By Caitlin Johnstone
January 13, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
The government which runs a globe-spanning
empire led by a reality TV host keeps talking about
the lack of normality in the nation of Iran.
“What
we want all countries to join in,”
said State Department Spokesperson Morgan
Ortagus in a recent Fox News interview, “is to help
us not only to de-escalate any tensions with Iran,
but to help us bring Iran to a place where they are
ready to stop their terrorist and malign behavior,
and where they are ready to discuss with the United
States, with Europe, with everyone, about how they
can change their behavior to act like a normal
nation.”
“We want Iran to simply behave like a normal
nation,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
said in a press statement the other day. “We
believe that the sanctions we imposed today further
that strategic objective.”
These would be the additional sanctions which
have been expanded to include
virtually the entire Iranian economy,
deliberately targeting Iran’s
already sanction-starved populace, with the
explicit goal of fomenting a civil war in that
nation.
Which is of course a perfectly normal thing to
do, from a perfectly normal nation.
This would be the same Iran whose cultural
heritage sites were
threatened with destruction if it retaliated for
the totally normal assassination of its top military
official via flying robot. The same Iran whose
financial system was just
threatened with destruction using the totally
normal hegemony of American central banking.
Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.
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So what can Iran do to become a “normal nation”?
Well, since it’s the United States making this
demand, we can safely assume that it’s the model
Iran should look to.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to expand its interests from the region and
begin toppling noncompliant governments and invading
nations all around the world.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to circle the planet with hundreds of Iranian
military bases.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to obtain thousands of nuclear weapons, and
actually use a couple of them.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to become the most dominant military, economic
and cultural force in the world, and then use that
dominance to destroy any government, political
party, ideology, faction, movement or person who
stands in its way.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to arm violent extremist factions all around
the world with the goal of eliminating all
governments that refuse to bow to its interests.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to become the dominant producer of films, music
and TV shows and use this influence to propagandize
its power structure’s ideology to every possible
cultural sphere.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to begin meddling in scores of democratic
elections all around the world and then crying for
years at the possibility of any nation returning the
favor.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to shore up economic control of the world so
that it can crush any sort of disobedience by
starving civilians and depriving them of medical
care while pretending that it’s a force for peace.
In order to become a normal
nation, Iran will need to indefinitely occupy a vast
region on the other side of the planet with
thousands upon thousands of troops and trillions of
dollars in military equipment, to no benefit of a
single ordinary Iranian, and against the will of the
people who live there.
In order to become a normal nation, Iran will
need to create a presidency led by a reality TV star
oligarch who is only supported because Iran’s
populace is so disgusted with the status quo of
their government.
I am kidding, of course. The US government does
not want Iran to become like the US. The US
government does not want any nation to
become like the US. The US likes its abnormality
among nations just the way it is, thank you very
much. The US is the exception to all its own rules.
That’s how American exceptionalism works. This is
one of those “do as I say, not as I do” situations.
The US doesn’t want Iran to be like America. The
US wants Iran to be like the other nations which
have allowed themselves to be absorbed into the blob
of the US-centralized empire.
The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin
acting like Saudi Arabia: arming terrorist factions,
beheading heretics, committing war crimes and
deliberately creating humanitarian disasters for
geostrategic convenience, yet aligning fully with US
military, financial, and resource control agendas.
The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin
acting like Israel: a nuclear-armed military outpost
which constantly bombs adjacent nations, interferes
in the US and other nations’ politics to shore up
support, works toward the slow extermination of its
indigenous population and fires upon protesters with
live ammunition.
The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin
acting like Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand
or the EU: obedient military/intelligence assets who
function as extra American states when it comes to
foreign policy and international affairs.
That is what the US means by acting “normal”. Not
acting moral. Not acting healthy. Certainly not
acting like the US. It means acting obedient,
compliant, and enslaved.
Which is precisely what Iran is resisting.
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