Tehran's missile program

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 ]