Sunday, 30 October 2011 15:35
Written by Ebrahimi
E-mail: ebrahiminn@yahoo.com
The US regime has recently leveled baseless charges against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Assassination attempt of Saudi ambassador to Washington has topped the news of the US-controlled media. Based on the US officials’ allegations, two Iranians with US nationalities named Mansour Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakouri, planned to blow up a restaurant and assassinate the Saudi ambassador to US Adel Al-Jubair.
Based on the text of the judicial compliant in one of the Federal Courts in New York the charges of these two Iranians have been declared as follows, "Attempt for murdering a foreign official in US territory, application of weapons of mass destruction and attempt for committing an international terrorist operation." The US has also claimed that the plot had been designed inside Iran by two persons. The regime has also claimed that Arbabsiar had been detained but Shakouri had fled to Iran.
According to the allegation, Arbabsiar was assigned by Iran to look for Mexican traffickers to organize assassination of Saudi ambassador in a restaurant. The American officials also claimed that Arbabsiar had deposited 100 thousand dollars to the account of one of the leaders of drug gangs in Mexico for assassinating the Saudi ambassador.
This scenario is so childish and baseless that it has been dismissed by many in the US. Based on the information published so far, the scenario could be viewed from two angels; the incredibility of the elements of scenario and the nature of the involved individuals in this assassination attempt. Therefore, the charge has also been questioned even by famous observers of the US foreign policy.
Gary Sick, the former assistant to US national security advisor during Carter's tenure, in his web log seeks the reason and asks why should Iran embark on such attempt in the US territory whereas it has no interest in it? Why should Iran endure the international pressure for nothing? What will be the benefit of omitting Saudi ambassador to the US for Iran's foreign policy while it is under international sanctions? Sick asks why should the scenario writers have explicitly announced that it was the task of the groups affiliated to Iran without leaving any other likelihood. The US Colombia university professor pointed out to his 30 year of study about Iran and said, "It is impossible to accept that Iran supports such a plan, because it has never carried out terrorist operations in the US territory. When we put the pieces of the puzzle together we further realize the clumsiness of this allegation.”
The other issue which is noteworthy on the recent US scenario against the Islamic Republic of Iran is related to the person whom the US has accused of being Iran's agent for assassination attempt of Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Mansour Arbabsiar has a dual Iranian-American nationality and a criminal record in the US. Ten years ago he had been arrested in New York on the charge of robbery. It is also said that he is absent-minded. The state-run CNN news network in an interview with Arbabsiar's close friend David Tumsha has revealed segments of his private life. Tumsha refers to Arbabsiar as an undisciplined person who can never assume even a part of a terrorist operation. He reiterates that if a special agent was to be employed for this terrorist operation, it was better to employ the famous British comedian Mr. Bean for this task. According to Tumsha, Arbabsiar's lack of discipline is to the extent that it has overshadowed his personal life. His other friend named Mitchell Hamaui who has known him for 20 years said, “Arbabsiar lacks any specific political or religious viewpoint.” He considers Arbabsiar's participation in such operations as shocking. These are the information which the US media have published about Arbabsiar. Can one imagine that this person with such a criminal record and psychological imbalance be chosen for a complicated terrorist operation.
In his first court hearing, Arbabsiar dismissed all these charges.
The documents and evidence that the US officials have released as a “scenario for a terrorist operation” reveal their fakeness for everyone having a soupcon of awareness on security and intelligence issues.
What are the US objectives of designing such a scenario against the Islamic Republic of Iran? There is no doubt in the US regime’s hostility against the people and the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the past 33 years, Washington has attempted in different ways to strike the Islamic Republic of Iran but all in vain. In the past decade, it has tried its best under the threadbare pretext of ‘anti-terrorism campaign and countering weapons of mass destruction’ to somehow dominate over the strategic region of the Middle East and south Asia. In addition, Washington has placed Iranophobia as the core of its diplomatic and propaganda policies. Efforts for depicting Iran's peaceful nuclear programs as military and support for terrorism were among the main axes of US diplomatic policies against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The US through its influence in the United Nations and its affiliated organs especially the International Atomic Energy Agency has imposed the international sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran with the aid of some of its European allies. But Iranophobia policy, attempt for isolating Iran and the US military acts in the Middle East not only did not weaken Iran but most of the US hegemonic and arrogant policies backfired. The nations of the region have awakened and are struggling against the long years and decades of the American imperialism and dominance. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan do not consider the US regime as their assistant in overthrowing Saddam and Taliban but they recognize the US as the occupier. The US administration without any achievement has announced that it will withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011. US forces in Afghanistan are also scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by the year 2014. Meanwhile the wave of Islamic awakening in the Middle East and the successive collapse of the US-backed despotic blood-thirsty rulers have actually brought the US to its knees in the Middle East. Moreover, the US regime is facing an unprecedented financial crisis after world war two, which has led to the formation of Wall Street Occupy movement. The movement has targeted the US capitalist system as an unequal and oppressive system.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, which over the past three decades especially in the past decade has been exposed to the most political, economic and propaganda pressures and threat of military attack, holds it head high in the Middle East. The US policies have never hindered the Islamic Republic progress and exporting of the values of the Islamic revolution of Iran to other nations. Despite pressures and sanctions, the Islamic Republic of Iran has taken big strides in scientific and industrial fields. The values of the Islamic revolution have been exported to other nations; and the Islamic awakening pervading many of the Middle East states is a sign of the continuous anti-despotic and anti-colonialist moves of the Iranian nation. Having faced such flagrant failures in foreign policy and a deep economic crisis, the US regime has designed the scenario of assassination attempt of Saudi ambassador to Washington to pressure the Islamic Republic of Iran and distort the American public opinions. The US officials think that it could prepare the chance for them to repair their huge failures. In the meantime, the Saudi regime, facing a very difficult situation through the Islamic awakening in the Middle East, by intensifying Iranophobia hopes to gain better conditions for suppressing people's uprisings in Yemen, Bahrain and inside its territory.
http://english.irib.ir/component/k2/item/81776-us-objectives-in-a-ridiculous-scenario
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