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February 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Since the 1979 revolution, Iran’s political classes have had a strange way of
conducting their elections. Rather than bickering among themselves as we do
over the major domestic issues of the day, such as the dire state of the
economy or the pressing need for wholesale social reform, they find it
infinitely preferable to use the West as a whipping boy to blame for all
their nation’s ills.
Thus the reason, or so Iran’s politicians contend, that the value of their
currency has fallen by 20 per cent and interest rates have risen to an
alarming 21 per cent this year is not their incompetent mismanagement, but
the iniquitous sanctions the West has imposed on Iran to turn it into a
Third World country. Similarly, they claim that Western objections to their
nuclear programme are motivated by a desire to prevent them from developing
sophisticated technology rather than concerns that they are trying to build
an atom bomb, which, of course, they bluntly deny.
In the violent world of Iranian politics, the candidates who adopt the most
uncompromising approach towards the West are the ones most likely to
succeed. And, in a country that is no stranger to intimidation, a sure-fire
way to win a few extra votes is to threaten the West.
Many of the recent plots have been commissioned by the Quds Force, the elite
Revolutionary Guards unit which reports directly to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
the country’s supreme leader, who is charged with safeguarding the
principles of the Islamic revolution. For the past year, Mr Khamenei has
been at odds with the country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom he has
accused of corruption and undermining the revolution’s founding principles.
Relations between the two men have deteriorated to such an extent that they
are now engaged in a bitter struggle to ensure their supporters emerge
victorious in next month’s elections.
Security officials tell me that, to strengthen his appeal with Iran’s voting
public, Mr Khamenei has authorised the Quds force to conduct a new campaign
of high-profile assassinations and other terrorist attacks. The authorities
might not be prepared to acknowledge responsibility for the attacks in
public, but back in Tehran Mr Khamenei would be more than happy to take the
plaudits if one of the plots actually came off.
For his part, Mr Ahmadinejad, who is said to favour a less antagonistic
approach to the West, has confined his electioneering to some rather empty
boasts about recent advances his scientists have made on the nuclear front
which, on closer examination, are nothing of the sort. When, amid much
fanfare, it was announced this week that Iran had installed a new generation
of centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, Washington quickly refuted
the claims, dismissing it as “hype” for the domestic audience.
Iran’s politicians might think it fair game to bait the West in the run-up to
the elections, but they should also be aware that, by using terrorism to win
votes, they are playing with fire. After nearly a decade of fruitless
negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme, the West’s patience is rapidly
wearing thin. Even the more dovish countries, such as Germany, who were once
ready to give Tehran the benefit of the doubt, are no longer prepared to
accept the protestations of innocence.
This is, in part, due to the more robust approach the Vienna-based
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has taken since the departure of
Mohamed ElBaradei as its director-general. During Mr ElBaradei’s tenure the
IAEA was disinclined to confront Iran over glaring discrepancies in its
nuclear declarations, such as the time when UN inspectors found traces of
highly enriched uranium – which is only used for making nuclear weapons – at
one of its research facilities.
But things have changed since Yukiya Amano, a Japanese diplomat, took control.
At the end of last year, the IAEA accused Iran of conducting secret research
that was only relevant to the development of a nuclear weapon – the first
time the body has accused Tehran of having a clandestine weapons programme.
A new IAEA report is due next month, and if further evidence is produced that
Iran has resumed its work on nuclear weapons – Iran suspended its original
weapons programme in 2003 – then the clamour for international action will
grow.
And all this could play into the hands of Israel, which regards Iran’s nuclear
programme as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Israel makes no
secret of the fact that it is prepared to launch military action if Iran
persists with its nuclear programme, and the only reason it has not done so
is because of pressure from Washington. But if one of Iran’s plots to murder
Israeli diplomats were to succeed, then nothing would stop the Israelis from
exacting a terrible revenge.
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