It didn’t behoove Trump to say that if fire was opened on the protestors who have taken to the streets in Iran as a protest against price spiral, he would interfere. To threaten a sovereign country whose rulers have the right to defuse any law and order situation affecting its existence with whatever methods they think better including the use of force, if need be is downright interference in its internal affairs. There are many who suspect that America might have hidden hand behind the present unrest in Iran as Washington has been prone to destabilize those governments which don’t dance to its tune. Granted that rulers of Iran should have taken preemptive steps to control price spiral of essential commodities but American President had certainly no right ,whatever, to issue such a threatening statement as it only makes confusion worse confounded.
POST SCRIPT
The Taliban have none else to blame but themselves if world community is severing its diplomatic ties with Afghanistan by shutting its Consulates in Afghanistan one by one. Japan is the latest country to do so. It has also severed diplomatic ties with Kabul because of atrocious attitude of those who call the shots in Afghanistan. If the Kabul rulers didn’t mend their ways before long Afghanistan is likely to become a pariah state and its loneliness is going to hit its economy very hard thus exacerbating Afghanistan’ s already pitiable economic condition.
The oldies feel nostalgic about the not- too_-distant past when Kabul under the kingship of Amanullah Khan and then Zahir shah had started modernizing Afghanistan society and shedding the shibboleth of obscurantism. King Amanullah Khan had taken the first step in that direction but he was cut down by the obscurantist element of Afghanistan society while he was only halfway of his reform program agenda.
Political analysts believe that King Amanullah pushed his reform agenda too hard and too fast and had he carried it out after doing proper homework and brainwashing Afghan tribal chieftains and religious elders of all sects , he might have carried the day. Seeing his fate his successors in Kabul couldn’t muster enough courage to carry forward the reform agenda initiated by him. The closeness of Afghanistan with the then Soviet Union gave Moscow an opportunity to gain a political foothold in Afghanistan as a result of which communist parties sprang up in Afghanistan inviting a backlash from the US. What happened after intervention of US in what is known as a war between the Afghan mujahideen who were bankrolled by Washington and Moscow continued till the ouster of Russian forces from Afghanistan. The side and after effects of that war can still be seen even today. The communist parties like the Khalq and Parcham could not survive. Taliban were created to offset some Afghan mujahideen groups which had become too big to for their boots but they too could not sink differences among their various dissenting leaders rest is history. Kabul needs a farsighted visionary leadership that could see it through the present crises.
