Persian Journalism

Monday, June 30, 2008

War on Terror or State Terrorism


The United State in past years showed that the end justifies the means--good or bad.
It uses every means to justify its imperialist policies around the world like sponsoring terrorism, covert and military operations, torturing, violating human rights, biased sanctions against countries and so on.
Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Americans encouraged former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, to invade Iran and open the way for implementing US policies in the Middle East and installing a puppet government in Iran.
The Bush administration also struggles to use the International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN Security Council to pressure the Islamic Republic to back down on its peaceful nuclear activities and recognize the Israeli regime.
The US congressional leaders agreed late last year to Bush’s funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, The New Yorker magazine reported in an article on Sunday.
The article by reporter Seymour Hersh centers around a highly classified Presidential Funding signed by Bush which by US law must be made known to Democratic and Republican House and Senate leaders and ranking members of the intelligence committees.
The report confirmed the protests of Iranian officials that the US is sponsoring operations of terrorist groups inside the Islamic Republic aimed at killing and kidnapping innocent Iranian people.
It also unearthed that the US backs dissidents’ struggling to foment a “velvet revolution” in Iran to topple the Islamic Republic.
According to Hersh’s report, the $400 million funding is benefiting the Jundollah, a vicious organization backed by Al-Qaeda, which kidnapped 16 Iranian policemen and transferred them to Pakistan, killing four of the hostages last week.
Jundollah, which operates in Iran’s eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province and Pakistan’s Balochistan, has carried out a number of attacks against Iranian civilians as well as high-profile government and security officials.
The terrorist group is widely known to be secretly encouraged, advised and funded by the US intelligence agency, the CIA.
In a recent interview with The Los Angeles Times, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini suggested that Jundollah terrorists are supported by Washington.
“Now look at ABC television, openly interviewing Abdolmalek Rigi, the ringleader of the Jundollah terrorist group. And in Iraq, the terrorist group of the hypocrites, [the Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO)], who are on the terrorist lists in western countries, especially in the US, are active under the protection of US troops
in Iraq,” said the diplomat.
In May, Iran sent a formal protest note to Washington for spying on Iran’s nuclear activities. The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Switzerland’s ambassador in Tehran, who looks after US interests, to deliver a “strong protest over the hostile intervention of the US government”.
Tehran also had unearthed a number of spy networks aiming to infiltrate Iran and carry out sabotage actions in the west, southwest and center of the country.
Iran has complained in recent years that a series of bomb blasts in the border provinces of Khuzestan, Kurdestan and West Azarbaijan were carried out by forces backed by the US forces in Iraq.
The New Yorker’s report confirmed that US support for the dissident groups could prompt a violent crackdown by Iran, which could give the Bush administration a reason to intervene.
But the US official should know that Iran will defend its territorial integrity by all means, as Commander of Islamic Revolution’s Guard Corps Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari warned that in defense of Iran, all options are on the table.
The article clearly shows that the American government’s so-called “war on terror” is a hollow propaganda and they only pursue their hostile policies in the region which include oil and security for the Israeli regime.
Armed intervention and other direct or indirect forms of interference threatening the sovereignty and the political independence of states are against international laws.
So, Iran as a member of the United Nations should lodge a protest to the international bodies against the hostile move and urge the UN to condemn the terror-sponsoring country.

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