The tyrannies, transgressions and conceit of Alexanders and Genghises which in the past they committed by force, nowadays the powerful and civilized democracies of the world jointly trouble the weaker nations.
-- Allamah Seyyed Mohammad Hosayn TabatabaiIran has suffered egregiously from a pathologically-driven, violent and hegemonic U.S.
foreign policy.
From the 1953 CIA-engineered coup toppling the federal government of Dr.
Mohammad Mossadegh, approximately the 1979 success of the Islamic Revolution, Washington effectively ruled Iran through the autocrat, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
After the Islamic Revolution ousted its puppet ruler, the U.S.
has actually sought revenge ceaselessly in the name of western secular democracy, yet for 44 years the Islamic Republic has actually prevented all efforts to enforce this capitalist contagion.
What is this western secular democracy that the U.S.
has wished to require upon Iran, and how do we specify democracy? Beyond the notion of governance that exists together with freedom, human rights and social justice, and legitimizes policies and laws by permitting public input, typically by complimentary, public elections, democracy defies definition.
One scholar divides democracy into five categories based upon resident involvement, varying from participation by all citizens at the one extreme, to a group of leaders acting upon behalf of people at the other.
Likewise, democracies can be categorized as nonreligious or religious, with the Islamic Republic included in the latter classification, since Iranians do have a voice in public policy, which is based on interpretation of Islamic laws.
Democracy does not originate from a blueprint thought up in a foreign think tank, to be imposed from above by an inhabiting military regime, composes Professor Ali Mirsepassi of New York University.
And yet the United States has consistently, albeit not always successfully, attempted to do exactly that in various countries all over the world.
Moreover, the U.S.
plan for western nonreligious democracy requires prompting internal turmoil in a targeted country, and even resorting to military force, as was the case in Iraq, to topple the legitimate government and impose a U.S.-aligned, economically neoliberal client system.
Instead of spreading out democracy by any definition, the U.S.
contaminates host countries with a capitalist contagion.The U.S.
is an antithetical choice for the basic bearer of democracy in the world, offered its origins as a British colonial project, its lands usurped by wholesale massacre of entire native populations, and its financial viability built on the Atlantic slave trade.
Far from being a democracy, the U.S.
was controlled by elites from the start, with fifty-five rich white guys accountable for the writing of the U.S.
constitution, which enshrined the repugnant organization of slavery in the nations supreme unwritten law.
Most of the white inhabitants killed the Native peoples without hesitation, considering them to be a subhuman species.
Couple of felt as did secretary of war Henry Knox that, due to such barbaric acts, a black cloud of injustice and inhumanity will impend over our national character.
Today, this black cloud of injustice and inhumanity can be viewed as a pervasive effect of western nonreligious democracy, which in reality is simply a moniker for an ethically vacuous ideological veneer hiding the unprincipled system of unchecked neoliberal industrialism lurking below.
In his influential work, Iqtisaduna (Our Economy), Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr talking about the historical truth of what results when industrialism is enforced, composes, Humanity has actually certainly suffered extremely at the hands of capitalist societies as a result of its moral vacuum, spiritual vacuum and its peculiar lifestyle.
And yet this corrupt, capitalist contagion, under the rubric of freedom, human rights and democracy, is exactly what the U.S.
desires to cause upon other countries and societies, Iran in specific, using military force if need be.The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 made clear to the European powers that the U.S.
intended to exercise control over the former Spanish nests of Latin and South America, which were then acquiring their independence.
By the 1890s, the U.S.
had stepped in 3 times in Nicaragua alone as well as in Argentina and Uruguay.
By the time American officials were mulling over invading Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro, the U.S.
had intervened in 103 nations around the world according to a U.S.
State Department report entitled Instances of making use of United States Armed Forces Abroad 1798-1945.
U.S.
President Theodore Roosevelt wrote in 1897, I must invite nearly any war, for I think this country requires one.
It is most likely that his view on war was shared by every subsequent U.S.
president.The binary folklore of a culturally white, manly and Godly U.S.
in contrast to backwards, or at finest, developing non-western nations has actually offered the motivation to spread western nonreligious democracy all over the world by ways of its unequaled financial and military power.
The U.S.
tended to see itself as distinctly different from the European colonial powers, the country adopted a neocolonialist foreign policy, which was increasingly justified during the cold war in terms of excellent versus wicked, with the latter term applied to those countries that attempted to oppose Washingtons dictates.Guatemala is case research study in U.S.
neocolonialism marketed to the gullible American people as fending off communism by supporting democracy.
After being elected president in 1951, Jacobo Arbenz set up a series of social reforms, consisting of land redistribution, minimum wage and health care, which gave the impoverished Guatemalans hope.
Analyzing Arbenz progressive policies as Soviet penetration in Latin America, the U.S.
stepped in and drove him from power by ways of a CIA concealed operation.
The U.S.-backed military regime returned the redistributed land to the oligarchs and launched a reign of horror, which led to horrendous violence for two generations and the disappearance of some 200,000 Guatemalans.Yet in spite of this tawdry history of genocide against Native Peoples, enslavement of Blacks, neocolonialist wars and an unceasing fixation with international supremacy, a troubling portion of Americans would vigorously defend the concept that their nation was in fact a real democracy, whose kind of federal government, economic system, customs and culture ought to be embraced by other countries, or enforced by force, if needed.
