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As the scandal about the alleged terrorist past of the Iranian president-elect
grows up, it's becoming obvious that the world is witnessing a smear campaign
not unlike those aimed at Milosevic and Hussein on the eve of the US-led aggressions
against Yugoslavia in 1999 and Iraq in 2003.
Though many independent observers consider the recent elections in Iran as more
transparent and superior democratic processes than the 30 January US-staged elections
in Iraq and Mr. Ahmadinejad's victory as more convincing than that of Mr. Bush
in the last fall, the United States didn't hide their discontent - U.S. Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called the Iranian president-elect "no friend
of democracy" and dismissed the vote as a "mock election." The
current allegations that Iran's president-elect was one of the hostage-takers
in 1979 is most likely intended to turn Ahmedinejad into a devil incarnate in
the US public opinion.
Meanwhile a former student leader involved in the 1979 seizure of the American
citizens has already testified that Mr. Ahmadinejad had played no role in the
hostage taking. Moreover his office published a photograph of Ahmadinejad of
the late 70s showing little resemblance to the hostage-taker taken for Ahmadinejad.
However the fact that the similar propaganda wars preceded military campaigns
against Yugoslavia and Iraq may suggest that an attack on Iran is imminent.
"Preemptive military action" against Iran requires presenting this
country as a "rogue state" not only harboring Islamic terrorists,
but even headed by a terrorist.
The strong doubts that the US does not fully embrace the EU's attempts to settle
Iran's question through diplomacy arose when John Bolton, Bush's nomination
as the next US Ambassador to the UN, had called them as 'doomed to fail'. Since
October 2003 the U.S. closest ally in the Israel had a plan in place for a pre-emptive
strike against Iran's major nuclear facilities, including the nuclear reactor
facility, being constructed with a Russian assistance in Busher.
According to the political analyst William Clark, the US hostility toward Iran
goes beyond the officially cited Iran's alleged nuclear intentions. As the invasion
of Iraq was aimed at gaining control over Iraq's hydrocarbon reserves, rather
than at eradicating Saddam's non-existent WMD program, the possible invasion
of Iran is most likely connected with Iran's intention to create "petroeuro
system" for oil trade, which can critically undermine U.S. dollar as the
monopoly currency for the critical international oil market.
