
Kourosh Ziabari
When Hillary Clinton doesn't make sense
U.S. President Barack Obama will be a lame duck next
year and the officials in his administration, especially his Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton are hilariously doing their best to make sure
that they haven't spared any effort to intervene in the internal affairs
of other countries and sabotage the stability and security of those
whom they call "enemies", like Iran.
On October 27, Hillary Clinton gave an exclusive
interview to the UK's state-funded, state-run BBC Persian TV and in an
attempt aimed at reaching out to the Iranian nation, made bombastic
remarks which have certainly infuriated the Iranian nation and
demonstrated that the hostile behavior and antagonistic stance of the
U.S. government toward the Iranian nation is a manifestation of the
idiom "the leopard can't change its spots."
At the beginning of the interview, Clinton referred
to the sanctions imposed against Iran by the U.S. and its European
allies and said that these sanctions are targeted at forcing the Iranian
government into abandoning its nuclear program which she called is an
effort to construct nuclear weapons and not for civilian purposes.
Forgetting the detrimental impacts of economic sanctions against the
ordinary people, Clinton talked of the United States as a friend of the
Iranian people, and said that she wanted to reaffirm her country's "very
strong support for and friendship toward the people of Iran." She
further added that the behavior of the United States towards the Iranian
government is different from its behavior toward the Iranian people,
and by saying that, she clearly paraded her diplomatic naiveté and
artlessness. How do you justify enmity with a government which is
democratically elected by a group of people which you claim of being
supportive of?
Secondly, maybe Mrs. Secretary has forgotten that the
U.S. itself is the largest possessor of nuclear weapons in the world.
How can such a police state which has so far killed millions of people
around the world, from Nagasaki and Hiroshima to Baghdad and Kabul,
boast of its concerns about the development of nuclear bombs by a
country which is the most pacifist country in a boiling and tumultuous
region such as Middle East and hasn't ever invaded nor attacked any
country in the past century?