Saudi, US, Israel flogging a dead horse

Following Donald Trump’s coming to power as US president, the disinformation campaign and psychological war against Iran has, once again, become the main strategy of the White House.

The chorus accompanying the US in its symphony of inflaming anti-iran sentiment, widely range from Iranian expat oppositions to some Persian Gulf littoral states backed by Saudi Arabia’s petrodollars and Western media.

The hostility of these arrogant states, having excessive demands, as well as their mercenaries and proxies toward the Islamic Republic of Iran has been expressed in different specific frameworks in various periods. Once, it was launched through street riots in the early years after the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, later, through long- and short-range missiles fired by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein at Iran and a few years later, through imposition of paralyzing economic sanctions and, at times, waging cultural wars.

The pretexts given for this hostility toward Iran have been different in each era. Organizing street riots in the Middle Eastern state following the victory of the Islamic Revolution was on the pretext that Iranian people had chosen an approach different from that of the US and the West for their country and future. The reason for imposing the eight-year (1980-88) war by Iraq against Iran was to capture the Iranian territory. At that time, they were tempted by the global illusion that the country’s newly established government was weak and unstable.

The sanctions were imposed to deprive Iran of its right to develop peaceful nuclear technology and produce nuclear fuel.

The US tops the least of those conspiring to get hold of Iran’s natural resources and is tempted by the country’s numerous advantages.

Although the history of US enmity against Iran dates back to 1953, when Americans helped topple the legal government of Mohammad Mosaddeq, this hostility has been subject to ups and downs during the past decade. An analysis of the previous decade requires its division into two separate periods.

The first period was the one in which Barack Obama was elected to the US top executive office which coincided with the election of Hassan Rouhani, a moderate political figure, as Iran’s president. In this period, the type and method of hostility toward Iran became different from what they used to be.

Thanks to the prudence of the Rouhani administration, US extremists and Iranian opposition expats could, no more, provide any pretext to adopt belligerent policies toward the Islamic Republic. In addition, the project of promoting Iranophobia by a number of the Persian Gulf littoral states failed to gain popularity and produce favorable outcomes. Eventually, some 12 years of negotiations between Tehran and P5+1 on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program delivered results and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed.

As a result of the international deal, Iran’s right to enrich uranium was recognized officially and globally and insincere and fake concerns voiced by certain states over the country’s peaceful nuclear program were assuaged. The outcome of the nuclear negotiations was the win-win deal Rouhani, during his election campaign in 2013, had promised Iranians to seal with the six world powers.

Following the conclusion of the deal, verbal conflict between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intensified. Although, even at that time, Iran did not believe that the West has put aside its enmity against the country, the kind of the hostility had changed. The US hostility against Iran, however, entered a new phase following Donald Trump’s entry to the White House as US president in 2016.

From the very beginning during his election campaign and stump speeches, Trump overtly and constantly threatened Iran that he would scupper the JCPOA. His unpredictable victory in the US election changed all the peace-seeking equations and boosted hope in regional extremists and the dispersed tiny terrorist groups or those opposing the Islamic Republic.

Trump’s hooliganism and overt enmity against Iran in the White House, led to the adoption of a common policy by the Zionist regime, some Arab states and Iranian opposition expats, despite differences between them, towards Iran and that was intensifying the pressure on the country using the excessive demands of the White House’s head.

Many Iranian opposition expats and the tiny terrorist group joined Trump and Netanyahu in their excessive demands. The strategies of uttering threats, inspiring fear and using war and sanctions as a lever, once again, topped Washington’s list of approaches toward Iran. This was coupled with media propaganda against Iran spread by US extremists and different opposing groups, which was backed and sponsored by Saudi Arabia.

Although Iran’s internal capacities and prudent diplomacy of its incumbent government can help the country foil Us-israeli-saudi plots, it is essential that all Iranian circles, bodies and apparatuses stand by the government and help it work out appropriate and effective solutions.

Although the billions of dollars spent by the US and its partners during the past four decades have caused many difficulties for Iranians, slowing their progress, giving in to such mischiefs and plots is the main redline for the Iranian society.

The US and Israel and the foreign media launching disinformation campaign against the Islamic Republic are very well aware that Iranian officials draw their legitimacy from the people of the country and the support they extend to them. Thus, their fruitless efforts and plots are aimed at questioning this legitimacy and depriving the establishment of its strongest supporters.

They are, in fact, flogging a dead horse.