For some time now, we can read the headlines like - Will America attack Iran. How should the world handle Iran? And many of the same sort however, the question that comes to mind over and over, again and again- why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East region is portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations?
This is what happens when you force your things on others. Seven Muslim countries have warned of a “dangerous escalation of tension” over Iran’s nuclear program and urged the standoff be resolved without resorting to force. The statement of concern came after ministers from Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met to seek ways to resolve the conflicts involving Iraq and the Palestinians, as well as Iran.
History has shown that humans ‘retort’ when they are ‘forced’ to do things. The US is capable of stopping Iran, but should instead stand back and allow Iran’s neighbors to find out the ways to handle it since it poses more threat to them not US.
Still we can find many that can justify or will rather try to justify that Iran’s nuclear enrichment is not for peaceful purposes and the foremost in this row to portray Iran as threat is USA. US Vice-President Dick Cheney renewed a warning that the use of force could be an option if Iran continues to defy the West over uranium enrichment.
Sounds like, I am smoking and telling others don’t smoke because smoking is not good for your health. Will people accept my advice? Do what I say and not what I do. No way is this going to help. These Double standards create all the problems in the word.
All this makes for an extremely delicate and dangerous period ahead. It does not mean that a US attack on Iran is imminent. But it is not an either-or situation. There is a diplomatic effort at play here as well.
Washington’s pressure will not necessarily trigger a war but a debate inside Iran that will either lead to a change of policy (maybe through a change in government) or a much slower and more cautious Iranian approach. We have seen the US entering negotiations over North Korea, leading to an interim agreement under which the North’s claimed nuclear weapon is being left to one side. However, there are fears of a broader, possibly military, crisis. The US has said publicly that it will not permit Iran to develop nuclear weapons. President George W Bush has said-
He wants diplomacy to solve this, but that nothing is ruled out.
Won’t be that easy Mr. Bush. You are not dealing with a country that was already in tatters and for God sake don’t act and talk as though these are colonial times. Let diplomacy find its way.
