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Iran: Afraid of Americans

Scene: A café in Vancouver. Joe and Sepehr sit across from each other, drinking strong coffee and talking geopolitics.

Joe:
Sepehr, you ever notice something? Croats, Serbs, Bosnians… even after the war, a lot of people from the old Yugoslavia still think the Americans run the world.

Sepehr:
(laughs)
In Iran we think the same thing. But for us it didn’t start with the Balkans. It started with the coup in 1953.

Joe:
Yeah, the one where the CIA overthrew the prime minister.

Sepehr:
Exactly. The U.S. helped remove Mohammad Mosaddegh and put the Shah back in power. After that, many Iranians believed Washington was shaping our destiny from behind the curtain.

Joe:
That’s similar to how people in the Balkans felt during the breakup of Yugoslavia. NATO bombings, Western diplomacy… a lot of people thought the big powers were redesigning the map of the region.

Sepehr:
Because when superpowers intervene, it feels like someone else is writing your history.

Joe:
And then you hear politicians talk about a “New World Order.” Remember when George H. W. Bush used that phrase during the Gulf War?

Sepehr:
Yeah. He meant a new global system after the Cold War—more cooperation between countries and international institutions.

Joe:
But to people who lived through coups, wars, and sanctions, it didn’t sound like cooperation.

Sepehr:
It sounded like control.

Joe:
Exactly. In the Balkans, people said the Americans were redesigning Europe. In Iran, people say America is trying to dominate the Middle East.

Sepehr:
And yet, ordinary people in both places don’t necessarily hate Americans themselves.

Joe:
Right. They just fear the power of the empire.

Sepehr:
(smiles)
History teaches one thing: every empire thinks it’s bringing order. But everyone else wonders whose order it really is.

Joe:
So Yugoslavia and Iran end up asking the same question.

Sepehr:
What question?

Joe:
Is the “New World Order” about peace… or about power?

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The Sunburn

The Sunburn – Iran’s Awesome
Nuclear Anti-Ship Missile
The Weapon That Could
Defeat The US In The Gulf
By Mark Gaffney
11-2-4

A word to the reader: The following paper is so shocking that, after preparing the initial draft, I didn’t want to believe it myself, and resolved to disprove it with more research. However, I only succeeded in turning up more evidence in support of my thesis. And I repeated this cycle of discovery and denial several more times before finally deciding to go with the article. I believe that a serious writer must follow the trail of evidence, no matter where it leads, and report back. So here is my story. Don’t be surprised if it causes you to squirm. Its purpose is not to make predictions history makes fools of those who claim to know the future but simply to describe the peril that awaits us in the Persian Gulf. By awakening to the extent of that danger, perhaps we can still find a way to save our nation and the world from disaster. If we are very lucky, we might even create an alternative future that holds some promise of resolving the monumental conflicts of our time. –MG

Last July, they dubbed it operation Summer Pulse: a simultaneous mustering of US Naval forces, world wide, that was unprecedented. According to the Navy, it was the first exercise of its new Fleet Response Plan (FRP), the purpose of which was to enable the Navy to respond quickly to an international crisis. The Navy wanted to show its increased force readiness, that is, its capacity to rapidly move combat power to any global hot spot. Never in the history of the US Navy had so many carrier battle groups been involved in a single operation. Even the US fleet massed in the Gulf and eastern Mediterranean during operation Desert Storm in 1991, and in the recent invasion of Iraq, never exceeded six battle groups. But last July and August there were seven of them on the move, each battle group consisting of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with its full complement of 7-8 supporting ships, and 70 or more assorted aircraft. Most of the activity, according to various reports, was in the Pacific, where the fleet participated in joint exercises with the Taiwanese navy.

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Iran

Iran recorded a government debt equivalent to 35 percent of the country’s Gross
Domestic Product in 2016.

The Mahdi’s Lament: The Exiled Prince and the Falling Empire

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The desert winds carry whispers of betrayal and redemption, of a nation divided by time, faith, and the ghosts of fallen kings. I have walked among the ruins of great empires, where men once swore loyalty to their sovereigns only to discard them in the tempests of revolution. Persia, the land of Cyrus and Darius, now trembles under the weight of its own destiny.

The streets of Tehran, once adorned with the dreams of poets and scholars, now burn with the cries of a people yearning for salvation. The old clerics, wrapped in the black robes of prophecy, hold the city in a grip of iron and scripture, fearful that their time is nearing its end. In distant lands, an exiled prince waits, watching his homeland with the longing of a man who carries the burden of bloodlines and history.

Reza Pahlavi, the last son of the Peacock Throne, stands beyond the walls of his father’s fallen empire, seeking a path back to the land that cast him away. He speaks of democracy, of reclaiming what was lost, yet his hands are bound by the chains of exile. The people who once danced in the palaces of the Shah now live in the shadow of Ayatollahs, choosing between the oppressors they know and the ghosts they remember.

What is the fate of a nation when the past and the present war over its soul? The clerics rule through fear, weaving a tapestry of martyrdom and power, while the exiled prince offers dreams of a new dawn. Yet history is cruel to kings who seek to return. How many have stood at the gates of their fallen kingdoms only to find them closed forever?

The youth of Iran, their hearts filled with fire, do not seek another king. They do not chant for the return of a throne draped in forgotten glories. They seek justice, freedom, and the right to carve their own path. But in their struggle, they face a beast with a thousand eyes, a regime that crushes dissent beneath the boots of its enforcers, while whispering promises of divine purpose.

And so, the Mahdi watches. The exiled prince speaks. The mullahs scheme. The people rise. History repeats itself in the shifting sands of Persia.

Will the Peacock fly once more, or is the empire fated to burn in the fires of its own making? The answer lies in the hands of those who dare to challenge fate itself.

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