TM6h ago
Let us try to analyse the situation calmly and rationally:
Primo: Iran is willing to risk being bombed again for a brotherly nation. That is very noble, and shows an example.
Secundo: #Iran wants the Peace to be secured by a #UN Security Council Resolution. That will restore the UN power that Israel and the US have eroded.
Tertio: Iran is weakening #israel , thus making their recognition of #Palestine possible.
Quarto:It is weakening #us in #NATO. Thus liberating #Europe from its "presence".
Show threadRamesh #NotGoingBack5h ago

@timagal

But #Iran itself is heavily under the influence of and dependent on #China and #Russia.

So, in the great power rivalry, Iran is still a nobody. The #MiddleEast will simply replace one hegemony with another.

Show threadTM5h ago
@rameshgupta don't underestimate Iran. That is the same mistake Trump and Yahoo made.
Show threadRamesh #NotGoingBack5h ago

⬆️ @timagal

>> don't underestimate Iran. That is the same mistake Trump and Yahoo made.

Don't overestimate #Iran. That is the same mistake #Trump and Yahoo made by overestimating #US power.

Iran is and will remain dependent on a superpower. Under the Shah, it was #UnitedStates. Now it is #China and its #juniorPartner #Russia.

https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/113841037575216351

Show threadRamesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ @timagal

>> #Iran is and will remain dependent on a superpower. Under the Shah, it was #UnitedStates. Now it is #China and its #juniorPartner #Russia.

Meeting between #Putin and #Pezeshkian offers Russia an opportunity to burnish its self-image as a superpower “…as the bigger partner, and Iran as a regional partner.”

So this makes the pecking order clear in the #CRINK axis:

China (#SeniorPartner) > Russia (#JuniorPartner) > Iran (drone supplier) > #NorthKorea (cannon fodder supplier)

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