Short of ideas and options and a fast declining credibility almost across the Earth, Bush’s America and its spin doctors have once again resorted to failed tactics and the demonization of the Islamic Republic.
After the latest meeting of the so-called Group 5+1 ended without any tangible results and the United States failed to undermine historic relations between New Delhi and Tehran, the White House has embarked anew on poisoning the international ambiance against Iran.
In the latest tirade that has been assessed as a “soft war“, Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chief of Staff, claimed without any evidence that Iran is underwriting Iraqi insurgents fighting to kick out George Bush’s fractured army from the Arab country. He also described Iran as a destabilizing factor.
In another development, some US navy commander in the Persian Gulf claimed that a commercial ship on hire by the US military fired warning shots at boats that belonged to Iran.
It is not a very complex thing to understand that if and when any Iranian military vessel is attacked, the aggressor party will definitely receive an immediate and fitting response.
Moreover, this is not the first time US officials are resorting to lies and libel against Iran and going out of their way to claim that Tehran is destabilizing the strategic Persian Gulf.
On April 10 the Americans published a footage depicting a confrontation between their naval forces and three Iranian speed boats. The footage that at the outset was taken for granted as being fake by impartial observers, was categorically dismissed by Tehran as “fabricated with file audio“.
Earlier in January warmongers in the embattled Bush camp claimed that a confrontation had occurred between their forces and Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz.
These are but a few examples of the broad-based psychological campaign by Washington and its spin masters to portray Iran as the major part of the problem in occupied Iraq.
How long will the declining supercop continue to camouflage its dangerous misjudgments, miscalculations, lies, and blunders in troubled areas like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine remains to be seen. So far it has hardly been able to convince free global public opinion and also respected leaders that it is the good guy and the address for the problems of the world is Tehran.
The above issues can obviously not be disentangled from the US presidential elections later this year. Hillary Clinton who is trailing her Democratic rival Barack Obama, is trying to play ’tough woman’ against Iran to attract the powerful Zionist lobby and if necessary the neocon Republicans to get into the White House for a second time.