The reality is that the US is not the Great Satan it is proclaimed to be, just as the rulers of the Islamic republic of Iran are not the torch bearers of pure Mohammadian Islam they would like be viewed as, and just as the Islamic Caliphate of Abu Bakr Baghdadi is a fake creation.
The Islamic State terrorist group (also known as ISIL or the Islamic Caliphate) is a fundamentalist Islamic group that has recently gained access to large parts of Syria and Iraq. It professes to implement the Sharia and flies the Quranic line of la illaha ellalah (there is no God but Allah) on its flag. And just as the Islamic republic of Iran, it claims to advance Islam.
The US is earnestly opposed to IS and this week carried out airstrikes against its positions in Iraq. From one perspective, this can be simplified as a US attack on an Islamic state.
In Iran, ayatollah Khomeini coined the term “The Great Satan” for the US after the Islamic revolution in 1979 overthrew Mohammad Reza Shah’s pro-Western monarchy. Since then the Iranian government has continued its anti-US stand and every year it methodically celebrates the day the American embassy in Tehran was taken over by militant students and its staff taken and kept hostage for 444 days. Not even the unprecedented talks last year between Iran and the US over Iran’s disputed nuclear program, prevented the hardliners from fully staging the anti-American march on this anniversary in November. On that day, Khamenei again ranted against Israel and said the US government, Congress and officials were controlled by “Zionist corporations.”
So what would one expect the position of the Islamic republic of Iran to be in this situation?
If for example the US attacked Hezbollah, HAMAS or the Islamic Jihad, would not the propaganda machinery of Iran present a black and white picture of this confrontation and label it to be between the righteous and the infidels? The rulers of Iran cannot imagine that the US would do anything constructive and positive because they are run by Israel. Such an attack on them would be instinctly claimed to have originated in Tel Aviv.
So what about the US attack on IS: Is this dictated by Israel too? Should one not expect Iranian rulers to oppose this attack on an “Islamic State?” Isn’t the US claimed to be solely after domination and hegemony? Isn’t the goal of the Islamic Caliphate of Abu Bakr Baghdadi the implementation of the Sharia? If these are true, why is it that we do not see the Islamic republic of Iran protesting against the attack of the “Great Satan” on an “Islamic State?”
IS has proclaimed its fight with the regimes of Syria and Iraq to be against the “Safavi Army,” a reference to the Iranian Safavi dynasty that founded the Shiite branch of Islam in Iran, which rose against the Ottoman Caliphate in Turkey. And while IS has committed plenty of monstrous atrocities in the territories it has been occupying in Syria and Iraq, Iranian rulers have generally remained silent about it, focusing instead on the recent war between Israel and Gaza. This is not an accident.
The reality is that Tehran understands that it should not take a public position against IS because this would only give more ammunition to IS and the bipolar Shia-Sunni battleground. In that case, it is the IS that will gain the upper hand. The IS has already created wide enemies by its strategic blunders in fighting various religious and ethnic minorities. So remaining silent against its onslaughts against the Shiites is a carefully crafted policy in Tehran. They do not want to appear to be fighting against the Sunnis.
The rulers of Iran are not only displeased about the US attacks on the IS militant terrorists, they are actually very happy they are taking place. Iran’s leader ayatollah Khamenei is portrayed to be the leader of the Islamic world, so why would Iranian rulers not be happy when someone fights those who are challenging this proclaimed leadership?
From the Iranian perspective, what would be better than the defeat and elimination of this rival claimant of the leader of the Islamic world?
US attacks have produced happy hearts among the Kurds, Yazidis, Turkmen, Iraq’s central government, the Syrian regime, Lebanon and the rulers of Iran. American allies and international organizations such as the UN too have no disagreements with the US air strikes against the IS.
So as interests between Iran and the US parallel and talks between the two governments get underway on the pretext of the nuclear issue, is it not time now to recognize that the US is not “The Great Satan?” Otherwise, would historians not write that the pure Islam that Iranian rulers claim to advance was forced to negotiate with “The Great Satan?”
The reality is that the US is not the Great Satan it is proclaimed to be, just as the rulers of the Islamic republic of Iran are not the torch bearers of pure Mohammadian Islam they would like be viewed as, and just as the Islamic Caliphate of Abu Bakr Baghdadi is a fake creation.
http://www.roozonline.com/english/news3/newsitem/article/iran-and-the-us-attack-on-the-islamic-state-militants.html
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