The Good Neighbour
Even a country like Iran, which has much of the developed world in a tizzy of apprehension over its plans for nuclear armaments so clearly in its near future, has friends. Some of them near neighbours, some more geographically distant. North Korea, for example, is definitely a friend of Iran; its nuclear scientists feel completely comfortable with one another, and their reciprocity most heart-warming.Pakistan, although it remains silent on the issue, is in fact Iran's nuclear-installations godfather. And then there is Russia, which is more than pleased to be accommodating, in sending along its expertise, encouragement and useful elements. What! we almost forgot Venezuela, (um, and Argentinia) and that would be unforgivable. Then there is, closer to home as it were, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. Ah, and Hamas-governed Gaza.
So Iran, though it suffers under a Western-initiated and UN-sanctioned system of sanctions is not friendless. With a few rare exceptions its friends represent Muslim-majority countries. The basic enablers of the country's nuclear program and its uranium enrichment facilities are, however both Muslim and non-Muslim.
Other Muslim countries in the Middle East look on askance at Iran's insistence on its "inalienable rights" to procure and proudly own nuclear advancement - and even Allah appears to have given sublime consent to the Islamic Republic of Iran's plans for enriched uranium, for Grand Ayatollah Khamenei declared that to be a fact.
Iran has now generously proclaimed its peaceful intentions toward its neighbours. That would, of course, be a re-iteration of its peaceful intent, so declared to the inquisitors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. There is, of course, one notable exception respecting Iran's intentions, and that is the Zionist entity, the 'Little Satan' of whom Allah is purported to disapprove.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has made kindly overtures to his neighbours in the Middle East, to put their worriedly-fevered imagination at rest: "We have never used our force against our neighbours and never will because our neighbours are Muslims. Your power in the region is our power and our power is your power."
Muslims may rest in peace. Non-Muslims, beware. On second thought, perhaps all residents should take careful recognizance of the verbal emanations and consider the source.
Labels: Middle East, Technology, Terrorism, Traditions
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, December 05, 2010
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