The recent revelation in the U.S – Iranian relations (or lack of it!) has people talking. There is a talk among some of “negotiations”. Some want the United States and the Islamic regime to sit down and “talk about their issues” in hopes of getting them resolved.
Many look at the IRI – US conflict as a misunderstanding that could easily be resolved by mutual understanding after the president of the U.S and an IRI regime official sit down and “talk” about them.
This raises an ever important question: what these negotiations should be about and how are they are going to resolve the conflict?
Well, let’s examine the possible topics of a possible negotiation and see how that’s gonna resolve the IRI – US conflict and most importantly, how is it going to be helping the Iranian people:
Security Guarantee: Some IRI apologists say that the U.S should give security guarantee to the IRI regime. First off, the IRI regime says on daily basis that we have the support of the majority people in Iran and no power in the world can take us down, so why does it need security guarantees from the U.S when Khomeini said “America heech ghalati nemitavanad bekonad”? Second, how is that going to look on the part of the U.S when at Iran’s darkest moments and when its people needed the Intl Community’s help the most, U.S abandoned them? Third, U.S said and showed that is not toppling the regime, so why security guarantees? Fourth, how is that going to help the people in Iran when a regime that is oppressing them in the most brutal fashion stays in power?
U.S need to apologize: That is the most ridicules, selfish and misguided argument of them all. Why should the U.S apologize? Should the U.S apologize for liberating Azerbaijan from Soviet rule for us? U.S never dropped a bomb on Iran, nor ever attacked Iran, so what’s there to apologize for? The 1953 coup which Shah, who was an Iranian, executed with his generals, whom were all Iranians, and kept him in power for 35 years, because of his supporters, whom were all Iranian, is only his fault and no one else. No. It shouldn’t. It is IRI who has to apologize not just to the U.S, but to the world for what it has done the last 30 years. Albright made a really dumb move few years ago and that move has become a great leverage point for the Fascist regime. Even if we accept that apology by Albright, which is absolutely out of place, the IRI regime by disregarding every civilized behavior and International law and norm by occupying the U.S embassy and engage in U.S bashing everyday for the last 30 years, made things even, don’t you think? So we’re even, IRI took revenge, so let’s move forward. But there is more to it, isn’t there? Also, let’s say U.S should apologize, what kind of a responsible and rational government sacrifices its country and its people over an “apology” for 30 years?? So everything that IRI has done in the last 30 years is because U.S didn’t apologize?????
Ending IRIs isolationism and IRI’s role in the region: that will work with a regime that has the least amount of common sense or responsibility. But since IRI doesn’t have any of those, they will take that as a victory and make them pursue their agenda even fiercer. I agree that ending isolationism helps Iran’s civil society, but, this regime has a foreign policy which is based on war mongering. Iran doesn’t have time to wait for a long term project of empowering civil society in order to effectively challenge the government. The stakes are too high.
Cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan: since IRI is the biggest chaos causer in both countries, it definitely has the power to stop or reduce violence in them. Sure, U.S – IRI cooperation will bring some stability to Iraq and Afghanistan, but how’s that going to help the Iranian people?
U.S and IRI decide to end animosity: The most unrealistic of them all. First off, IRI needs anti Americanism to survive. Even if there are some elements in IRI who want to get close to U.S, they can’t, because they will lose the support of their basijd and Sepah and Hezbollahi base, therefore, there will no longer be in power. That base is absolutely brainwashed, they’re like killing machines, at least they’re commanders are. IRI needs to feed its base a dose of anti Americanism every single minute of every single day. Without them, there will be no IRI. IRI has dug such a deep hole that it cannot really get out of. IRI has said it a million times that our problem with the U.S is ideological, and since IRIs ideology is religious in nature, meaning absolute, there is little, if any, room that it will change. That’s what makes IRI different than other nations whom were enemies of the U.S but later on sat down with it and reconciled.
So, as we can see, realistically, it’s just not possible. I like a feedback on behalf of anyone who thinks that negotiations would work to come out and share their ideas on what they should discuss and most important of them all, how the outcome of those discussion will benefit the Iranian people, not IRI nor U.S government, but the Iranian people.
