Iran Announces Greater West Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Iran would forge the Middle East into an independent region free of interference from those outsiders, controlled from Tehran instead of Washington, New York, London, or Tel Aviv.

Tehran, December 28 – Leaders of the Islamic Republic formalized an initiative this week in the mold of a Japanese plan before and during the Second World War to help the peoples of the region throw off the yoke of Western imperialism and colonialism, with itself in the lead role and with generous lip service to unity of the subject peoples, all to serve as euphemistic cover for its own territorial and hegemonic ambitions.

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi announced in a speech to parliament the Greater West-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, harkening back to an analogous scheme from 1930’s and 40’s Tokyo by a similar name. The latter-day Prosperity Sphere, in Raisi’s vision, sees Iran as the anchor, racial essence, and dominant force in the region stretching from East Africa to India and north into Central Asia, to “assist the peoples of the region free themselves from the oppressive, exploitative paternalism of American, European, and Zionist powers.” Instead, Raisi declared, Iran would forge the Middle East into an independent region free of interference from those outsiders, controlled from Tehran instead of Washington, New York, London, or Tel Aviv.

“The natural and human resources of this region belong to the people of this region,” he asserted. “The proven wisdom of Iran’s Supreme Leader and the Islamic Revolution will guide all the peoples of the region – the ones who belong here, not the usurper Zionists, for example – in the proper extraction, production, processing, and disposition of those resources, by which I mean securing the resources for Iran’s use, because we’re Aryans and that’s what the Second World War tells us Aryans do.” The country’s name derives from the Indo-European Aryan linguistic group.

Raisi drew attention to certain similarities between Japan’s Co-Prosperity Sphere and Iran’s. “We, like the Japanese, see the injustices that Western colonialism has wrought in our region,” he stated. “We, like the Japanese, know that our innate superiority over other peoples of the region puts us in position to lead the effort at decolonization. We, like the Japanese, already couch our influence over, and control of, our neighbors, in terms of helping them, when in fact we are prepared to sacrifice as many locals as necessary, plus a few hundred thousand, give or take, to achieve our self-sufficiency.”

Additionally, aides to Mr. Raisi added afterwards, Iran, like Japan, believes it can push the US much farther than it actually can before provoking a devastating response Iranian leaders never dreamed possible.

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