I would advise you to not waste time with this user, he already made much more absurd statements about Iran, such as a "Israeli GBU 28 easily penetrating 200m of granite and concrete" and "Iran has no choice but to bow down or either it will get bombed by """aistrikes""" ",
Latest gems from the individual: under Kim Jong-Un the DPRK introduced a "market economy". Sure, the DPRK's economy "is" market-oriented while the Iranian one "isn't" (although since Hashemi's presidency, adepts of the neo-classical monetarist school of economics have gradually succeeded in exerting a monopoly on the economic debate)
. The DPRK has focused on science but Iran "hasn't" (ironically, the same user making these suggestions is on the record for elaborating multiple times how Iran has surpassed Japan in scientific research etc).
To think that there are people who deem "comments" like these worthy of applause. What colorful freak show.
and of course the current trend of NK comparisons
There's also another line at play around here: bashing Russia and China on a regular basis. Making it sound as if Moscow and Beijing are being cornered by NATO and that they stand no chance against the USA; that they make for awful cooperation partners, that they're supposedly governed by short-sighted simpletons oblivious to where their interests lie; blowing out of proportion / misinterpreting minor differences between Iran and these two powers (someone was even seriously uttering that in case of a western military attack on Iran, Russia would join in as an aggressor - initially I thought it's a joke); ignoring / obfuscating / denying the depth and obvious strategic nature of Tehran-Moscow and Tehran-Beijing ties.
Yet when it comes to this topic, the writing happens to be on the wall for those who care to read it. Quite simply, the current state of relations between Russia, Iran and China for all its theoretical imperfections does have the regime in Washington mightily worried.
Proof of this is furnished by America's policies and by how USA "think tanks" for instance are analyzing the situation. Titles and introductory paragraphs of two papers from this year by the hawkish "Washington Institute for Near East Policy" do not lie:
Making Iran’s Support for Russia More Costly
by Henry Rome
Jan 5, 2023
To foster doubts about the wisdom of deepening the relationship, Washington should stoke longstanding Iranian skepticism toward Russia and work with Europe to sanction additional entities involved in the drone program.
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After Ukraine: Russia’s Potential Military and Nuclear Compensation to Iran
by Louis Dugit-Gros, Anna Borshchevskaya, Michael Eisenstadt, Farzin Nadimi, Henry Rome
Jan 20, 2023
Despite the obstacles to expanded cooperation, Russian aid could help Tehran promote repression at home and instability abroad, so the United States and its allies should seek to deter such collaboration wherever possible.
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Drawing appropriate conclusions from the above, one can either acknowledge how the enemy is effectively treating the relationship between Iran and Russia as a threat to its hegemony, or echo the enemy's proclaimed agenda by downplaying the relevance and impact of Tehran-Moscow ties.
This is really straightforward Cartesian rationality and logical deduction. The USA's foreign policy "think tanks" are advocating disruption of Iran-Russia ties through adverse propaganda? = Iran and friends must tend to speak of Russia in favorable terms. Zionist and American agents of influence in the Islamic Republic i.e. reformists and moderates are going out of their way in demonizing Russia, China? = Iran and friends must do the opposite. Avoid starting hot shooting wars, but always target the enemy's strategy as Dr. Abbasi nicely explained in a speech years ago.
If the enemy is bent on provoking so-called "sectarian war" between Sunni and Shia Moslems via massive propaganda as well as "I"SIS-led terrorist attack on Shias, double down on the defence of your principled policy for Islamic unity, reach out all the more actively to our Sunni brothers, isolating the pseudo-"jihadists" and anti-QShia sectarianists. If the enemy spends its time filling the airwaves and the internet with Russophobic / Sinophobic propaganda for Farsi-speakers, then you automatically know the Islamic Republic's is doing the right thing when it cultivates in its strategic partnership with Russia and China, when the Supreme Leader holds a meeting with President Vladimirovich Putin, illustrating the rapprochement through symbolic gestures and declarations.
Ironically, the pro-western fifth column is the very reason for Russian and Chinese reluctance to go the extra-mile which some seem to feel entitled to. Doubtlessly, working with Russia and China has proven highly beneficial for Iran (and vice versa), but the single most significant factor somewhat slowing down further expansion of ties is the relatively marked presence of pro-western in-house liberals in Iran: why would Moscow and Beijing offer Iran far more than they already have when a bona fide NATO-supporting current is in control of about 50% of power in Iran - including the bulk of the media landscape, most of the economy, some nine out of ten show-business figures (so-called "celebrities") relaying their demagogy, and so on?
What if this current, whose representatives such as Faeze Rafsanjani openly came out in support of Ukraine, who dream of turning Iran into an obedient subordinate proxy for the USA and whose rank and file enthusiastically shout "down with Russia, down with China", came to gain control of the Supreme Leadership or managed to politically neutralize the latter in the near future? Is there any equivalent to Iranian reformists / moderates in Saudi Arabia able to stand in the way of Bin Salman if he decides to boost ties with Russia and China? Why should Russia and China speed up the process when half the key assets of influence in Iran are held by staunch enemies of theirs?
Instead of jumping sheepishly onto the Russophobic and Sinophobic bandwagon whenever liberal propaganda manufactures a new talking point to demonize our friends in Moscow and Beijing, actual patriots and Revolutionaries ought to concentrate their efforts on pushing back the infiltrated reformist / moderate fifth column of the zionists and NATO, fifth column which is in the business of deliberately trying to alienate Moscow and Beijing and of attempting to sabotage the strategic alliance on equal footing which is taking shape and inevitably cementing itself with each passing day between Iran and these two major powers.
This kind of user, makes themselves pass for anti-imperialist persons to foul people, but still relays, says nonsense that always goes against Iran, this is a new trend since the war in Ukraine, people hiding their true goals behind anti imperialism.
What you describe represents in fact a pretty established trend or shall we rather say policy instrument in the hands of imperialists, especially in the propaganda and psy-ops realms.
See for instance the concept of proxies acting as controlled or fake opposition. Daesh in a way was and is nothing more than a fake pseudo-alternative to the Islamic Revolution, a trap and a dead-end towards which they misguide Moslems, turning them into useful idiots for the zio-American empire against the actual heavyweight of anti-imperial Resistance i.e. Islamic Iran. Of course the patsies will be brainwashed into resorting to accusatory inversion, always desperate to peddle the ludicrous idea that the Resistance camp is in fact "secretly allied under the table" with its enemy.
In this framework you may be interested in the work authored by a certain British general that theorizes the necessity to set up a fake controlled opposition in reaction to the 1950's Mau Mau anti-colonial liberation movement in Kenya. The bogus group would focus on destabilizing said liberation movement while sugarcoating its sinister deeds with a pretense of anti-colonialism.
This is a standard procedure oppressive imperialist powers have methodically been deploying in their confrontation with Resistance forces.
The current new trend with Iran also is the NK comparisons and random pictures of what they showcase to imply Iran is doing nothing and their rival is producing in mass.
A discursive trend on this forum indeed. Like all the foregoing anti-IR efforts however, it too will fail to achieve the ultimate goal it pursues.
