US waging war against
Iran
While the
countries living under the influence of United States have been imposing newer and
tougher sanctions on Iran, Israel has been threatening to take unilateral
action against the country irrespective of the outcome of 5+1 negotiations.
However,
cursory look at the chronology of decisions made against Iran support the
perception that the United States has been waging war against the country for
more than three decades.
Many observers
say that the war against Iran is already underway. A vicious media campaign,
regular war threats, assassinations and acts of sabotage all testify that Iran
is the target of an all out war.
While all sorts of aggression and belligerence
are taking place, an intensive campaign against Iran is being run in the
mainstream media. Hawkish, pro-Israeli
think tanks in the United States are portraying a biased and distorted image of
Iran to their people with the aim of preparing ground for a possible military
attack.
Iran’s
enemies say that they have a problem with Iran's nuclear program because they
fear it may one day develop nuclear weapons and use it against Israel. They are
also preaching Iran poses a threat to global peace and security. All this in
incorrect as the reality is Iran refuses to be a slave to the Zionists financial
and political interests. One may not be amused if one day it is announced that Iran
is financing international terrorism through the export and sale of pistachio
nuts.
Washington's
animosity is neither new nor related to Iran's nuclear program. Soon after the
Islamic Revolution of 1979 and dethroning of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the US
initiated hostility and enmity. Under President Jimmy Carter, the US
imposed a set of sanctions on Iran's oil sector and then blocked US$12 billion
of Iranian government's assets in Washington.
After the
deadly 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in which 241 US marines were killed, the US
government renewed its sanctions, under the orders of President Ronald Reagan. The
Bill Clinton administration toughened the sanctions in 1996 when US Congress
unanimously passed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act that penalizing the foreign
companies investing in Iran's oil sector.
On September
30, 2006 the act was renamed to Iran Sanctions Act as Libya was excluded. The
George W. Bush administration, also antagonistic toward Iran imposed several rounds
of sanctions against its oil, gas, insurance, agriculture and aviation
industries. He also signed a law the Iran Freedom and Support Act on September
30, 2006 which allocated $10 million for anti Iran groups.
Barack Obama
instead of finding a sustainable solution to end the nuclear standoff, assumed
an aggressive position, intensified the sanctions, banned transactions with the
Central Bank of Iran and even created hurdles for Iran to receive the payments
for its oil exports.
It seems the
sanctions have been imposed to bring Iran to its knees and undermine its
position as a regional superpower. The Obama administration has vehemently
pursued a policy of running covert operations in Iran through training, funding
and assisting anti Iranian organizations such as MKO and Jundallah with the
objective of spreading fear, sabotaging its security and also impeding its
nuclear program.
Damaging Iran's
nuclear program through sophisticated computer worms and malwares such as
Stuxnet was another attempt by the US and Israel aimed at causing major blow to
Iran. The Stuxnet worm was coded to sabotage computers operating at Iran's Bushehr
nuclear facilities.
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