- It's more than 8 years that the world's newspapers are
filled with miscellaneous news, reports and commentaries concerning Iran's
nuclear program. Controversy over Iran's nuclear program has spanned through
two administrations in Iran: ex-President Mohammad Khatami's government
and the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration. The term
"Iran nuclear program" returns more than 6 million results in
Google web search. Thousands of scholars, journalists, politicians and
political pundits have made their own statement regarding this debatable
subject.
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- Terminologically, Iran's nuclear program calls to mind
the words holocaust, Israel, Zionism, Axis of Evil, George W. Bush, stretched
hands and uranium enrichment. The world is watching the uninteresting continuation
of confrontation over Iran's nuclear program and the opportunist journalists
find this tedious charade the best subject to entertain their readers and
enrich their portfolio.
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- Iran says that it needs enriched uranium to meet its
energy demands and produce electricity. The United States and its European
allies claim that Iran wants to produce nuclear weapons in order to launch
a military strike against Israel. Israel, over the past 5 years, has been
incessantly threatening Iran with a preemptive attack, warning that it
would not allow Iran to achieve nuclear technology.
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- The United Nations Security Council, under the pressure
of United States and its stalwart allies, has imposed 4 rounds of backbreaking
financial sanctions against Iran to dissuade it from developing "nuclear
weapons". Iranian officials have repeatedly rejected the claims that
they're moving towards developing nuclear weapons and called the sanctions
ineffective, valueless.
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- These scenarios have been taking place over the past
8 years repeatedly and there was not a single magnanimous politician to
put an end to the exhausting war of words between Iran and the West categorically.
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- There are only two possibilities which can terminate
Iran's nuclear deadlock. The first solution is that Iran has to withdraw
from its nuclear accomplishments and submit to the calls of Western politicians
by giving up its uranium enrichment program. The other solution would be
the West's abandonment of its uncompromising stance by accepting a new
nuclear power in the Middle East.
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- Both of the solutions, however, seem to be impractical
and unattainable as none of the parties involved in Iran's nuclear standoff
have so far shown any sign of flexibility and reasonability. The West staunchly
insists that Israel should remain the sole possessor of nuclear weapons
in the Middle East and the employment of nuclear energy by the other countries,
even for peaceful purposes, violates the policy of a Middle East with an
unrivaled nuclear Israel. Iran, on the other hand, insists that it would
never accede to halt its uranium enrichment program in lieu of receiving
a certain amount of uranium enriched by a third country to be consequently
transferred to Iran to be used in the nuclear reactors in Bushehr and Natanz.
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- Both sides of the game continue to stick to their stubbornness
and adamancy. None of them retreat from their stances which have been indicated
a number of times that are baseless and unfounded. The game which they've
started has no winner. It's a "lose-lose" competition. Amidst
their erosive and probably unending clashes, the Iranian people seem to
be the only loser. They're the ones who should tolerate the intolerable
consequences of financial sanctions. They're the ones who will be deprived
of the barest rudiments of their daily life as a result of the financial
sanctions which are purportedly imposed on the government of Iran.
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- The Iranian people are the only loser of power game between
Iran and the West. They're competing to surmount each other in a nonstop
match which is designed to show the most powerful competitor.
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- Once the turn comes to boasting of respecting the human
rights and freedom, the Western leaders chant that they want the well-being,
liberty and safety of the Iranian people. Once it's time to keep silent
and watch, they interfere disturbingly and affect the political destiny
of a nation.
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- I'm referring to Iran's June 2009 presidential elections
in which the Western politicians blatantly took the side of the reformist
candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and made an opposition figure out of him,
laying the groundwork for his being demonized domestically; however, once
it's time for them to take action and prevent the Iranian nation from being
affected by the grave consequences of a meaningless power game, they vote
in favor of a fourth round of financial sanctions against Iran unilaterally
and prove that their claims are drastically futile and unrealistic.
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- The only losers of this power game are the ordinary Iranian
people. There's no doubt about that.
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- - Kourosh Ziabari is an Iranian freelance journalist.
He has received the national medal of superior Iranian youth from President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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