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Iran keen to promote peace and stability in Mideast: Larijani (part 3)

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Munich, Feb 11, IRNA
Munich-Iran-Larijani

"However, we should know that peace cannot be equated with stability, because it connotes and entails more than that. And that is why our world has lost peace at the expense of stability for sacrificing freedom and justice. This applies not only to the past and present but to the future as well. This was also true about the regional states which were in the orbits of the two superpowers during the cold war era. It means that disrespect for the main ingredients of a sustainable security order has laid the breeding grounds for suspicion, hostility and ultimately confrontation with colonialism.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the theory of the unilateral security order prevailed this further complicated the problem, because unilateralism essentially nurtures militarism. It is obvious that in this new era, the only superpower of the world has tied the issues of development, democracy or human rights in other countries to their submission to its unilateral policy and adopted a war-like attitude towards countries which tried to guard their independence.

"After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran established all its state organs and institutions on the votes of its people. Islamic Iran has seen almost one general election each year. Do you know of any other state in our region which has been so much dedicated to democracy as Iran? Even if one can ever find any such state in our region its armed forces are so strong that they can change its democratic institutions when they wish so. But, let's see how the US administrations have been treating the democratic Iran. The policy they pursued in this regard was denial, isolation and sanctions. Yet, we should note that this policy has resulted in noting other than further stiffening the resolve of the Iranian people.

"The pursuit of this one-dimensional policy in other regional states has given rise to some opposing movement. The rebellious campaigns in those regional states have been the result of ignoring the rights of these nations by the big powers. Nixon in his book entitled 'Victory without war' sates: "In the west, we speak of the fundamentalists, while fundamentalist speaks of the problems of peoples. It is quite natural that they listen to them".

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