Granma interview with Iranian Vice-Foreign Minister
GRANMA August 3, 2006 Israel and US Want to Totally Americanize the Middle East Interview with Iranian Vice Foreign Minister Manucher Motaki by Elson Conception Perez The timing was perfect. Granma was interviewing Manucher Motaki, vice minister of Foreign Relations of Iran, the same day that the UN Security Council was passing a resolution demanding that Teheran stop production of enriched uranium, a vital element for the development of its peaceful nuclear energy program. What will Iran do now? Besides being illegal, the resolution is not practical. It is just more pressure that the US and its European allies want to exert on us, to keep Iran from exercising its legitimate right to access a technology that is necessary for its peaceful nuclear program. It is a big mistake by the United States and the European countries, since the latter had come up with a package of proposals that Iran was studying. With this UN Resolution we feel discouraged to give an answer to those proposals. Moreover, the current aggression against Palestine and Lebanon forces us to be very cautious and prudent in the revision of those proposals. In any case, we have said that on August 22 we will answer those proposals. While the UN Security Council has approved a resolution against Iran, it has been unable to come up with a statement on the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Gaza. What is your opinion on this supposed UN mechanism for peace? Unfortunately, the UN Security Council has become a council of insecurity, only willing to act according to the interests of the United States and the West. That is why, while it punishes Iran for its peaceful programs, it is unable to condemn Israel for its crimes. It is a place where the big powers do whatever they feel like. While people are being massacred in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq and the UN cannot do anything about it, it comes up with a resolution against Iran. This is a real setback for the institution, for the level and the status that the UN and the Security Council should have onto public opinion and the international community. Do you believe that the massacres in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon could be part of a larger US scheme that might include Syria and Iran? The fact is that Americans and Israelis are very angry and worried about the awakening of the peoples of the region, the Syrian people, the peoples of Iran, Lebanon and others. They want to turn this region into a totally Americanized Middle East. That is the overall goal. If they have launched attacks against Afghanistan and Iraq, and they are now doing the same against Palestine and Lebanon, it is because they want to achieve their master plan for the Middle East in order to control the abundant resources available in the area. >From the arrogant US perspective, no people's resistance is justified. But it is very interesting that for every step they take in their aggression, more obstacles are laid on their path and it is well known that they are doomed to failure. The Muslim peoples in the Middle East, like the peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, have awakened and are resisting. They do not want to remain under the boot of the arrogant. They US attacked Afghanistan and Iraq, and now those countries have become graveyards for the aggressors. In Lebanon no other fate awaits them. If they want to make the same mistake regarding Syria and Iran, I can assure you they will then need a huge cemetery for their soldiers and hegemonic plans. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