Having internalized this Myth of America, composes historian Walter Hixon, a majority, or a minimum of a critical mass of Americans have actually given spontaneous grant foreign policy militancy over the sweep of U.S.
history.
With its abundant petroleum reserves, Iran has long been the target of U.S.
neocolonial goals, having been among the first nations to have its legitimate government overthrown by a CIA coup détat.
On August 19, 1953 CIA representative Kermit Roosevelt, by employing mobs to riot in the streets of Tehran and paying off corrupt paper editors, was successful in toppling the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Dr.
Mohammad Mossadegh.
The coup, which had actually been planned because May 1951, started a 25-year-long era of dictatorial guideline by the pusillanimous Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who was staunchly backed by Washington with CIA training for his SAVAK security forces and given virtual carte blanche for acquisition of sophisticated weaponry.
As the self-appointed cop for U.S.
interests in the Persian Gulf area, he was openly encouraging of the Zionist program, while ignoring the requirements of, and therefore alienating, the Iranian people.By 1976 some 40,000 Americans were used in Iran keeping the shahs state-of-the-art weapons at outrageous wages, which Iranians described as haqq-e tavahhosh or barbarism allowances.
Bell Helicopter employees in Isfahan showed particular contempt toward Iranian traditions and social custom-mades, ruining spiritual mosques and shrines by writing Jesus Saves on them, or, as one American did, riding a motorbike through one.
Iranians saw their nation as becoming a disposing ground for harmful western impacts, such as alcohol, pornography and luxury items, as the shah wasted the nations resources developing his excellent civilization.
The success of the Islamic Revolution not only deposed the hated shah, however likewise triggered seismic geopolitical shock waves that reached all the way to Washington.
Led by Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini, the revolution ousted the despised despot and got rid of a crucial part of the tripartite U.S.
policy for regional supremacy in the Persian Gulf, capturing the conceited power totally off guard.
Basing the Islamic government that replaced the 2500-year-old monarchy in Iran on a concept called velayat-e faqih, or guardianship by the Islamic jurist, Imam Khomeini had actually begun writing about this kind of governance in the early 1960s, and strengthened its format during his exile in Najaf, Iraq in a series of lectures in the early 1970s.
Even prior to the Islamic Revolution had actually achieved victory, U.S.
president Jimmy Carter sent out General Robert E.
Huyser to Tehran to examine the possibility of a military coup like the one in 1953 that returned the shah to power, or a minimum of arrange some sort of a deal with Imam Khomeini so as to yield a result beneficial to Washington.
The plan seemed to revolve around the strange idea of a coalition government combining clerics allied to Imam Khomeini and westernized Iranian generals who would be delicate to U.S.
interests.
Nevertheless, the Imam saw through the plan, hardened his position against what he viewed correctly to be an evil and harmful power, and devoted to removing all traces of American influence from the recently established Islamic Republic of Iran.The ever-present possibility of another U.S.
coup attempt obliged a group of Iranian students to inhabit the U.S.
embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
While female and Black team member were launched within two weeks as a goodwill gesture, the profession was nearly universally condemned in the western media with abundant referrals to the loss of Iran to an Islamic type of government, civilization is receding, anti-Americanism ...
is sweeping across the world of Islam, and so on.
One article even suggested that the Palestinian Liberation Organization was behind the embassy takeover.
In the Washington Post of November 11, 1979, Joseph Kraft required an apparent, and preferably unexpected, assertion of American power, such as supporting Iraq in its effort to stimulate provincial resistance inside Iran.
Within a year, Saddam put Krafts idea into action.
After receiving a green light from U.S.
president Carter, Saddams forces assaulted Iran on September 22, 1980 with an air assault along with 6 coordinated strikes by 11 divisions of Iraqi ground soldiers.
The CIA was well aware of the Iraqi dictators war plans in October 1979, more than a year in advance, and had actually informed Carter less than a week prior to the initial intrusion.
In spite of the surprise attack, Saddams forces just inhabited Khorramshahr after a prolonged siege following a stopped working initial armor attack, and were pushed back by the Pasdaran prior to reaching the passes in the Zagros Mountains.
When Saddams military stopped working to attain the expected fast success, the demonic despot resorted to making use of chemical weapons versus Iranians, while U.S.
officials labored to deflect any consequent ethical outrage that sporadically developed.
They enforced 8 years of war on our nation, stated the Leader of the Islamic Revolution describing the U.S., About 300,000 of our youths, our people were martyred in this eight-year war.
Yet 44 years later, having actually prevented all callous efforts expended by the United States and its co-conspirators to topple the legitimate Islamic federal government and replace it with a U.S.-aligned, client program, the Islamic Republic of Iran still exists as a happy, sovereign country.
Those protesters who have been seduced by western secular democratic dogma must consider the sacrifices made by those martyrs for the Islamic Republic, as well as the words of Ferdowsi, Cho Iran nabashad tan-e male mabad (Would that my body no longer be lest Iran not exist ).