The professional writings of most US imperialist policy wonks make no pretense at disguising their appetites!

VHeadline's Washington DC-based commentarist Chris Herz writes: No friend of any of the medieval sky-god religions am I. But I must confess to not being able to resist a bit of admiration for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Despite fearsome pressures from the Empire and its European sycophants their president today states and asserts yet once again his nation's right to nuclear technology. His nation, still called by some Persia, was the home of mighty civilizations which flourished when all of the tribesmen in Europe from whom most of us Americans, Latin or otherwise, are descended were howling in their bogs and painting themselves blue.

To bid defiance to the most predatory state since the days of the Third Reich, one which has now conquered the territories to either side of their ancient state is no small act of courage. I wish them well. I for one hope they can aquire the means to deter the Fascists in charge of the USA from following up their pirating of Iraq's oil by seizing their resources.

There is a lot of baloney being bandied about by both the Right and the Left around here in this matter of Iran's work on nuclear technologies. As educated people we know that nuclear electrical generation is uneconomical. In every country where it is deployed this serves as the preferred method for the generation of the fissiles, uranium 235 and plutonium 234, to say nothing of tritium or deuterium, all needful for the production of nuclear or thermonuclear bombs. This is how it works in the USA, Russia, China, France and Great Britain. Likewise Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea.

Iran makes much of the International Atomic Energy Agency's conclusions that she abandoned her program for direct bomb production several years ago. And this is doubtless true -- at the moment. But like other nations with "peaceful" nuclear industries, notably Germany, Taiwan or Japan, she hopes to have eventually an infrastructure which permits her to decide on the Saturday to build bombs and have them functional by Monday morning.

Israel and the USA of course from their own experience are quite aware of the realities of the nuclear science. And an Iranian bomb would be a serious check on their own pretensions to middle-eastern on the one hand, and to world hegemony by capture of all major oil reserves on the other. The risk of nuclear exchange in the late Cold War prevented either nation from fully expressing its latent Fascist imperialism. They would both prefer to be allowed their piratical habits without such stay or hindrance. Hence now they make common cause against Iran. Certainly the professional writings of most US imperialist policy wonks make no pretense at disguising their appetites.

Were it not for the continuing serious resistance in Iraq I have not the slightest doubt that US forces would today be in occupation of Iran's oil-producing province of Khuzestan. And the rest of Iran's infrastructures, nuclear or conventional would have been bombed flat. But the damage done to the imperial storm troopers by the occupation, plus the fact that there are not yet enough of them has prevented this. For this we all owe a great debt to Iraqi nationalism.

From now on it will be a race between the financial meltdown of our imperial motherland and its imperial ambitions that will decide the fate of Iran -- and of many other nations.

For Venezuela the capture of Central America by the Empire twenty years ago, and its possible victory in Colombia are every bit as serious and worrisome a matter as anything facing the Iranians ... but maybe that should be the subject of our next paper.

From the Imperial Capital

Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com

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