TEHRAN (Iran News) – The West and especially the U.S. is gradually coming to its sense that the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a country to fall apart under pressure and those countries have to respect the Islamic establishment because Iran is now a powerful regional country and it is even one of the most influential countries in the world.
Since 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, the U.S. and its allies have tried to put the country under different types of pressures, mostly under economic sanctions, but they have failed to achieve anything but making Iran more powerful and independent.
Every time some Western politicians or political bodies and institutions acknowledge that Iran will not bow to the aliens’ pressure at any cost but unfortunately the U.S. and its allies do not want to accept this reality and they continue insisting on their stupid strategy of stepping up pressure.
Recently a report published in the U.S. media revealed the true power of the Islamic Republic of Iran and failure of the West in bringing down this Islamic state.
A panel of experts at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) has recently listed U.S. miscalculations about Iran, saying the Islamic Republic is “extremely unlikely” to fall apart under foreign pressure and sanctions.
SAIS’s RETHINKING IRAN project has outlined “core policy principles” with regard to Iran, saying “it aims to provide the policy community with the most academically grounded analysis of contemporary Iran”.
“We are particularly focused on the effects of sanctions on Iranian society and the necessity for a ‘reexamination’ of sanctions policy rooted in sober social science,” the panel said.
“We hope to reach a bi-partisan audience through our work, particularly those officials who do not believe that the cruel effects of sanctions on the lives of everyday Iranians were precisely the goal of enacting such sanctions in the first place,” it said.
“We also contend that another U.S.-led war in the Middle East is clearly not in the American national interest,” it added.
The academic initiative lists ten “core policy principles” related to America’s Iran policy, saying many of these principles are applicable irrespective of the outcome of the current negotiations to return the U.S. to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has proven to have a uniquely durable capacity to survive in comparison to other revolutionary” establishments, the panel said, noting that it is “extremely unlikely to fall apart as a result of foreign pressure, either by means of kinetic intervention, sanctions or support of opposition organizations”.
According to the analysis, the Iranian establishment “consists of rational actors making decisions on domestic and international policy out of conceptions of national interests”.
The establishment, it says, “is neither irrationally messianic nor anti-Semitic in its hard power calculations”.
Moreover, Iranian society and politics have shifted to “an intensification of Iranian nationalism that includes a populist religious element”.
“This element is strengthened by the popular perception that Iran has been humiliated by foreign powers and subjected to inhumane suffering due to U.S.-imposed sanctions,” it said.
Such elements, it added, have broadened the Islamic Republic’s base of support within Iranian society.
The analysis explained that the U.S. and Israeli assassinations of senior figures such as General Qassem Soleimani and the head of Iran’s nuclear program Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – along with the foreign sabotage of nuclear facilities – have intensified this dynamic.
According to the report, “a Cold War posture of the US towards Iran does not realistically account for the complexity of Iran and the U.S.’s relationship in the context of the current power relations structuring the international community and the attendant regional dynamics”.
“Furthermore, Iran is not the Soviet Union, and a Cold War positioning and pursuit of a containment strategy modeled after US Soviet policy is neither appropriate nor realistic.”
The fifth principle listed by the study states that the Trump-era “maximum pressure” sanctions and the assassinations of Gen. Soleimani and Fakhrizadeh have neither led to a realignment of Iran’s regional posture nor halted the pursuit of the nuclear energy program.
“Instead, these actions have achieved quite the opposite results. These activities only strengthen actors opposed to increased cooperation and dialogue with the United States.”
It advises that a rejoining of the U.S. in the nuclear deal must be accompanied by mechanisms that allow foreign business entities especially those in Europe to be confident in their investments into the Iranian economy.
This is not the first time such a confession and analysis is made or released by a Western institution and all of them have admitted that Iran is strong enough to overcome the Western pressure although the country may face some turbulence but it can safely pass it.
Recent developments in the region and the reports on the talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia is another proof to this claim that all the countries in the region have realized that Iran is not a country to fall into apart under pressures and they have better to make friend with this peace-loving country which is the pride of the Muslim world in resisting against the aliens’ dominance and meddling in its domestic affairs.
So it is time for the U.S. to read this report and come to its sense and to put its hostility toward Iran and Iranians because this country will endure any pressure and will have proper response to any atrocity in its due time. Therefore if the West seeks peace and stability in the region it is better to leave the region and stop using the lever of sanctions or war against the countries in the region because this lever is a threadbare tactic which has no effect especially on the Islamic Republic.
