The drift of the anti-Western right: yesterday Moscow, now Tehran, tomorrow Pyongyang?

@ElentirENG ES 4·19·2024 · 7:01 0

I have been warning about the positions that a minority part of the right is taking, with an increasingly anti-Western discourse.

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That right, which is often identified with the approaches of the most illiberal right (that is, the extreme right strictly speaking, and not what the media usually say), began by supporting the invasion ordered by Putin's terrorist regime against Ukraine, uncritically repeating the crudest and false slogans of the Kremlin's propaganda media and demonizing the Ukrainian people for defending their Homeland against the Russian invaders, that is, for exercising the same patriotism that the right wing claims to admire.

That same right is going from repeating Moscow's slogans to repeating Iran's slogans against the State of Israel. This striking step is no surprise. Russia is an ally of Iran, and the propagandists in Moscow - those who receive money for their services and the useful fools who do it for free - needed a very slight push to end up supporting the terrorist regime of Tehran, something that could be expected from the extreme left, which boasts of being feminist and pro-LGBT, but has no qualms about supporting a misogynistic regime that hangs homosexuals in order to destabilize the West.

It is especially grotesque to see influential people who call themselves Christians supporting Iran, which is one of the ten regimes that most persecute Christians in the world, 9th on the list of persecution published by the NGO Open Doors in January.

This organization has pointed out that an Iranian Muslim who converts to Christianity can be sent to prison, since this religious conversion is illegal in the country. Let us remember the case of the Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who faced a death sentence and is currently in prison in that country. I know that the anti-Semitism of a large part of the extreme right makes it very prone to sympathize with any enemy of Israel, but with what face can one presume to be Christian and support a criminal regime like that?

It is worth wondering what next stations will end up visiting the ideological train of that Western right, which with the excuse of repudiating the regrettable moral drift of that part of the world, is capable of ending up putting itself at the service of dictatorships as perverse as Russia and Iran. Putin has allies as vile as the undemocratic regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, communist China and North Korea, the most brutal and fanatical dictatorship in the world.

Some will think I'm exaggerating. Nothing further. A few months ago, some well-known pro-Russian propagandists from Spain shared space with Alejandro Cao de Benós, North Korea's best-known propagandist, at a meeting held in Salamanca in the that one of the talks was titled "North Korea and popular sovereignty." Let us remember that North Korea is the country that persecutes Christians the most in the world, but it seems that anti-Westernism weighs more in the scale of values of some fanatics of that right. In view of this, after accepting the slogans of Moscow and Tehran, will the next thing be to accept the slogans of Pyongyang?

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Photo: AFP-JIJI. A military parade in Pyongyang on October 10, 2015.