Facts on the ground

The status of the Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa

by Fathali Ghahremani
01-Oct-2008
 

Images from essay [Full text PDF with notes] for International Law class, New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, M.S. Program in Global Affairs: Too often Great Powers assumed that the world was their playground. They drew lines on a geographic map, creating political entities -“facts on the ground”. This meddling in regional politics has come to haunt the world in the form of multiple border disputes. The Powers ignored the fact that no inhabited land is a “clean slate” and an unacceptable line in the sand sows the seeds of future conflicts. Thus border conflicts have become part of the tradition of the postcolonial world. One such dispute is brewing between Iran and the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf over the status of three islands, Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb >>> Excerpt

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An Outside hand is coming out of .......................

by Anonymous iranian (not verified) on Sat Oct 04, 2008 05:41 PM PDT

An Outside hand is coming out of sleeve of Persian gulf countries.Since those countries have been installed with the help of former British Empire,any time their master decides that they need to give Iran hard time they follow her orders.Instead of taking care of their Palestinian brothers ,out of jealousy or with orders from their master they decide to make some noise.


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> 1971

by Another Lost Iranian in Paris (not verified) on Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:09 AM PDT

My father was part of the operations in 1971, when the navy took control of the 3 islands. He remembers the people of Sharjah and Ras al Khaimeh (the closest current U.A.E Emirates to Iran in terms of distance). They were almost starving back in the days, iranian navy ships had to throw melons and other kinds of food items to these locals.

Thanks for posting a copy of the agreement between Iran and Sharjah.

By the way, Sharjah is still ruled by the same family (Al Qasmi,of iranian decent) and ironically they dont't seem to prostest when the sheikh of Abu Dhabi raises his voice about the dispute.


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Roo ke neest

by Anonymous 777777777 (not verified) on Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:30 PM PDT

To educate the Arabs, perhaps. But the Arab league are not the ones calling the shots.

UAE wouldn't dare claim these islands on their own. They know they're a new and phony colonialism made-in-abroad country, and their claims on these Iranian islands are a ridiculous joke. The placed and supported Sultan dictators in UAE are following orders from abroad.

It's all about goodness, and democracy (and nothing else) ;)


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What gems!

by Iranian Reader (not verified) on Thu Oct 02, 2008 08:55 AM PDT

Thank you Fathali for posting these documents. Reproducing the nuts and bolts and mechanics of (neo)colonialism is so revealing. It is most educational.

Despite all the semi-literate drivel on this site it is good to see some people use the heavy traffic here to good advantage! Thanks to all those folks who take serious readers on this site seriously.


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send it to

by MRX1 (not verified) on Thu Oct 02, 2008 08:55 AM PDT

Arab league of some thing. they are the one that need to be educated about it.


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Darius Kadivar

FYI/ISLAMIC GULF INSTEAD OF PERSIAN GULF

by Darius Kadivar on Wed Oct 01, 2008 09:17 AM PDT

You may find this interview with one of the former bloody Henchmen of the Islamic Republic interesting. Says long about the IRI's conception of Iranian Nationalism ( although he says towards the end that his comments were mis interpreted ) he akso claims ISLAM is superior to Iran which only confirms that the Islamic Revolution was first and foremost a Religious Revolution and not an Iranian one in the spirit of the 1906 constitutional revolution that advocated a seperation of powers (that of the king but also that of the clergy from the affairs of State) ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Fk4CONStk&feature=related 


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