America's Promises Were Nothing But a Lie
Mojtaba Khamenei's First Address and Iran's Three Conditions for Ending the War
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei “advised” the country’s neighbors to shut down all US military bases they are hosting as soon as possible, claiming they do no service but threaten regional peace and stability.
The leaders in the countries in the region “must have realized by now that America’s claims of establishing security and peace was nothing but a lie,” Khamenei said while addressing the nation for the first time on Thursday, March 12, after being elected.
Iran elected Mojtaba as the country’s new supreme leader after his predecessor and father Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was assassinated in a US-Israeli attack on his office in Tehran on February 28, the first day of the war.
Iran has since been subjected to indiscriminate US-Israeli bombings in which over 1,400 people have been killed and over 18,000 have been injured. Iran has retaliated to these strikes targeting various US military installations in the region and the Israeli territories.
Israel and the US bombed different parts of Tehran on Friday morning as well, despite large popular gatheringsthroughout the country marking Quds day, the last Friday of Ramadan, observed as a day of solidarity with the Palestinians. At least one person was killed in the US-Israeli bombing near one such march in Tehran.
Khamenei declared that all Iranians killed in US-Israeli bombings are “martyrs” and vowed to seek justice for them and their families. He asked the people to maintain national unity and help each other at a time when the country is being subjected to “terrorism by the US and the Israeli regime.”
Khamenei repeated that Iran will seek reparations for the death and destruction caused by Israel and the US, saying, “if they refuse to pay, we will seize their assets to an equivalent value, and if that is not possible, we will destroy their properties.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also spoke about reparations as one of the three conditions for ending the war. He outlined the conditions in a post on X on Monday. The three are: recognition of Iran’s legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm guarantees against future aggressions.
Strait of Hormuz will remain shut
Praising the country’s armed forces for their resilience against the aggressors, Khamenei emphasized that they should prioritize keeping the Strait of Hormuz shut until the war is over.
He also suggested opening new fronts as per the needs and interests of the country’s defenses.
Iran has warned ships not to try crossing the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. This has effectively blocked the transport of around 20% of the world’s energy needs that pass through it. The blockade has already caused an increase in prices of petroleum products across the globe, as the price per barrel has crossed USD 100. In several Asian countries, shortages of cooking gas have already been reported.
Iran has maintained that the Strait of Hormuz is a crucial part of its defense against imperialist aggression and it will function normally only if the war ends and Iran is allowed to live in peace.
While announcing the continuation of the blockade of the Hormuz, Iran has also defied repeated threats of escalation by US President Donald Trump and a UNSC resolution adopted on Wednesday demanding the end of the blockade.
No foreign military bases in the region
Though Khamenei assured all its neighboring countries about Iran’s intentions of maintaining good relations, he warned that Iranian attacks on the foreign troops and military bases in some of those countries will continue as a defensive measure.
Iran has claimed that numerous US military bases in Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait have been used to launch attacks against it and targeted them with drones and missiles.
On Wednesday, Iran rejected a UNSC resolution asking for an immediate end of all Iranian attacks in these countries and calling such attacks “illegitimate and immoral.”
Khamenei advised the governments in the region to stop hosting foreign military bases on their territories if they really seek peace and stability.
The supreme leader also praised the significant role played by various allies in the region, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansar Allah in Yemen, and militias in Iraq mounting resistance against the imperialists. He said Iran considers “the countries of the resistance front to be our best friends.”
“The cause of resistance is an inseparable part of the value of the Islamic revolution. The solidarity of these countries makes the path to breaking the Zionist plot shorter,” Khamenei said.
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Why does the world illiterately accept the hegemony of any currency? How much of the 'will toward dominance' would be eliminated by correcting the Misrepresentation of Money? Iran and Venezuela and other places prohibit usury...but is that enough? What if the leadership in Iran focused on Higher Order Monetary Literacy?
Imagine the healing of a world that will come from the leadership of a country that recognizes and abandons the ages long conceptual error of attempting to attach the features of a fungible commodity to their 'unit of measure' in their production and exchange and record keeping about 'value.' The leadership of every country must have its sights on what the Real Value is: the resources and labor and innovation and creativity and capacity of its land and people.
But can that full capacity manifest when the means by which the bookkeeping about their own economic activity holds an abstract Unit of AcCount - Money - to also BE an item of value akin to and/or equal, even superior, to the very natural resources of the land?
When we stopped using fungible physical commodities as 'trade goods' and moved to bookkeeping about the value contained in the goods and services of our interchange, we mistakenly and foolishly and illiterately assigned "value" to the number units themselves using symbols ($, etc.) as though those units were still commodities that had just lost their physical form.
The very conceptual subjugation of the full capacity of a society to an illiterate preoccupation with the preliminary acquisition of an abstract acCouting unit is a mistake of monumental proportions that even the best intentions cannot overcome while not correcting it. The 'inherited or imposed illiteracy' that surrounds money itself cannot be cured by holding the actors in this melodrama accountable for their actions within the illiterate paradigm. You see, one first has to think of, or be forced at gunpoint to accept, that money is an item of value that can also perform the function of 'unit measure of value.' But those two are mutually exclusive. The function called 'measure' is not sensible or reliable if the unit is constantly in flux and self-referential. That is the core illiteracy about money in the 'educated' class of the present day.
The 'reality transformation' that first occurs is the assumption that abstract units of representation possess the same characteristics of their predecessor trade goods and that some magical entity has the power to 'create' the abstract units of representation representing nothing but themselves!
But 'Money creation', from nothing and yet turned into a thing of 'value' - Poof! - is NOT a power that anyone actually has, not anyone, not any government, not any bank.
The first premise most people willingly go along with is the absolute illiteracy and illegitimacy of there being these so called "financial powers." WE ALL are the ones accepting the nonsense that the origination of the monetary unit is a magical process of 'creation' by some magical monetary power within government or banking. And we accept that this whole process must precede and subjugates economic activity of genuine value. And we accept this nonsense because we think that the monetary unit is an actual item of 'value'. It is NOT.
So, when the leadership of a society truly is motivated to establish "inclusive and sovereign endogenous development” it must realize that the present system and conceptual basis of money itself cannot assist but only interfere with this effort.
But won't it be amazing for a society's leadership to abandon this age old problem and correct the conceptual error by calling the world to genuine liberation through the establishment of a genuinely Logical and Mathematically Literate System of The Abstract Representation Of Value !?
Here are the Resolutions that can be presented in every jurisdiction that will call the world to correction of the conceptual error.
https://www.moneytransparency.com/msta-resolutions
Remaining within the framework of the conceptual error leaves people thinking that they must contend with others in ways that can only bring more and greater cycles of conflict.
We cannot keep accepting self-declared 'authority' on the part of the "issuer" of the numbers we use to do the bookkeeping about our own activity. Nor can we accept that the numbers on the ledger (or the coins of the realm that came before) are items of value all by themselves.
Yet, most all are going along with this.
Money is not a resource at all. That is the core illiteracy that people struggle with. Holding back genuine economic activity waiting for the abstract units to record that activity is like waiting for some of the inches to be available so that you can measure the boards to build something. And the unit of money is itself an absurdity in the field of Applied Math. How can one make sense of equations using a term that is undefined and unstable?
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/299-stop-wwiii
Marc Gauvin
"If we debunk our current notion of money as the misrepresentation that it is, then no one has power over anyone, yet all become far better informed than they currently are.”