by Mansoureh Tajik for the Saker Blog
If I were to sum up the events of Ukraine in one short sentence, I would say: In the fall of Ukraine, the metaphorical west has fallen once again and cannot get up. The proof for this simple assessment should be sought in the answer to a larger contextual question: How does one actualize one’s dream of time travel floating between past, present, and future in order to change events at will and in a manner that the sum total of all outcomes results in maintaining the illusion of a “super-power” status? In other words, how does one successfully nurture one’s god complex? In reality, one does not and one cannot.
Yet, in a world of fiction, in an alternate universe of Westopia “sidewise in time,” some are creating industrial-scale alternate realities, alternate histories, and alternate personalities in well-crafted memes and flicks broadcast 24/7 through virtual channels while imposing a blockade on news of facts on the ground. Is it effective? No, it is not. The bubbles burst as soon as they are created and the cost of spins has become enormous. Why then do they keep on doing this? For two reasons: 1) because they can; 2) because they have no other real, tangible, and effective alternatives. Grasping at tiny twigs while one is sucked into a whirlpool is not effective but hope springs eternal.
Great many articles are providing good details and real time reports about what is actually happening in Ukraine and the Russian operations. In this article, I hope to brief the readers of this blog on how people in Iran are generally viewing the Ukrainian crisis and what sort of stance might emerge out of this particular perspective as far as the Resistance camp is concerned.
Cesarean Section of a New Europe
Tangible and measurable regional geopolitical shifts supported by facts on the ground are now slapping nations right, left, and center into choosing one of three options: 1) Both legs in Western boat; 2) Both legs in an Eastern boat; 3) Both legs in one’s own independent boat. Being motivated by either fear or greed and having a leg in one boat and the other in another, especially when the boats are each moving different directions, is a hazardous for one’s national health. Ouch. It is no longer an option.
In July 2006, during a massive bombardment of Lebanon by Israeli regime occupying Palestine, many Lebanese communities were destroyed in their entirety and thousands of civilians were killed with direct military and financial support from the regimes occupying the United States, Western Europe, and Saudi Arabia. Deliberately trying to prolong their major assault on Lebanon in the hope they could “finish” Hizbullah, then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said:
“I have no interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante. I think it would be a mistake. What we are seeing here, in a sense, is the growing – the birth pangs of a new Middle East and, whatever we do, we have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old one.”[1]
Amen. In fact, a new “middle east” was born and it was renamed West Asia in favor of the Resistance from the shores of Persian Gulf and Red Sea to offshores of the Mediterranean. Ms. Rice had midwifed for the United States of America “Labor Pains of a Stillborn Foreign Policy”[2] as Robert Scheer characterized things.
Nevertheless, she dispensed some verbal nuggets that could be used to apply to Ukraine today. One thing is for sure, Ukraine cannot return to status quo ante and what we are witnessing is a C-section of a new Europe and whatever the countries involved do, they have to be certain they are pushing forward to a new Europe and not going back to the old one. A better European country is, for certain, a country that is not a servile follower of the US in its own region or elsewhere around the globe.
United States Mafia Regime the Root Cause of Ukrainian Crisis
One of the most significant factors that has led to the current crisis in Ukraine is the fact that the power-holders of the “west” are consistently and habitually untrustworthy pledge-breakers. The current crises in Ukraine are just a symptom of that chronic disease.
Ayatullah Khamenei delivered a speech on the occasion of the Prophetic Mission, or Bi’that of Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Aalihi wa Sallam) on March 1, 2022. In that speech, the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran could not have been more frank in his characterization of the current crisis in Ukraine. Excerpts from his speech are quite straight forward. As always, he pulled no punches:
“Basically, the regime of the United States of America is a regime that creates crises and feeds on those crises. The United States feeds on diverse crises created all over the world. [United States of] America is a mafia regime and Ukraine, too, is a victim of this policy of crisis creation. [United States of] America brought Ukraine to this point by infiltrating into the internal affairs of that country, inciting uprisings against its governments by velvet movements or color revolutions, by presence of US senators in the gatherings of oppositional groups and by creating, toppling this government and replacing it with that government. Naturally, they led to this point. We, of course, are against wars and destruction anywhere. This is our fixed policy.”
