The Death of the Millennial Left by Chris Cutrone;
Author:Chris Cutrone; [Cutrone, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookMobile
Published: 2023-03-21T15:17:13+00:00
The failure of the Islamic Revolution
The nature of the present crisis in Iran
The election crisis that unfolded after June 12 has exposed the vulnerability of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), a vulnerability that has been driving its ongoing confrontation with the U.S. and Europe, for instance on the question of acquiring nuclear technology and its weapons applications.
While the prior U.S. administration under Bush had called for âregime changeâ in Iran, President Obama has been more conciliatory, offering direct negotiations with Tehran. This opening met with ambivalence from the Islamic Republic establishment; some favored while others opposed accepting this olive branch offered by the newly elected American president. Like the recent coup in Honduras, the dispute in Iran has been conditioned, on both sides, by the âregime changeâ that has taken place in the United States. A certain testing of possibilities in the post-Bush II world order is being mounted by allies and opponents alike. One dangerous aspect of the mounting crisis in Iran has been the uncertainty over how the Obama administration might address it.
The U.S. Republican Party and neoconservatives, now in the opposition, and recently elected Israeli Right-wing politicians have demanded that the U.S. keep up the pressure on the IRI and have expressed skepticism regarding Iranian âreformâ candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. European statesmen on both Right and Left have, for their part, made strident appeals for âdemocracyâ in Iran. But Obama has tried to avoid the pitfalls of either exacerbating the confrontation with the IRI or undermining whatever hopes might be found with the Iranian dissidents, whether of the dominant institutions of the Islamic Republic such as Mousavi or of the more politically indeterminate mass protests. Obama is seeking to keep his options open, however events end up resolving in Iran. While to some this appears as an equivocation or even a betrayal of Iranian democratic aspirations, it is simply typical Obama realpolitik. A curious result of the Obama administrationâs relatively taciturn response has been the IRIâs reciprocal reticence about any U.S. role in the present crisis, preferring instead, bizarrely, to demonize the British as somehow instigating the massive street protests.
The good faith or wisdom of the new realpolitik is not to be doubted, however, especially given that Obama wants neither retrenchment nor the unraveling of the Islamic Republic in Iran. As chief executive of what Marx called the âcentral committeeâ of the American and indeed global ruling class, Obama might not have much reasonable choice for alternative action. The truth is that the U.S. and European states can deal quite well with the IRI so long as it does not engage in particularly undesirable behaviors. Their problem is not with the IRI as such â but the Leftâs ought to be.
The reigning confusion around the crisis in Iran has been expressed, on the one hand, in statements defending Mahmoud Ahmadinejadâs claim to electoral victory by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and by individual writers in the supposedly Leftist Monthly Review and its MRZine web publication (which also has
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