"Iran’s rulers–and despite his election rhetoric, Rouhani is one of them–have no intention of giving up their support for Assad. He is the genocidal heart of their own imperial project. The shabiha who murder Syrian civilians are often trained by Iranian military men. What is stunning to realize, in regard to Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia is that this is humanity’s collective effort to overcome the Religious Right ideology that grew up in Khomeini’s Iran, Begin’s Israel and Reagan’s America from the 1970s, as a world stage of counter-revolution. This ideology converged with a second stream of counter-revolution: the genocidal attack in Bosnia by Slobodan Milosevic and the Serb militias against the very idea of multiethnicity and coexistence. It is no accident that so much of Milosevic’s cheering section and allied states–primarily Russia–flocked to Assad. It is one of history’s more brutal ironies that now finds the Iranian state on the same side, as an ally in genocide. So much for principle in the “Islamic Republic.”
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:22:41 +0000
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