by Omer Dostri
While Iran is still committed to Israel's destruction and funding terror, world powers are viewing it as a stabilizing regional agent.
Iran's participation in
the talks in Vienna on Friday on the conflict in Syria was a
manifestation of new, post-nuclear deal order in both the world as a
whole and the Middle East in particular.
In recent decades, the
U.S. was the sole superpower in the international arena. However, that
has changed during U.S. President Barack Obama's seven years in office,
and now the world is bipolar in nature, if not multipolar. The past year
has seen Russia enter the international scene and take an active role,
both militarily and diplomatically, in conflicts around the globe.
This is a direct result
of American foreign policy in recent years, as the Obama administration
sought to pivot from the Middle East to Asia. With this goal in mind,
the U.S. has tried to achieve stability in the Middle East by making
sure conflicting powers are balanced out with each other.
Iran's participation in
the Vienna talks was the result of this U.S. outlook which views Iran
as a stabilizing agent that could serve as a counterbalance to the Sunni
axis led by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. The White House considers
Iran to be geopolitically important and this has helped Iran gradually
turn into a regional power.
The clearest expression
of this strategic decision by the Obama administration was the nuclear
deal reached between six world powers and Iran. The U.S. enabled this
deal to be reached by whitewashing Iran's violations of U.N. Security
Council resolutions and it helped open international doors for Iran.
This is how Iran,
previously an isolated nation in economic distress, is now accepted with
open arms and is being courted by world powers as if it was an epitome
of peace and reconciliation. Iran's international status has been
greatly bolstered, despite the fact is has done nothing yet to warrant
the trust of world powers. For example, European Union foreign policy
chief Federica Mogherini welcomed Iran's participation in the Vienna
talks and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called Iran a
"significant and important power in the region."
The absurdity becomes
even clearer when one considers the ballistic missile test Iran
conducted on Oct. 12, which the U.S. characterized as a "clear"
violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution prohibiting Iran from
undertaking any work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear
warheads. Furthermore, American experts said the test was not just a
violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution, but also of the
nuclear deal itself.
The Obama
administration's foreign policy has intentionally enabled Iran to become
a significant player in global arena, while the U.S. overlooks the many
resulting contradictions and dangers posed by this policy.
Iran is still committed to the
destruction of Israel, continues to undermine stability in the Middle
East via support for the rebels in Yemen and the brutal regime of Syrian
President Bashar Assad, maintains funding of terrorist organizations
such Hezbollah and Islamic jihad and incites anti-Israel violence by
Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. Yet world powers -- in a display of
senselessness and utter detachment from reality -- continue to shower
Iran with praise, thus contributing to the creation of an absurd new
world order.
Omer Dostri
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=14199
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