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Regarding Iran, is it a clear vision or the principle of "Deceptive concealment for self protection"?
Al-Riyadh Editorial
Published in Alriyadh on 04 - 06 - 2014

Iran had witnessed the stages of Rafsanjani, Khatami & Nejad's governments and had passed through each of the pragmatic and extremist conservative orientations. However, the arrival of Rohani to the power may not be the last stage in the contemporary Iranian Politics School as the motive of the internal opposition has become to declare its voice before the condition of National resources drainage as such resources have been used for spreading the revolution all over the world, in addition to that the costs of the nuclear project that has caused an economic embargo to Iran which is still a third world country which cannot bear its consequences, especially if we consider that its budgets are used for armament at the expense of the Iranian citizen's bread.
The apparent events reveal that the army and the Republican Guards are having deep conflict between them as the latest has monopolized the state's projects, revenues and security authorities and has marginalized any role that the army may do. Such behavior has led to a contradiction in regard to specifying the task of each of them and its traditional and practical role. Moreover, the conflict did not hide that Rohani is classified among the rows of the moderate front which refuses the Guide's (i.e. the highest leader) and the Republican Guards' domination of the state under the claim of a spiritual authority deriving its sovereignty from God which is supported by a power subject to such holy willingness. This trend is related to a state which is looking for adjusting the track or pathway of its international relationships which had been totally distorted by Nejad together with playing such role with being under the guardianship of the "Guide" and the tyranny of his guards.
What concerns us is that in spite of that the Iranian internal events course represents a private matter, the existence of strong indicators about Iranian willingness for establishing a rapprochement with Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, from Rohani's Government in particular, is a welcomed approach if it indicates a willingness driven by binding compromises rather than establishing a relationship based on a "Deceptive concealment for self protection" for making a temporary truce that can be violated later under new flaming disputes.
In reality, there are supreme interests for which any agreements are made and such interests' economic, social and security benefits are understood by the two parties of the agreement. However, determinants of the willingness should be established on a common understanding which states that the trend of building a power and showing it off in every occasion does not build a trust which leads to forming a protocol of honest and open dealing. This is due to that all the conflicts and wars occurred in the world had led to forgetting such tragedies for the sake of creating standards of peace, cooperation and respects of other states sovereignty, laws and rights.
Gulf Cooperation Council states had started such trend through real initiatives that have resulted in highest levels visits during the time of the two leaderships that followed Khomeini. There had been excellent opportunities for confirming the two parties' roles together with the necessity for constructing a positive work system. However, Iran had violated such rule and transformed it to an attempt of declared extension or imposition of influence over Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, in addition to its alliance with the "Houthis" in Yemen for destabilizing its condition and employing them for reating a disorder in Gulf Cooperation Council states. No Iranian government, regardless of its being moderate or extremist, can hide such matter. Accordingly, any return for complete dealing shall be subject to opening such countries files and the effect of such Iranian intervention on the entire Arab security.
If Iran believes that it is an important regional power which can oblige these countries to march as per its will; it shall be having no idea about the nature of the dispute itself and its negative consequences on it. It shall discover that such condition represents a draining for it and for the said countries which are running towards the unknown. Such burdens may threaten the security of Iran itself in a similar way to how Afghanistan had led to the fall of the Soviet Union and ending the American wars behavior as it is difficult to keep on leading a futile policy in spite of that the said major powers had been the most capable countries for bearing such responsibilities. Thus, Iran needs to read the reality logically to become able of creating positive conditions for improving its reputation in its surrounding and out of it together with forgetting the establishment of great empires which had ended by the fall of the British Empire and shall not achieved by any other state or power.


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