Mostafa Gahremani, 30/7/2025
John Mearsheimer, renowned professor of International
Relations at the University of Chicago and theorist of “Offensive Realism” in
foreign policy:
“I’d be willing to bet that Iran is probably developing a nuclear weapon behind closed doors — and neither the U.S. nor Israel are capable of stopping it. They have not only failed to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but have in fact worsened the situation. I would not be surprised at all if Iran ends up building a nuclear weapon.”
Those who describe the terrorist attack on Iran, the
killing of over a thousand innocent people, and the open genocide in Gaza as a
“necessary dirty job” carried out by a war-addicted and violence-driven regime
(Israel) in the service of “the West and its interests,” deserve neither moral
nor legal trust.
For this culturally unrestrained West, the old adage
still holds true:
“The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
The only effective means of deterrence and of
safeguarding national independence and security is the establishment of a
balance of terror.
And this must finally be acknowledged: such a balance
cannot be achieved without deterrence capabilities based on non-conventional
weapons.
This merciless and compassionless world order —
dominated by Western values and knowledge systems — is no charity.
Rights are not granted; they must be fought for. And
the West never yields them without resistance.
The West’s dehumanizing and authoritarian logic
recognizes no moral boundary when it comes to destroying states or peoples who
resist the exploitation of their resources, the violation of their sovereignty,
or their subjugation to Western power structures.
Neither international law nor the supposedly universal
moral and philosophical authority — claimed primarily by the European West — is
able to stop it.
In this context, even Kant’s categorical imperative —
once hailed as the highest moral-philosophical achievement of Western
civilization — is today nothing more than a trivialized variant of “pure
reason” placed entirely in the service of domination.
And this “pure reason” is, especially in relation to
the non-Western human being, essentially untouchable — and thus immune to any
criticism.
In its actual function, Western philosophy is not a
path to justice but rather an ideological construct used to legitimize
domination, discrimination, and hegemonic power.
Nothing more — and nothing less.
And so, in the end, only one question remains: Does
the West even know what morality is anymore??!
