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| Stalin,Roosevelt and Churchill, 1943, Tehran, Iran |
A friend of mine has asked me about Iran’s position against the Daesh. “Iran actually is the only country who is in the ground combatting against the Daesh. The US don’t want ro send troops, Europ can not, Turkish priority is the Kurdish forces. Even the Iraqi army don’t have the courage to fight against Daesh.” I said. He asked me if we, Iranians, are going to be allied with Russia against the US. “It is not against the US. Recently we have had serious negotiations with the US and achieved an agreement between us which is going ri reduce the level of our long-lasting conflict.”
He asked: So who do you prefer? We are going to follow our interests. Iran is at the same time developing his with west economically, and making an alliance with Russia geo-politically. After the 1979 revolution in Iran, our position was that we do not belong to any cold war bloc. “neither west, nor east” was a slogan. Maybe because of this, in the period of Iran-Iraq war both Russia and the US supported Saddam. Even France sold chemical weapons to Saddam which were used against the cities. I argued and added despite all this history we are resolving our conflict and are going to improve our relations. Making the nuclear deal with the US, welcoming Europeans investors to the Iran market, and form an alliance against a disaster like Daesh with Russia, which is no one else actually conforts with any real effort.
During this whole conversations, I was thinking about our history with Russia and US. I was reviewing in my head about all iranian soil which was separated from Iran after Russian invasions or the US coup against our first democratic government. I just feel proud that my country 35 years after the 1979 revolution and with all the dissatisfactions that we have had after, at least we have achieved our independence. It was so expensive however we have paid and we act independently now.
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