John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN PRESS TV - AN INTERVIEW WITH AMERICAN ACADEMIC DANIEL KOVALIK
“Iran ‘stronger’ in world standing despite US animosities
“Iran has managed to achieve an even stronger standing in the world despite Washington’s animosities and the hurdles it has created to hamper such progress”
Iran has been strengthened and has gained in a number of ways.
It has become, by necessity, more independent in making and doing certain things, as with military equipment.
The electronics involved in sophisticated missiles and radars are very important things to develop for future competitiveness of all kinds.
Iran's non-nuclear ability to defend itself has clearly had a psychological effect on the United States, preventing it from striking Iran after the surprise downing of its most sophisticated drone, the Global Hawk, and again, given the strong rumors of some of America’s worst leaders, men like Mike Pompeo, wanting to strike Iran while it was tending the sick with the coronavirus.
Iran has strengthened some of the relationships it already had, as with Russia and China, developments which hold promise for the future, a future which is going to be very different in some ways after all the effects of the pandemic have subsided.
Iran's enemy of 40 years, enemy by its own choosing, the United States, has been seen by all the world in some of its ugliest deeds and postures. Without regard for rule of law. Imposing illegal sanctions on great parts of the world. Assassination. Threats. Depriving the sick. Immense arrogance. Even stealing the medical supplies of others. Constantly lying about both the situation at home and that abroad.
In short, the world has seen a king without his splendid costume creating the illusion of glory, Uncle Sam as an ugly naked figure with a pot belly and a foul mouth.
Indeed, the US has openly committed acts which we associate with terrorists or tyrants. There really is no other way to look at it, and I think much of the good-will the US has counted on and exploited for years has worn away.
Attitudes and relationships and trust are important in all business and diplomatic affairs.
The new perceptions will affect attitudes and relationships of all the world's countries, whether the countries are deemed allies or opponents of the US. It isn’t a pretty picture that the US has given us.
