By Hamid Dabashi
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To be an empire despite itself, or a reluctant empire, or an empire caught in the delusion of spreading 'the good word' - in this case 'liberty' - all point to a fundamental fact about American imperialism: its strategic asceticism, a perhaps Protestant (Calvinist) predilection to avoid admission of wealth through ostentatious living, mixed with a Spartan proclivity towards brevity of immediate purpose. In this case, American imperialism stands in exact contradiction with, say, the Persian, the Roman, or even the British Empire - empires that thrived on putting up spectacular shows of their military wherewithal.
It was first in 2002 that the Iranian Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization (MKO) joined Israel in providing the US with detailed maps of heavy-water production and uranium-enrichment facilities in Arak and Natanz, raising international alarm about the intentions of Iran to go nuclear. While such hawks as the former US ambassador to the UN John R. Bolton encouraged military action against the Islamic Republic, President Obama was following a more diplomatic course. Either way, the Islamic Republic seemed solidly in a position to define the terms of engagement with the international community.
JAMMED IN A JUNGLE 21 consolidating its own position of regional power while the US destroyed its two principal opponents in Afghanistan and Iraq. Having just concluded a UN-facilitated peace treaty with Iraq in 1988, it could not be happier to see the might of the American army on Saddam Hussein's trail as early as in 1990. Having almost gone to war with the Taliban in 1997, it was equally pleased to see the US wipe them off the map of Afghanistan in 2001 (they would of course resurface again later).