Iranian Revolution – How Iran’s Revolution Is the Biggest Barrier To Regional Cooperation Between Iran, Turkey & Pakistan?
By Sikander Hayat
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Turkish overtures towards east are big news these days as Turkish prime minister visited Syria and Pakistan in last week or so. Many people believe that Turks must abandon European dream as they have rejected again and again by Europeans. They must understand that they are too big and powerful for the EU to allow them in and by this time they must understand that not matter how secular they are or strive to be, the tag of being a Muslim country is hampering their dream.
They must leave this notion and try to revive RCD so that Turkey, Iran and Pakistan can create an economic and ever closer political
union and with 300 million people, this would be the most respected economic zone in the world. There are pre-requisites to this zone being established and must be fulfilled before anything like this could happen. Pakistan must resolve her terrorism problem, Iran must get rid of its mullah regime to establish a secular forward looking Islamic country and Turkey must forget about being the member of the EU ( there must be a limit to humiliation). 
All three tasks are the most difficult but before Shah was toppled Iran, RCD was quite active and could have gone the way of ASEAN or even EU to give this region a coherence that it needs. After all Turks were once the holders of all this land between Bosporus and present day India. The movement must start from the grass roots by the people of all three countries and not by governments to create a secular, progressive and democratic Muslim region which can stand up as an example to all other Muslim countries and tell others that Muslims can live in a democracy. The most difficult step needs to be taken first and that is to either help reform (helping Iran reform from inside by its own people and a slow but sure path towards progression) or a counter revolution to bring people like Musadiq back into Iranian houses of power. Iran’s present state is the biggest hindrance in having any meaningful economic zone as the this regime’s habit of exporting ideology is at such a level that even Muslim countries don’t trust it.
People like Khatami were pushed aside in favour of an idiot like Mahmood Ahmadinejad because the former wanted to reform and give some decency and civility back to Iranian people. If Iran stops exporting ideology to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia will stop funding the Sunni extremists in that country too as currently Saudis are afraid of Iran’s influence in its neighbourhood which is now aiding and abetting Shiites within Saudi Arabia. USA had all the good intentions in
Afghanistan and Iraq but by deposing Taliban and Saddam Hussein, it has given Iran’s fundamentalist Shia regime what it wanted for a very long a time, a neighbourhood which is under its influence, apart from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan of which Saudis and Pakistanis are extremely concerned about Iran's growing power in their own societies.
The present regime of Iran must be curtailed under all circumstances but politicians in US must understand that their rhetoric against Iran is counter productive as it gives the regime the legitimacy in the eyes of people by reminding them of evil American rulers and their barbarity in Iraq & Afghanistan. Once the present generation of Iranians turn against US in particular and Europe in general than it will take another 40 years before there will be any hope for change.
Iraq and Afghanistan has shown that US alone is not powerful enough to defeat the popular will of the people and once the people turn against any invading army then there is no way in the world in which that particular conflict could be won. That is why, all the Muslim countries who believe in freedom, must come out against Iran and let the people know that what the regime is doing is not Islamic by starving its own people of basic rights. Islam is not a weak religion that it will crumble if allowed to compete with other ideologies because this religion is at its strongest when it comes up against competing ideas.Iranian people must cut these chains and become members of the globe again.
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Turkish overtures towards east are big news these days as Turkish prime minister visited Syria and Pakistan in last week or so. Many people believe that Turks must abandon European dream as they have rejected again and again by Europeans. They must understand that they are too big and powerful for the EU to allow them in and by this time they must understand that not matter how secular they are or strive to be, the tag of being a Muslim country is hampering their dream.
They must leave this notion and try to revive RCD so that Turkey, Iran and Pakistan can create an economic and ever closer political
union and with 300 million people, this would be the most respected economic zone in the world. There are pre-requisites to this zone being established and must be fulfilled before anything like this could happen. Pakistan must resolve her terrorism problem, Iran must get rid of its mullah regime to establish a secular forward looking Islamic country and Turkey must forget about being the member of the EU ( there must be a limit to humiliation). 
