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Media Forgets: Rouhani’s Spots Won’t Change
Turning over new leaves and all that stuff is great if you believe that your true nature can be changed. But, leopards rarely change their spots and Iranian spots are just as indelible as any others in the world. Rouhani is being hailed as the new pacifist, the guy we have to chat on the phone to about the traffic in New York. The most wanted man (in a good way) as Presidents clamber to get in on the act to chat and to be seen (that’s the most important thing) having a talk over the role of nuclear power in Iran and Iran’s new-found world, lying at its feet. But, the media of the world has a short memory or none at all. Rouhani is not so much the mild mannered guy of today as one of the active participants in the anti-Semitic bomb attack that took place in Buenos Aires in 1984, killing 85 people.
Why Not Trust Rouhani and Iran?
Hassan Rouhani is a wonderful marketing guru, the guy that will be a role-model for spin-doctors in years to come. The world has gobbled up the few words that he has pronounced as if Iran is the next manna from heaven. Why exactly? Especially sinceRouhani is a man to make even Attila the Hun wary and shy away.
- Rouhani has never stated ever that Iran will discuss the halting of uranium enrichment.
- Rouhani is vastly more intelligent than the slap-in-the-face Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The latter’s brashness and angry vociferations made him an easy target for the international press. The diplomatic spheres held him at a distance, punishing him for his uncontrollable emotions. Rouhani is much more perspicacious. He is the image of the mild-mannered wise old man. But, that doesn’t make him any less radical. He is certainly no less Islamic. He is still an Islamic radical and always will be. He’s just better at marketing himself.
- Almost the entire Sunnite Muslim world hates Iran and wishes to bring it down. How else could the powers-that-be in Iran imagine their future except one that is protected by nuclear weapons?
- It will be the only answer possible to protect the Iranians against the arch rival and enemy of Israel.
- Nuclear weapons will be the only way to protect Iran from the infidels of Uncle Sam. The US administration might be stating that it has no intention of bringing down your regime, but who can believe anything the US President says these days?
- After all, why did the Iranian government decide to defend so openly and quickly the Syrian regime of Bachar-al-Assad? Simply because it knew that the US wouldn’t take the risk of attacking al-Assad. Now Rouhani has gained the unfailing defense of the Syrian leader for being one of the only few to have stood up and defended him in the face of the West.
- Nuclear weapons and nuclear power will only make the world sit up and listen to Iran. It will gain a place in the Middle East that will mean increased prosperity and economic wealth. We only ever listen to people that have voices. People only gain voices when they get military might to be reckoned with.
- Ali Khamenei the Supreme leader of Iran stated that nuclear weapons were anti-Islamic, but you don’t have to use them to show the world that you have them and that you might just do so. The West would never use nuclear weapons either. The five permanent members of the Security Council at the United Nations Organization know only too well that they have supreme power because they have nuclear weapons added to the right to veto. It doesn’t mean that any of them would actually use it. This is not the 1970s with nuclear-bomb touting threats being branded about. Iran would be out of its mind to not want the same power in the Middle East.
- Giving up on nuclear weapons would mean that the West had won over Iran. That’s impossible to imagine after decades of mutual hate and building political lives out of that relationship that doesn’t exist.
How wonderful for a fifteen-minute conversation to wipe away the years of distance. How wonderful to believe and to be so naïve that the media reports on anecdotal stories of saying goodbye in each other’s languages. A generation or two of Iranians and Americans must be turning in their graves at such a collective show of bonhomie. Crippling economic sanctions for years have meant that the country is nothing more than a sorry old state of poverty-stricken people. That might just change if Rouhani pulls it off. He’s playing the West at its own game. He’s vaudeville supreme, an Iranian diva that will have Obama laughing at his jokes in no time at all. But, the custard will be on Obama’s face and the Western media’s.
Iran is a sorry state and will remain it unless it manages to get the West on its side. Leopards never change their spots though. It will certainly be ready to do whatever it can to get the country out of the turmoil and economic despair it has been in for decades now:
- Inflation has sometimes reached 30%. It is currently at over 23.6% today.
- The Iranian currency (IRR) lost almost 70% of its value at its worst.
- In 2005, when Ahmadinejad took power, the exchange rate was 9, 000 Iranian Rials to the Dollar.
- In 2012 it was over 12, 200 Rials to the Dollar.
- Unemployment currently stands at 15.5% (2012) in a country which has a population of 75 million people (last census taken in 2011).
- It has a GDP of $483 billion.
- GDP is predicted to increase to $598 billion (2014) and $676 billion (2015).
- Between now and 2016 it is estimated that it will rocket by $308 billion in total and reach $779 billion.
- Health expenditure represents roughly 3.9% of GDP (since 2009).
- Education is roughly 4.7% of GDP (since 2009).
