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TexasTowelie

(112,707 posts) Thu Jul 23, 2015, 06:31 AM Jul 2015

A treaty to keep the nukes for the empire only

ONE OF the most depressing and surreal aspects of world politics in recent years has been the regular calls for the U.S. and/or Israel to go to war against Iran--as if the past decade of disastrous wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan had never happened. These calls have come not from random cranks, but powerful people, like Republican Sen. John McCain and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

So it's natural that many people reacted with relief to the news that the Obama administration and Iran had reached an agreement that will, according to its supporters, prevent war between the two countries by limiting Iran's nuclear program.

But we should be clear that while this agreement may reduce the threat of a U.S.-Iran war in the short term, it isn't a step forward for peace. Rather, it is a new maneuver by the most violent country in the world--that would be the U.S.--to maintain its domination over the Middle East. That imperialist domination has and will continue to produce endless war in the region.

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THE HEART of the accord reached last week is that Iran will allow international monitoring of its nuclear energy program to ensure that it is not building weapons--and in exchange, devastating economic sanctions engineered by the U.S., both unilaterally and through the United Nations and by pressuring the European Union, will be lifted, though the timeline for easing sanctions is uncertain.

Read more: http://socialistworker.org/2015/07/23/keeping-the-nukes-for-the-empire-only

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A treaty to keep the nukes for the empire only (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2015 OP

Yes! this is just more bullying by powerful nations against the weak. cpwm17 Jul 2015 #1

cpwm17

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1. Yes! this is just more bullying by powerful nations against the weak.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jul 23, 2015, 10:03 AM

Jul 2015

Iran hasn't started a war in over 200 years. How many wars have the US, Germany, Russia, Great Britain, etc started since then? What gives these same nations that right to dictate to Iran whether they are allowed to have a nuclear program?

....What is really being said here is that the deal struck by the Obama administration doesn't do enough to completely eliminate Iran's national sovereignty. The right's objectives could only really be achieved by regime change....

Unfortunately, you also wouldn't know about the reality of the nuclear accord based on the response of liberal antiwar groups in the U.S.--most of which responded with e-mail blasts championing the agreement and urging supporters to mobilize to support the administration's effort to get the agreement through a hostile Republican Congress....

IT IS important for people on the left to reject the fundamental assumptions of the accord, beginning with the idea that the U.S. government--along with China, Russia and other great powers known to the press collectively as "the international community"--have the right to dictate to Iran....

We should also see through the lie that the biggest threat to the region is Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. It isn't Iran that has hundreds of foreign military bases. It is not Iran that has seven fleets of warships traversing the world's oceans. It isn't Iran that regularly kills hundreds in drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere.

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