از خزعبلات ظریف و لیلاز که بین خودشان میگویند و خیلیها در غرب هم تکرار میکنند این است که #ایرانِ امروز «استقلال» دارد و ایران زمان محمدرضا شاه پهلوی جلوی ملکه الیزابت حقیر بود و فلان.
مستقل از هر موضع سیاسی که داشته باشیم، هر تاریخدانی میداند که این حرف، واقعیت تاریخی ندارد
شاه با کودتای آمریکاییها در ۲۸ مرداد در قدرت ماندگار شده بود اما در طول دوران زمامداریاش موفق شد از دولتِ متصدی آمریکا به دولت شریک آمریکا بدل شود. نشان داده بود که استقلال عمل دارد و به راحتی زیر بار حرف آمریکاییها نمیرود. و اما آن موقع روابط ایران با بلوک شرق چطور بود؟
شاه با تقریبا تمام دولتهای کمونیستی (به جز آلمان شرقی) روابط نزدیک داشت. هم به شوروی سفر میکرد و با آن کشور قراردادهای مهم تجاری میبست هم با بسیاری کشورهای دیگر بلوک شرق. این اواخر که با چین هم روابط نزدیکی داشت. با رومانیِ چائوشسکو (یاغی بلوک شرق) که روابط نفتی نزدیک داشت
دیگر اینکه گذرنامه ایرانی چقدر بیشتر عزت داشت و روابط ایران با منطقه و جهان چقدر بیشتر حسنه بود همه میدانند.
واقعا مضحک است که بگوییم ایران امروز بیشتر «استقلال» دارد وقتی کشورمان به اعتراف خود ظریف حتی نمیتواند به پولهای خودش دسترسی پیدا کند؛ نه فقط آمریکا که همان روسیه و چین هم در شورای امنیت علیهاش رای میدهند؛ هیچ جای محکم دنیا نیست که کنار ایران بایستد مگر دولتهای بحرانزده
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I finally listened to the whole 3:11 hours of #Iran's foreign minister @JZarif 's leaked interview (which is from an apparently 7-hour whole), part of the oral history interviews done by Sayeed Leylaz with all cabinet ministers of Hasan Rouhani's administration
Some points:
Others have discussed the leak in detail but thought I'd share some points from them that were of interest to myself
Zarif is unequivocal, and says repeatedly, that not just in foreign ministry but in all affairs of the country, what he called 'Meydan' (the battlefield), clearly an euphemism for the IRGC, rules the roost . This is quite significant
I should add that there is no easy solution for #Iran; no certainty about how things would have turned out had Trump not quit the #IranDeal; no easy way to put the genie back in the bottle (although I support a return to #IranDeal, supported in paper now by both US and Iran)
Also the criminality and the obscene repression of the Iranian regime didn't change by #IranDeal, obviously. Ali Khamenei didn't stop being one of the worst criminals in power today anywhere in the world and he will never be.
Anis Naqqash, a notorious Lebanese assassin and pro-Iranian regime activist, is dead at 70. He died in a Damascus hospital after contracting Covid-19.
Naqqash had been sentenced to life in prison by French courts after his failed 1980 assassination attempt on the life of Iran's last pre-republican prime minister, the social democratic Shapur Bakhtiar, in which two other people died.
Bakhtiar himself would be killed by another team supported by Tehran, 11 years later, at the age of 77.
In the 1980s, as #France President Francois Mitterand attempted to push Iran to free French hostages in Lebanon, it pardoned Naqqash and released him.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said today that #Iran is ready to enrich up to 60 percent of uranium which might be necessary for technologies like "driving force"
#IranDeal had limited enrichment to less than 4 percent.
BUT he didn't actually change Iran's position
Khamenei did his usual bluster but he also repeated Iran's position which: If the other side does their obligations, Iran will also go back to #IranDeal, i.e. bring down enrichment to below 4 percent.
Khamenei also repeatedly said Iran won't build a nuclear weapon since it sees that as contrary to Islamic teachings. He said Iran won't even "think" of building such a weapon.
Thousands around the world are taking part in a #TwitterStorm (12-1 pm EST) to protest the assault on the members of the #Baha'i religious minority in the village of #Ivel in northern Iran. Their houses and lands are being confiscated.
American Islamic Congress knows what discrimination looks like. Which is why it has come to support the Iranian #Baha'is of #Ivel and say no to the confiscation of their lands and property. They know that #ItsTheirLand