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Written by Ali Cordoba
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
US is not really targeting Iran's nukes? Article first appeared in Malaysia Today. Here is the original link: http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/guests.php?itemid=3506 Having failed to achieve any tangible results in its concept of “Greater Middle East Initiative” (GMEI), US announced an idea of so called “Greater Central Asia” (GCA), i.e. an artificial regional community involving Kazakhstan and some other Southern CIS members as well as Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The aim is to draw these nations away from the influence of Russia, China and cutting down on the roles of Islamic states in the region. World Futures reveals what the GCA is and how the US plans in implementing this strategy. Iraq has so far proven to be the failed democratic state ala-Washington and no amount of success by the US in this country in the future will justify the civil war, the deaths and the great instability in the Middle East region. Washington is now looking at diminishing the role of Russia on its own terrain, targeting former Soviet Republics to enter into an informal alliance with the West. Iran is a stumbling block in this move hence the rush to punish Iran for a nuclear program that is still in its infancy and may not even see daylight due to the mounting UN sanctions against Teheran. However, since 2006 the Iranians have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an inter-governmental international organization founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001 by six countries, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Mongolia, Iran, India and Pakistan, which previously had observer status, will become full members. With Iran joining this group, it is harder for the US to wage war with ease against the Islamic nation. It is indeed a blow to Washington that the SCO has accepted Iran as a member. The SCO is not a military bloc but is nonetheless a security organization committed to countering terrorism, religious extremism and separatism and its support for Teheran is crucial. It may have prevented early attempts by the US to bomb the nuclear facilities of Iran and would also have contributed to the half-baked UN sanctions against Iran. Undeterred by the SCO’s growing influence in Central Asia, the Americans are showing some recent haste in deploying their conditions for an enlarged Central Asia under Washington’s control. The American reason for this project is quite understandable - they want to gradually reorient their focus in the region by political plots – and reduce the impact of Russia and China in Central Asia from Russia and China. This new direction will give the US greater powers in Central Asia and will also help it control the resources and the trade routes altogether. The Americans are aware that despite its greater military capacity than other powers, it still needs the cooperation of Central Asian nations to implement this project. To win the support of these nations, it has tried to woo some of them to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) while it has closed eyes on accusations of rights violations in other states. Experts on the Central Asian region told WFOL that Washington would even go directly against its anti-terrorism principles laid since 911 to woo Central Asian nations to join its efforts for the creation of a pro-US model. The US has brandished the era of Soviet Russia as the other model that some of the Central Asian states like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (both former Soviet States) would face if they did not follow the steps of Washington. This strategy has however generated mild support from both nations. Russia today is not the same as it was during communism rule and the former Soviet nations, now members of the Central Independent States (CIS) of which Russia is a member too do certainly fear the reprisal of Moscow and of Beijing if they gave full-fledge support to the American initiative. On the other hand, Washington is raising the specter of security failures in the event of terrorist attacks in the region. Such attacks could disrupt the supply of natural and other resources from the CIS to Europe and the US as well as endanger trade routes between Central Asia and the West. The project seems to be a very important step on its way to strengthen what experts now call the ‘uni-polar’ system with the US at the helm. In fact, both GMEI and GCA are the elements of Washington’s strategy and they are aimed at reducing the role of not only Russia and China but also of Islamic states like Iran and taking control over Asian oil and gas resources. If GCA is realized, US will reorient oil flows from Kazakhstan and the gas flows from Turkmenistan. This may affect the interests of the Malaysian national oil company Petronas which has important and high cost projects, including some ventures in Central Asia. With this comes to mind the main aim of American policy towards the ‘democratization’ of the Middle East, starting with Iraq and focusing on Syria, Lebanon and Iran. The aim is to bombard the world with talks of democratizing the ‘Islamist’ Iranian state which is part of (according to Washington) of the axis of evil. Such talks are intended to create tensions in those states and to stir violence and bring the downfall of Islamic regimes automatically. If that did not work, then Washington would try to rally the support of a coalition of the willing to deal with such states. In the case of Teheran, Washington seems to have lost control of the events and may have only its military option left on the table, said some observers. These observers believe this type of policy will only strengthen Iran, which is happening in some ways with regards to Iraq and the role of Teheran in the sectarian violence in the Muslim country. It is known that the US will stop at nothing to get what it wants and if its plans for a greater Central Asia are its current focus, it will go all the way to get this done. There remain the threats that this represents to Muslim countries in Asia itself since any major power shift in the region would definitely affect the economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Muslim states in the Central Asian region. The SCO may be an effective way to counter the rise of the US in the Central Asian region but does the Muslim world have to depend on others to defend itself from the aggressive foreign policies of the US. Most of this policy is based on the creation of a climate of fear accompanied with threats of military interventionism thanks the pre-emptive policies of Washington. The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League (AL), in the face of such growing threats from the US, has the moral and political responsibility to act in advance in order to prevent another Iraq. The OIC as the leading organization of the Ummah should elaborate effective measures aimed to find common approaches for securing peace and stability in Asia. It has a role to play in the regions since a large section of the Muslim population hails from this region. Hence it is apparent that the organization should not reject its political role. Its main challenge is to counteract American plans to intrude into domestic affairs of sovereign Islamic states. It also has to take pre-empt measures to prevent the occupation of Muslim lands like the US is doing in Iraq with impunity. It’s high time for the Arab League to concentrate alongside with the OIC – like it did on the Palestinian issue in Riyadh in March this year - on the above-mentioned issues in order to protect the Islamic world’s interests and oppose George Bush & the neo-cons that runs the US government and their destructive efforts to widen the gap between Christianity and Islam. Religion has a wide impact in the Asian region and any American efforts to step on the toes of China and Russia in Central Asia will reflect on the rest of the region. Since the aim of Washington will be to supposedly control Islamic extremism in the region, this would lead to the wrong interpretation across Asia. It is not the role of China or Russia to prevent a religious conflagration in the region though these two nations will definitely play a role if this would happen. Their role will depend on which nations would support the Americans in their divisive policies in the Asian region. (SCO), which is basically a Russian-Chinese business alliance designed to prevent the penetration of the US in some spheres of business in Central Asia. Related Articles: Anti-terror or conflict resolution Syria: US attempted to destabilize Damascus The string puller behind the Preah Vihea conflict From the ISI to the RAW, Indian meddling in Pakistan Hamas has to go on political offensive Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Show/Hide comments Write comment Name Email Website Title Comment Write the displayed characters Powered by Azrul's Jom Comment

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