The American-Iranian Crucible Charles Elias Chartouni/July 03/2021 شارل الياس شرتوني: البوتقة الأميركية الإيرانية
The latest bombardments of Iranian military sites in Syria and Iraq, the intense congressional debates and bipartisan controversies over the ongoing negotiations in Vienna, and deliberations with allies on the purview of the current rounds of talk have become more actual than ever, after the election of Ibrahim Raissi, a fascist cleric who was in charge of thousands of political assassinations for decades, the shady nuclear and military experimentation and deliberate concealment of specific production sites, the anti US terrorist attacks in Iraq and pursuit of political destabilization throughout the Middle East, are far from the linear scenarios outlined by some analysts and policy makers. The diplomatic and political landscapes are circuitous and fraught with pitfalls along the road.
There is no diplomatic and political consensus around an issue that cuts across heated internal political dilemmas in the United States, a highly volatile Middle East and a murky Iranian political scene marked by enhancing political extremism, massive political repression and ubiquitous societal alienation. The rosy picture featured by the self fulfilling prophecies and ideological hues of leftist democrats are overshadowed by the outdated negotiation script of 2015, the political inroads of an Iranian imperialism in action, and the ostentations of the Pasdaran political takeover.
The diplomatic road map and its conventional Vade Macum have become redundant since Iranian unilateralism, cynicism and arrogance have subverted the basics of professional negotiation and its overall scope. The Iranians are coming to the table with an overriding political agenda based on unilateral calculations and psychotic blinders: lifting of financial sanctions, validation of imperial inroads and active sabotaging in the Middle East, discretionary nuclear and military experimentation, and heightened internal repression.
The American political scene is unlikely to cash this amount of contradictions, gloss over pervasive intellectual inconsistencies, generate internal and international consensuses, muster the endorsement of the EU and Middle Eastern partners ( ranging between Sunnite power brokers, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, and Israel … ) and negotiate a comprehensive deal based on multiple predicates. The idiosyncrasies of the Iranian Islamic regime are unlikely to be tackled through exclusive diplomatic mediations, the use of punitive and dissuasive measures should evolve on shifting scales, ad hoc coalitions, steady containment and ultimate total war destruction schemes, Fascism and Totalitarianism should be annihilated.