“Regarding the events in Ukraine, [too] we are for halting the war but the solution to every crisis is possible only if its root causes become known. The root cause of the crisis in Ukraine is the policies of the [United States of] America and the West. One must know these and evaluate and judge the events based on them.”[3]
Last Friday, Hujjatul-Islam Khatami, the leader of the Friday Prayers in Tehran, had echoed similar views to a large crowd of participants and pointed to the US and some European countries as the main culprits of the crisis in Ukraine. He said,
“The system’s position about Ukraine has been expressed by the officials but our overall policy regarding similar issues is that we invite all countries that are involved to refrain from escalating and enter into dialogue. Our main concern is that innocent people might get killed. In this event, NATO provocation with [the US] America as its main axis has made the condition more complicated in the region. This is a direct result of [the US] America’s meddling and prying all over the world; it falsely considers itself a superpower while it is not a superpower. On the other hand, in this narrative, the European countries are constantly beating the drums of war as if they see their bread in this war.”[4]
In his most recent speech, Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah, too, echoed exactly the same sentiment. He said,
“The Western countries did everything except direct confrontation against Russia. From surrounding to sanctions to closing of the skies and ports to sending arms to Ukraine to opening all doors to import rebel forces to Ukraine… but when [the US] America attacked Afghanistan, you know very well how they behaved. When they attacked Iraq, what happened? How did they treat [the US] America? Frankly, how did they actually regarded all the wars [the US] America created? How have they been approaching the aggressions of Zionist regime against Gaza and the war of aggression and sanctions against Yemen for years now and all these destructions and killings they have created? So, a comparison between current stand by the west with that against [the US] America’s wars show a double standard.”[5]
Hard Lessons and Warnings to Others Counting on the US/West Support
It behooves various nations who have chosen to put both legs in the boat piloted by the US mafia regime to pay strict attention to what is currently happening in Ukraine. This goes for Westoxicated people within these nations as well. Ayatullah Khamenei pointed out to two specific hard lessons (warnings): 1) the degree to which the US is untrustworthy; 2) the degree to which people of a nation support their leaders. He said,
“Two specific warnings exist in the issue of Ukraine that one can observe. One of these warnings is that the support of western powers of nations that are their puppet is nothing but a mirage. It is not real. This, all governments must know. The governments that feel reassured by [the US] America and Europe must look at Ukraine and Afghanistan. Both the president of Ukraine and the deserter president of Afghanistan said they trusted [the US] America and the western powers but they were left on their own. Therefore, you can’t trust these people. This is the first hard lesson and warning.”
“The second warning and hard lesson is that people are the most important supporter of governments. If the people of Ukraine had come to the scene, the condition of the government and the people of Ukraine had not turned out this way. The people did not come to the scene because they did not accept the government. This is just like the time [the US] America attacked Iraq during the Saddam rule and people did not defend and pulled away until [the US] took over. But this very Iraq, when the ISIS attacked, people entered the scene and were able to ward off the ISIS.”[3]
Last week, Vadym Prystaiko, the Ukrainian Ambassador to England, had this to say in a video interview (see here) part of which I transcribed as follows:
“We had two times more nuclear than France, Great Britain, and China together. Now, we exchanged it for the promise to come to help. And there is just not that this help is not coming but one of those who signed this agreement, Russia, now it is threatening us. This is a great lesson for us but also a great lesson for nations who are threshold nations like North Korea and Iran, who are trying to defend themselves building their nuclear shield. Europeans, Westerns trying to tell them, ‘Guys, let’s not do it. Let’s denuclearize in exchange we will defend you, protect you. Sign some agreement.’ How would these nations look at this?”
In great act of defiance and to show his solid revolutionary resolve and iron will, the brave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unfollowed world leaders on Twitter. He showed them.
