Monday, March 30, 2015

Will Iran and the P-5 come to an agreement?

It is hard to believe that a deal can be be reached considering the many forces working hard to scuttle any attempt of normalizing relations with Iran. Israel and their apologists in this country are a formidable force that I'm sure President Obama will easily attest to. The idea that Iran can be allowed to enrich uranium of any scope, have sanctions lifted against it and allowed to re-join the international community as a legitimate regional power is something that I'm sure keeps many in Israel and many governments in the Arab world very nervous. The Saudi's, Egyptians and Jordanians and those sheikdoms in the emirates benefited greatly from the status quo. These regimes - monarchs and dictatorships - have usurped all the power and maintained their grip over their people by brute force. Of course, this all happened with the help and direct involvement of the United States. The world order that was carved out of the ruins after World War 1 is in serious jeopardy of imploding. The map of the Middle East that was drawn by the British and French and maintained by the Americans since 1945 today faces real challenges of being redrawn. This struggle between Sunni and Shiite is one layer of the divide. The other of course is the struggle of the Sunni's against Western imperialism and the 1917 Sykes-Picot Agreement that established the borders we see today. This includes rejection of the creation of Israel but what is interesting, the Palestinian and Israeli conflict is truly taking a back seat to a much bigger historical tsunami converging on the region. to be continued......

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