Sohel Ajani
It all started in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini returned from Paris to Tehran after the exile of US backed Reza Shah and declared Iran as Islamic Republic after the huge public referendum. The then puppet ruler of Iran, Reza Shah, was an open puppet of US and has allowed the US embassy to perform without any restrictions in the nation. After the exile of Shah, revolutionary youths of the country invaded the US embassy, also known as ‘Den of Spies‘.

The tense ties between the Islamic Republic and The US are still bitter and constantly kept world on toes. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the US & its allies are constantly trying to topple the Iranian regime through any means. Initially they exerted the physical pressure in the form of attach from Saddam Hussein Regime from Iraq. They support the evil regime of Saddam Hussein openly and provided it with sophisticated weapons to harm the newly formed independent republic.

Eight years war crumpled the Iranian economy where debts were on rise and falling value of currency. With all this, the economic sanction imposed by the US government played spoil sport for the already crunching economy. However, the nation resisted and shown its real strength behind its leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.

Soon after the end of 8 years Iran — Iraq war; in 1989 nation lost its founder strong man, Ayatollah Khomeini. This served as major setback to the Iranian nation and the west started believing that the end of regime is close. These calamities turned as blessings for the striving nation in the form of leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

Iranian Revolution 1979 Fall of a Shah 1 of 10 — BBC Documentary

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From 1989 onwards, Iranian nation has not seen backwards under the guidance of leader Khamenei. Following reports shows the growth of Iranian nation:

Iran showing fastest scientific growth of any country: Canadian report

Iran ranks first in scientific growth

The stunned West is constantly trying to downgrade the development cycle of Islamic Republic through economic sanctions, media war, spreading Iranophobia, etc. However it seems the psychological warfare is giving no positive results to west.

In recent developments, Israel is constantly warning Iran about its peaceful nuclear activities which Tehran says are meant for generating electricity and treatment of cancer patients; however Israel and West claims that it’s intended towards generation of nuclear war heads.

The latest report from IAEA (Nuclear watchdog of UN) says that there is something fishy going on in Iran in regards to nuclear development. Iran slammed this report saying its influenced by west. However, following this report, west has imposed another round of sanctions followed by other European and Asian countries like Japan.

This is one side of the scenario, however the conditions on the side of Iran is very happening. The Arab uprisings in Middle East have toppled many of the western puppet regimes like Tunisia, Egypt & Libya. And some other puppet regimes are still trying to control the uprisings in their countries; such as Bahrain & Yemen. In such scenario, other Arab monarchies can’t go directly in favor of west inviting the public uproar.

With all this, the ongoing financial crisis in Europe is acting like a trend breaker in the Western policy. The “Occupy Movement” in the US, which is actually a people’s movement, is unexpected by anyone and is a major shock for the US administration. We have seen it in the recent media pictures & videos, how the police and state are trying to control the ongoing high profile people’s uprising in western countries.

This is not the end. The actual dent in US & European economy is very visible. The natural awareness spread through the tools which the west has developed has made people much aware about the actual crises at the core of Capitalist system. Today, everyone knows the intentions of US & UK behind the attack of Iraq & Libya. This has also hampered the position of west and turned the sentiments of common people away from them.

Israel, the western puppet in the region, is constantly raising the voice over attack on Iran with the help of US. However, after the capture of drone in eastern Iranian province, Israel has to change its stand. Now we can see this kind of news in media:

Israel says Iran attack not imminent

Not to miss, the capture of drone by Iranian military holds a major importance in this psychological warfare. Till today, US drone technology considered as very sophisticated & holds very important position in the military field. Iranians not only captured the drone unaffected but also proved their superiority by capturing the most sophisticated US weapon till now. Best thing in this operation was the use of electronic waves to make the drone land.

President Obama asked the Iranians to return the captured drone and that also without any apology; this has created uproar in the social media where the Iranian supporters utilized this opportunity to make fun of the US administration.

West also knows that the war with Iran is not a war with any arrogant regime or war with a dictator like Saddam or Gaddafi, however, it’s a war of Ideology. The US can kill people, invade country and install the puppet regime, however they can’t replace the powerful stronger with the weaker one.

The US & the West is trying its level best to shake the foundations of Islamic Republic by economic sanctions, psychological pressure of attack from Israel, installing missile shield in Turkey, by removing Iranian supporters like regime of Assad from Syria, attacking Hamas & Hezbollah, etc. However Iranians are replying by their simple actions.

They can change the puppet regime, however changing the concept and deep rooted ideology of martyrdom & sacrifice is not possible for west.

History of U.S. Intervention in Iran — 1953 Until Present

   By: Gwada Ogot
“Something startles where I thought I was safest most“– the famous philosophical words of doubt expressed by George Lamming in his Caribbean classic, “In the Castle of My Skin.”(Ann Arbor Paperback)

From recent patterns of events globally, “something indeed startles.”

Our world seems ensnared in a reign of catastrophe and turmoil, and where none exists, it lurks with intent. The root causes universally relate to matters governance, religion, ethnicity and economics in addition to natural disasters.

Media headlines candidly voice death, destruction, revolutions, public unrest, poverty, hunger, crime, inflation, disease and anxiety. Regimes world over, hardly sit pretty courtesy of rumbles beneath.