References
[1] Aljazeera News Agencies, “Rice sees bombs as birth pangs,” July 22, 2006. Accessed online at https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/7/22/rice-sees-bombs-as-birth-pangs
[2] Robert Scheer (2006). “Labour Pains of a Stillborn Foreign Policy,” From Truthdig: Drilling beneath the headlines, July 26, 2006; Accessed online at: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/robert-scheer-labor-pains-of-a-stillborn-foreign-policy/
[3] Ayatullah Khamenei, “[US] American is a regime existing on crises that has made Ukraine another of its victims,” Fars News Agency, 1400/12/10 [March 1, 2022] @ 10:27 am. Accessed online at: http://fna.ir/77cho
[4] Tasnim News Agency, “The crisis in Ukraine is the direct result of the US meddling.” Esfand 6, 1400 (February 25, 2022) @ 13:35; Accessed online at: https://tn.ai/2671563
[5] Fars News Agency, “The US is the main responsible party for the events in Ukraine,” Sayyed Hasan Nasrullah Speech, Esfand 10, 1400 (March 1, 2022) @ 12:44 pm; Accessed online at: http://fna.ir/77cmb
Did the negotiation at the border with Belarus happen? If it did, what happened? Sorry if this is a bunny trail.
next round tomorrow last I heard…the first round went about as well as expected…🙄
Israel seems to b missing from the worldstage these days…wonder what are they up to…
and yeah…the landlord is knocking…
Keep an eye out for Qnietra (spelling may vary) in the news.
I have a premonition that it will appear in the future. Maybe not this year, but some time…
isn’t that in Morocco? That country is on the brink.
Israel is one of the countries Puttin and Shoigu put on notice, since they are one of the countries who armed the Ukie regime the most, and have saturated the country with evil advisors.
They are the ones who taught the Zelensky regime to use human shields, as they did it with success in Palestine and Lebanon.
But no worries, the Chechen Division is specifically after them and the other chosen ones, specifically the leadership.
They have a pretty long hit list, that Russian intel has been accumilating for 8 years now.
Israel is missing … as usual. The State of Israel is chimeric. It moves ghost like in the background … bribing politicians, and blackmailing those they can. Israel’s hand is all over Ukraine …for 300 years jews, like rats, knaw against the national foundation of Russia … the same rats infect governmemts from Washington to London into Paris and Berlin. What is their goal? To crush Christianity in America … to destroy mother Russia. The zii-bankers are in desperation mode, as their private army, the US military, disintegrates they are pulling out the stops and going for broke. Hopefully there is at the least 1 ICBM programed with Tel Aviv’s co-ordinates.
Their proxies like Nuland, Blinken, Boris Johnson, Macron etc., etc., are front and centre.
I believe the reason U.S./NATO have held off intervening in Ukraine is because Iran is the real target.
Any attack on Iran by the Empire or Israel at this point would be absolutely crazy. Resource warfare can threaten the Empire and damage its military capabilities just as surely as nuclear weapons. The Persian gulf is an enormous weak spot for the Empire. Just one super tanker accident could have a devastating effect on the ports around the Ghawar oil field. To put this in perspective 70 tons of LNG destroyed 80 square blocks in Cleveland, Ohio in 1945. Imagine what the contents of a 100,000 gallon tanker would do.
I’ve seen some articles that suggest the Empire is asking to buy oil from Iran at this point to make up for the shortages caused by Russian sanctions. I don’t know if there is any truth in this but it would be hilarious if it is true.
Russia is their target always have been.
They’re both targets, and you can add China to the list – but hey, more targets make it easier to hit something.
I don’t know but after watching Psaki get snakey with a journalist the other day for asking why they will be sitting at the table with Russia at the next Iran negotiations, she immediately snapped back that Russia is part of the P5 and the deal was a matter of US security!
I rarely see the Psaki bot look frazzled which made me think… What’s going on here?
It is highly likely that the US may lose their cheap Russian gas and in the long run how are the US going to keep up the supply of LNG to Europe.
They need Iran more than ever IMO.