- It has a labor force of 27 million people and 25% of them work in agriculture.
- Approximately 20% of the population lives below the poverty line.
But, there are those reasons that why Rouhani shouldn’t be trusted that are staring us all in the face and that the media is missing completely. These are the facts as to why Iran should be kept at a distance. But, it won’t be. Rouhani is already in line for chit-chat about how dreadful it is that the New York traffic was slowing his speedy flight to the airport. It’s no wonder that Rouhani mentioned it on his Twitter account. Does President Obama have one the time to chat aimlessly about traffic and whatever else passes through his mind on an average day and secondly does he call everyone to apologize that we are being held up and stuck in traffic every single day? It’s doubtful.
Iran through Rouhani will gain access in his own right to nuclear weapons and to nuclear power by the back door or the front door. That will be with or without the Americans and the Western world. There is no other way for the country to get back on its feet. While it’s on its way to military protection it will pull the wool over the eyes of the western world and Iran will become a valuable ally of the West. The hate relationship will become a love-hate one until the West and Iran are intertwined and locked into a trade relationship that will mean getting on with each other.
The only trouble is: the supreme west (!), the ones with the eavesdropping informants at the NSA will not see any of this coming and they will be oblivious even when it slaps them in their faces.
Originally posted: Media Forgets: Rouhani’s Spots Won’t Change
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Was this article written by an Israeli or just an American Jew? The thought of Iran enriching uranium is just too much for them to bear. While Israel has an undeclared stockpile of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. And which country has been aggressive towards its neighbors? Which country has attacked its neighbors? Which country is more apt to use a nuclear weapon? It is also extremely hypocritical to suggest Rouhani is a liar or he was behind terrorist attacks, or fault Iran for the results of the economic sanctions forced upon her. The leaders of the "West" and Israel know all about terrorist attacks. I suggest adding up the body counts. It is quite obvious some people just don't want peace. Lets open our eyes and find out who they really are.
Sounds like a combo AIPAC/PNAC/NeoCON/NuttyYahoo "effort".
They must be getting desperate if serving-up this tripe is the best they can do.
I remember Jim Rickards saying that it is The FED who is causing the falling currency in Iran. I also read that Iranian banks have been cut off from the network(SWIFT) that european banks use.
What I think is interesting is that whenever propaganda like this pops up, and this is what I hope, it is self defeating. Because all the subsequent post are all just reinforcing and reeducating a larger audience. Propaganda like this worked great in newspapers and periodicals. That is because in the universe as the great Mogambu would agree we are on the low end of the evolutionary scale. What I mean is that socially within civilizations we make our decisions based on PERCEPTIONS. Please everyone go to Amazon and order a cheap, used book on Fallacies. Then the next time your favorite unfavorite person starts talking stupid put a little science behind it. Study Piers Morgan he is a master in fallacious reasoning. He is just playing word games with you and the general public. There is reason and logic in what we think and say, it just takes the backseat to perceptions. So the question is, how do we elevate the reason and logic our brain struggles to bring forth and place it preeminent over the perceptions. How do we introduce logic and reasoning into the dialog and mind of "the general public"
hey pivot-dude, can't wait to take your stock picking advice...if it is anymore
confused than this analysis, you should be doing great right now....
but i get your point, 60 years ago, they overthrew our democratically elected government...oh wait...
is this article sarcasm?
what an idiotic point of view in this day and age...
wow
lt
Pivoting a leverage for LOCK*MART & Rayzion, llobying for Bibi Mahatma Neandertanyahu NobelPrize ....
Calamaris for Dinner .
Unfortunately, this article is not sarcasm. The writer apparently believes that there are enough uninformed readers out there to allow his obviously biased propaganda to have an impact. It would be interesting to learn more about "Pivot" and to whom he answers.
Surely this article must qualify for a dick of the day award. For the US to arm Iraq with chemical weapons to use against Iran and to be the only country to use nuclear weapons against civilians robs it of any moral authority in this situation. That Iran was on the list of countries where the US planned regime changes that was given to General Wesley Clark, that all had in common the crime of owning their own central banks, made it clear that the US was an untrustworthy aggressor. And now this dickhead writes an article that Iran is not to be trusted....what an idiot.
Let's face the truth - if the best America can do in international diplomacy is Kerry and Obama, wouldn't you take advantage of the opportunity to 'take advantage'?
You make pivot farm sound like divot farm and HE thinks he is on the Masters Augusta course of international financial and geo political blogging.
But as for ZH, we have to hand it out to them : as they have no editorial line, they leave the space OPEN to all and sundry; to the Austrian spin doctors, to neo con feed pumpers, the likes of GW and of course to the inimitable WB7.
So count your blessings and let the duffers dig their divots in Augusta of ZH.
