Rouhani orders Iran’s missile program accelerated
… by Press TV, Tehran
[ Editor’s
Note: The
White House has blinked on the new sanctions dual with Iran. Bush
stay-behinds in the Treasury Department continue to crank out
sanctions trip wires, which then are stovepiped into the White House
to a plant they must have on Obama’s staff, and who gets them in
play before opposition can emerge to stop it.
This
case was beyond stupid, as after all that was done to defeat the
Israelis and neoCons from blocking Congressional passage of the
nuclear agreement, here Obama pops up with a last minute deal
wrecker, just after Iran finishes quickly turning over all of its
required reprocessed uranium stockpiles to Russia in return for
yellow cake.
But
it appears that some US internal (and P5+1) opposition has emerged,
because the Iranian reaction was quite expected… they were pissed.
Tehran has announced that, with any new sanctions by the US, it will
expand their missile program even faster. Iran knows it has to make a
firm stand here, or the “Sanctionistas” in Washington would just
keep new ones coming.
After
all the work to get an agreement done, we see this silliness of Obama
having been caught up playing a game of chicken with Tehran, risking
the deal at the last minute. The Leader has always said he was not
interested in negotiating anything with Washington after the nuclear
settlement, because it could never be trusted to live up to any
agreement, which is basically correct.
Iran
has responded that it will speed up its ballistic missile defenses,
and increase their range to 5000-kms if the US proceeds with new
sanctions. Once again we see the West wanting to eliminate any
retaliatory response capability to a US-Western-Israeli-Gulf State
preemptive strike, so it can negotiate by holding a gun to the heads
of targeted countries.
The
US used terrorism all through the Cold War, and has continued
afterward
Iran
has good reason to feel this way, as after all, we did steal their
country away from them via the 1953 coup and install a puppet simply
on the grounds that we viewed it in our interests to do so.
Another
example is the US State Dept. still has Iran listed as a state
sponsor of terror, when Iran has 12,000 victims of MEK terrorists who
have been backed by the US and Israel.
Add
to it that the US has multiple allies in the Gulf, plus Turkey
and Israel, that we know have been up to their eyeballs using proxy
terrorists for regime change in the Mideast.
And
last, only one country has the most aggressive preemptive strike
doctrine of any “democracy”… which basically says “we reserve
the right to attack you for any reason that we choose”. Its name is
the USA.
Americans
never opposed this doctrine when it came out. There were no marches
that I can think off, no major pushback from any of America’s
institutions at all, so they have relegated themselves to being along
for the ride and to chasing after as many government contracts as
possible.
Our
Founding Fathers I suspect would be ashamed of us. We could have done
better, but decided it was too big a hassle, and there is some
justification for that. Taxpayers support a government that now has a
myriad of tools to block popular opposition to policies, where they
spend our money to push policy, and we have to come up with more to
beat them back… Jim
W. Dean ]
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