The west is the bad guy

It is almost impossible to avoid adopting the language of the war-mongering "west". But every now and then, someone says something that gives you hope that it can be done. I watched a recent YouTube video in which a UK radio talking head called Shelagh Fogarty was interviewing Prof. Mohamed Marandi about the US-Israel war on Iran. She described him as being "close to the Iranian regime". When he called her out for the way she had phrased things, she tried to walk it back by saying that he had "access to Iranian government officials" the same as she to UK government officials. But when he asked her why she referred to the Iranian government as a "regime" but did not call the UK government a "regime, she swiftly moved on to a different topic.

We have been programmed to accept the presumption that the "west" are the good guys in all wars and that whoever they happen to be waging war on is the bad guy. We have also been programmed to accept that the Jewish state, located in West Asia, is part of the "west" and, therefore, any country it wages war on must, of necessity, be the bad guy and the Jewish state is the good guy. Obviously, among many quarters, that presumption is considered to be arrant bullshit.

We are encouraged, even today, to consider the nature of the Islamic Republic only through the lens of the "west" aka the United States and Israel, and to ignore everything the "west" has done to the Islamic Republic since the end of the Second World War. When viewed particularly through the lens provided by the United States, the Islamic Republic is made up of terrorists whose perfidy is beyond doubt because US nationals were taken hostage in Iran during the 1978 revolution that brought down the puppet regime that had been imposed on Iranian people by the United States and United Kingdom.

The liberation movements that the Islamic Republic has supported, particularly in Palestine, have been branded "terrorists" for opposing the continued occupation of Palestine by the Jewish state and for the continued illegal dispossession of Palestinians through so-called "settlements". Those with historical perspectives can see parallels in the way the British continue to occupy Northern Ireland and the United States refuses to relinquish its hold over the Chagos Islands.

So it is no surprise that a Briton, steeped in the [un]righteous assumption that White Is Right, would automatically brand the government of the islamic Republic as a "regime" with all the negative connotations of that branding and not do the same with the government of Perfidious Albion, a government that has supported in word and deed the waging of an unjust war of aggression against the Islamic Republic.

The world is slowly abandoning old assumptions because of the way the "west" has conducted itself in West Asia. The scales are falling from our eyes as we witness nuclear-armed belligerents fail, time and again, to browbeat the Islamic Republic into submissions, a failure that stretches back to the Islamic Revolution, a failure that has laid bare the impotency of their nuclear arsenals. Maybe the "west" will prevail, but even if it does, it will be at great cost to it and its peoples. More significantly, more and more peoples will begin to accept the assumption that the "west" is really the bad guy.