by Hooman Majd
Columnist Hooman Majd
goes in to history and shows the way of bringing Iran to its feet by making it
starve for the necessities of life. He writes, ‘There's an old saying,
attributed to the British Foreign Office in colonial days: "Keep the
Persians hungry, and the Arabs fat." For the British -- then the stewards
of Persian destiny -- that was the formula for maintaining calm; it still is
for Saudi Arabian leaders, who simply distribute large amounts of cash to their
citizens at the first sign of unrest at their doorstep.
But in the case of
Iran, neither America nor Britain seems to be observing the old dictum. Keeping
the Persians hungry was a guarantee that they wouldn't rise up against their
masters. Today, the fervent wish of the West appears to be that they do exactly
that. Except that the West is doing everything in its power to keep the Iranians
hungry -- even hungrier than they might ordinarily be under the corrupt and
incompetent administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
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