UN
Security Or United Rape?
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
27 March, 2007
Countercurrents.org
We must defend justice
with our lives lest we need justice to defend our lives
As
I watched Iran being hauled in front of the United Nations ‘Security’
Council, a vivid picture conjured up in my mind – my native country
Iran, a vulnerable and defenseless beauty being prepared for violation
by brutal savages. As she struggles to defend her honor, no one is prepared
to come to her aid, save a few. Even her own children, those raised
on her soil hope she will be brutally raped. With lust-filled eyes,
they hope to fulfill their ambitions on her ravaged ruins, her broken
pride.
Who are these beasts, and
what has transformed this United body to such a menace?
The most uninformed among
us knows that the United States is dictating the rules at the ‘Security’
Council. The driving force behind the American policy makers’
actions is Israel represented by AIPAC and other Israeli representatives
in the United States. However, while Zionism gives motivation to the
neo-conservatives in Washington to rape and ravage the Middle-East,
Washington stands to benefit from AIPAC’s/Israel’s commands.
Theodor Herzl, witnessing
discrimination against Jews in Europe, was convinced that sovereign
control over territory would guarantee Jews against discrimination.
The location was not important. He sought the support of Europe’s
wealthiest Jews to colonize territory. Max Nordau, a close friend of
Herzl’s, stated that “we are going to Palestine to extend
the moral boundaries of Europe as far as the Euphrates”. Chaim
Weizmann’s analogy for the comparison of Arab to Jew was “the
desert against civilization”. The attraction of Palestine was
its appeal to the colonial powers, specifically Great Britain and the
imposition of imperial control such as the British and Dutch East India
Companies.
Today, the United States
is the colonial power and the major investor in the region. Furthermore,
as The Center for Public Integrity has demonstrated, The Carlyle Group
profits from government and conflict ; a company that employed some
of Washington’s most powerful figures, including former Secretary
of State James Baker, former President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary
of Defense Frank Carlucci and former FCC Chairman William Kennard, as
well as former British Prime Minister John Major – not foregoing
the Ladin and Saudi ties. Israel is no longer a nascent state, but en
par with the world’s only super power – for not only does
it have an arsenal of illegal nuclear warheads and one of the strongest
conventional armies, but it has influence over US Congress, and many
believe, the White House. Both Israel and the US need stretching room
for expansion and more profit. Iran is key, it would appear.
One must surely question
why Iran would be shunned by all the ‘Security’ council
members. India’s case has demonstrated that non-permanent members
are subject to coercion, but what of the permanent members?
France - If Iran’s
legitimate rights are recognized, Iran would have to have her wealth
returned to her; to the dismay of the Europeans. In 1973 France, Belgium,
Spain, and Sweden, formed the joint stock company EURODIF. Sweden withdrew
from the project in 1974. In 1975 Sweden’s 10 per cent share in
EURODIF went to Iran as a result of an arrangement between France and
Iran. The French government subsidiary company Cogema and the Iranian
Government established the Sofidif (Société franco–iranienne
pour l’enrichissement de l’uranium par diffusion gazeuse)
enterprise with 60 per cent and 40 per cent shares, respectively. In
turn, Sofidif acquired a 25 per cent share in EURODIF, which gave Iran
its 10 per cent share of EURODIFI. In 1974, the Shah lent 1 billion
dollars (and another 180 million dollars in 1977) for the construction
of the factory, to have the right to buy 10% of the production. Iran
remains a shareholder of Eurodif via Sofidif, a Franco-Iranian consortium
shareholder which owns 25 % of Eurodif. According to The Wall Street
Journal of Dec. 5, 2006, the price of enriched uranium has increased
by 800 percent since 2001, and given the recent growing interest in
nuclear fuel, and the commitment of suppliers, Eurodif would likely
prefer to have Iran sanctioned than recognize her legitimate right.
Especially if as before, they are not the ones who have to send soldiers
to battlefields.
Bulletin 26 – Dual
Use: Avoiding The Nuclear Precipice of the International Network of
Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation not only confirms Iran’s
share in Eurodif, but lends legitimacy to her wishes to exercise her
inalienable right under Article IV of the NPT to enrich uranium indigenously
versus the Russian import due to her past experience with foreign dealings
[ ].