Northern hemisphere nation, Japan, recently suffered a colossal earthquake– one of the biggest ever recorded at an 8-9 magnitude. With it came a high cost on human life– 28,550 dead or missing with 10,901 confirmed deaths and 17,649 reported missing. Insurance industry losses from compensation and retrocession likewise calculate to $25–35 billion. In Miyagi alone, the debris pile is roughly 15 to 18 million tons, an equivalent of 23 years waste. Experts say it will take up to three years to clear the debris, excluding cars and boats.

In its wake, a Tsunami cracked a nuclear plant raising prospects of a nuclear alert. Sample readings of radioactive water from around the reactor buildings computed high levels of radioactive iodine at 3,355 times the legal limit. The blow was so strong it affected weather patterns right through to Eastern Africa.

Likewise, tensions between the two Koreas simmer after the North torpedoed a Southern vessel killing 46 people. Subsequent peace talks have borne no fruit and a full scale war looms after the Pyongyang regime fired 50 heavy artillery shells on to an island off South Korea’s northwest coast, killing two marines, injuring 17 personnel and three civilians, and torching 60 civilians’ homes. The South in response fired back 80 shells into North Korea and scrambled F-16 fighter jets to protect its airspace.

In Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has pre-empted a public onslaught by acknowledging regional cries for reform and promised changes. Pro-Kurdish activists however accuse him of insincerity claiming he has ignored similar calls from his country’s Kurdish minority. As a result, they too have embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience to push for improved cultural and political rights for Kurds.

According to the CIA World Fact book, Kurds comprise 20% of the population in Turkey, 15–20% in Iraq, 8% in Syria 7% in Iran and 1.3% in Armenia. In all of these countries except Iran, Kurds form the second largest ethnic group. Roughly 55% of the world’s Kurds live in Turkey, about 18% each in Iran and Iraq, and a bit over 5% in Syria.

Based on the facts, fears of a Kurdish uprising are real. On 3nd April 2011, in neighboring Iran, four officers were killed in an attack on a police station near a Kurdish town close to the Iraqi border. Clashes between Iranian government forces and Kurdish rebels like the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, or PEJAK, which says it fights for greater rights for Iran’s Kurdish minority not new.

Middle Eastern politics and those of North Africa feed off each other. Egypt, where an uprising felled Mubarak, connects to ten Middle Eastern countries through water and land. Following the North African wave, Syria’s cabinet too resigned on 29th March 2011, in an effort to counter the wave of pro-reform protests.

For Bahrain — the Monarchy has imposed a 12–hour curfew and choked off movement nationwide. Government helicopters are reportedly firing on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating the wounded, while the government called the demonstrators “outlaws” for demanding an end to the monarchy.

The Bahrain government is currently propped up by troops from Sunni Gulf neighbors fearful for their own rule and the spread of Shiite Iran’s influence. The unrest increasingly looks like a sectarian showdown with Sunni leaders desperate to hold power, while majority Shiites want more rights and an end to the monarchy.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen is likely to be eased out and offered a safe passage out of the country. This is after violence escalated as security forces shot dead 15 anti-regime protestors on 4th April 2011 in the city of Taiz, south of the capital.

In Afghanistan at least nine people were killed by 2nd April 2011, in deadly protests against the burning of a Quran by Pastor Terry Jones, a radical Christian preacher in the United States. In 2010 alone, the US-led foreign troops lost over 700 members, compared to just over 500 casualties in 2009.

A recent United Nations report shows the number of civilian deaths in war-ravaged Afghanistan hit a record high of 2,777 in 2010 a 15-percent increase in civilian fatalities compared to 2009.

Atop the dung heap however, is Gaddafi’s order to bomb citizens, which drew an equally dubious response from NATO allies to bomb Gaddafi. No regard has made to the cost of human life, especially of women and children. Contemporary sentiment is that while Gaddafi can claim no innocence, the West too is morally ill equipped to pass judgment upon him.

West Africa’s Ivory Coast remains deeply divided along ethno-geographic and religious lines. Here, defeated president Gagbo defiantly clings onto power and a military offensive undertaken to dislodge is steadily increasing its toll on human life.

Kenya, the land of Obama’s father is not left out either. Ethnic overtones threaten the very fabric of its existence following a bloody election in 2007 and subsequent charges by the ICC against senior members of government– the result a raging cat fight exploded amongst the ruling elite which have governed the nation since independence raising public anxiety. Besides, increasing incidences of junior police officers killing their superiors then taking their own lives are unsettling.

Uganda too, fresh from an election in February, won by long serving President Museveni, sits sore from refusal by opposition parties to recognize just concluded election results. In–between, almost 30% of the nation’s staple Banana crop has been ruined by disease increasing food and commodity prices. A few months to the elections, a mud slide claimed over 100 lives, 300 reported missing or dead and nearly 700 displaced.

Usually serene Tanzania experiences violent election clashes in 2010, while in Burundi, armed rebellion resumes after a five years hiatus.

From failed Somalia, fundamentalist rebel group, Al Qaeda, continuously exports terror across East Africa by locking on soft targets for attack. Resultant security alerts weigh down on public movement and momentum.

Meanwhile the escalating cost of crude and with it sharp spikes in prices of essential commodities and food, raises serious concerns for regional and global stability.

Are these occurrences’ proofs of the 2012 End Times as predicted by the Mayans or painful labor pangs of a new beginning, or both?

Something indeed startles where I thought I was safest…

Sources; — UN Dispatch

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