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Georgia, Ukraine, and now Iran - Worldwide experiments of pushing democracy with money – can it backfire?
The world is experiencing a new phenomenon. Money is crossing international borders to influence elections and democracies. It happened in Georgia, Ukraine, Iraq, Lebanon and else where.
And now it may again happen in Iran. Various different countries have funded political parties in these countries through covert public sources or even private sources. The precedence is interesting if you believe that the world is converging to one nation called Earth. Floating special interest money across the border can be dangerous though no matter what out come it can bring. This money like in all matured democracies are used to suppress the will of the common people. Democracies that survive come from the people, for the people and is always of the people. In that perspective, the world really never experienced so much money flow across the borders to influence election and the outcome is not known. One thing is clear though, if these politicians fail to provide what they promise, the people may turn against the external special interests that provided that soft political contribution.
For the first time in 25 years, the United States plans to extend direct financial assistance to Iranian groups to spread democracy in the Islamic republic, the BBC reported April 12th. According to the plan, the U.S. State Department has set aside some $3 million that educational and humanitarian groups would be eligible to receive. Tehran has condemned the move as interference in its domestic affairs, and called it a violation of the agreement between the two sides, which ended the 1980-81 hostage crisis.
The best thing that can happen to Iran and the world is to have a true democracy in Iran. It has the most talented people and culture but really never saw the glimpse of democracy in modern history. It is also true that democratic countries seldom attack other countries. That theory though failed when America moved its military against Iraq with a hope to find weapons of mass destruction. However, helping Iranian democratic forces with money may only be detrimental in the long run. Let us assume that Iran will have a democracy in the next few years. Then if these democratically elected leaders fail to produce results they promised, then the blame will go to who ever funded these politicians in the first place, especially if they are foreign powers.
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