thenation | Let’s start with the political Big Bang you know nothing about. It started two weeks ago, and here
are its results: From now on, any possible future attack
on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO) would
essentially be an assault on the planning of an interlocking set of
organizations—the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South
Africa), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Eurasian
Economic Union (EEU), the new Chinese-founded Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB), and the BRICS’ New Development Bank (NDB)—whose
acronyms you’re also unlikely to recognize. Still, they represent an
emerging new order in Eurasia.
Tehran, Beijing, Moscow, Islamabad, and New Delhi have been actively
establishing interlocking security guarantees. They have been
simultaneously calling the Atlanticist bluff when it comes to the
endless drumbeat of attention given to the flimsy meme of Iran’s
“nuclear weapons program.” And a few days before the Vienna nuclear
negotiations finally culminated in an agreement, all of this came
together at a twin BRICS/SCO summit in Ufa, Russia—a place you’ve
undoubtedly never heard of and a meeting that got next to no attention
in the United States. And yet sooner or later, these developments will
ensure that the war party in Washington and assorted neocons (as well as
neoliberalcons) already breathing hard over the Iran deal will sweat
bullets as their narratives about how the world works crumble.