I think Iran is in the driver’s seat and considering the US aren’t offering them much at this stage… lifting a few sanctions… I hope they hold out and expect a whole lot more.
Of course this may have already been taken into consideration because the Orwell machine is already spewing that Putin will likely try and influence the Iranians.
The interregnum between the fall of the URSS and the coronation of China was a long mirage that confused many, leading them to bet on the losing horse. Only now will they begin to realize it.
“While I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only are essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.” – Robert E. Lee
Well said, Gen. Lee. Prophetic.
Everyone who cares needs to really read this.
Another great man that will go down in history as one of the greatest, and one of the greatest speeches ever. All world leaders should heed :
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/02/28/breaking-address-by-the-president-of-the-russian-federation/
Lee’s tragedy is that he was a man of eighteenth century sensibilities come to manhood in a nation that was moving, slowly, haltingly, into the twentieth century. The “stability” he sought was that of a colonial aristocrat at the pinnacle of the social and economic order, not that of a member of a genuinely democratic society consecrated to equality of rights and opportunity. Domestic despotism *defined* the southern way of life; the aggressive attempts to expand the slave system into federal territories which the voters demanded be reserved for white family homesteading was the root cause of the War for the Union.
The grievous defects of the Founders’ Constitution made that terrible bloodbath all but inevitable. But America’s real tragedy in the nineteenth century is that no sooner was the slaveholder dominance of Washington broken than Yankee capitalists rushed in to fill the power vacuum with their reign of greed and corruption. It’s a grim irony that modern US government resembles nothing so much as the old plantation system. In our time the people’s most dangerous enemies hijacked Lincoln’s old party and used the false flag of Lee’s whimsical “limited government” to shrink our liberties while exponentially enhancing their regime’s power over us.
Please, is the final quote an ironical statement? Is the inclusion of Russia in his argument a typo? The first article from him that had any sense ends like this? (See typos sense for scene in his writing)
In great act of defiance and to show his solid revolutionary resolve and iron will, the brave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unfollowed world leaders on Twitter. He showed them.
Please God, is he an ass?
Probably he was trying sarcasm. It was a bit jarring though being so brief and right at the end of his otherwise serious article which meant a double take. Maybe that is a Persian cultural thing.
We was demonstrating how purile Zelensky is. Unfollowing someone on Twitter is beyond juvenile.
He also ‘unfriended’ all the European leadership on Facebook too.
The Ukrainian leadership fell into Satan’s snare when they embraced the U.S and their European Satrapy as “friends” and the temptation of wealth and power.
The Divine Quran clearly teaches that:
“O ye who believe! take not My enemy and your enemy for friends, offering them love, while they disbelieve in the truth which has come to you and drive out the Messenger and yourselves from your homes merely because you believe in Allah, your Lord. If you go forth, to strive in My cause and seek My pleasure, take them not for friends, sending them messages of love in secret, while I know best what you conceal and what you reveal. And whoever of you does so, has, surely, lost the right path. (Al-Mumtahinah: 60:2 Holy Quran)
Russia is doing everything possible to avoid unnecessary bloodshed to liberate Ukraine from the evil of Nazism. She offers peace by pleading with them to lower their weapons and surrender to her great warriors. Doing so melts their aggression with kindness.
This follows our Orthodox Christian teaching as we read here:
“Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans: 12:20-21 KJV 1611)
Every Russian soldier who accepts the exegesis of Christ’s work as taught in our faith knows his soul is subject to the higher authority. He obeys God’s will and bears a sword not of his own vanity but as a disciplinarian who exacts punishment against the malevolence that has strangled Kiev and brought misery to innocent people.
“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (Romans: 13:1-4 KJV 1611)
Does not every Iranian soldier who accepts Islam act in the same fashion? Of course they do for they too, are obedient and honor the word of Allah.
I have been inundated with the wife telling me from western news channels, even tik tok videos that many thousands of Ukro men and women are packing and heading to Ukraine to fight against the Russians. From footballers to football moms are leaving their families and steeling themselves for war. I have to say I have never heard anything so stupid and idiotic in my 62 years on this earth. It’s completely insane!!
