maandag 22 juni 2009

Iran 296

De context die u niet krijgt van de westerse commerciele massamedia:

Iran's "most treacherous" enemy, Britain
By Stuart Littlewood

23 June 2009

Stuart Littlewood recalls Britain’s – and the USA’s – history of perfidy and double standards towards Iran, from the coup that toppled democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq in 1953, to duplicity in the Iran-Iraq war to the current hypocrisy about human rights and democracy.

In the turmoil following Iran's presidential election, the country's Supreme Leader has denounced Britain as the "most treacherous" of Iran's enemies. Western diplomats, he said, "are displaying their enmity against the Islamic state, and the most evil of them is the British government".


I hope he doesn't include ordinary British people in his condemnation. However, he's welcome to hammer our politicians.

During the Iran-Iraq war my company was among hundreds of British firms happily doing business with the Iranian government and building good relations the proper way – through trade. Our efforts were suddenly torpedoed by British government busybodies, who declared they were supporting Saddam Hussein. Further exports to Iran were banned and those carefully developed relationships wrecked.

No British foreign secretary had set foot in Iran since the 1979 revolution, and that remained the case until Jack Straw’s one-day visit in 2001, prompted by 9/11. It was an appalling dereliction of duty considering what a friend Iran (Persia) had once been. In 1901 Persia granted William Knox D’Arcy a 60-year oil concession covering half-a-million square miles. When D’Arcy struck oil in 1908 the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was formed, a vital asset to Britain in World War I. From this sprang Anglo-Iranian Oil and subsequently the mighty BP.

We repaid Iran with corporate greed and diplomatic double-cross. America and Britain are still smarting from the time when Iran democratically elected Dr Mohammed Mossadeq, who sensibly nationalized the country’s vast oil resources. Up till then the grasping British were raking in more profit from Anglo-Iranian Oil than the Iranians themselves.
Back in the 1920s the US State Department had described the oil deposits in the Middle East as “a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history”. Ever since, its designs on Iraq and Iran have been plain to see.

When a CIA-engineered coup toppled Dr Mossadeq, reinstated the hated Shah and his secret police, and let the American oil companies in, it was the final straw for the Iranians. The British-American conspiracy backfired spectacularly 25 years later with the Islamic Revolution of 1978-9, the humiliating 444-day hostage crisis in the American embassy and a tragically botched rescue mission.


What should have been a sharp lesson for Western meddlers has become a festering sore and an excuse for plotting revenge and scheming to seize the energy prize, and never mind the consequences for millions of innocents.

In its twisted definition of "terrorism" the US State Department names Iran as the “most active” state sponsor (not counting itself and Israel, of course).

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has rightly rebuked the US for sniping about Iran's democratic shortcomings and alleged vote-rigging. "American officials' remarks about human rights are not acceptable because they have no idea about human rights after what they have done in Afghanistan and Iraq and other parts of the world," he said. "We do not need advice from them."
Lees verder: http://www.redress.cc/global/slittlewood20090623

4 opmerkingen:

Anoniem zei

Overigen hoef ik maar EEN letter tussen de 1e en 2e letter van je naam in te zetten om de anti-christ/mens alhier over je despotisme te exposen! Is dat wat je wil satan?

Sonja zei

Wil je in Nederland blijven wonen Anoniem, dan zul je toch eerst de taal onder de knie moeten krijgen! Hier kun je hulp halen: www.inburgering.net

Anoniem zei

Ter vergelijk.

Twintig jaar geleden vond wekenlang 'de Praagse lente' op het Tiananmen plein van Beijing plaats.

Zhao Ziyang was toen de baas van de communistische partij. Veel van wat men tegenwoordig aan Deng Xiaoping toeschrijft, zoals het openbreken van de economie, is eigenlijk zijn toedoen. Hij wilde hervormingen doorzetten, liberaliseren,- en kreeg uiteindelijk huisarrest tot z'n dood vier jaar geleden.

In het geheim sprak hij op bandjes in wat er zich achter de schermen had afgespeeld, hij bleef aldoor nadenken over wat er zich rond het Tiananmen plein had afgespeeld.

Na zijn dood hebben anderen de banden uitgewerkt tot het recentelijk verschenen boek Prisoner of State. Adi Ignatius is een eind-redakteuren ervan en schrijft in Time (mei 25):

The priority of the party's leaders ultimately wasn't to suppress a rebellion but to settle a power struggle between conservatives and liberal factions.
China's hardliners had tried for years to derail the economic and political innovations that Zhao had introduced.
Tiananmen, Zhao demonstrates in his journal, gave the conservatives a pretext to set the clock back.

The key moment in Zhao's narrative is a meeting held at Deng Xiaoping's home on May 17, 1989, less than three weeks before the Tiananmen massacre.
Zhao urged that the government should back off from its harsh threats against the protesters and look for way to ease tensions. Two conservative officials immediately stood upto criticize Zhao, effectively blaming the escalating protests on him.

Deng had the last word with his fateful decision to impose martial law and move troops into the capital.
(.....)
About two weeks later the tanks and troops were sent in.


Ik moet het boek nog lezen maar bovenstaande geeft de indruk - 'three weeks before the massacre' - dat de politieke leiders de Tianaman-opstand nauwelijks aandacht schonken. Ze waren louter met hun interne machtsstrijd bezig.

Het blijft schrikken, vooral als je toendertijd vol enthousiasme Tiananmen op de televisie probeerde te volgen....

Ton

Anoniem zei

Kleine pooiertjes op de lijn?

anzi

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