Bring It On

By Kian Mokhtari

We are told that the newly-devised incentives include provisions aimed at assuring the international community that Iran's uranium enrichment is designed exclusively for peaceful purposes.

As if the P5+1 or what was it; the new name? Oh yeah, E3+3 did not already know that.

Are we to believe that twenty-four seven supervision by hundreds of IAEA cameras at Iran's nuclear processing facilities and armies of onsite sour faced UN inspectors have not managed to figure that fact out over the last six years; if there is any truth in the latter claim the IAEA inspectors would do better to look for new jobs because they clearly can't do this one right.

But the IAEA has already given Iran's nuclear energy program a clean bill of health. The United States' spy agencies have already dismissed talk of an Iranian military nuclear program as complete tosh, and Iran's neighbors have expressed complete support for the country's civilian nuclear program.

So why should the Iranian presidency feel that it needs -in any shape or form- to appease the E3+3 any more than is required under the NPT safeguards?

Buoyed up by the surprise gift by Iran the US has already upped the stakes and introduced preconditions for the upcoming talks; something that the Obama administration promised it would not do time after time prior to Iran's latest announcement.

The US State Department Spokesman, Robert Wood now says that Washington still wants Iran's nuclear program to be suspended.

He says, "It is clearly our goal. Iran has obligations that it needs to meet with regard to the international community's concerns about what it's doing concerning its nuclear program."

So we are back to square one with that little escapade.

In Iran, we are still trying to figure out which international community it is that the E3+3 is referring to; we have been turning the world atlas upside-down and inside-out to find "the international community" that the West is talking about.

Wouldn't you if you had well over one hundred world nations in agreement with your civilian nuclear program?

This whole ridiculously childish charade has nothing to do with concerns about military deviation of Iran's civilian nuclear program.

However in the early 1950s Iran moved to nationalize another form of energy reserve it possessed in abundance: oil.

Iran offered to fully compensate the Western oil companies involved in Iran's oil production and give them 25-percent of the total revenue.

Do you know what the West did?

They brought their battleships into the Persian Gulf and turned their big guns on Abadan's oil refinery in the south of Iran. Having failed to scare the life out of determined Iranians they cooked up a shameful coup and deposed the democratically elected premier of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq.

The point was not then and is not now, the fact that Iran may pose a military threat. What the West tried to break was Iran's full grip on its national independence.

The Islamic Republic is being led on a merry dance by the Western powers again. The difference being Iran is no longer a weak 1950s' military power still recovering from WWII events.

The nuclear issue has as much prominence and importance as the nationalization of Iran's oil for the Iranian public. And they have been round "Circus Maximus" one too many times already to want to go round again.