The United States has reached a “dead end” said Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, whilst speaking on the Iran Nuclear Deal negotiations this Tuesday, stressing that the future of the Islamic Republic should not depend upon the outcome of the negotiations. This, as the US postures for a more aggressive approach in the region.
The Vienna based talks to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, are currently halted. Although reports had indicated towards the start of the Ukraine crisis, that the United States was close to closing in on a deal with Iran, largely assumed to be connected to a need for alternative resource supplies to Europe, the Biden White House now seems to be going in the other direction.
It would have made sense from Washington’s perspective to be looking into pursuing a peaceful approach against Tehran. Strategically, driving the Islamic Republic away from China and Russia, by instead attempting to link its economy to that of the West, would make the most sense if the US government’s strategy was one of isolating Moscow and Beijing. Instead, the Middle East policy, that the US Biden administration is in the process of pursuing, indicates that Washington has accepted its fate as being one super power, amongst others, in a multipolar order. The old tactic of maintaining the one world order, that the United States maintained since the end of the Cold War, seems to be there in rhetoric, but missing in action.
Despite the US being the party to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal, with no proof offered that Iran was not honoring its commitments, it is now Washington that is continuing to play the blame game with Iran. This is even after US President Joe Biden had pledged along his 2020 campaign trail to revive the deal. The talks that have been ongoing for roughly a year now in Vienna have been anything but smooth. The United States and its Middle Eastern partners have pursued an aggressive military policy against Iranian interests regionally, as Iran has continued to pushback forcefully. The Biden administration has also applied additional sanctions on Tehran during the talks.
On Wednesday, the US Navy announced that it is setting up a multi-national task force to police the seas surrounding Yemen. The military task force is set to patrol areas such as the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab and the Gulf of Aden. “These are strategically important waters that warrant our attention,” said Fifth Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, last Sunday. This development is allegedly Washington’s way of showing its Gulf allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), that is committed to their safety following rounds of drone and ballistic missile strikes on the two Gulf regimes.
The United States government allegedly seeks peace in Yemen, yet has pursued this new policy of actively going after what they claim are weapons transfers to the Ansarallah movement in Yemen, but will likely end up participating in an even deadlier siege against the impoverished nation. This is at a time when a UN-brokered cease-fire has just been put in place between Ansarallah and the Saudi-led coalition, which are at war with Yemen. Such a move may well indicate, to Riyadh, that the United States is being moved further in its favor and to take to more drastic measures against Ansarallah, destabilizing the prospects of the ceasefire’s continuation, especially in the face of Ansarallah rejections of Saudi initiatives towards peace talks.
Iran is clearly a close ally of Ansarallah in Yemen, however they deny sending the movement weapons. Although this issue is currently impossible to prove either way, it is clear that there are ample weapons available in Yemen and Ansarallah clearly are capable of producing their own weapons domestically. This is not to say they get no help from the outside, but whatever missiles or drones they need, they likely already have stored somewhere in Yemen, underground. The same can be said of the armed groups in the Gaza Strip, where the access to weapons is much more limited and the armed movements rely on smuggled imports to produce their own rockets domestically. In Gaza, the Hamas movement recently declared that it has enough weapons, stored underground, to last it a war with Israel that would go on for six consecutive months.
This being said, will the US find weapons at some point? That is very possible. However, this will not prevent Ansarallah from attacking Saudi Arabia or the UAE if it wants to. In addition to this, the US seems to be forming what some are calling the “Middle East’s NATO”, bringing closer together Israel, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Bahrain, all part of an anti-Iran axis regionally. This seems to be feeding into what many are calling the beginning of the new Cold War.
The question now should be, is this policy of aggression and war by proxy a winning strategy? Well, it’s certainly risky. Tehran is reaping the benefits of the new demand for oil resources, raising its gas prices to Asia — with China, India and others being its primary buyers — reviving the Iranian economy amid increases in demand. Iranian State-media is even talking about a “return to normal“, meaning that Iran’s economy could be picking back up to pre-sanction days.
Although the United States government claims that its sanctions policy works, it clearly has not destroyed Iran, which has now been forced to seek other means of fueling its economy. Has the US sanctions regime managed to deter Iranian aggression towards Washington’s interests in the region? The answer to this lies in the countless examples of Iran’s hardening foreign policy stance. When Iran is hit with what they consider a sanctions war, they only become more creative and aggressive in their anti-Western stance.
Iran is still thriving. Regime change has not been achieved through sanctions, despite the immense suffering of many Iranian civilians. On top of this, Washington is tangled up in a losing battle with Russia over its intervention in Ukraine. The unipolar order is falling. The US government seems to be preparing itself for confrontation on multiple fronts through its proxies and this represents the acceptance that the one world order is over. Instead of welcoming this reality, the Biden administration’s actions seem to foretell a return to its old bloodthirsty approach to the Soviet Union — an East vs West Cold War.
Of course he does….the same Zionist Jews are running the foreign policy of this nation…..what do you expect?