It must also be noted that
Iran has a stake in the world's biggest open-pit uranium mine in the
African state of Namibia where the United States buys its uranium for
its nuclear power plants . Much like the 1953 era when the Americans
and the British had their eyes on Iran’s precious resources, it
would seem that uranium is one more incentive for the violation of Iran.
Russia – John D. Grace
describes Russia as an "ally and opponent" of OPEC (the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and the same for oil consumers --
in other words, it is a "fulcrum." In spite of Grace’s
generous description of Russia, it has raised a few eyebrows in Europe
when it has cut off energy supplies at will and as a political tool.
6% of the total known oil reserves are in the former Soviet Union .
However, as the world’s biggest supplier of natural gas and one
of the largest suppliers of oil, it will greatly benefit from high oil
prices due to sanctions and unrest in the Persian Gulf. This money-strapped
nation was willing to supply Iran not only with enriched uranium, but
with surface-to-air missiles. It has decided to halt its cooperation
because it understands that conflicts in the Persian Gulf region will
double the price of oil – much to its benefit; while at the same
time to other Arab countries, much like the US is doing. Additionally,
it also realizes that a ‘nuclear accident anywhere is a nuclear
accident anywhere’. It could be that Russia has it on good authority
that this irrational Administration means to bomb Bushehr . Having weighed
the danger of contamination and their surplus profit from an attack
on Iran, they opted to vote for the latter.
China - It would seem that
with China’s growing appetite for oil, their vote would be illogical.
However, China has been making remarkable discoveries of her own. Not
only has she found oil deposits in Bohai Bay near Dalian (source –
China Newnet), but after two years of exploration, it was publicly reported
on March 24th that off the coast of Taiwan huge deposits of natural
gas, known as the ‘ice that burns’ and labeled as the energy
of the energy source of the future had been discovered. If Taiwan had
been an ‘old war relic’ in the past, it makes her a prize
worth fighting for. Would this make China sway her vote? Additionally,
according to the BBC, China and Venezuela are working on making oil
deals that will be mutually beneficial.
And finally, Great Britain.
She was the instigator in the 1953 coup against the democratically elected
Prime Minister Mossadeq. In a role reversal, it would seem that today,
GB is the one who is helping incite war. No doubt with her poor economy,
as with the Iraq war, she would be happy with the crumbs off the US
table.
What is important to remember
is the following:
- It was the United Nations
that established the State of Israel in 1948.
- It was the United Nations ‘Security’ Council that stood
by idly as Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran for 3 years in violation
of the Geneva Conventions.
- It was the United Nations ‘Security’ Council that watched
Israel destroy Iraq’s peaceful nuclear technology, passed a resolution,
but remained idle as Isarel continued with its path of destruction.
- It was the United Nations ‘Security’ Council that stood
by while 500,000 children in Iraq were subjected to malnutrition and
death.
- It was the United Nations ‘Security’ Council that stood
by and watched America illegally invade Iraq without passing a resolution.
- It was the United Nations ‘Security’ Council that watched
the Israelis destroy Lebanon for 33 days with American ammunition. One
man at the UN ‘Security’ Council, John Bolton, ruled over
the lives and deaths of the Lebanese.
- It was the United Nations ‘Security’ Council that watched
Israel raze Palestinian homes over and over again.
- It is the United Nations ‘Security’ Council that is witnessing
the starvation of Palestinians people, women and children alike.
And it is the United Nations
‘Security’ Council that is ordering the savage and cruel
gang rape of Iran. They have passed resolution to take her defenses
away. Under the pretext of her nuclear program, her inalienable right
to enrich uranium for energy –Article IV of the NPT, they have
passed a resolution that Iran must not have conventional weapons to
defend herself when they come to attack her – to ravage her, to
take all that is hers and her children’s.
Regardless of race, color,
or religion, we are all equal under the law. To repeat a cliché,
we are only as strong as the weakest link in the chain – this
is humanity’s bond – a bind that if broken with indifference,
will cause the demise of civilization as we know it. We must not remain
complacent in the face of the insecurity that is about to take place
– the UNSC’s violation of Iran. This is not a call for justice
for Iran, nor for the children of Iran, but a call to disallow oppression.
We must defend justice with our lives, lest one day we be in need of
justice to defend our lives.
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