Tehran Breeds Regional Crises

By Ahmad Aljarallah
This commentary was published in The Arab Times on 02/04/2011

THE series of crises being perpetrated by the dictatorial regime in Iran for the past 30 years has put the entire region in crisis. The spy cell recently uncovered in Kuwait is one of the numerous spy and attack networks being operated in our country, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, as well as many other GCC and Arab nations, both in Africa and Asia. The regime has become a viral disease attacking all countries except those supporting its ideologies or in its bondage.

The talk about Persian expansionist ambition is due to the catastrophic intention to attack neighbors with whom Iran should be coordinating efforts to boost investments and encourage development, and this would have depicted mutual Islamic culture in the right perspective across the globe. However, our bitter experience with Tehran regime has taught us to remain cautious about plans hatched inside dark rooms. The sectarian crisis, which Iran encourages among its neighbors, was not popular until the regime decided to promote strange Sunni-Shiite differences. Sunnis have been managing shrines of the Ahl Al-Bayt in Iraqi cities, including the two military shrines in Samarai for the last 1,200 years until suspicious bombing incidents there a few years ago. The singing of discordant tones over protection of Ahl Al-Bayt in Iraq had led to sectarian blood letting.

The most disastrous among Iran’s critical projects is the intention to convert the ‘Land of Message’ to a place of fight by politicizing pilgrimage and organizing protests every year. It has also planted destructive cells in Saudi Arabia, which led to the bombing of Khobar in 1996, and it regularly exports terrorists to neighboring states. Moreover, Iran plans to overrun the system in Bahrain by exploiting differences among brothers belonging to a single country, apart from annexing the UAE islands.

There is no need to remind about Iran’s terrorist activities in Lebanon that have been going on since 1982 until today. The regime supported Houthis in Yemen and has declared an open media war against Saudi Arabia for the last seven months. It has also been issuing steady threats of shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s wicked plan in the region took a more drastic and devastating dimension after the terrorist activities in Bahrain due to the presence of Baramikah- Arab or French. They attack us on Iranian-sponsored satellite stations with fabricated tales of injustice in order to cause disharmony, and promote their crises-oriented business in the GCC society through false cries and laments, in order to weaken the region.

Iran’s relationship with GCC nations is on the brink of collapse, because the regime has been pushing the region towards arms offensive, thinking it is the region’s power block in control of the situation. Iranian officials seem oblivious of the fact that time has really changed and it is not like in the past when the Shah used to see himself as the Gulf policeman. He did not realize it then, just as the current officials have failed to realize that paradigm power shift normally changes political geography. Iran is now a very weak number in the new global calculation, so no matter how loud its threats, the international community will not allow it to act like an angry baby that destroys everything around him without any accountability.

A majority of political observers see Iranian regime’s behavior as a direct invitation for attack on Iran but the world will leave the decision to topple the government to its citizens who have been facing a high level of oppression, starvation and persecution.

In light of this GCC governments see ouster of the Iranian regime as an urgent need. There is also a need to activate security and military agreements with the international community to fortify our defense, in order to avoid a surprise aggression like the one carried out by Saddam Hussein in the early hours of August 2, 1990. Policies embarked upon by the Iranian dictators for the past 30 years indicate that the regime is capable of doing anything to escape internal crisis or actualize the expansionist ambition.