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Who Is Destabilizing the Middle East?
By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
For those who cannot wait, the answer is those who turned Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya into failed states.
Silly how there are still some politicians and "pundits” in the West that claim otherwise.
For instance, addressing the 53rd session of the Munich Security Conference in Germany, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence claimed the nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers has given Iran "additional resources” to "destabilize” the region.
He further accused Iran of being "the state sponsor of terrorism,” and added, "Let me be clear again. Under President Trump, the United States will be fully committed to insuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon capable of threatening our countries, our allies in the region, especially Israel.”
It doesn’t take a strategic mind to debunk this latest anti-Iran myth, as the peaceful nature of the nuclear program has been emphasized by the International Atomic Energy Agency time and again, even before the nuclear deal was clinched with the world powers in 2015.
Less we forget, it was also Trump who himself called former President Barack Obama the creator of ISIL terrorist group, now wreaking havoc in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. Mind you, it was also the CIA that "admittedly” trained ISIL forces in Jordan in 2012 in order to affect regime change in Damascus and "contain Iran.”
Clearly, all these criminal moves and programs were destined to destabilize the heartlands of the Muslim world, radicalize more Muslims, and spawn further terrorist attacks across the globe. The irony about the U.S.-led coalition against the terrorist group of ISIL is that every single member in some way or another also contributed to the creation of the very terrorist group they are now allegedly fighting against in Iraq and Syria!
Just what the agenda is should be fairly obvious: Increased surveillance power, increased police power, increased military power and presence in the Persian Gulf, and a thoroughgoing support for continued war against Islam and its beliefs - instead of support for military withdrawal and peace, and rolling back the bogus "war on terror” which is in fact "war on Islam.”
Nor is that all. White supremacists and opportunistic politicians are busy administering a familiar dose of nationalism and anti-Muslim hatred in all interactions with the public, linking the presence of Muslims to the Nazi occupation of Europe and blaming them for everything that has gone wrong with their failing economies.
At the forefront of this Western-wide nationalist resurgence and Muslim hatred, revenge attacks are being carried out against Muslim immigrants and refugees under the pretext of defending "our freedom” and "legitimate worries about Islamic militancy”.
This is not surprising. This is the nature of the new U.S. administration and Western politics that reflexively support the ongoing "war on Islam,” Muslim ban, and immigration restrictions, with a helping hand from the media and terror proxy forces.
What we are witnessing in the United States and Europe amid Muslim ban and Iranophobia campaign is the prelude to what can really be described as nothing other than pouring more fuel on the flames of Islamophobia, regime-change wars and occupations, arms race, sectarian warfare and chaos. The warmongers and regime changers are free to use fake news and blame Iran for the current chaos. But they are wrong to assume they can escape the truth and the harsh judgement of history.
For those who cannot wait, the answer is those who turned Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya into failed states.
Silly how there are still some politicians and "pundits” in the West that claim otherwise.
For instance, addressing the 53rd session of the Munich Security Conference in Germany, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence claimed the nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers has given Iran "additional resources” to "destabilize” the region.
He further accused Iran of being "the state sponsor of terrorism,” and added, "Let me be clear again. Under President Trump, the United States will be fully committed to insuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon capable of threatening our countries, our allies in the region, especially Israel.”
It doesn’t take a strategic mind to debunk this latest anti-Iran myth, as the peaceful nature of the nuclear program has been emphasized by the International Atomic Energy Agency time and again, even before the nuclear deal was clinched with the world powers in 2015.
Less we forget, it was also Trump who himself called former President Barack Obama the creator of ISIL terrorist group, now wreaking havoc in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. Mind you, it was also the CIA that "admittedly” trained ISIL forces in Jordan in 2012 in order to affect regime change in Damascus and "contain Iran.”
Clearly, all these criminal moves and programs were destined to destabilize the heartlands of the Muslim world, radicalize more Muslims, and spawn further terrorist attacks across the globe. The irony about the U.S.-led coalition against the terrorist group of ISIL is that every single member in some way or another also contributed to the creation of the very terrorist group they are now allegedly fighting against in Iraq and Syria!
Just what the agenda is should be fairly obvious: Increased surveillance power, increased police power, increased military power and presence in the Persian Gulf, and a thoroughgoing support for continued war against Islam and its beliefs - instead of support for military withdrawal and peace, and rolling back the bogus "war on terror” which is in fact "war on Islam.”
Nor is that all. White supremacists and opportunistic politicians are busy administering a familiar dose of nationalism and anti-Muslim hatred in all interactions with the public, linking the presence of Muslims to the Nazi occupation of Europe and blaming them for everything that has gone wrong with their failing economies.
At the forefront of this Western-wide nationalist resurgence and Muslim hatred, revenge attacks are being carried out against Muslim immigrants and refugees under the pretext of defending "our freedom” and "legitimate worries about Islamic militancy”.
This is not surprising. This is the nature of the new U.S. administration and Western politics that reflexively support the ongoing "war on Islam,” Muslim ban, and immigration restrictions, with a helping hand from the media and terror proxy forces.
What we are witnessing in the United States and Europe amid Muslim ban and Iranophobia campaign is the prelude to what can really be described as nothing other than pouring more fuel on the flames of Islamophobia, regime-change wars and occupations, arms race, sectarian warfare and chaos. The warmongers and regime changers are free to use fake news and blame Iran for the current chaos. But they are wrong to assume they can escape the truth and the harsh judgement of history.