TEHRAN CELEBRATES NUCLEAR DEAL

World powers surrendered to Iran

By Erez Linn

Israel Hayom
September 6, 2015

Anyone following official media reports coming out of Iran since the completion of a nuclear agreement between Tehran and Western powers on July 14 will undoubtedly note a recurring refrain: A profound sense of victory. The reports emphasize again and again that the deal is an enormous achievement for the Islamic republic, cementing its status as a superpower that managed to bend the international community to its will.

An overview conducted by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors media reports across the region, reveals that in recent weeks Iran has celebrated not only its own strength in regard to the agreement, but also world powers' impotence in terms of sanctions and the military option. Iranian officials believe Iran is a superpower of equal standing to the U.S. and that the West is too afraid of Iran's "majesty" and "steadfastness" to attack.

A report from July 15, a day after the agreement was signed, in a publication affiliated with the Iran Revolutionary Guard, asserted that the U.S.'s willingness to compromise with Iran proves
that Tehran and Washington share a similar status.

According to the report on the Javan website, "The wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the dozens of other crimes in Latin America show that America's leadership tradition has never been diplomacy. Superpowers see themselves as too big to waste their time in negotiations and diplomacy with Third World or smaller countries. They are used to determining how others should behave by waving their finger, and fulfilling their interests by way of military assault. America's diplomatic record includes several rounds of talks with the former Soviet Union. Therefore, we can say that from World War II to 1990, America's leadership tradition championed diplomacy or negotiations only vis-à-vis powers of equal standing," read a report on the Javan website

"[U.S. President Barack] Obama's statements defending negotiating with Iran can lead to one of two conclusions: Either America views Iran and its deterrence as equal to those of the former Soviet Union ... or America does not have the status it once did."

Similar reports appeared in Sobh-e Sadeq, the weekly publication put out by the Revolutionary Guard. In a July 27 editorial, senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Yadollah Javani, wrote that the U.S. has been too afraid of Iran in recent years to launch a military strike.

"We can prove that in past years, the U.S. was incapable of carrying out, and could not work up the courage to carry out, a military assault on Iran. In the past decade, the Americans and Zionists have repeatedly threatened to attack Iran, but due to their deep concerns regarding the implications of a possible war against [Iran], they have not followed through with their threats," Javani wrote. "Therefore, American officials announced that Iran's nuclear dossier would only be resolved by diplomatic means."

Javani believes that "throughout all these years the Americans threatened to attack Iran militarily, but both they and others, including the Iranian nation, knew full well that this threat was mainly psychological warfare, and that America could not start another war in West Asia."

On August 24, 2015, the website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei published a poster titled "The Iron Fist," symbolizing Iran's might following the agreement. The text on the poster states: "Those who leveled sanctions against us yesterday are dying today, because Iran has become the region's foremost military power.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has proven that it works diligently to defend itself. The entire nation unites as a solid fist, standing fast against the aggressors who lack all reason."

On August 30, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan remarked at an armed forces general command ceremony that "today, Iran has attained such status that the superpowers have surrendered to it, because of its majesty, its steadfastness, its resistance and its unity.

"Despite their great pride, the regime of the arrogance [the West, led by the U.S.] sat humbly behind the negotiating table and obeyed the rights of the Iranian nation," he added.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Now this isn’t exactly the way President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have been trying to sell the Iranian nuclear arms agreement to the country. So who is right? We’ll probably never know … that is until the Iranians have the bomb.