{"id":93814,"date":"2017-06-12T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=93814"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T10:25:23","slug":"the-united-states-and-iran-two-tracks-to-establish-hegemony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/the-united-states-and-iran-two-tracks-to-establish-hegemony\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States and Iran: Two Tracks to Establish Hegemony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Presented to the Conference: \u201cUnited States, Human Rights and the Discourse of Domination\u201d. Sponsored by Iranian World Studies Association. Tehran, July 2, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>US policy in the Middle East and South Asia is shaped by several basic considerations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US Imperialism is the force of global domination<\/li>\n<li>US imperial policy in the Middle East focuses on encircling, destroying and dismantling Iran\u2019s allies (Syria, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Iraq (Shi\u2019a Militia), Qatar and Yemen with the intent of overthrowing the government and installing a client regime in Teheran.<\/li>\n<li>The return of Iran to the status of puppet regime will advance Washington\u2019s ultimate goal of encircling and isolating Russia and China.<\/li>\n<li>The US overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran will facilitate Israel\u2019s final seizure of Palestine, including Jerusalem, and establish Tel Aviv as the dominant regional power in the Middle East.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/petras_iran_usa.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/?p=2145\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras.lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented to the Conference: \u201cUnited States, Human Rights and the Discourse of Domination\u201d. Sponsored by Iranian World Studies Association. Tehran, July 2, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}