Former Cuban President Fidel Castro speaking to the National Assembly on the possibility of imperialist war against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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First Extraordinary Session of the 7th Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power, at the International Conference Center, August 7, 2010, Year 52 of the Revolution.
Typographic version: Council of State
Message to the National Assembly
At the beginning, only eight weeks ago, I thought there was no possible solution to the imminent danger of war. The tableau before my eyes was so dramatic that I saw no other way out but the possibility of the survival – perhaps probable – in the part of this hemisphere that had no reason to be the target of a direct attack, as well as some other isolated regions of the planet.
It was very difficult, knowing that human beings always cling to some sort of perspective, however remote.
Despite everything, I tried.
Fortunately, I did not take long to realize that there was one hope – and definitely, a very profound one. Moreover, if that opportunity was lost, the disaster would acquire the worst of consequences. In that case, there would be no possible salvation for the human species.
Nevertheless, I have the certainty that this will not be the case but, on the contrary, the conditions are currently being created for an up to very recently undreamed-of situation.
One man, the President of the United States, will have to take this decision on his own. Obviously, given his multiple occupations, he has not as yet realized that, but his advisors are beginning to understand it, which can be seen by certain simple steps taken, such as the end of the torture imposed on Gerardo, something that has not taken place during the last 12 years of the system’s implacable hatred of Cuba and him. Today one can predict that the next step will be the authorization of a visit from Adriana to visit him or his immediate release, or both. It was through Adriana that I learned that, after 12 years of unjust and cruel imprisonment, his spirit has never been so high.
Given that Iran will not give one inch in the face of the demands of the United States and Israel, which have already mobilized parts of their military arsenals, they will have to launch the attack as soon as the date agreed by the Security Council on June 9, 2010, stating the established rules and requirements, expires.
There is a limit that cannot be passed to everything that humans aspire to achieve.
In this critical case, President Barack Obama is the one who will have give the order of this much-announced and heralded attack, following the rules of the gigantic empire.
But, right at that moment when he gives the order which, moreover, is the only one he could give, on account of the power, speed and countless nuclear missiles accumulated in an absurd competition among powers, he would also be ordering the instant death not only of hundreds of millions of persons, among them an incalculable number of citizens of his own country, but also the crew members of all the vessels of the U.S. fleet deployed in the seas around Iran. Simultaneously, a conflagration would break out in the Near and Middle East, and in all of Eurasia.
Fate would have it that, precisely at this moment, the president of the United States is an African American, of Muslim and Christian descent. HE WILL NOT GIVE IT!!!, if he is made aware of it. That is what we are doing here.
The leaders of the most powerful countries in the world, allies or adversaries, with the exception of Israel, will exhort him not to do it.
Afterward the world will bestow upon him all the honors that he would merit.
The present order established on the planet cannot then last and, inevitably will immediately collapse.
The so-called hard currencies will lose their value as an instrument of the system that has exacted a contribution of unlimited wealth, sweat and sacrifice from the peoples.
New forms of distribution of goods and services, education and direction of social processes will peacefully emerge, but if war breaks out, the current social order will disappear abruptly and the price will be infinitely higher.
The population of the planet can be regulated; non-renewable resources, preserved; climate change, averted; the useful work of all human beings guaranteed; the sick treated; essential knowledge, culture and science at the service of humanity, assured. The children, adolescents and young people of the world will not perish in that nuclear holocaust.
This is the message that I wished to convey to you, dear compañeros of our National Assembly.
I am now ready to account for my words, answer the questions you wish to ask me and listen to your opinions.
Thank you very much. (Applause)
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