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State of Emergency in the Ocean and the Gulf
Published in AL HAYAT on 17 - 03 - 2011

A state of emergency and a curfew were imposed in Bahrain… The entire Arab world is in the eye of the storm, while this “emergency” is prevailing after the dreams violated the red lines. All the peaceful rights are respected, but so should be the security of countries. Who can conceal the doubts in regard to the identity of the side fueling the storm?
Throughout decades, the world saw nothing from the Arab Gulf except its wealth, its oil and the investment and construction projects in the refineries of massive gains. It forgot, or rather disregarded, the right of the people of the region to its wealth, thus tampering with the fuse of the conflicts to earn legitimacy for its fingers, “advice” and the Western consultants who always contribute with war projects. Therefore, the question today revolves around whether or not the goal is to trigger a regional conflict through the gateway of the internationalization of the human rights issue.
So far, Obama's Washington has failed to impose its tutelage over the stormy transformations sweeping through the entire Arab world following the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. True, the two regimes whose eras are now being folded in Cairo and Tunis, committed the unforgivable and forcibly suppressed the dreams of the youth and their rights to decent living. However, what is also true is that the defense of the American intention is a naïve and foolish act, seeing how Obama's administration dealt with the Palestinians' right that are crushed a thousand times each day, and with the rights of the Libyans who are now being exterminated by the Jamahiriya's brigades while the West is awaiting an opportunity to save them, but is unable to find it.
In the face of the massacre project in Benghazi, the West is waiting, and in the face of the project of anarchy in the Gulf, America is still offering advice and expanding the doubts surrounding its intentions and roles, especially seeing how its rhetoric is converging with Iran's fear over the rights of the Gulf populations. The latter fear has become an addiction which the Iranian command cannot get rid of, despite the fact that it is sometimes distracted by the pursuit of the oppositionists on its domestic arena while accusing them of provoking “strife.” That is naturally a purely internal affair, while the affairs of the Gulf populations and the Arabs in general are treated differently by Tehran, and we all know its chapters and bitterness.
Did Bahrain ever protest against any agreement signed by Iran with any state? But the Iranian command is protesting against the entry of the Peninsula Shield Force to Bahrain, while remaining the captive of the territorial claims.
Ahmadinejad's complaints about “American injustice” assure that Washington has appointed itself a guardian over the region. Still, Ahmadinejad is an extraordinary guardian himself as he brings back to mind Saddam's fate. Indeed, he threatens and menaces, knowing that the most dangerous thing that can be done when playing on the opportunism of America and the West, is to use a weapon that will not harm the West and mainly damage the Arabs and Iran.
While we refused – on Tahrir Square – the lessons of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who had come to teach the youth of the revolution about democracy and its roles, should we listen to the president who is being treated unfairly by America, and is facing the Iranian “agents” who had become traitors worthy of execution just for having opposed his election when he is giving us orders to ensure the fair treatment of the people?
The most dangerous facet at the level of Ahmadinejad's weapons is the instigation of sectarianism, no matter how hard he tries to promote Tehran's fictive conflict with America and Israel “to serve Muslim rights.” Let him remember that the number one priority on Tahrir Square and in Sidi Bouzid was livelihood and freedom. Let him wait to see whether or not the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutionaries will raise the banners of the impossible normalization with the thieves of Palestine, and whether or not they need Ahmadinejad's parenthood and the sympathy of Hillary Clinton who was not awaited with flowers in Cairo.
Tehran has become addicted to outbidding and this is not the complaint of the rulers alone. And when the ropes of deceit started detaching, the winds of sectarianism blew even harder. At this level, the most risky plot concocted by non-Arabs to the Arabs everywhere, is the confiscation of the march for reforms in a certain location, and its dismantlement in another through the dismantling of the entities.
The worst that can be done is to play with the fire of sectarianism, while the godfather of advice and the “Virtuous” Republic is forgetting that once this fire is started, it cannot be extinguished with missiles or the eternal revolution whose shrapnel only affected the Arabs and their rightful causes.
The region cannot ignore reform. However, it must not tolerate those carrying out the comprehensive destruction of nations under the pretext of bringing down the regimes, and always in favor of the “wise” in their democracies in the West and their pride in the East at the expense of the blood of all the Arab martyrs.
As for the dubious threat with Saddam's fate, it is no longer of any use for Iran in its attempts to intimidate any of its neighbors, at a time when its revolution under Ahmadinejad accomplished nothing but “soft” enmity with Washington and a booby-trapped “brotherhood” with the region, which will definitely hasten the confrontation between Tehran and the Gulf states.


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