by
Blazing Gun
Just when it looked things could not get worse in Middle-East, The
Storming of the British Embassy in Iran took place. A mob of students
ransacked the embassy, lobbed petrol bombs at it, ransacked the
premises, burnt the Union Jack and worst of all threatened to hold
hostage a terrified staff.
Does Iran realize that it is treading on a very dangerous path? The
storming took place hours after its parliament decided to downgrade
diplomatic relations with Britain. The former would have been a
sufficient response for the economic sanctions imposed on Iran.
The sacking of the US Embassy and subsequent hostage-taking of the
embassy employees is a event that is bitterly and firmly entrenched in
the collective memory of the West. Over the years its memory had
dimmed taken over by other concerns but this fresh sacking of an
embassy of a major Western power will revive old memories. The first
sacking was as morally and ethically wrong as this current one. The
first resulted in a global isolation of Iran that has cost it hundreds
of billions of dollars in trade, investment and tourism over the last
3 decades.
Iran is a country beset by severe economic problems, poverty and
unemployment. It can not afford a policy of permanent hostility to
west...Since time immemorial respect for embassies and their staff is
considered a sacred tenet. The prophet (p.b.u.h) stood firmly by this
tenet and treated diplomats with great respect and courtesy. Every
student of Muslim history knows that Mongol Invasion of Muslim lands
began only after Changez Khan's emissaries to the State of Khwarezm
were foolishly executed by its Sultan. Most of the present day Iran
was part of this state of Khwazerm.
In light of this, why is Iran trying to rouse the wrath of the present
day Mongols?? There is nothing more valuable that existence and why is
Iran risking it? Does it not realize that it faces too many enemies
who would love to take over its oil-wealth and destroy its hard won
national sovereignty?
In any case under the universally respected 1961 Vienna Conventions,
all embassies are inviolable and must be treated as their respective
nations' sovereign territory. Iran justifies its support to Northern
Alliance on the basis of the unjustifiable killing of 12 of its
diplomats by Taliban in 1990s. Then why is it trying to do similar
deeds?
The West is in its gravest economic crisis. Western powers are
thoroughly indebted and are neither willing to cut back on their
Living standards to reduce imports or reduce military expenditures to
scale down the fiscal deficit and national debt. Wisdom demands from
muslims countries that they bid their time and wait until the dragon
China and Russia are fully powerful to counter-balance the west.
But wisdom and the instinct for self-preservation seems to sadly be in
short supply in us.
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