All three tasks are the most difficult but before Shah was toppled Iran, RCD was quite active and could have gone the way of ASEAN or even EU to give this region a coherence that it needs. After all Turks were once the holders of all this land between Bosporus and present day India. The movement must start from the grass roots by the people of all three countries and not by governments to create a secular, progressive and democratic Muslim region which can stand up as an example to all other Muslim countries and tell others that Muslims can live in a democracy. The most difficult step needs to be taken first and that is to either help reform (helping Iran reform from inside by its own people and a slow but sure path towards progression) or a counter revolution to bring people like Musadiq back into Iranian houses of power. Iran’s present state is the biggest hindrance in having any meaningful economic zone as the this regime’s habit of exporting ideology is at such a level that even Muslim countries don’t trust it.
People like Khatami were pushed aside in favour of an idiot like Mahmood Ahmadinejad because the former wanted to reform and give some decency and civility back to Iranian people. If Iran stops exporting ideology to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia will stop funding the Sunni extremists in that country too as currently Saudis are afraid of Iran’s influence in its neighbourhood which is now aiding and abetting Shiites within Saudi Arabia. USA had all the good intentions in
Afghanistan and Iraq but by deposing Taliban and Saddam Hussein, it has given Iran’s fundamentalist Shia regime what it wanted for a very long a time, a neighbourhood which is under its influence, apart from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan of which Saudis and Pakistanis are extremely concerned about Iran's growing power in their own societies.The present regime of Iran must be curtailed under all circumstances but politicians in US must understand that their rhetoric against Iran is counter productive as it gives the regime the legitimacy in the eyes of people by reminding them of evil American rulers and their barbarity in Iraq & Afghanistan. Once the present generation of Iranians turn against US in particular and Europe in general than it will take another 40 years before there will be any hope for change.
Iraq and Afghanistan has shown that US alone is not powerful enough to defeat the popular will of the people and once the people turn against any invading army then there is no way in the world in which that particular conflict could be won. That is why, all the Muslim countries who believe in freedom, must come out against Iran and let the people know that what the regime is doing is not Islamic by starving its own people of basic rights. Islam is not a weak religion that it will crumble if allowed to compete with other ideologies because this religion is at its strongest when it comes up against competing ideas.Iranian people must cut these chains and become members of the globe again.
Very interesting piece of work. Your article points out that their is ideological flaws in Iran that are hampering regional development. You also advocate regime change and mind set change as well specially younger generation of Iran. Well since I am not i position to analyse these saying and come out with their implications on the region. But My question from you is, why is regional corporation isn't possible with this regime? Well there must come some change in iran laws and constitution to facilitate the realisation of sunni and other minorities but suggesting whole regime change, I don't think it is appropriate as it might come on the cost of blood shed.Mr sikander I would be pleased to know about your prospective regarding Baluchistan package, please blog about it too. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr Khosa,
ReplyDeleteI shall discuss the Balochistan package once it is out in the public. We still don’t know what it has in it and what it lacks.
As far as Iran is concerned the reason I am so concerned is because its present regime under Mehmood Ahmdinejad is trying to export chaos to Yemen and Pakistan by supporting its Shia proxies. In the case of Yemen, Iran openly threatened Saudi Arabia with consequences it interfered in the current situation in the border areas of Yemen & Saudi Arabia. This is all being done to placate a domestic audience which clearly showed during the recent wave of post presidential election riots that it is not happy with the present state of affairs in Tehran.
Also Iran is destabilizing Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon plus the Shia provinces of Saudi Arabia. By doing all this it is contributing to a ground swell of anger in these above mentioned nations.
When I talk about regime change, it in not the blood soaked one but one which comes because of the internal problems within the current establishment as we saw in the case of old guard Moussavi & Khatami who disagreed with the fundamentalist policies of Ahmadinejad while being part of the establishment. This sort of dissent will help implode the regime from inside rather than outside.
Once again thanks for the interest in this blog.