[lit-ideas] Re: What the Iranians Think
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:33:24 -0500
This actually is consistent with the idea of the global elite/global middle
class idea. The global elites need control of the natural resources, the
oil. The Iranians are not in The Club but they have the oil. Likewise
with Africa, we install the most vicious dictators and look the other way
as long as they supply the goods. For security purposes, things just don't
compute.
> [Original Message]
> From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/31/2006 11:07:00 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] What the Iranians Think
>
> Tehran's Westernized upper middle classes may not be
> die-hard fans of Iran's theocratic nationalism, but
> virtually everyone agrees with Foreign Minister
> Manuchehr Mottaki about the "unjustified propaganda"
> of the West regarding Iran's nuclear program. As to a
> specific Mottaki warning that "we have readied
> ourselves to meet any threat", many are not so sure.
>
> Before Friday's prayers - when top clerics inevitably
> lash out against "US imperialism" - Tehran had just
> responded to the UN via ambassadors and foreign
> ministry officials. The single most important
> authority in the Islamic Republic - Supreme Leader
> Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - had not yet issued his
> verdict. But the consensus remains virtually iron
> clad, cutting across all social and intellectual
> barriers, that Iran has the right to a civilian
> nuclear program and is now the victim of double
> standards by both the US and the European Union.
>
> From bazaaris and taxi drivers to clerics and economic
> analysts, Iranians also openly charge that the nuclear
> row is just an excuse by the US to undermine the
> Islamic Republic. Few would disagree with Iran's UN
> ambassador, Jafed Zarif, who said in New York, after
> the statement was approved, that "the single most
> active instigator of the concern about Iran is Israel,
> which is not a member of the NPT [nuclear
> Non-Proliferation Treaty], is a known possessor of
> nuclear weapons, has a history of aggression against
> its neighbors, is in non-compliance with I don't know
> how many Security Council resolutions".
>
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD01Ak03.html
>
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