Self-destruction

By Iraj Emad  ( Persian Photo Journalist from national Ethnic Press & Media)

Interpreted : Alidad , M.

 

There has always existed a negative view towards some of the policies of the major powers in our time. One prevalent view is that the major powers design and produce wars among  different nations. For me, it is not and it will not be acceptable that the Iranian regime provides arms to Hamas in Palestine, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the Sunnis in Iraq without the Americans knowing about it. This is not a rational possibility. To understand this issue better, it is useful to look at the start of the war in Yugoslavia and how within a few years a strong country was broken up into a few weak countries. In Afghanistan, the US dismantled the Taliban – which had been formed to fight communists with initial American backing. The US managed to dismantle the Taliban regime with intensive bombing of their bases. Yet in reality we saw that the Afghan people, especially women, did not abandon their burqas, despite the claims of modern women intellectuals in Afghanistan. Even more interesting is the fact that in all villages and small towns of Afghanistan, for each Taliban member who was killed by American bombs, they built shrines, which have been used by the Islam-stricken people of Afghanistan as places of worship. We saw that even by installing Hamed Karzai  America did not succeed in ridding society of the Taliban. Now, the Taliban have regrouped and have entered the political fray with new energy, determined to reconstitute their power. It is possible that they might regain their lost power through receiving arms  and funding from Iranian sources. But the Afghan government will not be able to officially announce that it has received weapons from Iran.

You must have read and heard in the news that the Afghan defence minister has claimed that “these weapons are Iranian, but we cannot tell how they have reached the Taliban.”  Must it be said that the hidden Imam of the Shia in Iran, through the white house, has miraculously sent these to the Taliban? How many hundred-unknown equations must we solve in the modern history? But in Iraq, it is unknown where the sunni minority has  received weapons and funds to be able to resist the Shia, Iranian-backed majority until now? Maybe this is another miracle of the hidden Imam of Iranian Muslims.

Ultimately, now, in June 2007, we are facing even stranger realities in Palestine, where the Hamas movement have battled Fattah, and occupied all of Gaza. Where are the Monir Shafeeqs and the Edward Saids to see how the victims of Sabra and Shatilla are now ruthlessly killing each other in the holy land of Jews and Muslims? In other words, in Afghanistan, Iraq, and among Palestinians, rival factions are repeating the experience of Yugoslavia. Doesn’t it seem that all these places are unravelling according to the same plan? Don’t the US and its partners make instrumental use of Islam-stricken Iran, axis-of -evil member Syria, and Saudi Arabia of 1400 years ago? Think to yourselves, won’t the major powers need regions that are harmonious and diverse, and free of political convulsions? Unfortunately, I do not see the light in this morass. What do you think?