The First Bomb
By John A. Ross (08/15/08)
For years the Iranian Diaspora have professed that most Iranians in that brutalized country are “waiting for the first bomb to drop before they remove the mullahs and ayatollahs from power.” The first bomb, in this instance, dropped by U.S. Forces will be used to destroy the mullahs’ and ayatollahs’ nuclear bomb making facilities and, ostensibly, force a regime change. Looking square in the eyes of a nuclear-armed Iran that threatens the closure of the Hormooz Straights where 40% of the worlds’ oil flows through, our playmates in Tehran leave us with few choices. Compounding this scenario and Russia’s recent grab for Georgia’s yet unfinished pipeline from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean also severely limits our NATO allies’ options.
Laying the facts and assets on the table, it definitely appears that the Iranians’ opportunity to divest themselves of their brutal ayatollahs and mullahs is near at hand. Specifically, as suggested by the folks at the Debka.com website, a blockade of Iran’s Persian Gulf ports will soon be put in place by England, France and the U.S. Blockading a country’s ports is an internationally recognized act of war and it is reasonable to assume that sooner, rather than later, that vaunted ‘first bomb’ or missile has already been programmed with some very secret coordinates.
The freedom most Iranians have sought since the early 1900s will soon be within the grasp of those that remain in that country, if they chose to remove the ayatollahs’ and mullahs’ chains. Whittled down through economic mismanagement, greed and subsequent abject poverty, most Iranians have become incidental pawns of the mullahs, bazaaris and paramilitaries manipulating Iran. Eliminating, or at least severely reducing the ability of the bazaari class to participate in the Iranian economy will quickly force them to commit suicide by supporting the Mullahs, or abandon them. Losing the bazaaris support and facing the Iranians that have been under the sword of the Mullahs for 30-years the specter of the mullahs following their loot to Southeast Asia is not improbable.
Should they elect to remove their brutal jailers from power, the descendents of the people that invented the game of chess will need to actively participate in the formation of a new government. The monumental task of identifying political parties and what, if any, religions will be accepted in a new Iranian Government must be addressed. An oft referred to, albeit dated, Iranian constitution exists that could serve as a departure point for a modern democratically governed country. Restoring democracy to Iran and ensuring the typical freedoms the West enjoys may become somewhat arduous; however, it is in Iran’s best interest to become a member of the global community.
Not too far from Iran’s Northwestern border, Russia is trying to reassert themselves in areas of the Caucuses they dominated for two hundred years. Much like the attempts Russia perpetrated in the early 1900s and soon after the conclusion of WWII, the new want to be Czars of Russia may attempt to use their military or surrogates to grab control of Iran again. Just as the threat of Georgians competing with the near monopoly the Russians have of Central Asian oil, the strategic and resource lure of Iran may motivate them to use their surrogates to disrupt or convolute the will of the Iranian people. The physical presence of U.S. and NATO forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia and Iran will, if they have any sense at all, give the aspiring czarists pause.
Add about five-thousand years of history to the above overview and the average reader might get a sense of importance a blockade will mean to the people of Iran, if they elect to be free.
John Ross
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