Como tratar a Iran según H.Schmidt
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Receiving Brazil’s President Lula yesterday in the editing room of Die
Zeit newspaper, ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stated that he agreed
with his guest in his position that the international community should
treat Iran like any other sovereign nation. Why does the international
community apply two sets of measures in its foreign policy?
The last time the ex-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Helmut Schmid, now 90, and President Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula) of
Brazil had a meeting was back in 1979 when the former, as Chancellor,
visited Brazil and expressed his support for Lula, who had been forced
to leave the Metalworkers’ Union by the military dictatorship.
Precisely thirty years later, the Brazilian President, on his trip to
Germany, yesterday made a point of dropping into the editing room of
Die Zeit newspaper, where Schmidt is a member of the editorial team.
Among the many topics they spoke about was the question of Iran, which
yesterday fired a long-range missile.
The ex-Chancellor stated that “according to what the newspapers say,
yesterday in Berlin you stated that it is necessary to treat Iran as
one treats any other sovereign nation. And (you said) that threats do
not produce the goods. I want to tell you that I think you are
absolutely correct”.
The point here is whether or not the international community can
morally afford to have approaches which hold two weights and two
measures, while the UNSC is supposed to represent the 192 member
States, while the UN desires its International Tribunal at The Hague
to be taken seriously and when the leaders of the international
community speak about the common will to move closer and work together
against common problems, namely international terrorism, climate
change, trafficking and piracy.
Or are we living in a world dominated by Anglo-Saxonic values whereby
a decent man speaks English, eats bacon and eggs for breakfast, does
not sport a moustache because “you can’t trust a man with a moustache,
he’s trying to hide something” and the Iranians are a bunch of
lunatics running around in turbans?
This is a puerile world of sweeping generalisms, such as the most
visible evil, racism, a squeaky-clean world where roses and red and
violets are blue, where Esmeralda is a duck, all ducks can fly and
therefore so can Esmeralda. It is the black-and-white world of the
cowboy film, where the sheriff in the white hat kills the “baddie”,
whose hat is naturally black. It is the snobbish and elitist world
where rules the precept that the darker the man’s skin, the worse is
the person.
Therefore why do members of the international community, who claim to
be serious political leaders, treat the Islamic Republic of Iran as a
pariah State, treat the Islamic Republic of Iran with total
disrespect, at best or at worst, with abject rudeness and insolence?
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Why is there so much heat over the Islamic Republic of Iran’s peaceful
nuclear programme, when other nations planned and built their nuclear
arsenals and nobody treats them with such derision, among these being
Israel, which sits on 100 nuclear warheads in the Negev Desert?
Israel has the potential to destroy half of Europe. The Islamic
Republic of Iran does not. Israel has attacked its neighbours in
recent years. The Islamic Republic of Iran has not. Other nations have
deployed weaponry, including WMD, outside their own frontiers. The
Islamic Republic of Iran has not.
So while other nations possess, and in one case, even deployed,
nuclear weaponry (against civilians) Iran cannot fire a conventional
missile inside its own territory?
Today Professor Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi of the University ot
Teheran predicted an Iranophobic onslaught in the western media in
December, complete with fabricated stories about the Islamic Republic
of Iran’s nuclear programme. Not so long ago, the same “news”papers
were speaking about Saddam Hussein’s plan to buy yellowcake uranium
from Nigeria (the only problem being that neither did he have the plan
nor does Nigeria produce it. It comes from Niger).
Not so long ago, the same “news”papers were claiming that Saddam
Hussein had WMD which posed an immediate threat to the west. The same
“news”papers then reported that the WMD had not been found by the
inspections teams because it was “being driven around the desert…in
vehicles!”
Not so long ago, the same “news”papers were reporting the “stolen
laptop” episode during the Bush regime years, where a portable
computer was discovered with details about Iran’s secret nuclear
program…which later turned out to be absolutely nonsensical,
unscientific fabrications….like the British “wonderful intelligence”
about Saddam Hussein’s WMD program, namely a doctoral thesis copied
and pasted from the internet….written fifteen years previously.
Are we once again on a wild goose chase for a “smoking gun” and if we
don’t find it, what happens? More deadlines (which coincide with the
end of the Christian year) and pressure exerted on Teheran and its
allies?
Or shall we all conduct international relations in a climate of
fairness, equality and respect, like the friends, brothers and equals
we all are?
T.Schmidt
P.S. [1] Yo no sabía que con Iran habían hecho lo mismo que hizo Uribe
con la computadora de Raul Reyes.
P.S. [2] Cosas como estas son las que permiten a los líderes manejar
el mundo, la gente nunca sabe la verdad, solo ellos que la fabrican.
Uno se pasa mucho tiempo tratando de escubrir la verdad y ellos tienen
miles de asesores que verifican y aconsejan.