by Declan Hayes, Strategic Culture:
Iranians have a lot of old scores to settle and Israel and NATO leave them no choice but to exact the most fearsome price, Declan Hayes writes.
What we are doing here is historic – we are changing the face of the Middle East. ~ IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir
Although the IDF are changing the face of the Middle East, they are also changing the global rules of war, as well as the laws of God and man to achieve their aims and none of that is good for any of us.
In one of their recent spectaculars, the IDF blew up a television station in downtown Tehran, an outrage that made global headlines because the Iranian lady who had been reading the news at the time maintained a traditionally stiff upper British lip as the building came crashing down around her ears and those of her colleagues. Not only was Israeli warlord Netanyahu quick off the mark cackling that an important tentacle of the Iranian “regime” had been hit, but he was preempted by Sky News Australia’s Sharri Markson, who likewise cackled that the attack had cripped Iran’s propaganda arm.
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All fair enough except for the following reasons. I have been in that building and most of the staff are just ordinary Joes (or Alis and Zeinabs, if you prefer) doing their jobs. They are as inconsequential to the overall play as are any of the Iranian children killed in any of the many residential apartment buildings that the gallant IDF destroyed without warning during the same wave of unprovoked attacks.
Not only is all that a war crime but Markson makes Sky News Australia and, by extension, Murdoch and all the western media fully complicit in that war crime and she has made those like George Galloway, Judge Napolitano and all those informed commentators who appear in their shows “legitimate targets” for not kowtowing to the NATO yoke.
Chief of those targets isTehran University professor Mohammad Marandi, a solid media performer who generally puts forward the Iranian line and does so with aplomb. And, though Westerners may not agree with Marandi or, for that matter, with Galloway, the traditional way to defeat them is to confront them with equally capable performers, who have their own lines of argument mastered.
Although the traditional methods of arguments were to argue the facts and, if that failed, to argue the circumstances and, if both of them failed, to call the likes of Galloway and Marandi names, Markson and all of NATO have now resurrected an equally ancient line of attack, which is to murder the messenger and declare their victims were spreading misinformation, disinformation or whatever. Whatever about Galloway, Lowkey and similar folk, there is no way NATO will allow the likes of Marandi, who feels it his patriotic duty to argue civilly, to come out of this war in one piece and the Iranian authorities are to be commended for telling him his life hangs by a thread.
But so do the lives of millions of other Iranians and all because the Yanks and the Israelis have this messianic belief that their manifest destiny is to be über alles in der welt. And, perhaps like Hitler and the club footed Himmler they are a master race, but there are a bunch of Shia, some of whom I have met, who are determined to resist to the death those supremacists and to resist their penchant for destroying buildings full of women and children as well.
Although I get that Benjamin Picture of Dorian Gray Netanyahu and the rest of Trump’s handlers have to lie that Reza Pahlavi, the self-styled Crown Prince of Iran, will restore democracy, liberty and apple pie to Persia, it was his own father Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in his CIA role as Shah of Iran, who robbed Iranians of their democratic birthright before the ordinary Iranians gave him and his Savak henchmen their marching orders.
Although the sins of the fathers cannot be visited upon their sons (unless, of course, they oppose CIA/Mossad hegemony), it is noteworthy that, on a recent visit to Zion, the young pretender did not pop into the Al-Aqsa mosque for a quick prayer and photoshoot, even though he went through the ritual of praying at the Wailing Wall. As Iran’s Shias, like their co-religionists elsewhere, see pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites as a core part of their faith, this was a spit into their eye, an insult Zion’s native Christians are all too familiar with at the hands (and spittle) of the Israeli supremacists Pahlavi so slavishly serves.
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