A Terrorist's Blunder

It seems to me that those billions of dollars of Iranians' money the Islamic regime in Tehran has spent to create and maintain the Lebanese Hezbollah, terrorist organisation, over the last three decades has returned its dividend. Beside sponsoring terror operations, it has also made the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrollah, confused. Two days ago, he called Iran an Arab country! "There is nothing Persian about Iran", he said.

I can only envisage two possibilities for such a blunder. First, since Hezbollah is the main suspect in the investigation currently undertaken by the UN tribunal commissioned to investigate the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafigh al-Harriri; Nasrollah himself is under immense international pressure. Nasrollah has recently rejected further access to his lieutenants. However and regardless of his rejection the tribunal is closing on his lieutenants, and he has visibly panicked. After all he is the head of this terrorist organisation and understandably under his command nothing would have been executed without his blessing. He has all motivations to have simply wanted to divert the international attention away from himself - or perhaps his godfathers in Tehran!

The second possibility on the other hand may well be related to the pressure on his godfathers in Tehran. Representative of whom, appointed president Ahmadi Nejad, was in Lebanon recently. While he was there, tension was on the rise all over the region. President al-Assad of Syria, Nasrollah himself and even the current Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Harriri, the son of the late Rafigh Harriri, all talked about the fragile political situation of the Middle East. Ahmadi Nejad has taken his government domestic troubles to the region - mainly Lebanon. His government and the Islamic regime are under pressure both domestically and internationally. On the domestic front, since the last year election coup they have lost their legitimacy. Millions of Iranians on streets of Iranian cities were chanting against the so-called Supreme Leader and his appointee president.

At International level they are on the collision course with the international community over their nuclear stand off. The interesting point however is that they are unable to divorce this challenge from their domestic problems - human and democratic rights for the Iranian people strongly demanded at the last ballot boxes. Undoubtedly the international community has heard the Iranians' wish and responded accordingly. The UN Security Council and the US have drawn the yet toughest sanctions against the regime of Tehran. The new sanctions have mainly targeted the Revolutionary Guards Corp and its generals. However, since the generals have their hands all over the country's economy, these new measures will have negative effects on almost all aspects of the life of ordinary people on streets. And perhaps this is the nexus which connects the dots between Ahmadi Nejad's recent trip to Lebanon, talks of rising tension in the region and the Nasrollah's blunder.

Notwithstanding of these possibilities and/or the intention behind his nonsense talk about Iran; Hassan Nasrollah must seek new fathers elsewhere. Because human rights and democracy for Iran are inevitable. And a democratic Iran does not need a terrorist and his organisation; and will definitely not spend a single cent on them!