Ahmedinejad Visits New York: The Iran Crisis in Context

The entire Iran crisis is a manufactured one, manufactured by the US elite, in a geographic area in which they have a long tradition of not only supporting dictators, suppressing the people’s voices and aspiration but also the barbarism of the kind we see in Iraq- using all lies in the book, to kill over 1.2 million people, and maim and displace millions more. That said let us review the US/Mullah relationship in Iran:

Now, when the Mullahs in Iran have been used by the Americans, strengthened by the Americans both against the democratic government of Mossadeq, as well as against the Shah when he became too powerful for comfort of the US elite (and Israel) and then for the wholesale wipe out of the left’s leadership in Iran, what should we expect with this posturing now, but a veiled dual fulfillment of motive? That the US was helping the Shah’s Iran develop just this kind of nuclear power so that it would free the domestic use of oil for export is a historical fact, that every country has the right not only to develop nuclear technology for its power-use but given that a few belligerent and historically unreliable and trigger happy states have nuclear weapons, Iran has every right to have one as well. That Iran was moving leftwards before the nuclear issue was given undue dominance by the US elite which halted this leftward move and drove power right back to the Mullahs is also a fact. That this drive towards the Mullahs has helped them and has helped the foreign policy agenda of the war mongers among the US elite is a fact as well.

Ahmadinejad is merely leeching off the status that the power-state (U.S) has given him, that of an Uber-Enemy (tantamount to Hitler according to Fox News), therefore to his people, a bulwark against imperialism- something that he didn’t earn nor deserve. Neither he nor Iran (post the hostage crisis) have done anything at all to deserve the kind of hate displayed for him by the US public or be shown in images of the kind that are depicted. It is all a media blitz to convert a quite normal human being into a boogeyman that needs to be stopped because he is on a mad rampage, for those who remember how the Saddam image (or that of Libyan "madman" Qadhafi before him) was constructed by this very same corporate media , it would be deja vu. In all this the voice and struggle of the people is co-opted while the larger of the two barbarians sets the agenda for the fools to posture to (with their third rate missiles) and confuse the people regarding the real bread and butter issues facing the world.

As is often implied by the media in the questions that are raised is: What kind of respect should a leader from a country expects whose country’s official slogan is "death to America" from an American host? and what kind of welcome would Bush receive in Iran? Certainly when you have a history where the aspirations of a people have been crushed by the American/British intelligence apparatus (ref- Mosaddeq), and where its resources have been openly and blatantly robbed, the banal slogan of powerless folk "death to America" is quite understandable. Now the Mullahs who have been hobnobbing with the American/British machine have tried to capitalize on that sentiment and have coopted it, which by the way is not Islam inspired but "experience" inspired. On the other hand, you have the USA where every nation that tries to break free from the bondage to the US is not only condemned in slogan (Evil, Hitler, etc), using all kinds of nonsense and dishonest tactics, those countries are made to "die" as fact (as we have seen in the case of Iraq).

Now, the Bush "machine" is telling him that were he to visit Iran, the people would welcome him with candy and flowers because they are oppressed, just as they were telling him about Iraq, so while you might think that the hospitable people of Iran will badmouth Bush just as Ahmadinejad was treated in the USA, his "experts" think otherwise- they might well be dead wrong (as they were in Iraq) but the history of Iran/US, is very different from US/Iran so such treatment while totally unjustified in the US is very much understandable by the Iranians were it to occur.

Muhammed Asadi, can be reached at masadi@aol.com.