vision for the region
See this article by Roni Drukan at Canada Free Press website:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31705
Over the past week, Iranian media have made repeated reference to the
second anniversary of Israel's Operation Cast Lead, citing Palestinian
"resistance" (terror) as the only option for resolving the conflict.
As peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are stalled, Iran
fills the vacuum by encouraging Hamas to continue the armed struggle
against Israel and by trying to convince arabs from moderate states to
support Iran's militant course of action against Israel.
Tehran views the "22-Day War" (Israel's Operation Cast Lead) as a direct
continuation of the "33-day War" (second Lebanon War in 2006). Iran
believes fierce combat "resistance" is an effective and viable way of
defeating Israel, or at least of forcing it to pay a heavy price.
Iran is using Hezbollah, its proxy in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza to
attack Israel from 2 fronts. While Shiite Hezbollah was founded by Iran
and is used to spread the Iranian revolution into Lebanon, Hamas is a
Sunni organization. By supporting Hamas' terror against Israel, Iran
puts aside its Shiite Islamic aspiration for advancing the fight against
the Jewish state.
During an official visit in Syria, Iranian security official Ali Baqeri
emphasized that plans aimed at brokering a compromise between
Palestinians and the Zionist regime are doomed to failure. He went on to
say that the "popularity of the discourse of resistance among the
regional governments is growing, and resistance has become a dominant
political approach in the region."
While meeting with Palestinians leaders, the Iranian top security
official underlined the key role of resistance in determining the future
of the region.
This is part of Tehran's long-term strategy to turn the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the ongoing conflict between Israel and
Hezbollah, into a common denominator in its attempt to persuade the Arab
and Muslim world to adopt its leadership and ideology. The Iranian stamp
below shows Iran's agenda with regard to the armed struggle against
Israel.
Iran is trying to create a new world order. In recent addresses,
President Ahmadinejad has been reiterating his belief that Iran
represents a viable alternative to the existing world order, and that
Iran is, at the very least, an equal player in terms of determining what
he refers to as the "regional equations." Ahmadinejad has repeatedly
emphasized the fall of communism and the "severe difficulties faced by
capitalism", claiming that Iran and its ideological teachings are
emerging as the next major alternative to these ideologies. Ahmadinejad
also claimed that the old world order centered around the US and the
West is no longer valid, and neither are the attempts to solve the
region's problems, especially the Palestinian question, by forging an
agreement with Israel.
Iran's ideology which goes against the western agenda needs to keep the
Palestinian-Israel conflict alive. To do that, Iran will continue to
support radical Islamic terror against Israel and western interests in
the region.
Commentary:
The article above mentions the global Iranian ambitions beyond the
Middle East. It notes that "in recent addresses, President Ahmadinejad
has been reiterating his belief that Iran represents a viable
alternative to the existing world order."
Actually, Ahmadinejad declared already in October 2006: "The Iranian
people...[can] quickly become an invincible global power... as soon as
it achieves advanced technologies," clearly meaning nuclear
technologies.
The Iranian president has materialized these global ambitions by
engaging his country in an aggressive strategy of political, economic
and ideological penetration in Africa, Latin America and Central Asia,
where it unsuccessfully tried to become a full member of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The fact that Ahmadinejad has repeatedly emphasized the fall of
communism and the "severe difficulties faced by capitalism", claiming
that "Iran and its ideological teachings are emerging as the next major
alternative to these ideologies," strengthens the argument of those
which sustain that the radical Islamist ideologies, in this case the
Shi'a Khomeinist brand, have become a threat not only to the Western
democratic regimes but to all those states, ideologies and religious
movements which do not accept this new religious world view.
It should be also stressed that the Iranian expansion strategy and the
export of its Khomeinist revolution include the indiscriminate use of
terrorism and subversion. The two major tools of this strategy are the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Lebanese Hezbollah,
whose flags clearly symbolize the global ambitions of their masters.
Hezbollah
IRGC
Ely Karmon, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scholar
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and
The Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
Herzlyia, Israel
Tel.: 972-9-9527277
Cell.: 972-52-2653306
Fax.: 972-9-9513073, 972-9-7716653
E-mail: ekarmon@idc.ac.il
Web: http://www.ict.org.il/
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