PINCER AND AIR-TIGHT BLOCKADE: EXPLAINING IRAN TO ARAB ANALYSTS

second (rough) draft - - substantial changes in bold.

MONEY BUYS

When one reads an Arab newspaper one can, too, tell about its source of government funding. A couple of months ago, for example, al-Malaf (an Iraqi e-newspaper which I suspect is funded by Jordanian intelligence, backed by our CIA - –and which rants against Iran, non-stop) featured an article about Abu Dhabi’s emir. I read on, and on, and on - - but there wasn’t much to the article. Only that the emir had granted an interview to some publication, which interview had been carried by many newspapers. So? I was missing the point. Was I wanting of caffeine? It finally occurred to me that, hey, the U.A.E.’s Ministry of Information (highly) likely had passed money on to al-Malaf - - to rant even more about Iran, and to publish an article about how many other publications had re-printed that greatest-of-all-press interviews given by Abu Dhabi's emir. And the newspapers which adapted the interview likely, too, were receiving payments from the same source.

(Al-Malaf 's website is currently acting weird. I’m suspecting Iranian intelligence has done them in.)

So, on or about April 16, I read Arab analysts, including Palestinians who are appreciative of Iran’s assistance to the Palestinian National Movement, rant (uneasily) against Iran. Al-Quds al-Arabi, for instance, featured on that day a piece titled, “Fighting Words by Iran.” Oops, I thought. Was Mr. Atwan, the editor-in-chief, changing lanes? Has someone passed money on to his newspaper to influence its coverage? To go anti-Iranian?

Not, it turns out. Only that Mr. Atwan (and others) were stunned by assertions made by Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hasan Qashqawi, to the effect that the three islands contested between Iran and the U.A.E., belong to Iran, now and forever. As does the Gulf. So said Mr. Qashqawi.

Al-Quds reminded Iran that the islands were in fact Arab and that the Gulf really belonged to both - - Iranians and Arabs. Why was Mr. Qashqawi making such fighting statements at a time when the Arab agents of the United States and its Arabian protectorates are busy trying to divide the Arabs between Shia and Sunni to damn Iran - - at a time when the idiots-reluctant and their Saintly Beloved are of a mind to attack Iran, sooner-or-later? Has Iran gone mad?

NO

No. Iran hasn’t gone mad. Iran is reacting because it can. Because there are upcoming elections in Iran and statements such as Mr. Qashqawi's help Nejad gain votes. And because Iran is becoming all-too-aware that the idiots-reluctant and their Arab dwarfs are pushing more-and-more towards a total and air-tight squeeze on the Islamic Republic. And that Iran better go on the offensive - - if only mostly verbally - - since nothing else has worked. The idiots-reluctant, after all, with the help of Arabian oil surplus money (see prior posts), have encircled it in a seemingly (only seemingly) air-tight pincer-like fashion - -

- - From the west (al-Adid in Qatar, the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, 50,000 combat troops to remain in Iraq and likely around 25,000 in Kuwait).

- - From Turkey - - the idiots-reluctant are replacing Turkey-for-Israel in what matters about oil, the Muslim World, and the Arab nation - - having discovered (surprise!) that Israel and its Diaspora Nationalists hurt America’s plans immensely in those two worlds; (The Palestinian Arabs, it turns out, have way more power that they ever had thought.) Turkey is to become the new Overseer of Iraq for the idiots-reluctant and be prepared to dispatch its troops against Iran should the U.S. need assistance. Give that nuisance-of-a-beloved weapons and let it butt head with the local ones. So long as it doesn't claim any special ability to do America's business in the Arab nation and the wider Islamic World.

- - As if the recruitment of Turkey weren’t enough, the idiots-reluctant are adding troops in Afghanistan - - to tighten the noose around Iran's neck.

The military pincer and the de facto blockade couldn’t be tighter.

RUSSIA JOINS IN

To make things even worse for Iran, the idiots-reluctant likely have struck some sort of partnership with Russia (see the post before last) The fruit of that partnership are beginning to show their color: Maliki, likely on instruction by the idiots-reluctant, recently headed to Moscow. From there he announced that the “principle” of returning to Russia the oil contracts Russia had with the pre-invasion Arab Iraq - - that the Iraqi government will respect that “principle.” (The tortured use of “principle of contracts,” instead of an outright “come back to your contracts," likely has to do with (1) the idiots-reluctant wanting to make sure that Russia remains committed to torpedoing its nuclear program; and (2) Iraq wanting to bargain-and-negotiate about these contracts.)

