Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Wednesday that for the first time ever, they have successfully put a military satellite, the Noor, into orbit. This came after several failed launches in recent years.
The US is objecting, of course. The US views all space launches as a violation of a UN Security Council ban on making nuclear weapons, on the grounds that it’s a rocket and therefore might have some technology applicable to weapons.
To that end, Secretary of Stated Mike Pompeo is demanding that every nation take the Iranian launch to the UN to evaluate the launch with respect to UN bans on missiles. He says Iran must be held accountable after the launch, suggesting his “evaluation” is already done.
Though the US has always treated the UN resolutions as such, it is not obvious that they are meant to forbid Iran from putting objects into orbit, nor indeed if the UN could even theoretically forbid Iran from accessing space.
The boy who cried wolf too many times …
Pompeo needs to go back to Hell.
They won’t take him Vic.
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I think that what Mr. Piggy really means is that the UN (and the world) should implement every UN resolution pertaining to Israel.
Then of course Israel would be safe within its UN recognized borders. I do not think Pompous wants that. What are the UN internationally recognized borders of Israel? Who knows. Or is this the charmed globalist first post-modern, no-borders militarism where the strongest takes all it can get — with the least harm to itself?
Does Iran have photos of Pompeo being intimate with a farm animal? Trump too? What else could explain their never ending effort to destroy them.
There is one and only reason for Iran obsession. The globalist goal is to control the globe, and the road to the domination goes through Iran. Controlling Iran means inserting US power into Caspian basin, and undermining defense, energy and trade transit of Eurasia. Russia understood it after the collapse of Soviet Union, and every attempt at normalizing relations with NATO was scornfully rebuffed. But at the time, US was guided by the policy of absorbing China into its economic-financial orbit, being sure that quaint Chinese system could not last. US diid control Iran prior to Iranian revolution, but US was at the time still recovering from Vietnam and Watergate to pursue global domination. It is only after the fall of Soviet Union that US embarked upon the goal of integrating globe under its imperial control.
And while it took no time to tell weakened Russia that it has no place at the table — it took much linger to accept that China was not going to “integrate”. The historic irony here is worthy of classical tragedies. It is by spurning the presumably weak Russia that Russia grew stronger. It had no choice. By not following Sun Tzu advice, that urges winner to always leave an exit to the defeated enemy to prevent it from fighting to death — US forced Russia to fight and strengthen. By 2014 it was obvious. China had changed its conciliatory approach being convinced that it led only to subjugation. By 2018 Russia announced its military dominance in a number of technologies. China is a silent partner there.
In 2019 Trump tested Chinese resolve, as well as applied maximum pressure in Russia and Iran. The outcome? Middle East including Saudi Arabia are slipping out of hands.
This is a dangerous spot. COVID crisis can escalate tensions into conflict. Or it can allow US to climb down from the perch. Not at all clear which one is mire likely. There are too many in our elite echelons that are fanatical zealots who would want to push for conflict , just do nit know how to limit the blowback. They are therefore still convinced that Iran is the best bet to wrong-foot both Russia and China. And with a bit of luck — get ensconced there and chisel at Russian-Chinese advantages in the area. By scaring countries like Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — inroads into Central Asia would be too powerful for challenge.
The problem with the plan? Both China and Russia get it — Iran is red line. And the longer US remains impotent in taking in Iran — the more countries in the Middle East would balance between US and Russia/China. This is already the case with Turkey and Egypt, and is increasingly the case with Gulf. Staying in Iraq and troublemaking in the region is thus the only way to remain relevant. The problem? Public opinion has soured in US even in places where once strong. And elites there are not tone deaf.
So it wasn’t because of the farm animal?
Pompeo: Every nation must follow my neocon ideology and warmongering behavior.
These weekly protestations are getting boring, further to that it does appear that Trumps sanctions are not having much affect on Iran technologically other than to make them self sufficient in many areas.
Is this the UN that we are seeking to defund?
Put fat Pompeo on the satellite and make it circle around Israel.
Those rockets are a good thing. They demonstrate deterrent power, against Israel and to a lesser extent against the US.
The risk of war is Pompeo.
Pompeo is the front man for this stupidity but he is merely the talking lackey for the vile and rabid anti-iranian “think” tanks (sic) which are amply funded by the zionist oligarchs.
Tragic but the us policy is owned by outside interests, completely contrary to the interests of the us.
Pompeo needs a willing president also. And he’s got one.
There are only two nations on earth allowed to openly kill people with impunity, launch rockets, occupy space, etc. and those are Israel and the US. When is the rest of the world going to finally figure that out and get in line?? LOL.