{"id":200801,"date":"2020-01-14T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200801"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:29:11","slug":"iran-must-begin-acting-like-a-normal-nation-says-totally-normal-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200801","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIran Must Begin Acting Like a Normal Nation,\u201d Says Totally Normal Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 Strategic Culture Jan 13, 2020<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-White-House-announcement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-159375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-White-House-announcement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The government which runs a globe-spanning empire led by a reality TV host keeps talking about the lack of normality in the nation of Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWhat we want all countries to join in,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1216487635763519500\">said<\/a><\/strong><\/span> State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a recent Fox News interview, \u201cis to help us not only to de-escalate any tensions with Iran, but to help us bring Iran to a place where they are ready to stop their terrorist and malign behavior, and where they are ready to discuss with the United States, with Europe, with everyone, about how they can change their behavior to act like a normal nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe want Iran to simply behave like a normal nation,\u201d Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSEveningNews\/status\/1215665270951419915\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in a press statement the other day. \u201cWe believe that the sanctions we imposed today further that strategic objective.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">These would be the additional sanctions which have been expanded to include <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/we-want-iran-behave-normal-nation-us-imposes-sanctions-virtually-entire-iran-economy\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>virtually the entire Iranian economy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, deliberately targeting Iran\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/starvation-sanctions-are-worse-than-overt-warfare-b52604b53290\">already sanction-starved populace<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, with the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1216179230788046849?s=20\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>explicit goal of fomenting a civil war<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in that nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Which is of course a perfectly normal thing to do, from a perfectly normal nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statedeptspox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StateDeptSPOX<\/a>: We want all countries to join us in encouraging <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> to behave like a normal nation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XvnG8x0YZ8\">pic.twitter.com\/XvnG8x0YZ8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Department of State (@StateDept) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1216487635763519500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This would be the same Iran whose cultural heritage sites were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/threat-destroy-heritage-sites-akin-cultural-genocide-experts\/story?id=68144819\">threatened with destruction<\/a><\/strong><\/span> if it retaliated for the totally normal assassination of its top military official via flying robot. The same Iran whose financial system was just <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/01\/11\/trump-administration-warns-iraq-could-lose-new-york-fed-account-wsj.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>threatened with destruction<\/strong><\/span><\/a> using the totally normal hegemony of American central banking. Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So what can Iran do to become a \u201cnormal nation\u201d? Well, since it\u2019s the United States making this demand, we can safely assume that it\u2019s the model Iran should look to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to expand its interests from the region and begin toppling noncompliant governments and invading nations all around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to circle the planet with hundreds of Iranian military bases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to obtain thousands of nuclear weapons, and actually use a couple of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to become the most dominant military, economic and cultural force in the world, and then use that dominance to destroy any government, political party, ideology, faction, movement or person who stands in its way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to arm violent extremist factions all around the world with the goal of eliminating all governments that refuse to bow to its interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to become the dominant producer of films, music and TV shows and use this influence to propagandize its power structure\u2019s ideology to every possible cultural sphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to begin meddling in scores of democratic elections all around the world and then crying for years at the possibility of any nation returning the favor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to shore up economic control of the world so that it can crush any sort of disobedience by starving civilians and depriving them of medical care while pretending that it\u2019s a force for peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to indefinitely occupy a vast region on the other side of the planet with thousands upon thousands of troops and trillions of dollars in military equipment, to no benefit of a single ordinary Iranian, and against the will of the people who live there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to become a normal nation, Iran will need to create a presidency led by a reality TV star oligarch who is only supported because Iran\u2019s populace is so disgusted with the status quo of their government.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sec. of State Mike Pompeo: &quot;The goal of our campaign is to deny the regime the resource to conduct its destructive foreign policy. We want Iran to simply behave like a normal nation. We believe the sanctions that we impose today further that strategic objective.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f4Wz0c1q9r\">pic.twitter.com\/f4Wz0c1q9r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSEveningNews\/status\/1215665270951419915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I am kidding, of course. The US government does not want Iran to become like the US. The US government does not want <em>any<\/em> nation to become like the US. The US likes its abnormality among nations just the way it is, thank you very much. The US is the exception to all its own rules. That\u2019s how American exceptionalism works. This is one of those \u201cdo as I say, not as I do\u201d situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US doesn\u2019t want Iran to be like America. The US wants Iran to be like the other nations which have allowed themselves to be absorbed into the blob of the US-centralized empire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin acting like Saudi Arabia: arming terrorist factions, beheading heretics, committing war crimes and deliberately creating humanitarian disasters for geostrategic convenience, yet aligning fully with US military, financial, and resource control agendas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin acting like Israel: a nuclear-armed military outpost which constantly bombs adjacent nations, interferes in the US and other nations\u2019 politics to shore up support, works toward the slow extermination of its indigenous population and fires upon protesters with live ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US would be perfectly happy for Iran to begin acting like Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand or the EU: obedient military\/intelligence assets who function as extra American states when it comes to foreign policy and international affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That is what the US means by acting \u201cnormal\u201d. Not acting moral. Not acting healthy. Certainly not acting like the US. It means acting obedient, compliant, and enslaved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Which is precisely what Iran is resisting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/01\/13\/iran-must-begin-acting-like-a-normal-nation-says-totally-normal-nation\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course by \u201cacting like a normal nation\u201d President Trump actually means that Tehran must comply with U.S. demands <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200836,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200801\/revisions\/200836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}