Starving for some big role in international politics to enhance their position at home, the swaggering politicians of France are endangering further whatever can be achieved through dialogue with Iran. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Foreign Minister Bernard Koucher, are filling in the vacuum that was caused upon the departure of Tony Blair generally branded as Bush’s poodle.

Bush’s adventurism coupled with Sarkozy-Kouchner’s rejuvenated 
Atlanticism, is sure to bring no peace to the world, it is, rather, to further destabilise the Gulf. Last month Kouchner, threatened the world of yet another war with Iran over its nuclear programme. A month earlier Sarkozy had declared that the world faced two choices: ‘ an Iranian bomb and a bombardment of Iran.’

These political upstarts earn attention and audience from the world 
through sensa-tionalism. Europe has already seen many of their kinds. Despite, and may be due to, Bush’s all times costly military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq the world has become braver, wiser and louder against these buccaneers. The US failures in both these countries to break the will of the people have brought home three lessons:

a-     Nuclear arsenals cannot win wars hence are worthless.
b-     No power, howsoever super it may be, is immune to the
       devastating impact of a war.
c-     Diplomatic swaggers lead policies astray and threaten national interests more gravely than any other external   challenges. In such situations threat is always from within and paranoia  caused by such growling engulfs, at time, the majority   of the nation; however, before common sense takes  precedence  irreparable damage is already done.

Bush and his acolytes may not have learnt any lesson from their wars, the world at large has certainly gathered some nous notwithstanding. Saner voices are quick to react to unthoughtful subterfuge.

Immediately, censoring Sarkozy-Kouchner’s approach to a delicate issue, former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin warned, ‘We must not send the wrong signs to the Bush administration; it does not need us to be encouraged towards war.’ Even El Baradei, who usually distances himself from such political stunts, was quick to come out with a strong statement. ‘There are rules on how to use force… I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons.’

During Ahmedi Nijad’s recent visit to the US one could not help noticing the influence of disinformation and negative propaganda against Iran on the US society. The Media, mostly exploited and managed by pro-Israel lobbyists, its supporters and abettors came out unnecessarily and unprovocatively very harsh on him.

Iranian President’s U.S. visit brought to our notice the most derogatory side of the so-called modern and civilized society called the West. Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger was naive enough to not to have made distinction between criticism and insult.

His introduction of Ahmedi Nijad was most inappropriate, unacceptable and insipid. He was to introduce a distinguished guest who is usually invited to such gathering so that the students of such institutions benefit from the experiences of such people to broaden their own canvass.

Instead, he tripped, fumbled, went head over heal, dropped his pants and then ran off the stage in shorts leaving behind a flabbergasted audience in the millions. We must learn to respect our guests especially the one whom the fate has given the honour to head an academic institution of some repute.

The Columbia University President could not be more despicable. Rather it spoke volumes about the Zionist-Jewish influence on him and the major part of the US society. He never thanked Ahmedi Nijad for being there and further, he said, ‘This is just one of many events on Iran that will run throughout this academic year, all to help us better understand this critical and complex nation in today’s geopolitics.’

A momentum is being built so that the US strikes against Iran are diluted in the heat of international propaganda against Iran as punishing admonitions from a big brother to rogue siblings. Last Friday on October 5, quite in line with the new twist in the US policy of shifting stress from Iran’s nuclear programme to Iran’s so-called meddling in Iraq, the US General in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, pushing up the accusations against Iran as a basis for possible attack directly accused Iran of supporting insurgency in Iraqthrough Quds Army.

The US should not falter in understanding that Iran is a highly cultured, mature and futuristic society and that the US will rather benefit from its brush with Iran in various ways. The drumbeats of war against Iran at home can be disconcerting to Iran as they are to most part of the world, they can in no way stall Iran’s progress towards its avowed objectives. No nation can be terrorized to capitulation and submission.

Iran has not done anything to militarize its nuclear programme. According to the IAEA, Iranian violations concern the “reporting of nuclear material, the subsequent processing and use of that material and the declaration of facilities where the material was stored and processed.” None constitutes violation of the NPT as processing of Uranium was started very late hence no question arose regarding intimation of Uranium processing to the agency prior to it was actually done. The Western and the US objections on Iran’s nuclear programme are political, biased, coercive, unethical and illogical. Iran is not in breach of any legal obligations towards IAEA or international community.

There is yet another dimension to this problem that need deeper and more thoughtful approach by the so-called, self-styled leaders of the international community who are demonising a Muslim Nation in the most destructive, remorseless and unethical way. With a gap of eight centuries a Muslim country is rising up in the field of education and nuclear technology on its own; depending solely on its domestic resources, infrastructure and its own manpower.What is seen in the world of Islam in general is the West’s unethical, unlawful and coercive intimidation to force Iran abandon its legal right and stop short of heralding an Islamic Renaissance in the East.

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These political upstarts earn attention and audience from the world   through sensa-tionalism. Europe has already seen many of   their kinds.  Despite, and may be due to, Bush’s all times costly military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq the world has become braver, wiser and louder against these buccaneers. 

First appeared in Pakistan Observer on October 08, 2007