There was no "Head of State" in the Libyan Jamahiriya because there was no State in the first place. Libya was a true democracy where the people governed themselves directly through congresses and committees formed of themselves - from district level ( Basic People's Congress - 800 of them ) to national level ( General People's Congress ) and then committees for water, local security etc.
Muammar was the "Guide of the revolution". He was "Head of State" until sometime in the 1970s but when Libya became a Jamahiriya ( "Republic of the masses" ) his position ceased to exist because The State ceased to exist.
This thread of mine contains an article that describes the Libyan system in practice and contains my description about Democracy.
Irrelevant to my post.
The mullah government of Iran is not maintaining the nuclear weapons program for some vaunted thing called "Axis of Resistance". It simply is a theocratic government which is in Syria to protect Shia religious buildings and Shia people rather than in a humanitarian effort. Why isn't the Irani military in Libya and West Bank and in Ukraine in support of Russia ?
None of the above is related to the point at hand, and only strays further from the actual subject matter.
But since it's wrong too, it shall be addressed decisively. Iran is and has been at the forefront of global Resistance against the zio-American empire since the victory of the glorious 1979 Islamic Revolution.
A cursory glimpse at Islamic Iran's foreign policy over the past 44 years will suffice to debunk the fallacious notion promoted by none other than NATO's takfiri terrorist proxies as well as NATO regimes and their media mouthpieces themselves, that Iranian strategy is informed by sectarian considerations. The baseless fallacy is instantly nullified by the amply documented fact that Islamic Iran enjoys a pristine and unmatched record of rushing to the aid of oppressed peoples regardless of their religious, confessional or national backgrounds.
The list of nations and movements the Islamic Republic has partnered with speaks for itself: from non-Moslem Cuba, non-Moslem Venezuela, non-Moslem Nicaragua, non-Moslem Ecuador, non-Moslem Bolivia, the non-Moslem ANC / PAC in South Africa rising up against apartheid (with Nelson Mandela meeting Supreme Leader Khamenei in a historic state visit), the Polisario Front, non-Moslem Korea (of which Iran has been one of the closest partners in the realm of strategic missile development), all the way to Sunni Bosnian Moslems, to the Sunni Palestinian Resistance, to both Shia and Sunni Afghans, to Sunni Tajikistan (where Iran has recently set up a UAV factory), to Sunni Kurds of Iraq, to Yazidi Kurds facing extermination at the hands of "I"SIS, and so on and so forth.
A contrario, relations with the Shia-majority Baku republic tend to be rather tense these days, due to the latter's alliance with Tel Aviv as well as the threat this generates for Iran.
The Islamic Republic intervened in Syria in order to neutralize the zio-American plot aimed at severing the land-based corridor connecting Iran to the anti-zionist Resistance in the Levant. The only reason Syria was subjected to a terrorist onslaught, was its strategic alliance with Iran. At practically every meeting President Assad held with western officials prior to the war, the most pressing demand formulated by said westerners was that Damascus cut ties with Iran. However Syria stood firm, hence the NATO aggression.
Why should the Iranian military be in Libya? Iran isn't endowed with unlimited resources to be present on the ground everywhere, is she. Iranian forces deployed in Bosnia Herzegovina in the 1990's to prevent the genocide of local Moslems who happen to be Sunnis not Shia. Likewise, the hero of anti-imperial Resistance shahid Soleimani personally entered northern Iraq to save not just Sunni but Yazidi Kurds from "I"SIS. So I'd say, let a few more governments start contributing merely one percent of what Iran has to the cause of anti-imperialist Resistance. That would certainly represent a far more reasonable, equitable and legitimate demand.
As for the West Bank and Ukraine, it'd be on the preposterous and brazen side to fault Iran even remotely in these contexts. Considering the facts that the Islamic Republic happens to be:
- The only state actor on earth brave enough to offer military-level support to every major Palestinian Resistance faction from the left-wing PFLP to Hamas and PIJ.
- The only country Russia is actually confirmed to have imported weaponry from for use in its military operation in Ukraine. Why don't you tell a Russian that Iran ought be condemned for not directly entering the Ukraine war, and behold their reaction - for it'll doubtlessly go a long way highlighting how such a contention can impossibly originate from a sincere friend of Russia.
This is without mentioning the blatant double standard which would consist in passing off some inconsequential statement Ahmadinejad made on Libya as some sort of a supremely significant and impactful occurrence, all the while of dismissing out of hand Iran's truly outstanding, unique engagement for justice in the Palestinian theater, as well as Iran's equally unique military aid to Russia, in both of which Iran has no competitors worldwide.
But the Axis of Resistance..
What's with the Axis of Resistance?
A statement shows intention
Iran acts upon her intentions. Had she intended to extend assistance to insurgents in Libya, she wouldn't have hesitated to do so.
By that logic Qaddafi's ideology was one of submission to the west.
It is unfortunate that Libya supported the mullah government of Iran during the Iran-Iraq war
Libya's support consisted in supplying a limited number of SCUD missiles and personnel to operate them because Iran was not familiar with the system yet. But before they could actually be put to use, orders came from Tripoli to interrupt the entire assistance program, and Libyan advisers were promptly called back. And if my memory serves, not without manipulating the missiles in such a way that Iran would have a harder time firing them.
whereas Libyan Jamahiriya should have helped the Iranis in overthrowing the mullahs.
...and thereby actively sided with the USA, EU and Isra"el". Thanks for clarifying your stance.
By the way, you've been derailing the thread with off-topic polemics, much like the British member you echoed in taking aim at Iran. Any further attempts to do so will thus be reported to moderators.
@HGV : I am countering anti-Iran propaganda posted on here by a couple of antagonistic users. You may want to report these, as they are the instigators of present off-topic conversations.
