Cole writes: "Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanahu charged last week
that Iran was the major sponsor of terrorism in the world and that it wants
to take over the whole world. He also likened Iran to the faux caliphate in
Iraq and Syria."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. (photo: Jack Guez/AFP)
No, Mr. Netanyahu, Iran Isn't Trying to Take Over the World & It Isn't ISIL
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
13 July 15
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanahu charged last week that Iran was the
major sponsor of terrorism in the world and that it wants to take over the
whole world. He also likened Iran to the faux caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
Iran is not trying to take over the world. Here are some replies to
Netanyahu's silliness:
1. One sign Iran is not trying to take over the world is that, as I have
written before, "it has a small military budget, about $10 bn., on the order
of that of Norway or Singapore. It has no air force to speak of. The US
military budget is roughly 80 times that of Iran."
2. As I noted earlier this year, Iran's leader, Ali Khamenei, disavows any
such ambitions:
"According to the BBC Monitoring translation of Khamenei.ir , Khamenei said:
The Islamic Republic is not a threat to any country. We have never been a
threat even to our neighbours, let alone to distant countries. Our
contemporary history clearly shows this. Even when some of our neighbours
treated us not in a neighbourly manner, we showed restraint. Iran has never
invaded a country and never will. The fake myth of nuclear weapons has been
devised by America and then Europe and some other bootlickers in order to
portray the Islamic Republic as a threat."
3. When Iraq invaded Iran 1980-1988, Iran showed restraint and did not
attempt, when it gained the upper hand, to make any claim on Iraqi territory
4. The deal on inspections of its civilian nuclear energy facilities makes
it very difficult for Iran to acquire nuclear weapos. An aggressive state
would never make such an agreement.
5. With regard to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), Iran is one of the few effective
countering forces. It has helped the Iraqi government kick Daesh out of
Diyala Province and half of Ninewah Province. Iran ally Hizbullah is driving
Daesh out of the mountains on the Syria/ Lebanon border. Israel doesn't
appear to have done anything practical to vanquish Daesh, unlike Iran.
As for supporting Hizbullah & Hamas, neither would even exist withiut brutal
Israeli occupations to provoke them.
In contrast, Netanyahu's country illegally occupies Gaza and the West Bank,
refused to sign the Nouclear non-Proliferation treaty, has several hundred
nuclear warheads, and launched wars in 1956, 1967, 1982, 2009 and 2014.
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No, Mr. Netanyahu, Iran Isn't Trying to Take Over the World & It Isn't ISIL
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
13 July 15
sraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanahu charged last week that Iran was the
major sponsor of terrorism in the world and that it wants to take over the
whole world. He also likened Iran to the faux caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
Iran is not trying to take over the world. Here are some replies to
Netanyahu's silliness:
1. One sign Iran is not trying to take over the world is that, as I have
written before, "it has a small military budget, about $10 bn., on the order
of that of Norway or Singapore. It has no air force to speak of. The US
military budget is roughly 80 times that of Iran."
2. As I noted earlier this year, Iran's leader, Ali Khamenei, disavows any
such ambitions:
"According to the BBC Monitoring translation of Khamenei.ir , Khamenei said:
The Islamic Republic is not a threat to any country. We have never been a
threat even to our neighbours, let alone to distant countries. Our
contemporary history clearly shows this. Even when some of our neighbours
treated us not in a neighbourly manner, we showed restraint. Iran has never
invaded a country and never will. The fake myth of nuclear weapons has been
devised by America and then Europe and some other bootlickers in order to
portray the Islamic Republic as a threat."
3. When Iraq invaded Iran 1980-1988, Iran showed restraint and did not
attempt, when it gained the upper hand, to make any claim on Iraqi territory
4. The deal on inspections of its civilian nuclear energy facilities makes
it very difficult for Iran to acquire nuclear weapos. An aggressive state
would never make such an agreement.
5. With regard to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), Iran is one of the few effective
countering forces. It has helped the Iraqi government kick Daesh out of
Diyala Province and half of Ninewah Province. Iran ally Hizbullah is driving
Daesh out of the mountains on the Syria/ Lebanon border. Israel doesn't
appear to have done anything practical to vanquish Daesh, unlike Iran.
As for supporting Hizbullah & Hamas, neither would even exist withiut brutal
Israeli occupations to provoke them.
In contrast, Netanyahu's country illegally occupies Gaza and the West Bank,
refused to sign the Nouclear non-Proliferation treaty, has several hundred
nuclear warheads, and launched wars in 1956, 1967, 1982, 2009 and 2014.
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