Since 1979, the United States has been in the eternal economic, military and political struggle against the Iranian state. The only difference now is that the bombs fall.
American strikes on Iran – and Iranian guidance at the US bases in Qatar – both ended. A symbolic and very choreographic exchange of fire At least at the moment, the two countries are over. What now exists cannot be called war, but it is definitely impossible to call peace.
All parties stopped firing, but the official ceasefire and the plan to move forward, and the military extensions continue. The main thing is that the Trump’s president had no any legal powers for an American attack; His administration did not even cling to the usual engineer permission to use a military force that has justified Most hostilities after 9/11. There were no serious public discussions about these strikes.
All this can look like a new species of gray area, dangerous and unpredictable limb. But when it comes to Iran, and especially the US policy towards Iran, this state of affairs has actually been a status -Kwa for a long time.
The United States has never declared a war with Iran. However, since the overthrow of Shah supported by the United States in 1979, the US has constantly fought with Iran. Iran and Iran citizens have been in existence for decades in the conditions of eternal sanction and hyper-habit, which not only limits sovereignty and, to a certain extent, a legal entity, but, as we have just seen, it justifies and does not characterize any action against Iran.
How to tell you any CubanThis is not a completely new state of things. But sanctions against Iran, especially in the era after 9/1, were unique. Unlike Cuba, its diaspora in America is not so politically organized and important that economic migrants must be resided. Unlike China, Iran’s economy is not so great that it cannot be avoided. And unlike Russia, it is not a big enough global force that sanctions can be basically ignore.
Layers of sanctions created against Iran since 1979 are practically a trial case in order to make the country as much as possible. They make a statement not only that the Iranian state is the US enemy, and not only is that there are certain technologies that should be stored from this country for strategic reasons, but every Iranian Institute is somehow moody and illegal.
The problem that is stabbed is not related to the nature of the Islamic Republic. There are no problems with authoritarian, theocratic states that discriminate against women and have regional impact in the US, supporting Islamist non -governmental subjects; After all, each of the valuable allies in America corresponds to this definition. What is actually at the heart of American politics about Iran is that in 1979 the American dictator was overthrown and we never forgive Iran for it.
From this Iranian state that exists, and the people who work on it or are forced to interact with it are defined as unpleasant enemies in the eyes of the United States. In the sanctions mode, there was no nomination, or in the appointment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) as an ordinary citizen-for the ordinary citizen-not release from an uninvited, impossible way for inadequate or those who simply interact with the government to get. There is even a significant interrogation of what the elites of the Islamic Republic actually do with their money.
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Repeatedly saying that the “regime”, IRGC, or “mules” or nuclear program, somehow individual things from a sovereign country that exists between Turkey and Pakistan further blurs the border between the nation -state, the US government, and something more like a terrorist organization or a cartel. Islamic Revolutionary Guard already –clearly in the world For a government agency – a bin designated as a foreign terrorist organization in Tota. The IRGC is the second parallel political army that acts transnational, closely cooperating with non-state groups in Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon, and does not even have “Iran” and all of them are used to justify the organization as legally for ISIS, but it is still an industry industry. This is part of the state.
This designation goes further than to say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. He claims that the Iranian state itself is a terrorist organization, and that all public income can be considered as auxiliary terrorism. In Iran’s oil and construction sectors where IRGC is investing large funds Drawing close control From the Foreign Assets Office of the US Treasury as potential sources of terrorist money, which may seem smart until you understand it you don’t understand These sectors make up Almost all real economic activity in Iran. Thus, the whole Iranian economy can be transferred to the criminal enterprise.
