Iran Builds 'Security' Wall: When Occupiers Learn From the Best
According to The New Arab , Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is pushing a multi-billion dollar project, ostensibly to block Kurdish separatist groups and weapons smuggling. This involves seizing land, displacing villagers, and building fortifications on foreign soil. One might recall similar 'security' rationales for walls and settlements in other regions, but somehow the international
community's vocabulary for 'occupation' and 'illegal land grabs' seems to develop a sudden stutter when the perpetrator isn't a U.S. ally. The sheer hypocrisy is exhausting. Imagine the hysterical headlines if Russia built a 'security' wall inside Ukraine during peacetime, let alone during an ongoing conflict. Yet, here is Iran—a nation routinely condemned for 'destabilizing the region'—literally
building a physical wall into a sovereign neighbor, and the moral outrage is curiously subdued. It appears certain nations get a pass on territorial aggression, as long as it's not aimed at the 'correct' borders.