Aftenposten reproaches, in an editorial, the President of the Storting, Masud Gharahkhani (Labour Party, Ap), for his open support for the liberation of Iran. Indirectly he supports the war of the United States and Israel, and it is this that Aftenposten does not like. They believe he is conducting solo foreign policy and exceeding his limits of authority.
The problem runs deeper. Norway has politicians of immigrant background who programmatically belong to the political left: Hadja Tajik, Abid Raja. The Conservative Party’s (Høyre) Farahmand is an exception, but he is diplomatic.
The war is a war of destiny: Trump decided that the regime must be overthrown. He will not give up until the power of the priests has been broken.
It is this objective that Aftenposten and the Norwegian parties do not like. They like only the war against Russia, not the war against the ayatollahs. It is a peculiar psychological mechanism that is at work.
Norway gives NOK 12 billion to the development of drones in Ukraine. Drones are the new way of conducting war. It is merciless. There is little that is associated with humanitarian warfare, or “international law” (folkerett). That subject is never raised when the government boasts of its support for the war.
But Israel and the United States are lectured about the girls’ school that was hit because of old, outdated maps, and Sidsel Wold speaks on every breath about “the black rain”, while we hear little about burning oil installations in Bahrain and the Emirates.
The Norwegian press does not want Trump and Netanyahu to win.
Therefore they are irritated by Gharahkhani because he loves his country of origin more than political correctness.
That Aftenposten does not permit.
Now Gharahkhani has gone far in supporting the war against Iran. He has also gone far in asserting that Pahlavi is the one most Iranians wish for. Thus he unfortunately oversteps boundaries he ought to have kept within. Given the position Gharahkhani holds, such statements will easily be perceived as official Norwegian policy. According to Dagsavisen, a number of Kurdish groups have chosen to boycott a dialogue meeting at the Storting as a result of the statements made by the President of the Storting.
The Norwegian press provides cover for left-wing groups that are hostile to the United States/Israel and pretends that they represent a legitimate counterforce.
They do not. They are fewer and they have contacts with pro-Palestinian and pro-regime milieus. They have physically attacked freedom-minded Iranians.
This is a battle of destiny, not only for the Iranian people, but for the entire world – and the Norwegian press is on the wrong side.