![]() Iran spends $6 billion a year on its armed forces Turkey and Israel both spend more than $10 billion, Saudi Arabia $21 billion, and the Gulf sheikhdoms, which are not so much countries as petrol stations, together easily outspend Iran. Neoconservatives go further, claiming that Iran ‘declared war’ on the US in 1979 that the two are in a ‘life and death struggle’ that this is World War Four (the Cold War was World War Three) and that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at the head of an Islamofascist movement out to re-create the early Caliphate. The media often echo this, depicting Iran as a cross between the Persian Empire and the Third Reich, aspiring to re-establish a Pax Iranica across the region. ![]() American officials – without any trace of irony – label Iran as militaristic, aggressive, expansionist, interventionist, even as hegemonic and imperialistic. ![]()
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