Now it’s time for you, Pivotfarm, to do an article on whether a leopard like Netanyahu changes his spots. In all the push for warmongering among the war party people in America, the victimizing of Iran has been paramount. What possible motive would you have for joining this pathetic and dangerous activity?
Israel is a war “nation,” armed to the teeth. They have the latest military technology that American taxpayers can buy—nuclear weapons, fighter jets, missiles carriers… They are an armed camp.
"We created terror among the Arabs and all the villages around. In one blow, we changed the strategic situation." -- Menachem Begin
Your articles on Zero Hedge now are colored with the position that you’ve taken.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche
This is the tragedy of Israel. A people with a (relatively) recent ethno-religious existential trauma who now evince the power and the will to see that it is not repeated ... by means that invite its repeat.
Persia, on the other hand has been on the verge of global conquest in the past, but these days lives within its own borders ... except that they are coloring outside the lines that others would try to draw around them.
If they get nukes, they will have to be taken seriously--and control of the central region has typically given whoever had it outsize power over the rest of the world ... even moreso when that now includes the Straits of Hormuz.
Without Israel's influence, we would long ago have acceeded to what might be viewed as Iran's inevitable fulfillment of its nuclear ambitions. It is possible that from a global perspective, such a result might be preferable to more decades of cold war. Time will tell. But I don't think the Likud rhetoric does anybody any good.
It has been nearly 200 years since Iran started a war – and that at the instigation of the British.
“The Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828 was the last major military conflict between the Russian Empire and the Persian Empire” primarily over border disputes. Fath 'Ali Shah relied on the advice of British agents, who pressed him to reconquer the territories lost to Russia, and pledged their support to military action (Wikipedia). As a consequence, Persia lost even more of her territory.
“Iran lost most of her central Asian lands as a result of the Golestan Treaty, which was negotiated in 1813, and all her Eastern European lands in the Turkmanchay Treaty, signed in 1828. Iran lost Armenia, Georgia, Daghestan, Azerbaijan, parts of modern day Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to the Russians.”
Moving on up to present day, Daniel McAdams in How Dare the Iranians Elect a Moderate asks:
“What did the Iranians do to warrant such deafening and dramatic saber-rattling? Test a nuclear device? Open a military base in Mexico?
“No. They voted for moderate Iranian politician, Hasan Rouhani, to be president. Rouhani ran on a platform of reaching out to the West and ending Iran’s largely US-imposed isolation from the international community.
“To punctuate his expressed desire to open to the West, the English-speaking Rouhani unveiled his cabinet today, which includes a PhD from the University of Denver as his new foreign minister and a PhD from the George Washington University as his chief of staff. Iran watcher and RPI advisor Prof. Flint Leverett observed that ‘Rohani has appointed his A-team to do a deal with the U.S. It shows Iran is serious.’
“The US administration has been caught utterly devoid of an Iran policy beyond the neocon talking points threatening war and demanding capitulation. In fact, the House sanctions resolution, designed to pass on the eve of Rouhani’s inauguration to head off any talk of improving relations, was literally drafted by the arch-neocon director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Mark Dubowitz.
“This Foundation, dubbed AIPAC’s Think Tank, is only a lukewarm supporter of sanctions, however, opining recently that ‘sanctions may be most useful after a strike against Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities.’ War first, sanctions afterward.”
Tyler, was it really necessary to reprint this complete and utter bullshit article? This is what the MSM does. Reprints bullshit and thereby gives it credibility, which confuses the shit out of all of the pudding heads who can't sift through all the bullshit because it all seems so complicated. This is one of the reasons no one can think straight or figure things out anymore. Because they're innundated with bulllshit lies and cheap but clever rationalizations from very greedy, paranoid, selfish and immoral people.
Very much appreciated all you wonderous ZH (Zionist Hate) commentators, praise be to Allah. What insight, what brilliance and to think you are mere infidels and kaffirs.
For this we must reward you. We therefore kill you last, after we bomb them first.
Death to all non-believers (even useful fools like you),
Hassan Rouhani
let me clarify, you are confusing that hate speech with the wahhabite butchers ideologically located in saudi arabia, supported by the west, whom Israel prefers over secular assad in syria.
http://warincontext.org/2013/09/17/israel-prefers-al-qaeda-rather-than-a...
once the scales fall from people's eyes they stop believing provable lies and are unmoved by false emotional outbursts. WHy? because they can think critically.
Take your paranoid, hate-filled, fear-mongering, irrational crap somewhere else.
A brainwashed neocon idiot says what?
Perhaps he is non-furloughed remnant of the Cass Sunstein "free the blogosphere from domestic terraists" brigade. Since I am not a conspiracy theorist, God forbid, I regard it as sheer coincidence that Sunstein's wife should be the current ambassador to the UN. Maybe the Kenyan finds it reassuring to have our current ambassador speak with an Irish lift?