They get their talking points from the same place as Biden, if you watched his pathetic blathering tonight you would have recognized the BS.
Everyone gets it and so do America’s Euro-vassals. Problem is they’re chain-gang imprisoned in the Great Central Bank Ponzi from where there’s no escape. A House of Cards built on a financial earthquake, just north of shit creek.
The filthy bastards turned off RT news in America. Our filthy corrupt American government censored the truth. Just another sign Russia is prevailing. May Russia, China, Iran and others unite. America is sick and the true trouble maker in the world. God have mercy on us.
Dear Pennsylvania Chuck,
II am able to access the RT website as of right now (2:55pm est on 3/1/2022 )
I use the Firefox web browser version 97.0.1
See: https://www.rt.com/ .
Some news from RT:
1. Kiev will launch preemptive attack on Belarus if Zelenskyy orders it
2. UK prohibits Russian naval vessels from making a port-of-call
3. Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone tells Instagram followers to read other sources besides western media
Stephan Seagal said exactly the same thing.
No seu lugar, sinceramente, já estaria considerando curtir a velhice em algum país tropical que tenha a poiado a Rússia…
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In his place, honestly, he would already be considering enjoying old age in some tropical country that has the pooco to Russia …
I have it in Cali.
Thank you, Mansoureh Tajik for this insightful article. It’s been long while since you have posted on this site.
The word ‘Westoxia’ coined by you was incisive. Indeed, most everyone needs needs a bout of detox from ‘Westoxification’.
The Soros backed insurrection in UKN will be a known method in Iran and ME because of the Islamic Spring attempted there a few years ago and in Libya & Syria. In UKNs case it succeeded – until now.
Exactly who in the US is behind this is the question – the fingerprints point to Obama who is the puppetmaster of the Biden Admin, who on one hand tried give the olive branch to Iran over nuclear power deals etc… and removing embargoes of this and that but was stabbing it in the back in other ways. But O will be taking his orders from across the Atlantic I suspect.
Constant US interference outside its borders is the problem and if it didnt exist and this was 100 yrs ago it would be the UK doing the same.
Vadym Prystaiko, Ukrainian Ambassador to England, comments about a “nuclear shield” is nonsense because Russia is not exporting a red political ideology that it was under the USSR – it simply wants to be left alone to get on with eco development to overcome that system’s problems.
Russia only has nuclear weapons for defensive purposes, not to do what the EU has constantly done for centuries in launching wars. Any Ukrainian who know history should be well aware of that.
🇷🇺 Summary of military operations on 1 March 2022
Kiev front
Fighting continues in the northwestern suburb of Irpen (Irpin) and the southwestern suburb of Vasilkov (Vasylkiv). Russian advance units held their positions.
On the east bank, Russian units are positioned around Brovary but have not yet begun their operations here. Reinforcements continue to arrive in this direction.
The towns of Chernigov, Priluki, and Mena are under siege.
Sumy-Kharkov front
Sumy and Konotop remain under siege, and the army is moving to besiege Akhtirka (Okhytrka).
Urban combat involving artillery continues in Kharkov. Exact control over the city is unclear.
On the Kharkov-Lugansk border, the army’s east flank reached the positions of the Lugansk militia near the besieged town of Svatovo.
Lugansk front
The urban area of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, and Rubezhnoe is surrounded from three sides.
Starobelsk and Novoaidar were taken over, and Svatovo was besieged.
Donetsk front
The Donetsk militia besieged the Ukrainian units in Volnovakha and reached the positions of Army Group Zaporozhya of the Russian armed forces, thereby besieging Mariupol. There are now battles for the village of Vinogradnoe; after it is captured, the Russian troops will officially be in the city limits of Mariupol.
Zaporozhya front
The Zaporozhya power plant has been taken over. The Russian advance was halted in the southern countryside of Zaporozhya, and the Ukrainians destroyed several bridges on the road to the city.