US sanctions Touch each aspect of everyday life For Iranians, even if they leave the country. Obviously, an American cannot sell military spare parts or missile technology of Iran, but this ban is extending to civil aviation and spare parts for the aging of the Iran’s 1970s fleet. So, Iran has one of Worst Civil Aviation Security Records In the world. Medicines are there Hard to importAnd access to any international financial services is a non -standard. Iran was dissected From the Swift Bank payment system and Iranian debit cards will only work in a few countries under threat of US financial sanctions for violation. There may be some sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank or the Armed Forces, but sanctions and related charges of financing terrorism apply to everything from the state mortgage and financing bank of the tourist industry industry for those who even have tangent relations with these institutions.
Not only Americans or people subject to American jurisdiction must monitor; Anyone who has third ties with Iran’s business or organizations must comply with or risk serious legal consequences, including a possible appointment as a terrorism being. Swedish importer can buy Cuban rum, but the Indian trader who worked as a cook on a ship serving the Iranian oil field in the Persian Gulf can be labeled as a supporter of terrorism and constantly banned from entering the United States.
At this point, the rational thing to do for a young Iranian who wants a better life would be to emigrate, but even it is increasingly impossible. Still before Trump New Muslim prohibition The door closed to virtually any Iranian trips to the US, Iranian Decrease and Syria of Human Rights 2012 appointed What to any Iranian student who wanted to come to the US to study the subject related to the Iranian energy sector, which is not deprived of a visa on national security. The Iranian mother, who left the indexation of historical documents in the Iran National Museum, is subjected to a long security survey as she was a state service, adding years to a long waiting for a green map.
The result of this situation is that Iran, a large, high -education country, has one of the weakest passports in the world in terms of mobility.
“Sanctions is War”, for many years it has been a slogan for anti-war activists. Sanctions are the type of economic attack, but the Iranian-Israeli war, and the American participation in this war leads home as rejecting some states, as not quite prudently distortes decision-making on the static ship.
JD Vance’s assertion The fact that “we are not fighting with Iran, we are fighting with its nuclear program,” may seem out of place, but it crashes into the heart of the logic of sanctions. This speaks of the desire in Washington to separate the Iranian and Iran society into different discrete parts, some of which should be controlled, some are punished and some are destroyed.
The claim that the Iranian state itself is somehow criminal or outside the nation-state, paradoxically, does everything connected with even to the most down-to-earth institution, the legal purpose for the most cloaks. Car bombssleeping cells armed with hidden Collected dronesAnd the spies were used to kill the university teachers, attack on the Tehran municipality building, and focused on the main nuclear negotiator of Iran, who was preparing for the sixth round of negotiations with the United States – stated that Iran gave that it was open for recovery. Israeli attacks aimed not only at the Air Force missile factories, but also public electrical substations and University of Shahid BecheshtiOne of the main scientific universities of Iran. Each aspect of the Iranian state was smoothed in one list. Ewin’s prison was bombed by killing at least 71 peopleIncluding the detainees and their family members.
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Escalation to send US military strikes to Iran is not a fever; This is not a painful call that will make political leadership come to feelings. The threat of the closure of the Iranian Strait Iranian Strait and massive ballistic missile volleys aimed at the US Bay base would be a global catastrophe, but it would not abolish the American unwillingness to see the Iranian government as a legitimate actor. Fortunately, Iran and the US have taken serious action to avoid war with each other. Significant evidence has emerged that the direct interaction of Iran-Zash was largely telegraph and had a minimal military effect.
So where does it leave us? In reality, the same as always, except that direct physical violence in Iran, aimed at Iranian state institutions, is now another tool in the toolbar. Again, US sanctions have risen to the position when the problem is whether Iran will be as a sovereign and independent state. Will scientists, students studying internationally, universities that may exist, banks that can engage in international commerce or even control their own airspace and border?
Here’s how it always was – only now violence is physical, and people die directly from bombs, not passively from the embargo. In other words: We have always fought with Iran.
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Our parents, as they were imperfect, claimed that freedom and human dignity are fundamental human values. The war with Iran denies them.
However, the main US media and guerrilla policy usually do not pay attention to the threat of oblivion.
What was true before is still true: there is no military decision of this conflict. Only diplomacy and commitment to peace work.