Ex Kenyan. He's our problem now, like it or not.
When Iran develops nukes peace will break out!! They have to be stopped!!
You can downvote me but you know I'm right. Your downvotes only express your anger with the fact that if Iran has nukes there will be a stalemate in the middle east, resulting in peace.
We humans need a stick behind the door, otherwise we misbehave.
So far, the Saudis and the Israelis could do what they wanted, teaming up with the Qataris.
It's time the stick behind the door is put in place to make them behave...
Iran is THE country to stop the unholy alliance (Saudi, Israel, Qatar), they only need nukes.
We have to start the war in order to avoid it.
No politician can be trusted, but I especially don't trust a country ruled by religious freaks and power hungry madmen AND in posession of nuclear weapons, i.e. Israel!
Well here it is. Zero Hedge has now joined the ranks of all the other Zionist controlled media in this country. This is one of the most blatant examples of Zionist propaganda I've read in a long time. It's so sophomoric that it doesn't deserve a response. I am really disappointed!
I think this is target practice.
The Tylers could always bring Leo and RobotTarder back for that --- they served so well in that capacity.
Or worse, Marla "Paintgun Slinger" Singer
Robotarder LOL!
I hope you're right.
Exactly. The Durdens don't want us commenters to get rotator cuff injuries patting each other on the back. I always thought that Pivotfarm's purely financial articles were at best superficial, but knowing that he is a Rothschild Zionist, I will completely ignore them in the future.
I'm not so sure about that approach.
I've taken the same position about other ZH nom de plumes, but have had to acknowledge: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
I'm resigned that it is worthwhile to stay abrest of the perceptual bias and rhetorical slant of current issue propaganda, to find my assumptions tested, and I get satisfaction from the follow-on pillory here.
Righty hoe Pivotfarm, that is by far the worst bit of pro-Isreal propaganda shit I have ever read.
Just remind me again of the rogue aparthied state running the western world, who deems itself above international law regarding the non-proliferation treaty on nukes? That same state has been warning us for nigh on fourty fucking years that EYEran is six months away from having nukes??
Pivotfarm? Horseshitfarm more like, never read such bollocks on here for a long time.
Oye Vay!
What a bunch of Zionist propaganda.
Shouldn't you be off applying white phosphorous to the brown people?
FU Pivotfarm!
"... leopards rarely change their spots..." agreed!
In the previous 53 years, the USA has invaded a sovereign country on average every 40 months.
In the same period, Israel has practiced apartheid, genocide and racism, while ignoring every international law and illegally confiscating the lands of others.
Iran has not invaded an other country in 2 centuries, has suffered chemical weappons attacks by Iraq, which used weapons supplied by USA and is in severe financial distress due to the illegal financial sanctions imposed by the USA.
Now that we know Pivotfarm is a hasbara mouthpiece, we know to disregard it.
Since when does Jeffrey Goldberg write for ZH?
Iran would be crazy if they DIDN'T want nukes.
There's a killer roaming the neighborhood all around them.
People tend to have polite conversations with nuclear armed countries.
What? Funding terrorists? Right. There's a lot of that going around.
Personally, I don't think anyone should have 'em, but you know what they say...
no kidding. with a rogue nuclear apartheid state of a neighbor who wouldnt. I presume this morsel of defecationarily enhanced bliovational propaganda was approved by binyamin milikowski err netanyahu's ministry. Maybe the us / israel / gulf states could use al quaeda against iran and its allies. Oops. too late.
@Pivotfarm. You should maintain a more narrow focus on Financial Commentary, 'cause you suck at "pro-semite" propaganda. Are you part of the Israeli Gov't program that PAYS Israeli college students to inundate Social Media and Blogs with Pro-Israeli Gov't propaganda? ...TOOL!
Is Pivotfarm an Israeli asset?
Obviously not - he blows for free ....
Is Pivotfarm an Israeli asset?
I'm not sure anyone who reasons this poorly can be considered an asset.
dammit jim, im a useful idiot, not an asset.
Bibi in disguise, with diamonds.
More like an Israeli liability.
Hasbara can be better than this painfully amateur effort!
Usually when I see "Submitted by Pivotfarm" I skip it, but figured I'd check out some warmongering spew.
Hey Tylers...does this character really add anything to the site?
Hate clicks generate ad revenue, assuming we aren't blocking them all.
It just blows my mind that people believe in the script enough to devote this much time and energy in analyzing it.
Might as well be writing about the Kardashians, as they are far more real than anything in the political realm.
When was the last time Iran invaded another country?
Iran is not spying on everything I do. But the United States government does.
Who spots should I be worried about?
The United States government is arming against us too. Startpage it for yourself along with normalcy bias.