Kherson-Nikolaev front
There are no regular forces of the Ukrainian army in Kherson. Territorial defense forces are operating in the city and are battling with Russian troops.
Nikolaev is nearly surrounded, and advance units have pushed far enough north to threaten Krivoy Rog (Kryvyi Rih) and Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi).
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fighting has begun in the city limits of Mariupol – reports citing local sources
🇺🇦📱🇷🇺 Reports that mobile communication is being cut off in Kharkov
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Reports from the battlefronts of the city of Kharkov
The Russian army has been conducting a successful offensive on Kharkov, but pro-Ukrainian insurgent militants are operating in the Russian rear.
They aren’t able to change the course of the battle, but the smaller Russian columns are at risk of finding themselves under attack at any moment.
The city is fortified quite well, and its garrison is several thousand, but their morale has decreased after a tough day of fighting with many reported losses.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian Armed Forces and Donetsk People’s Militia have begun storming the city of Mariupol – reports
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Advance units of the Russian army are entering the Left-Bank (Levoberezhny) district of Mariupol – reports
At the risk of sounding controversial, as and when the war ends and people start talking seriously about the peace, it seems to me that to change the course of history in that part of the world, fundamental decisions need to be made via whole-population engagement, not a small bunch of bribable elites selling whole populations to the highest bidders.
Alex Salmond might be well worth having as a consultant for an exercise of this kind. He engaged for nearly two years with the Scottish people about proposed Scottish Independence, in a way that has rarely been seen on the earth before. OK, he didn’t win the Referendum, but he came mighty close and he showed what happens when you treat the people like engaged adults, not voting fodder once every five years.
Clearly, all the Ukrainian people can’t have all their wishes met. What is critical though is that all are heard and respected, but the mediators of any national conversation have to be prepared to explain why certain things may not be possible. That’s why these things can take time, indeed taking time over this one might stop what currently calls itself Ukraine from continuing as one of the most corrupt and over-run governments in the world.
What is needed more than anything is honest brokers not serving the interests of any great powers to mediate such a national conversation.
It’s a shame that John Hume of Northern Ireland passed away a few years ago. He would have also been an ideal honest broker to help transition from a state of violent civil disorder to a place of peace.
Please suggest other individuals and other parts of the world who might have the ability to be constructive in this regard. All I am doing is relaying knowledge from my country, I’m not saying we are the only people with such skills….
This gay nazi porn video may partially explain why the Muslim world is not “behind” the Ukranian president Zelensky
https://ivarfjeld.com/2022/03/02/ukranian-president-caught-in-trance-sexual-dance/
Iran should put its national interests above partisanship for one side or another, just as Russia did with Iran. Russia always sided with the US and Israel when it comes to Iran, profiting from and covertly enabling sanctions on Iran while Iran was on its knees. If the US is not a puppet of Israel AND Iran not a puppet of Russia, Iran and the US will covertly work together to sanction Russian oil and gas in the long term, while ramping up its own oik and gas exports to EU and US allies. I know the Saker, whom I respect for his integrity, may feel sad by my statements, but does not Russia not deserve a taste of its owh medicine?
If you had been following Saker’s analysis, he has never shy away from calling out some of the immoral policies of Kremlin under Putin, especially on Israeli apartheid policy towards Palestine.
Yes there’s a urge to let Russia feel the taste of the medicine it helped the West served Iran but as Muslims, we are told to always support the truth even it hurt a friend and help a foe. On the issue of Ukraine war, Russia is not guilty so the sanctions against her are unjust and underserved and remember sanctions hurt the ordinary masses.
Can the same be said of sanctions against Iran which Russia supported? Absolutely yes, so why did Russia supported it? The way I see it I think it is due to the world view of decision makers in Russia. They are not the spiritually moralist type but realist.
Which means they tends to use their allies as leverage to buy time if need be, in a secular cost and benefit approach. Would Iran have supported sanctions against if in Russia shoe and with her religiously inclined leadership? I live you with Saker’s comment: I hope they all have 10% of Iran courage.