Talk about confusion of values. As the timeline of the Middle East spins forward the values instilled in the region by democracies were all well intentioned, but, never well received.
“The Iranian people’s revolution (click here) is only a point in the start of the revolution of the great world of Islam.”The word is FUNDAMENTALISM.
Iran's revolution that ousted the Shah and instilled an Imam began to mire the region in fundamentalism and violence. The hate propagated by the Ayatollah Khomeini was pure venom. The USA would eventually be labeled the "Great Satan."
U.S. is ‘Great Satan,’ Britain ‘evil’: Khamenei (click here)Says Tehran has no intention of cooperating on regional issues with its 2 main enemies.
Nice.
Now, the United States has enemies according to Islamic Fundamentalist Leaders. These boys have attitude problems and it shows in their people. The Iranian people are some of the most disgruntled people in the world. Does their leadership care? Hell, no! The leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran (did I get that right?) oppresses it's people and kills them as they seek to demonstrate in the streets.
Yeah, I got that right.
The Islamic Republic of Iran (click here)A Dangerous Regime
Now, decades later, the demonstration of power of terrorists under Arafat (Nobel Peace Prize Winner) is amplified by the revolution within Iran. Iran is a sovereign authority.
I don't care about the idea that the Shah was a bad leader, that is up to history. Obviously, the Iranian Revolution is over, so all that Shah stuff in the year 2024 is mute. The hated of the civilized world by Iran is based in old scenarios of hate and violence. Basically, Islamic fundamentalism is dangerous to the global environment and as viewed through the lens of Ukraine reeking havoc on people that are no more interested in Islamic Fundamentalism than the "Man in the Moon."
There is one other thing I need to discuss before moving on and it is a huge picture yet to be appreciated in any social communication in hopes to inspire peace in the world that will interpret into the survival of a planet.
By Carla Babb
Pentagon - After nearly a two-week delay, (click here) U.S. and Nigerien officials are holding high-level follow-on meetings to coordinate the withdrawal of American troops from the country.
Christopher Maier, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, and Lieutenant General Dagvin Anderson, joint staff director for joint force development, are meeting Wednesday and Thursday in Niamey with members of Niger’s new government, known as the National Council for Safeguarding the Homeland, or CNSP, two U.S. officials told VOA.
The CNSP posted on the social platform X Wednesday that Maier and Anderson met Wednesday with Lieutenant General Salifou Mody, one of the military coup members who was named minister of national defense.
The CNSP noted that the meeting comes two months after Niger denounced its military basing agreements with the United States and aims to “ensure that this withdrawal takes place in the best possible conditions, guaranteeing order, security and compliance with set deadlines.”
There are about 900 U.S. military personnel in Niger, including active duty, civilians and contractors, according to the U.S. officials, who spoke to VOA on condition of anonymity ahead of the conclusion of the talks. Most of the U.S. military personnel have stayed in the country past their deployment’s planned end dates, as details for their withdrawal are ironed out.
“We're still in a bit of a holding pattern,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said last week....
Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and continued movement east to the Arabian Peninsula, where is the Free World? These are the southern countries to North Africa. Where did ISIS call home? North Africa as they lined up on beaches to threaten the Free World on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea.
May 14, 2024...In an exclusive interview, (click here) Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine put the blame for the breakdown squarely on the United States, accusing American officials of trying to dictate which countries Niger could partner with and failing to justify the U.S. troop presence, now scheduled to end in the coming months. Niger has been central to efforts to contain a growing Islamist insurgency in West Africa....
It is not the USA that is the problem. It is the shift in values that occurred in Niger that opens up the land to what the USA would consider enemies. Niger changed, the USA did not.
May 16, 2024...Tensions between West African neighbors Niger and Benin (click here) began with the July 2023 military coup in Niger and the arrest of the country's democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum.
West African bloc ECOWAS condemned the coup and imposed sanctions on the Nigerien military regime led by General Abdourahamane Tiani.
In Benin, the protests against the coup leaders were particularly explicit. Beninese President Patrice Talon loudly demanded Bazoum's reinstatement and even advocated for a military intervention by ECOWAS troops against the coup leaders in Niger....
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
Washington - Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger (click here) that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel U.S. forces.
The military officers ruling the West African nation have told the U.S. to withdraw its nearly 1,000 military personnel from the country, which until a coup last year had been a key partner for Washington's fight against insurgents who have killed thousands of people and displaced millions more....
In thinking about North Africa...
April 2, 2015
More than nine-in-ten people in the Middle East and North Africa (click here) were Muslim as of 2010 (93%), and the share of the region’s population that is Muslim is expected to be slightly higher in 2050 (94%).
The Middle East-North Africa region’s Muslim population is expected to grow by 74% from 2010 to 2050, from 317 million to 552 million. Christians and Jews are projected to remain the second- and third-largest religious groups in the region, respectively, with more modest population gains of 43% and 46%....
...it is prudent to see Islamic Fundamentalism as a existential threat. Will our enemies see Islamic Fundamentalism as an existential threat? Hell, no! They want to harness it and propagate it and unleash it, ie: Iran and Russia and the drone. The USA military crashed a state of the art drone in Iran while surveying an Afghan border. Iran has copied USA technology and now at the USA built air base in Niger, they want to get their hands on the current technology.
The United States was forced to stop (click here) its military operations in March 2024 in Niger – a landlocked, western African country in the Sahara desert. Niger may not immediately seem like a key ally for the U.S., but it served as a crucial staging ground for the U.S. military to carry out work and respond to terrorism in the region.
U.S. representatives are currently trying to negotiate a deal to maintain some sort of military presence in Niger. But, for now, Niger’s new ruling junta has declared that the U.S. military presence is a violation of Niger’s constitution. The fate of the U.S.‘ presence, including two military drone bases, remains uncertain....
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