The Iranian “threat”: Like God, if there really isn’t one, we’d better invent it!
Onlangs poogde een die hard anti IRI-er op zijn weblog op Elsevier in nog geen A4tje te bewijzen dat Israel het recht heeft een preventieve oorlog tegen Iran te beginnen. Uit nieuwsgierigheid bekeek ik vooral de reacties eens nader, waarbij ik bijna tot de conclusie kwam dat ik dat maar beter niet kon doen, bedroevend was het niveau. Toch kwam ik enkele interessante reacties tegen, waaronder de nuchtere opmerking dat volgens de internationale spelregels, preventieve oorlog nog altijd illegaal is.
Met een beetje goede wil kom je al googelend echter ook andere scenario’s en verfrissende denkwijzen tegen, die mij doorgaans meer aan het denken zetten dan tien Ellians bij elkaar.
Deze keer een artikel van Kam Zarrabi. Ik ken hem verder niet, dus ik onthoud me van een oordeel over zijn werk en pas verschenen boek ‘In Zarathustra’s Shadow’.
The Iranian “threat”: Like God, if there really isn’t one, we’d better invent it!
By: Kam Zarrabi
“Let’s indulge in a highly unlikely imaginary scenario.”
News breaks out that, rather than wait for the Bush administration’s term to expire, the Iranian regime has just reached the conclusion that accepting America ’s terms unequivocally is truly in the Iranian peoples’ best interests. Within weeks, all nuclear enrichment facilities are to be dismantled and medium and long range missiles destroyed, American and UN inspectors will gain total access to Iran’s military and defense establishments, and the Revolutionary Guards Corps will be officially decommissioned. What is even more surprising, Iran offers to recognize Israel and declares Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorist organizations.
Within a few days, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, announces the decision that the “Islamic” connotation will be dropped from the name of the country, which will revert back to just “Iran”. He then promises to retire to the holy city of Msahhad within a few months. President Ahmadinejad resigns months ahead of his term, and the Majlis invites the Pahlavi prince and his entourage to return to Iran, accompanied by his American and Israeli advisors, to form a new government.
To make sure that everything is on the level, American, Israeli and the European Union representatives are to be invited to send observers to Iran and monitor this historic transition from a “rogue” state to a Western style modern secular democracy.
Celebrations break out, from the streets of Tehran, New York, Los Angeles, “Tehrangeles” and London to Tokyo and Seoul, and particularly Moscow . Iran is no longer regarded as a member of the Axis of Evil or the single most dangerous threat to the peace and security of the region and the world and possibly even the universe. Iranian missiles supposedly carrying those clandestinely built nuclear bombs will no longer be aimed at Israel, Europe and the United States, against which the United States had so wisely decided to install missile defense shields in Eastern Europe and Israel at such great costs both financially and diplomatically.
The Russian government is delighted that now the United States can abandon the plans to install missile defense shields in Poland and the Czech Republic, which the Russians were suspecting were actually aimed at their country and not, as claimed by the United States, at Iran.
The White House (excluding, of course, the Vice President and his neocon cabal) is simply overjoyed with the confirmed news of this unexpected turn of events, giving the President the historic opportunity just before leaving office to declare victory over the last stubbornly defiant obstacle that had stood in the way of his humanitarian Christian mission to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
Maar… de nieuwe wereldvrede van het gedachtenexperimentpast niet in eenieders straatje, zou snel blijken volgens Zarrabi.
Lees de rest van het artikel hier