So, with Russia being paid off, the pincer and the de facto blockade are yet even tighter.

To Iran, it must seem that the entire foreign policy of the United States is zooming in on the Islamic Republic. To the point where the idiots-reluctant are willing to give concessions on something for which American blood had been spilt - - control of Iraqi oil - - to the Russians to secure their support against that Republic.

REALITY CHECK

So, yes, the Islamic Republic will go on a war footing (a verbal spat, really) with the U.A.E. and the Arabian countries on the Western shores of the Gulf. For one, the Arab people - - I mean the people not the fattened elite - - of those countries don’t give a hoot about the U.A.E.’s islands. Why don't they give a hoot?

(a) because they know that the anti-Iran campaign originates with the United States, if only in effect, Israel’s sponsor - - that robber of Arab land and water and killer of Arab civilians in Lebanon and Gaza;

(b) because of Iran’s support for the vanguard of the new Arab nationalism, Hezbollah, and for Hamas and Hezbollah, the non-corrupt Arab entities - - non-corruption being what the Arab people, including in the Gulf countries, long for; and

c) because the people of the U.A.E., Qatar, and Kuwait are way too comfortable to care about islands or to want to make war.

Not to mention the other Arabs - - the public, that is, not the government officials who pocket money from the Gulf intelligence services and the idiots-reluctant. Even the drunkard British get better treatment and salaries in the U.A.E. than any Arab of limited means. I can almost hear the Egyptian and Moroccan masses voice solidarity with Iran on the islands. What have they gotten from the Saudi ruling elite, or the Emirati, or the Kuwaiti - - but the few dollars for low-paying jobs and for offering their daughters as prostitutes to that flatulent elite? What Arab common market has that elite pushed? What institutions has it molded to assure the unity of the Arab nation and the fair distribution of its wealth?

Iran runs minimal risk with statements such as those by Mr. Qashqawi. Who, after all, is going come to the help of the Palestinian National Movement or Hezbollah-the-vanguard-of-Arab-nationalism but Iran - - and to Syria’s? That Mr. Atwan and all the Arab analysts would jump up-and-down, so offended by Mr. Qashqawi’s statements! They should know better. They likely do. But they don’t want to be embarrassed, for Iran is their friend, and Mr. Qashqawi has done that - - embarrassed them before the ruling elite of the Arabian Peninsula. So they’re playing oblivious about the fact that elections are coming up in Iran and that Nejad, too, needs to mobilize the Iranian electorate - - just as any politician. The U.A.E., the islands, and the Gulf are symbolic enough to be superbly useful to mobilize but minimally harmful to the relations between the Islamic Republic and the Arab public - - not the Arabian elite.

Listen. I’m not gonna mince words: it doesn’t matter what government in Iran. The U.A.E. will never see these islands again. Listen harder: the Gulf is Persian because on one side is Persia, where real men live as once had in Arab Iraq - - albeit the Arab Iraqi men were stupid enough to fight an eight-year war with the Islamic Republic to protect the flatulent elite of the Arabian Gulf - - the ones who turned on them. (Do you blame Syria for not trusting them?) On the other: an elite that’s flatulent, corrupt - - non-men who think of their farting as music - - weasels, spoiled-by-an-abundance-of-money - - treacherous Judases who had helped entrap Arab Iraq (i.e. Kuwait) (their very defender) and then turned it in to the Diaspora Nationalists. It is of these Diaspora Nationalists that the Saudi elite runs scared. That Arabian Gulf elite, especially the Saudi, did it all to pleasure their partners-in-oil-and-obscene-corruption - - the Texas Cronies.

(Will the Arab Sunni of Iraq learn that the Arabian Peninsula farts will screw you the moment they can? That they run scared of the Diaspora Nationalists and would lick their balls to beg them not to start campaigns in the United States that question their royal privileges? Will the Arab analysts? Will they learn that with Arab nationalism having no oil money to back it, Iran -- even squeezed and blockaded - - is the only game in town? Not Turkey, and certainly not the idiots-reluctant?