Sometimes Its Tiring To Be Right All The Time...

So, it turns out that Iran hasn't been seeking to develop Weapons of Mass Destrution, and haven't been since at least 2003.

This is something I've been saying for years - actual years. It just would not make any sense for Iran, the most strategically ascendent nation in the region to put that it has acheived over the past decade in jeopardy by so openly flouting international law and inviting international intervention, (the explodey kind of intervention).

People may then say, 'Ah, but that would only apply if Iran were a rational state, but they're not! They're not, they're crazy fanatical towelheads!' - to which my response is: 'No they're not. They're the God-Damn MIGHTY PERSIAN EMPIRE. They assembled one of the largest empires the world ever saw while Western Europe was still burning people on suspicion of witchcraft - they clearly know what they're doing.'

In fact, I'm going to come out and say this: I'm a bit of an Iranophile. I think its a pretty great country, and it deserves any successes coming to it. Granted the current government is a bit shitty (although the West is primarily to blame for the election of Ahmadinejad, the man is widely hated by his own people, but then, when you find your nation being subjected to years and years of false allegations and very serious threats, you're obviously going to vote for the guy who shouts the loudest back at them). And yes, the state itself has some pretty serious human rights issues... although, it is a lot more liberal by far than most of our so-called allies in the region, and anyone in the government who claims that Britain refuses to have good relations with Iran because of its human rights record - while simultaneously selling military equipment to the fucking al-Sauds!? Well, it whiffs a bit of hypocracy.

If I were in charge of this kind of stuff, I would dumb all of Britain's support for the absolute monarchs and petty dictators of Arabia, and throw our lot in with Iran. Because the Iranian people, unlike most of their Arab counterparts, actually quite like us. In Arabia, democracy is something to be feared, because if it were acheived you would basically nation upon nation governed by Bin Laden wannabes. Iran, meanwhile, it already a fairly well-established and stable democracy.

But alas, geopolitics and neoimperialism being what it is, the West urgently needs to oppress any independent oppositional voice from the Third World whilst simultaneously backing any pyschotic bastard who promises to tow our line.

Oh, and yes, I do recognise the irony of writing a defence of a state that denies the legality of the State of Israel, and whose current president is probably a Holocaust-denier, on the day before Hanukkah...

Have a Tovful Hanukkah by the way, (he said Hebrew-butcheringly).