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Tehran Times: US taxpayers suffer from deployment of radar to Israel
Iranian columnist says funds used for transfer of advanced defense system to Jewish statecould have been used to help Americans hurt by financial crisis. Adds: US quietly opening up to Iran; this has become a huge source of anxiety for the Zionist ringleaders in Tel Aviv
An editorial published by the Tehran Times on Wednesday slammed the recent deployment of an advanced American radar system to Israel.
The Tehran Times is associated with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime.
"What was the rush that the US military, amid the country’s financial and economic crisis, had to speed up the deployment of a most powerful and therefore expensive system a year earlier than previously scheduled," columnist Ardeshir Ommani wrote.
Defense News weekly reported that the the high-powered X-band radar has improved Israel's defense against an Iranian missile attack.
Ommani said in his op-ed that the deployment of the radar system cost American taxpayers $89 million.
"If it were proposed that this fraction of the tax revenues should be allocated to reduce the pains in the hearts of one thousand (US) owners of foreclosed properties in the working class neighborhoods of Chicago or to improve the educational quality of the pathetic school systems in the South Bronx, Bed Stuyvesant of Brooklyn or Spanish Harlem, no doubt the same senators who unanimously voted for the (radar's deployment) would have rejected it outright with no hesitation or mercy," he wrote.
"The prevailing political climate in the United States shows the nature and quality of the so-called democratic principals, drilled daily into the heads of the masses by the media, and also the non-existent influence of the working class on the governing institutions of the land."
Ommani is based in the US and is a harsh critic of the administration's ongoing dispute with Ahmadinejad regime and the war in Iraq.
According to him, "the rush delivery of the X-band radar system lies in the fact that the US has finally come to the realization that with two active wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at hand and the economic stranglehold gripping the housing and industrial sectors of the Western capitalist economies, it must, though unwillingly, resign itself to a situation where it has to take other options off the table and begin a dialogue with an ever-stronger and more confident Iran.
"It is also common knowledge that the US is quietly opening up to Iran, which has become a huge source of anxiety for the Zionist ringleaders in Tel Aviv, who, like egotistical servants, feel abandoned by their masters in Washington or cheaply sold for the benefit of the US empire," Ommani said.
"The delivery of an important element of the US Ballistic Missile Defense Shield to Israel a year earlier plays the role of relaxing and calming down the sense of anxiety and desperation with regard to the current US-Iran dialogue and could be regarded as compensation for Israel’s loss of its junior role in shaping US foreign policy in the Middle East region.
The columnist added that "the fact that the US deployed the new radar in separate parts and under the radar shows that the US gave lip-service to Iran, trying to avoid antagonizing it at a sensitive time."
