Threat to Peace and Stability : Islamic Republic of Iran
Threat to Peace and Stability : Islamic Republic of Iran
"The fake Zionist regime is the mother of all calamities and the root-cause of problems in the region and, therefore, the few regional countries that move toward normalizing ties with this fabricated regime are acting against the security and interests of the region and the Muslim ummah."Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian"Without swift progress, in light of Iran’s fast-forwarding of its nuclear program, the JCPOA will soon become an empty shell.""There has been some technical progress in the last 24 hours, but this only takes us back nearer to where the talks stood in June."E3 Diplomats"We have had many hours of engagement, and all delegations have pressed Iran to be reasonable [over stalemated talks].""As of this moment, we still have not been able to get down to real negotiations. We are losing precious time dealing with new Iranian positions inconsistent with the JCPOA that go beyond [a] clearly visible [outline tentatively agreed during the previous round of talks in June].""But time is running out. Without swift progress, in light of Iran’s fast-forwarding of its nuclear program, the JCPOA will very soon become an empty shell."Senior European Diplomats
The delegations are expected to head back to the Austrian capital in about a week with an aim to move forward on restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [EU Delegation in Vienna/EEAS/Handout via Reuters |
This
is the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran as he
congratulates Ismail Haniyeh on the occasion of the anniversary of the
founding of the "resistance movement" known as Hamas. Iran and Hamas
would not under other circumstances have anything approaching friendly
relations; their ancient sectarian enmities; Shi'ia Islam under Iran and
Sunni Islam representing Hamas's Islamism would have kept them at
vitriolic loggerheads. Both, however, have a solid link to a common
denominator: the state of Israel.
The
United Nations whose formation and constitution were based on upholding
human rights, peaceful negotiation, and equality between nations
provided a platform for former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to
expound on Iran's position of vitriolic opposition to the existence of
the state of Israel in the Middle East. Iran shares no borders with
Israel, has no business to conduct with Israel, but takes the implacable
position that no land once consecrated to Islam may be occupied by any
other religion.
This,
despite Israel's ancestral origins in the Middle East, well documented
and historically evidenced, long predating Islam. The Iranian brand of
Shia Islam nurtured by Ayatollah Khomeini in his Iranian Revolution --
that brought fundamentalist Islam to Iran and ousted the Pahlevi dynasty
that had been modernizing Iran, and had good relations with the Arab
Sunni nations and with Israel -- has since alienated most of the Arab
nations while focusing on Israel as a future target for total
elimination.
During
Lebanon's civil war period when its shared governance with its major
populations of Sunni, Shia, Druze and Christian leaders fell into
violent disarray, Iran's Republican Guard Corps al-Quds division
covertly entered Lebanon -- along with Syria's military and government
agents at a time when Israel had invaded to stop cross-border attacks
from Palestinians living on the border, and France and the U.S. were
installed on a UN peacekeeping mission -- and Hezbollah was born.
The
"Party of God" was nurtured, trained and armed by the Islamist al-Quds
of the Republican Guard as a functional ally of Iran, a proxy militia
that Iran would control. Known for its links with and support for
terrorist groups, and for the part it plays in dispatching them to
international destinations to mount atrocities against Jewish
institutions, Iran is fixated not only on destroying Israel, but Jewish
lives anywhere they exist.
This
is the theocratic government that the UN, the EU and the US have been
busy negotiating with in an effort to slow down the Republic's nuclear
program. Sanctions imposed on Iran linked to its illicit uranium
enrichment program, failed to stop Iran's burgeoning ballistic missiles
program as it became more technologically advanced and capable of
carrying a nuclear warhead.
In
efforts to restore the original 2015 nuclear agreement during which
time Iran steadily, surreptitiously continued its uranium enrichment,
its threats against its neighbours, its dispatch of Shia militias into
Syria to aid in Bashar al-Assad's vengeance attacks on Syria's majority
Sunni population, the Western negotiators have re-discovered Iran's
penchant for duplicity. Even more so, Iranian negotiators are now less
ostensibly willing to negotiate in good faith.
The
very concept of good faith is risible in the face of a regime that
practices taqqiya -- offputting an adversary for the greater goal of
eventually gaining advantage; in this case denying any intention of
posing a threat to the region much less gaining the goal of nuclear
weaponry, arguing it would be for peaceful, civil purposes only, the
while at every level of authority threatening the existence of Israel;
its presence an intolerable affront to Islam.
Months
ago the Iranians let it be known that they built an underground missile
complex they called a "missile city". Imaging company Planet Labs Inc.
took satellite images showing launch preparations at Iran's Imam
Khomeini Spaceport; a clear defiance of UN Security Council Resolution
2231, whereby Iran is not to take action of any kind involving ballistic
missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
But
this kind of arsenal is critical to Iran's plans to achieve Middle East
dominance and in the process destabilizing the region. Non-Arab Iran's
Shi'ism while a dominant strain of Islam is in the minority; most Arab
countries are Sunni-dominant. Iran's plans to control the Middle East
stem from its ancient preeminence in the region, along with its
political-weight sectarian authoritarianism.
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