down four
successive governments and on January 16, 1979, the shah left the country; the
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini assumed control.
The shah did not abdicate but a referendum resulted in the
declaration on April 1, 1979, of an Islamic republic in Iran.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi traveled to Egypt, Morocco, The
Bahamas, and Mexico before entering the United States on October 22, 1979, for
medical treatment of lymphatic cancer.
Two weeks later Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in
Tehran, took hostage more than 50 Americans, and demanded extradition of the
shah in return for release of the hostages. Extradition was refused.
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