Speaking on
RT, author, historian & director of International Studies at
Trinity College, Vijay Prashad, explained the US appetite for war in
the Middle East.
In his
analysis, he also explained specifically why the US ignores the
political nature of the conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia:
The Middle
East cannot be primarily understood, based on sectarian divides. One
has to, also see, from another standpoint, the very real conflict,
the political conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
This is a
conflict about regional power, but it's also a conflict about the
understanding of governance. Saudi Arabia is committed to Monarchical
rule, Iran is committed to Republican rule, in other words, to have
some sort of Democracy.
These two
visions in the region have been in conflict for a very long time,
going back to the conflict between Gamal Abdel Nasser and the
Nasserites against the Saudis. The position that the Nasserites took
from the 1950s to the 1980s has now been taken over by Iran. In other
words, this is a political conflict. To reduce it to a sectarian or
religious conflict is very dangerous. The United States has been
playing this kind of sectarian game for quite a while, essentially to
emerge a top disorder as the leading power in the region.
The
Anglo-American axis 'invested' for decades on Saudis, while created a
bad relationship with Iran from the start, especially since the 1953
coup. Consequently, the US exhibit some kind of selective sensitivity
concerning 'Freedom', 'Democracy', 'Human Rights'. It would be hard
for the US to spoil its 'investment' only to justify its
'sensitivity' on these values.
This
explains greatly why the US insist to ignore the fact that Iran has
some level of Democracy while Saudi Arabia is a totalitarian
theocracy.
Recall that
the British with the help of the US staged a coup against the Iranian
government in 1953 because the later proceeded in the nationalization
of Iran's oil industry, being previously in British private hands.
Newly declassified data reveal that the Anglo-American axis was also
concerned about the power of the Communist party in Iran and the
alliance with the democratically elected PM Mohammad Mosaddegh,
fearing that the country could permanently pass under the Soviet
influence.
A similar
scenario we see today in Venezuela. Maduro is painted as 'dictator'
while the Western mainstream media completely ignore the atrocities
by supporters of the opposition. Again, the US exhibits a selective
sensitivity on 'human rights' and the real reason is the same.
The US wants
to overthrow Maduro in order to take back the rich oil resources of
Venezuela on behalf of the US big oil cartel. The US tried to
overthrow Hugo Chavez in 2002 with a coup, as he nationalized most of
the oil industry which was under the control of US private
corporations. The only difference is that it was not successful as
the 1953 coup against the Iranian government.
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