Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal: The rule of unhinged bullies: Today on June 22, the US joins Israel in its war against Iran. The USA bombers dropped 13 thousands 608 kilogrammes bombs on nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. President Donald Trump claims that the US bombs have totally obliterated the whole Iranian nuclear facilities. Since Iran hasn’t any such nuclear deterrent, such a US attack was highly expected. Such US bombing has blown up the status quo in the area and created a new situation to reshape the geopolitics of the Middle East.
The tiny settlers’ colony of Israel has been a regional bully in the Middle East since its illegal inception in 1948. The USA works as the international bully in the post-World War world. Both bullies work in tandem to jeopardies world peace. Now the world stands as a totally lawless jungle, only the beasts with hunting power can exercise their political agenda and demand others to show full submission. Most Arab autocrats have already shown their full submission to these bullies. Iran faces wars only for its defiance. These bullies want to make a 1953 coup like regime change in Iran to install a puppet like Reza Pahlavi -the son of the deposed puppet king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He is a preferred candidate for Israel and its allies.
Since the establishment of this tiny settlers’ colony state, Israel works as a regional bully in the Middle East and continues its geographical expansion; and the USA works as the unhinged international bully. As a result, the world looks like a lawless jungle, only the political beasts with highest capacity of mass destruction and genocide exercise their bullying instinct. Iran is blamed for unrest in the region, but unlike the US and Israel, Iran never invaded any country. The US has 19 military bases and 40 thousands armed personnel’s in the Middle East, whereas Iran hasn’t such bases outside its own borders.
The rule of the war criminals: Most western countries like the US, the UK, Germany, France are run by political and economic interests; morality and humanity have no place in their politics. This is why they could run colonial projects of ethnic cleansing, plunder and slave trading in the past in Asian and African countries. And now they support, finance and weaponize Israel for its policy of genocide and destruction in Gaza. If they had an iota of morality and humanity, they could condemn Israel for its policy of war crimes. In fact, they have been the active partners in all war crimes that took place in modern history like two World Wars, Vietnam war, and wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya and now in Palestine.
Committing crime is not the only crime; giving necessary logistics, money and weapons to a killer is also a crime. The western countries show their complicity in Israeli war crimes by giving full support to Israel. These western countries are indeed run by war criminals. Because, only such war criminals could support another war criminal like Prime Netayanhu of Israel. They proved to be intimate ideological cousins in committing and rejoicing in the same type of crimes.
Recently, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, “Israel is doing our dirty work.” Germany considers it a valid reason to stand behind Israel and supply ammunition to continue with the dirty works. The reason works for other war criminals like Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the UK and President Donald Trump of the US. And these dirty works are nothing but war crimes like killing 55 thousands people in Gaza, putting children, women and people on starvation, bombing almost all hospitals to rubble and destroying more than 80 percent of the residential areas.
War: The most powerful catalyst for policy-shift
One day the US-Israeli bombing on Iran will end. But the consequences of the US-Israeli war on Iran will not end after the end of bombing. The war will work as a powerful catalyst of change. This will work as a powerful impetus for making Iran more powerful. The US bombing has already killed all opportunities of peaceful resolution. And when the path of peace is blocked, the path of war stays as the only option. It generates unending psychological war and prepares ground for further war. Thus, World War I generated the political ground for World War II. The same phenomenon repeats again and again on the world stage. So the current US-Israeli war against Iran will surely impact the future course of history -especially in the Middle East and the Muslim World.
The US bombing on Iran re-enforced the old notion that the US and the Israeli policies go together. The Israeli policy is nothing but the US policy and the US policy is nothing but the Israeli policy. Even President Trump said, “Israel’s war is an American war.” He also claims that he has the best partnership with Israel on war against Iran than any other previous US President. The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu congratulated President Trump for bombing Iran; and the Israeli people are rejoicng the destruction of the Iranian nuclear sites -as they rejoice the genocide and destruction in Gaza.
Donald Trump: A war criminal: Starting a war against any country is itself a great crime. President Trump committed a huge crime by starting an unprovoked war against Iran. Iran didn’t bomb on any US soil, nor did kill any US citizen. So, by bombing Iran, the US has violated the UN charter. Even the US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard told in front of the US Congressional committee that Iran is not making any nuclear bomb; she also told that Iran is not near to having that. But President Donald Trump didn’t believe his own spie chief’s information but believed in Israeli information. For Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is more trustworthy than the US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard.
Only a few days ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief also told an Al Jazeera journalist that his organisation couldn’t find any evidence that Iran is making any nuclear bomb. So it is a crime to attack Iran on the pretext of making a nuclear bomb. Thus the US violated the UN Charter. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of the UK did the same war crimes by attacking Iraq on a false pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. These criminal states manufacture lies to justify their war crimes. President Trump is repeating the same.
The emergence of new Iran: The US attack gave Iran the full right to retaliate anywhere on any US presence. The US has 19 bases and 40 thousands soldiers in the Middle East. So Iran has 19 big and 40 thousands small targets. The US attack has proven that signing Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allowing IAEA don’t give any extra guarantee and safety to the signing country. So it doesn’t give any sensible reason to continue with NPT and IAEA; so Iran has enough reason to withdraw from such treaties. The current war will solidify the Iranian resolve to defend against any foreign invasion. Now all Iranians will fully understand the need for a nuclear deterrent for its sovereignty. So the war will induce a drastic shift in Iran’s defence policy and priority.
Pakistan’s humiliating defeat in 1971 by India made the country a formidable nuclear power. The former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqer Ali Bhutto said, “We may eat grass but we will make nuclear bombs.” Such a strong resolve made Pakistan nuclear. Iran is a much more resourceful country than Pakistan. Iran is the major oil and gas producer in the world. Iran also has hundreds of world class intelligent scientists. So if Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea make nuclear weapons, why not Iran? Why should there be discrimination? The USA and Israeli attack will only increase the determination of Iran to have that. Iran is already under economic embargo for decades, so the Iranians know how to survive with that.
President Donald Trump now offers peace after bombing Iran. Peace never comes with bombings. Such bombings may cause either surrender cum decapitation or generate firm resilience. Iran is not a banana republic to surrender. Iran may take a period of strategic silence or inaction to fully prepare for an effective encounter.
The US jets bombed Yemen more than a thousand times on Yemen, but couldn’t break the resilience of the Houthis. Hence, Iran is too big to be subdued. The US and its more than 50 partners couldn’t win in Afghanistan in 20 years, how can they dare win in Iran? So Iran may be bombed thousands of times but looks unstoppable in its mission to stay sovereign.
The US-Israeli attack on Iran also taught important lessons to other independent Muslim countries. The NPT and IAEA are the tools to keep the Muslim countries defenceless and subjugated. If these Muslim countries have any vision to stay sovereign they must discard these shackles like NPT and IAEA from their neck -as Israel has done. The immoral discrimination between the nuclear and non-nuclear countries must disappear.
