Iran and the historic betrayal

Iran and the historic betrayal

Dr. Jassim Taqui

Iran has shown to everyone that it runs its foreign policy on the basis of business and revival of its erstwhile Persian Empire.

Tehran is obsessed with what it calls Vilayat-e-Faqih (The Guardianship of the Jurist), which holds that Islam gives a Faqih (Islamic jurist) custodianship over people.

On this basis, Iran justified direct and indirect involvement in proxy war in many Arab countries. Consequently, the Arabs started to openly accuse Iran of interference in their internal affairs.

Recently, most Arab countries condemned Iranian interference in their internal affairs through resolutions adopted by GCC, Arab League and OIC.

Tehran, however, was never deterred by these resolutions. It went on to spread Vilayat-e-Faqih to North African countries, Egypt and Sudan.

Iran thought it could start the same scheme in Pakistan. When it failed, it made an alliance with India and Afghanistan to develop the Iranian sea port Chabahar to be a substitute to Gwadar deep sea port, to sabotage the CPEC and to regionally and internationally isolate Pakistan.

This policy of Iran is unprecedented in the history of the bilateral relations. It is a historic betrayal of Pakistan, which is a Muslim and a neighboring country.

Iran has been able to play such a game because of the failure of the so-called democratic system in Pakistan and the concentration of power and decision making in one person. The Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif holds a veto power over his own party. He keeps to himself the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Defence.

However, this unnatural system of Vilayat-e-Faqih would never survive especially when the majority young people of Iran oppose it. Iran is deemed to witness its own “Arab Spring.” The tyranny of this regime would fall like a house of cards.