Washington has long been seeking to trouble the historical ties between Iran and India in a bid to lay further pressure on Iran over its progress in civilian nuclear technology and, meantime, prevent creation of strategic bonds and cooperation between the two regional powers as growing relations between Tehran and New Delhi would endanger the US foothold in the region.Mr. Jorisch writes that Iran needs money to suppress its people and facilitate terrorism. Nothing can be further from the truth. Iran is the most democratic country in the whole region.
It is certainly more democratic than many regional regimes which the US has till now propped and is still propping up. I must state that Iran has till now held more than thirty various presidential, parliamentary, municipal, local and other elections. There is a strong foundation of democratic institutions in the country. The government recently started a cash subsidy scheme for the people of the whole country.
The money is transferred every month to the bank account of each and every citizen of the country. Iran needs money for various programs like this and development of the country and not to repress its people as has wrongly been claimed by the writer of this article, who has made opposing Iran to be his profession and earns his livelihood from this. The writer is supposed to be an expert on counter terrorism. He must be knowing that Iran itself has been a victim of terrorism and has never supported it. It is also well known that Osama bin Laden has been friends with the Americans.
There are even reports that the 9/11 conspiracy on whose pretext the US attacked Afghanistan was hatched by the Americans themselves. The US has been providing help to many terrorist groups in Iran like the MKO (the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization) and Jundollah. Many terrorists sought by India are in the US. Moreover, Iran has always demanded that the term 'terrorism' should be defined and terrorism and terrorists should not be dealt with on selective basis.
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