Close US Bases, Iran Tells Neighbors
Pezeshkian Tells Macron What Europe Doesn't Want to Hear
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated his country’s position that the root cause of the war in the region is Israeli and US aggression and those really seeking peace should demand they end their attacks on the Iranian people first.
“The Iranian nation, government, and armed forces have never sought tension and conflict, but we have no hesitation in confronting aggressors and in the decisive and legitimate defense of our territorial integrity and national security, backed by popular support and relying on national capabilities,” PressTV reported Pezeshkian saying, during a phone conversation with French President Emanuel Macron on late Sunday 15 March.
Macron claimed he called Pezeshkian to demand the immediate halt of attacks in the region and to assure “freedom of navigation” through the Strait of Hormuz.”
The Iranian president also reiterated his country’s warnings about neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf, such as the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar, asking them to stop providing land and other logistical support to the US to launch attacks against it.
“Placing land and facilities at America’s disposal for brutal attacks against Iran conflicts with international law and the principle of good neighborliness,” Pezeshkian told Macron.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had claimed that US bases in the region are a real threat to peace and stability and neighbors should shut them all by “expelling the foreign aggressors.”
There are eight permanent US military bases in the region, apart from numerous temporary ones. There are over 40,000 American soldiers in the region according to an estimate published by Al-Jazeera.
Iran has been bombing US bases and other targets in the Persian Gulf region in retaliation since the joint US-Israeli aggression began on 28 February. It has defied a UNSC resolution condemning its attacks on the Persian Gulf region and has warned of more attacks after accusing the countries in the region of their fresh involvement in attacks on its Kharg and Abu Musa Islands over the weekend.
Kharg is the main hub of Iran’s oil exports with over 90% of all exports originating there. It was bombed extensively by the US on Saturday.
US President Donald Trump clai
med “all Iranian military targets” on the Island were “obliterated” in Saturday’s attacks and warned on Sunday that US forces may bomb it again “just for fun.”
On Monday, Iran warned of greater economic troubles for the world if Kharg Island is targeted again.
Pezeshkian also rebuffed Macron after he raised issues of regional security and freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, calling Europeans complicit in the war against it by long supporting Israeli and American war crimes in the region and failing to openly stand for the rule of law in the world.
No serious international effort to end the war
There seems to be no credible initiatives to achieve a ceasefire in the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran. It has now entered its third week, with rising human casualties and economic costs with each passing day.
Israel and the US launched fresh bombings of Tehran and other major cities in Iran on Monday, while Iranian drones and missiles have continued to hit targets in the UAE and Israel.
As per the latest figures, close to 1,500 Iranians have been killed, around 18,000 have been wounded, and millions are displaced after residential areas were hit by the US-Israeli strikes.
Israel has confirmed 15 of its citizens have been killed and over 3,300 others have been wounded in Iranian retaliatory strikes inside the country so far.
Over a dozen American soldiers and few residents of the Persian Gulf countries have also been killed and hundreds others wounded in the Iranian retaliations so far.
According to one estimate, the US alone has spent over USD 21 billion so far in the war on Iran and is losing at least a billion USD a day. There are no such estimates available for other players directly involved in the war.
Trump calls NATO for help in opening Strait of Hormuz
Meanwhile, Trump asked China and European countries to send naval support to open the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump also issued warnings to NATO on Sunday saying it faces a “very bad” future if it does not help the US in opening the Strait of Hormuz and hinted possible delays in its scheduled visit to China and meeting with President Xi Jinping.
The blocking of the strait, from which around 20% of global energy is traded, has led to a rise in oil prices and the shortage of cooking gas in several Asian countries, including India.
However, Trump’s repeated calls for a global coalition in the Strait of Hormuz have been rejected by most countries, including some of the closest US allies such as Japan and Australia.
Germany claimed on Monday that NATO has not made any decision on getting involved in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has repeatedly claimed that the Strait of Hormuz will not open for any country involved in attacks against it as it is a matter of national and regional security.
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All of this 'military might' put in place in the region to enforce the imposition of a 'world's reserve currency' on the basis of assured protection of the colonially established petrol fiefdoms seems to have collapsed as that protection was/is a ruse.....but the effort to maintain and defend a particular currency is itself based on illiterate nonsense about money itself.
Why does the world 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...Tucker Carlson has spoken up against usury….but is that enough?
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.”