By Nil
Nikandrov
November 18, 2011
After a long break caused
by serious health problems, Venezuela's H. Chavez resumed on November 15 the
practice of televised addresses on key policy issues. As a key message prompted
by the recent developments, the Venezuelan leader sent to his nation and to the
international community a strong warning about the threat of a nuclear conflict
currently brewing in the Middle East…
“There’s a nuclear war threat...The most guilty [of this risk] is the United States government and its allies such as Israel, who have many nuclear bombs,” said Chavez in a voice full of emotion.
The US propaganda
campaign built around the myth of Iran's nuclear-arms ambitions has been
unfolding for years, growing increasingly hysterical in the process.
Chavez at all times
reiterated Venezuela's support for Iran, expressing confidence in the civilian
character of the country's nuclear program. The statements invariably drew Washington’s
ire or even allegations of the Venezuelan regime's complicity with Ahmadinejad
in secretly building nuclear weapons.
Among other groundless
claims, the US information warfare forces floated the fictitious story of
uranium mining in Venezuela in the interests of the Iranian nuclear program and
even fed to the media photographs of the Venezuelan uranium mine which, as it
transpired shortly:
actually showed a bicycle-assembling factory which used Iranian-supplied components.
No apologies followed, as
for the Empire lies are a normal instrument employed to influence the world
around. The world is used to hearing lies from US presidents, secretaries of
state, defense secretaries, bankers, journalists, diplomats, and intelligence
operatives.
ED: How low has this
country sunk over the past few decades from leader to liar in the international
community!
The intensity of alarmist
call for a global war on terror, ostensibly to counter the terrorist threat
targeting the US at all angles, peaked in the wake of the September 11, 2001
drama when the Trade Center in NY was blown up on the order from the US “shadow
government”. A tide of US special operations immediately swept across the world
from Afghanistan and Iraq to Russia.
At the moment Syria, like
Iran, is facing an unprecedented smear campaign. Armed groups trained by the US
and Israeli intelligence services are penetrating the country with the mission
of destabilizing Bashar al-Assad's regime and igniting clashes, which could be
cited internationally as a pretext for an intervention.
ED: Gosh! Just like in
Libya… when will people of the Western world see the lies, these consistent inconsistencies, for what
they really are and take action!
The mercenaries'
atrocities in Syria seem to indicate that they have been trained by the US,
Israeli, and French instructors who gained much of their past experience in
Libya. Israeli commandos and Mossad operatives are particularly notorious for
cruelty.
Tel Aviv is fanning the
internal strife in Syria to weaken the country militarily in the run-up to air
raids against Iran's allegedly arms-related nuclear infrastructures, along with
its command and communication centers, air-defense installations, and munitions
depots.
With memories still fresh
of what happened in Iraq and Libya, of the sufferings the countries'
populations had to endure, and of the killings of S. Hussein and M. Gadhafi,
Iran is determined to fight back in every way possible, and the Pentagon is
fully aware of the perspective.
US military planners
warned the White House that the consequences of a military campaign against
Iran can prove unpredictable, and B. Obama, who has permanently looked
exhausted recently, decided to take time and, within several weeks, to consult
with the US allies.
The forecast at the
moment is that Washington will not go beyond pushing for tighter sanctions against
Iran, but chances are the US is simply trying to cause Tehran to lose
vigilance.
The pro-Zionist global
media provide extensive coverage of the potential plans for an attack on Iran,
throwing in pieces of disinformation or attempting to intimidate the country.
At the end of a long
process of forging evidence of Iran's making dirty bombs and bacteriological
warfare in secret laboratories, the Western intelligence agencies may have
started to believe in what they preached and now take seriously Tehran's
pledges of a crushing retaliatory strike.
From Chavez's
perspectives, neither the US nor Israel can be trusted, Iran has serious
reasons for concern, and provocations can take place any moment.
Iran's foes have no
shortage of prefabricated scenarios, and some of the Western analysts in fact
suggested using tactical nuclear weapons to inflict maximal damage on the
Iranian military infrastructure.
This may be the reason
why Chavez had to stress that no government has the right to resort to nuclear
weapons as no nations, including their own, would stay unharmed, and the
radioactivity would put life on Earth as a whole in jeopardy.
In September, 2011,
Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolás Maduro delivered a message on behalf of
Chavez to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly. The sense of concern
behind the talk resonated with the audience as Maduro said:
“an unprecedented, imperialist and permanent war had begun”.
The Venezuelan envoy
maintained that”
the unlimited power of the military and financial oligarchy which, to boost its own revenues, is destroying the world and de facto runs a large group of countries, leads the world to a global catastrophe.
He further stressed that
war has to be a way of life for the financial capital as, destroying societies;
wars help the chosen few to amass unbelievable riches.
In the nearest future the
world will be confronted with the threat of a new series of colonial wars being
unleashed, with Libya as the starting point, to revitalize the global
capitalist system now trapped in a deep structural crisis.
It is clear that the
escalation around Iran and Syria, least the launch of military campaigns
against the two countries, would cast a long shadow over the relations between
Moscow and Washington.
For Moscow, the independence
and sovereignty of Iran and Syria are important from the standpoint of
geopolitical stability along Russia's southern frontier, and the Kremlin
becomes increasingly vocal about this aspect of the situation.
So far, there is no
impression that Washington and Tel Aviv, eager to make another step towards
global dominance are ready to take Moscow's position into account.
Discussing ways of taming
the US and NATO, Chavez constantly invokes the themes of the multipolar world,
alternative centers of power, and the cooperation between such countries as
China, Russia, India, and Brazil in the name of peace.
So far, however, their
leaders appear to be lacking the will needed to put an end to the rising
neocolonialism and unabashed international banditry.
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