A Good Turning Point For Iran, Possibly

This one offshoot of this recent Camp David trip of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai could prove to be one good turning point in the Middle East crisis as well as in the global campaign against the threat of terrorism. Despite that both President George W. Bush and President Karzai agree on many things, they finally differ on one very salient matter, and that is on Iran’s supposed malicious interference in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The general drift is that Bush had been for so long pointing fervently at Iran’s possible involvement with the insurgency in Iraq, often declaring without vacillation how he is so certain that Iran is providing tactical support to the enemies in Baghdad, sneaking in high-powered munitions and funding—-this despite that American intelligence has no clear proof of such suspicion or allegation from the White House.

Now, Karzai has finally stood ground at his own behest and at the risk of faltering U.S. aid and defended Iran’s role in Afghanistan. Apparently, Iran had been sending through official channels manpower and resources towards rural locations in Afghanistan for developmental activities, helping and aiding villagers there for self-building and community development.

President Bush however had warned Afghanistan to be extra-cautious of Iran’s activity there for it might be possible that Iran is just using developmental activities as a ploy to spy and provide support to the enemy factions there, mostly the Taliban forces who had wrought so much havoc in the countryside, typified by the recent abduction of South Koreans there and killing two of them in the process.

Iran’s involvement in Afghanistan is not a new actuality for the Iran Revolutionary Guard had been known to have actively supported the mujahideens against the Soviets in the 80’s and had in fact inputted nearly half-a-billion dollars worth of financial aid in Afghanistan’s rebuilding program after Taliban’s rule there ended in 2001.

As of now, even U.S. intelligence could not exactly pinpoint at Iran’s malicious campaign into Iraq and Afghanistan despite that generally, any individual might easily get suspicious and accept the high probability that Iran is in fact providing support to the insurgents in these fragile locations. Why would they venture in an American-held or controlled locations in the first place, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinehad is constantly bashing Washington even for every little thing it does?

But there’s one possibility also that Iran’s is just trying to help a fellow Moslem nation and that’s all. Maybe Tehran had learned its lesson and making-up for its angry rhetoric in the past, realizing that it would not do them any good to be so antagonistic towards America. If this is the way, then this is to me a good turn of event. And if Tehran would finally agree to the offered incentives and stop Uranium enrichment, then Iran becomes not one more country that could spur the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East but instead, be one more country to shore up the immediate resolution of the armed conflicts there. By then, global peace and stability becomes more reachable and easily viable.

I robustly hope that it would be this way.