A short summation of the 4-piece series on Iran, from the perspective of an alternative world:
Imagine, if you will, that in 1953 Iran overthrew
the elected government of the United States and installed a puppet dictator
who would rule for 26 years, keeping US natural resources firmly under the
control of Iranian companies. Imagine that in 1979 this Iranian-backed ruler
was overthrown in a popular revolution, and US national independence restored. In
time, Iran would invade both Mexico and Canada, building at least 42
military bases in the surrounding region, replete with a naval fleet to
patrol the Gulf of Mexico. Iran then utilises politically
distorted intelligence estimates to demand that the US surrender its rights
under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium, in return for a vague
promise not to pursue ‘regime change’ in the US. Any pretence of negotiations
is undermined by the threat of an attack upon the US, in violation of the UN
Charter. Imagine American scientists are assassinated, infrastructure decimated
by ‘cyber-bugs’, and devastating sanctions imposed, causing a pharmaceutical
crisis for the US people. Iran’s major regional ally, Venezuela, works with
US Christian terrorist
groups who seek to overthrow the US government. A conference on
establishing a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone in the Americas, to be attended by the
US, is whimsically
cancelled by Iran to ensure that their ally Venezuela be allowed to
unilaterally retain the only nuclear weapons in the region.
Rhetorical musings aside, everything written here has
manifested itself in reality, with one key difference: the official ‘enemy’ is
not the perpetrator of the crimes. We are.
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