by HAMID DABASHI
Tel Aviv and Washington will lose this battle with Tehran, and that failure will have a catalytic impact on peoples across the region
The pernicious deception led by the US charlatan-in-chief, President Donald Trump, culminated this weekend in a massive attack on the heels of unprovoked Israeli warmongering in Iran.
Israel’s aggression against Iran’s industrial infrastructure, along with its military and scientific leadership, has also killed hundreds of civilians – a trademark of the vicious Israeli army, on the model of what it has done in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
With the US directly entering the conflict on Saturday night with a stealth operation to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, this warmongering is now on steroids.
The resolve of Iranians to defend their homeland will not leave a single stone unturned. Complicit Arab countries with active American military bases on their soil could face severe consequences for this attack on yet another sovereign nation in the region.
Trump’s gaudy ruse of pretending to negotiate ahead of the weekend bombing was not just a silly political decoy. Israel is not an independent entity. It is a garrison arms depot, there to serve the interests of its owners and benefactors.
Israel and its US and European enablers have spent decades manufacturing Iran as the top enemy, always on the brink of building an atom bomb to drop on Israel. This is a flat-out lie propelled by a settler colony that itself sits atop a massive nuclear stockpile, alongside a deadly arsenal of conventional weapons that have been used to devastate Gaza and commit genocide against the Palestinian people.
Any sane person would concur that neither Iran, nor Israel, nor any other country should ever have a nuclear weapon.
But are the genocidal Zionists still engaged in the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians really in a position to point fingers at Iran and start bombing it? Is the US, the only country to have actually dropped nuclear bombs – on Japan during the Second World War – in that position? Are the Europeans, with their own heavy baggage of colonial fascism? Of course not.
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