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American-Iranian Alliance
Igor Muradyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27497.html
Published: 15:22:52 - 26/09/2012
The American-Iranian alliance is not fantasy or recollection from the
future but it is the reality influencing global politics. This reality
has many definitions and ideological variations, most of geopolitical
character.
Being located between the Arab and Turkic, mostly Sunnite worlds, the
Iranian Shiite civilization is an important stabilizing factor in the
Great Middle East, Southwest and Central Asian region which influences
entire Eurasia and adjacent regions. Without the Iranian factor the
U.S. geopolitics and strategy could be futile and impossible, and the
U.S. establishment understands this very well.
Iran is the U.S. strategic partner which participates in pro-American
and pro-British Southwest Asian military-political alliances. The U.S.
has prevented initiatives of fragmentation of Iran, including on
ethnic grounds. Such initiatives have always been catastrophic first
of all for the U.S. itself. In a short-term view, these interests of
the U.S. on Iran would be expressed and implemented to a greater
extent and, anyway, there will be a demonstration of these obvious
American positions.
The Congress statement on Iran's separatism does not correspond to the
information and analytical flow in the American politics in a systemic
way and reflects the U.S. policy. There is no such a thing and can
never be. The analytical community of the U.S. is silent and no one
reacts to this initiative. At least, the political reality looks like
so.
Nevertheless, such initiatives do have origins. Bullying and blackmail
of Iran and levers to influence it are an apparent task. But there is
one more task which is more operational. It is the involvement of
Turkey in a long-term project of resistance to Iran, and Turkey's
distraction from the Near East, which is believed to be a more
important task in future than pressure and blackmail of Iran.
Besides, we should presume that this project corresponds to one of the
priorities of the U.S. - to direct Turkey into Central Asia at the
same time forcing it to bypass the South Caucasus, which the U.S. has
reserved for its own strategy. The Americans understand that Turkey's
policy failed in Central Asia once again, since other more powerful
states rule this region. But Turkey can destroy the South Caucasus so
it is necessary to distract it from this region, as well as from the
Middle East.
The northwestern provinces of Iran, like no other project, will become
an important element of the game with Turkey's participation, as a
political object rather than a subject.
Igor Muradyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27497.html
Published: 15:22:52 - 26/09/2012
The American-Iranian alliance is not fantasy or recollection from the
future but it is the reality influencing global politics. This reality
has many definitions and ideological variations, most of geopolitical
character.
Being located between the Arab and Turkic, mostly Sunnite worlds, the
Iranian Shiite civilization is an important stabilizing factor in the
Great Middle East, Southwest and Central Asian region which influences
entire Eurasia and adjacent regions. Without the Iranian factor the
U.S. geopolitics and strategy could be futile and impossible, and the
U.S. establishment understands this very well.
Iran is the U.S. strategic partner which participates in pro-American
and pro-British Southwest Asian military-political alliances. The U.S.
has prevented initiatives of fragmentation of Iran, including on
ethnic grounds. Such initiatives have always been catastrophic first
of all for the U.S. itself. In a short-term view, these interests of
the U.S. on Iran would be expressed and implemented to a greater
extent and, anyway, there will be a demonstration of these obvious
American positions.
The Congress statement on Iran's separatism does not correspond to the
information and analytical flow in the American politics in a systemic
way and reflects the U.S. policy. There is no such a thing and can
never be. The analytical community of the U.S. is silent and no one
reacts to this initiative. At least, the political reality looks like
so.
Nevertheless, such initiatives do have origins. Bullying and blackmail
of Iran and levers to influence it are an apparent task. But there is
one more task which is more operational. It is the involvement of
Turkey in a long-term project of resistance to Iran, and Turkey's
distraction from the Near East, which is believed to be a more
important task in future than pressure and blackmail of Iran.
Besides, we should presume that this project corresponds to one of the
priorities of the U.S. - to direct Turkey into Central Asia at the
same time forcing it to bypass the South Caucasus, which the U.S. has
reserved for its own strategy. The Americans understand that Turkey's
policy failed in Central Asia once again, since other more powerful
states rule this region. But Turkey can destroy the South Caucasus so
it is necessary to distract it from this region, as well as from the
Middle East.
The northwestern provinces of Iran, like no other project, will become
an important element of the game with Turkey's participation, as a
political object rather than a subject.