By Jolly Green

The
Iranians call the USA "The Big Satan." In the Caribbean and
the Americas, Members of the ‘Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples
of Our America’ [ALBA] call the U.S. "The Empire."  

ALBA
members have referred to the U.S. as satanic and often said: "you
can smell the sulfur." Ralph Gonsalves extreme left wing prime
minister of tiny Saint Vincent and the Grenadines [SVG] [members of
ALBA] is recorded as several times describing the U.S. in Cuban
meetings as "the Empire." ALBA, as a block or a group, all
support Iran. Iran is an Observer Member of ALBA. Iranian military
manned and instructed at the ALBA military school in Bolivia until
recently, now having left for Venezuela after the People's Popular
Uprising and the overthrow of the Bolivian President Evo Morales. The
Iranians also mine uranium in Venezuela, which they use for their
nuclear processing in Iran. So we can perhaps understand why in 2010
the 'Tehran Times' published this "The countries of the ALBA
alliance have expressed their support for Iran's right to use nuclear
energy meant for peaceful purposes and have condemned the imposition
of sanctions on the country." 

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/222984/ALBA-expresses-support-for-Iran-s-nuclear-rights

April 29, 2009 - 0:0 TEHRAN – Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, met President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Tuesday.

Gonsalves
arrived in Tehran Monday to hold talks with Iranian officials and was
welcomed by Iran's Vice President Parviz Davoudi.

Ahmadinejad
pointed to the good relationship between Iran and Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, saying the two countries can boost their economic
relationship and coordinate their stances at international forums.

Gonsalves
briefed Ahmadinejad on the latest developments in his country and
assessed his talks with Iranian officials as positive.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/193359/Saint-Vincent-premier-confers-with-Ahmadinejad

So there
is an active and intense Caribbean/ALBA link with Iran. For ALBA to
offer assistance, sustenance, succor, and support to Iran encourages
them to be worse.

A new
problem is now, ALBA member SVG has been appointed as a two-year
member of the U.N. Security Council, and is aligned with Iran, can
they be trusted to do the right thing? Gonsalves already votes in
tandem with or in support of Iran in the United Nations General
Assembly. Vote sold and paid for.

ALBA
Full members are Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada,
Nicaragua, Saint Kits and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, and Venezuela.

ALBA
Observer Class Members are Haiti, Iran, and Syria.

Venezuela
and Cuba and the ALBA group view the United States as an imperialist
nation, obsessed with spreading its form of government where it is
not wanted and, as a result, they consider the country a threat to
their national interests. In January 2007, Chavez and Ahmadinejad
reached a deal to unite against what they termed U.S. imperialism,
going so far as to earmark a $2 billion joint fund to provide
military aid to other nations they identified as having anti-U.S.
interests. Iran did its best to bring their hatred of the U.S. right
to the back yard of the U.S.

The most
hated enemy of Iran is Saudi Arabia. While the Iranian government and
the majority of the people hate the USA for its sanctions, many
people hate the USA and blame it for all of Iran's wrongs. Their hate
for Saudi Arabia is for very different reasons. Even though both
Saudi Arabia and Iran are Islamic theocracies, they belong to two
different sects of Islam: Iran is overwhelmingly Shia Islamic, while
Saudi Arabia is mostly Sunni Islamic. Both of the countries view
themselves as the leaders of the Islamic World, and this makes them
natural rivals. But it's not only about faith, but also about
ethnicity and history: While the Iranian population is mostly
Persian, Saudi Arabia is primarily Arab. There has always been a
Persian/Arab rivalry in the Middle East. That has been going on for
about 2000 years, which makes Saudi Arabia, Iran's biggest rival for
influence in the Middle East.

Saudi
has directly countered Iran at every opportunity. They will do
whatever is in their power to bring Iran down. They are ancient
enemies and perhaps always will be.

The UAE,
Egypt, Pakistan, and most of Northern Africa are Sunny. Most of these
countries are with Saudi Arabia. As well as stated above, they are
considered by Iran as potential threats. In an all-out war, I doubt
these countries would have minimal problems going against Iran in
support of Saudi Arabia. 

Mainly
who hates who in the Middle East, boils down to the Shia-Sunni
divide. Iran is a majority Shia Muslim country and is allied with the
Shia countries of the Middle East, which includes countries led by
Shia leaders; even if their population is majority Sunni [like
Syria]. Iran happens to be at the lead of these countries through its
infiltration, military support, and direction.

The
Sunni countries of the Middle East, led by Saudi Arabia, are the
enemy of Iran. You can almost always understand who is against whom
when it comes to Iran by merely determining which party is the Shia
and which is the Sunni.

The
second arch-enemy of Iran is not the USA, but Israel. There is
anti-Semitism in Iran amongst the general public, and the government
uses Israel as a scapegoat because of this badly want to destroy
Israel. Given the opportunity, they would attempt to destroy them.
That would probably prove a fatal move on the part of Iran because
Israel has nuclear missiles and would not hesitate to use them in
self-defense. The Iranians consider any nation who is not Muslim as
infidels, and worthless dirty dogs. They do not want atomic weapons
to attack the U.S.; they want those weapons, crave those weapons, to
attack Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Iran’s
allies are allies for different reasons. Some because of religion,
some for political and financial goals. Russia, China, India,
Venezuela, Cuba, and the rest of the ALBA group, being infidels are
certainly not linked allies through religion. They are mostly
connected as strategic and commercial partners. While Yemen Lebanon,
Iraq, Syria, Turkey, also groups such as Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiite
militia are religious allies.

I have
said this several times before in my writings. It is time for the
U.S. to take another look at the Americas and Caribbean countries
that support Iran for whatever reasons. The U.S. is continually
plying the Caribbean with USAID, and the leaders of those countries
are not at all grateful. In fact, in return, they are downright
disrespectful and a danger to the well being and good of the USA. It
emanates from Cuba and is spread through ALBA by some of its
spokesmen, such as Ralph E Gonsalves. 

There is
currently a USAID funding for schools that appears to be almost
Caribbean wide [ELP]. So some ALBA members take the aid and simply
fail to tell their public where it came from.

Most of
these countries support and help Iran with its dangerous and nasty
American hatred. The majority of the peoples are great, even in Iran,
some friendly people would love to have peace and good relations with
the U.S., but the leadership is stopping the people from having what
they deserve, friendship, and goodwill. 

America
has left acting against Iran until very late in the scheme of things.
Perhaps, they should have moved a long time ago. They have had good
reason to do so on many occasions. Until Trump's recent removal from
this life of the Iranian Gen Qasem Soleimani, not enough courage has
been available in the previous US presidents.

Should
we continue to allow Iran and its leadership to hold the World
hostage whenever they feel like it?  

By
Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green,

America
was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination
and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman.

IMAGE: Supplied

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