Today, when I was working on the report of the dispute between Turkey and the United States over S4H and FC5, the slogan “Neither East nor West” came to my mind, which has been the example of Iran’s foreign policy for forty years, and how much it has failed to implement. And its neighbor Turkey, which is successful in implementing it without shouting slogans.
Imagine if Iran had shot down the Russian plane, was engaged in a proxy war with Russia in Syria, and had killed the Russian ambassador in Tehran, one of the Iranian security officers, now we would have the same problem with America, a hundred times worse with Russia.
Turkey has done all these things and now it has conflicts of interest with Russia in several places in the region and it is stubborn, but it is buying the S-400 system from Russia with Ment. They removed it and sold it to Iran. Russia is begging Turkey to buy Sukhoi 57 stealth planes, but it will not sell an old wheel of this plane to Iran for a hundred years.
On the other hand, the Americans have begged Turkey to buy the Patriot missiles from us at a lower price and give up the S-400. Mr. Erdoğan replied: Yes. Be sure that it will play out between America and Russia in such a way that it will create an opportunity to score points from both of these powers by beating the Americans over the FC-5 aircraft.
From this point of view, in Tehran, our “neither eastern nor western” policymakers have nothing left to go to the presence of Mr. Putin and stamp the country’s document in his name. One of my friends wrote only one sentence in an article for an independent and non-governmental newspaper in Iran that Russia supports right-wing movements in Europe. The editor of the newspaper had deleted this one sentence, lest the Russian press attaché in Tehran read it and be offended. It means a hundred blessings to the era of Mohammad Ali Shah and Colonel Liakhov.
What has Russia given to Iran? He was supposed to deliver the Bushehr power plant fourteen years ago. Has anyone ever lit a moonlight lamp with Bushehr power plant? Regarding Syria, where Iran and Russia have launched a military alliance, Putin and Erdoğan are sitting and discussing without letting Iran go. Compare the quality and quantity of economic trade between Russia and Turkey with the trade relations between Iran and Russia and see how far the difference is.
The conflict between the interests of Turkey and Russia is no less than the conflict between the interests of Iran and Saudi Arabia. However, in every crisis with Russia, instead of trying to get rid of the poison cup, he has resolved the issue with trickery, if not with strategy. When Fethullah learned about Gülen’s case, he broke Russia’s bowl and jar on him and became friends with Russia again, without retreating from any of his positions against Russia. Now that Iran has faced any crisis, it has thrown the key to solving the crisis into the well and has created such a riot that the issue will be forever unsolvable.
Neither East nor West was supposed to mean that East and West should not interfere in Iran. Now if the west is Mr. Trump, if he sneezes, the price of the dollar will go up in Istanbul, and if the east is Russia and China, they have started an oil policy against garbage with Iran. Is it neither east nor west or both east and west?
This post is written by mkarimia46