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Iran slams US for provoking ethnic disputes


Iran is right on.

These are two ways in which Bush is already attacking Iran.

The United States is fostering ethnic disputes and is preparing the ground for a kind of compromising Islam to dominate the area in a bid to attain its own economic and hegemonic goals.

Cases in point:

Religions are not being wiped out; they are too good a tool. They will be slowly and insidiously changed in order to become more conducive to the needs of the state.

Thus we read in the following text that although Beijing has given up its bid to wipe out religion as an "opiate of the masses," its strategy these days is to repress, control and otherwise harness the growing popularity of organized faith in the service of the Communist Party just as Washington has harnessed the growing popularity of the unwitting Christian Right in the service of perpetual war and world domination in the service of the Bush administration.
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US intelligence agencies, whose operatives now maintain a strong presence in Arab capitals and rural areas, play a decisive role in determining what organisations, or individuals, are to be classified as terrorists or financiers of terrorism, and therefore prosecuted or banned. The result is that Arab leaders are devoting most of their time to the ‘pursuit of terrorists’, to the neglect of more pressing social and economic issues. Laws relating to security and human rights have been drastically amended, as have fiscal laws, to facilitate the persecution of ‘suspected terrorists’ and ‘al-Qa’ida sympathisers’, and to block the flow of funds to Islamic organisations (even charities) labelled as such. Arab governments are mobilizing Arab Muslim scholars and ‘intellectuals’ to hold meetings to "reinterpret" the Qur’an and ahadith and depict ‘Islamic extremists’ and their backers as ‘terrorists’.

But one of the most dangerous developments is the Arab officials’ call on the ulama to "reinterpret" the Qur’an and persuade young Muslims that belonging to ‘extremist’ Islamic groups is against Islam.
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Bush has a history and an agenda of using one faction or ethnic group against another.

To this end the United States is training 20,000 Kurds to oppose Iran and it seems also Azerbaijanis. If Bush can add the Arabs to this group he might be able to come up with a formidable force to oppose Iran with little of our own troop involvement.

Where the details of the operation with the participation of Azerbaijanis against Iran are being considered.
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Dividing the Arabs against the Persians is the same strategy Bush has been trying in the Persian Gulf Island Dispute.
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The Sunni Arabs know they have an education and experience advantage over the more numerous Shia Arabs. They know that powerful Sunni Arab nations in the region, particularly Saudi Arabia, will back them in many ways. The fear of Islamic conservatism from Shia Iran can also be manipulated.
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-Am


Iran slams US for provoking ethnic disputes

www.chinaview.cn 2005-05-26 23:38:14

TEHRAN, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- A top Iranian official slammed the United States on Thursday for encouraging regime change in Iran by provoking ethnic and racial strifes, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"The United States is trying to deviate the young generation (of Iran) from ethics and aspirations of the Islamic Revolution, and they have resorted to all means to provoke unrest in the country,"Information Minister Ali Younesi was quoted as saying.

On April 15, a letter, which was said to be written by Iran'sformer vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi to promote a coercive migration of Arabs in the southwestern province of Khuzestan,touched off riots in the provincial capital of Ahvaz.

Iran disclaimed the letter and reined in the unrest, claiming "some foreign agents" were behind the incident.

US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on April 11 that Washington had earmarked 3 million US dollars to "promote democracy in Iran," a move criticized by Tehran as "interfering in Iran's internal affairs."

Younesi said the West, represented by Washington, has been trying to politicize the existing ethnic and racial issues in Iran and distort the image of the Islamic government.

"US officials should know that igniting a hardware revolution ora war in Iran will only cause them to lose their target and willalso turn the country into a big cemetery for their soldiers,"Younesi warned.

The minister said Washington, by taking hostile and aggressive measures against Iran, pursued to strengthen its grip on the Middle East.

"The Middle East, due to its strategic situation, has always been considered as a center for provoking rifts among political andethnic disputes," Younesi said.

"The United States is preparing the ground for a kind of compromising Islam to dominate the Persian Gulf region and the Middle East in a bid to attain its own economic and hegemonic goals," he added.

Iran and the United States have become hostile to each other since the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

The United States accuses Iran of threatening the world peace by developing nuclear weapons and sponsoring terrorists, labeling the Islamic Republic as part of "the axis of evil".

In return, Iran terms Washington as enemy of the Islam. Enditem

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/26/content_3007788.htm