Feroze Mithiborwala :
The primary goals behind the Israel/US aggression on Iran were the following:
1. The agenda was to bring about “Regime Change” in Iran, and by replacing the government with a pliant collaborator from the Shah Pahalvi family.
Israel/US totally failed in this plan. In fact Iran has never been more united as a nation. Today the Iranian people, the armed forces and the government all stand as one.
2. To destroy Iran’s nuclear programme.
Here again, the Israeli and US strikes on Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz have miserably failed and the US strikes were more political theatre for domestic consumption than anything really causing significant damage. Here again Israel/US plans failed.
3. Therefore there is support for Iran’s decision to reject and break all ties with the IAEA, which has been untruthful and has operated like a spy for the West, leaking sensitive Iranian information to Israel/US. IAEA Chief Rafael Grossman is now deemed untrustworthy and has been accussed of leaking the identities of the leading Iranian scientists, who were them assassinated by the Mossad during the current phase.
4. The Iranian hypersonic missile systems proved way too powerful for the American anti-missile systems to apprehend. Thus the Patriot, Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Thaad, all failed. Israel has faced massive damage and it’s major military, intelligence, energy and ports infrastructure lie in ruins. The financial drain on the Israeli economy is also unsustainable.
5. Iran and Axis Resistance attack on US bases in Qatar, Iraq and Syria and the threat to block the Strait of Hormuz, along with the fact that Israel had been defeated, unable to defend itself, then forced a desperate Netanyahu and Trump to declare a ceasefire to actually save Israel from Iran’s fury.
6. The attack on Iran, was also an attack on BRICS and the SCO, as it is these EurAsian regional formations that lead the path to a multipolar world, thus ending the hegemony of the West dominated Unipolar world.
7. Iran has definitely emerged victorious and the entire world recognises this fact. On the other hand, Israel stands devastated and the US much weaker. More significantly, the evolving alliance of Russia, Iran and China – the new R-I-C, all at the forefront of countering US-Zionist hegemony, has emerged stronger and is changing the strategic balance across the region and the world.
8. Iran’s military lessons and options. Missile programme, Nuclear Deterrence, Advanced Fighter Jets and Countering Spy networks.
? Iran has proved it’s breathraking technological advances in its astounding and powerful missile programme and they are unstoppable.
? Interestingly there are reports of Iran now acquiring 40 Chinese J-10C, fourth-and-a-half-generation Jet Fighters which integrates a host of advanced features, including sophisticated avionics, powerful engines, and enhanced weapon systems. This will ensure that the only advantage that Israel has, that of its airforce, will now be nullified, neutralised and countered. This will tilt the strategic balance of power in favour of Iran without a doubt.
? Iran has proved to be internally compromised with Mossad/CIA Spy networks and assassination squads active within Iran and in bordering states such as Azerbaijan. Iran is currently dealing with the situation and has broken a number of these spy rings, but will clearly have to do far more as there are internal collaborators and traitors working alongside the Mossad.
9. The ceasefire is only temporary and was sought in desperation by the US to save Israel. The next war is not far away. Israel having failed to draw in the US into a full-fledged war with Iran is now desperate as it’s very survival as a Jewish ethno-religious supremacist state is under threat.
10. For the first time the powerful extremist Jewish Lobby failed to draw in the US into a long war, as that was Netanyahu’s planned objective of long standing. This is also due to the fast changing public opinion in the US and Europe and a clear public sentiment for fighting another war for Israel, this time against Iran.
11. The Israeli Genocide of Gaza, post the 7th of October Gaza Ghetto Uprising, the Prison Break from the Judeo-Nazi Concentration Camp has been cataclysmic and has changed the very narrative and perception of the Israeli entity, it’s leader people. The overwhelming majority support the Genocide and ethnic cleansing and thus Global public opinion has totally turned against Israel and it’s extremist Jewish Zionist supporters.
12. Alongside the ceasefire with Iran, a ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank is the need of the hour. The war on Gaza, the siege, the starvation, must end. Israel must withdraw from all of Occupied Palestine and a comprehensive political solution be arrived at implemented.
According to Prof. Gideon Polya, the leading researcher on Genocides, on a recent webinar, he stated that 6,80,000 People, have been murdered in Gaza – yes, 6,80,000 people. This is a Holocaust, a Genocide, unparalleled in the times we live in, broadcast 24×7 on to our mobile phones.
13. Significantly, the Israeli population is no more confident in the capability of the Israeli regime or its military to defend Israel. Thus hundreds of thousands Israelis are leaving for safer havens. As the tensions carry on, the Israeli entity will carry on to implode, if it doesn’t find a path to peace and coexistence instead of perpetual wars and hegemony.
14. We are living in an epic, an historic period, a great time for historic changes for the nations of the Global Majority, as the western nations are in terminal decline, and the Global South, the Global Majority is rising.
15. Thus whilst the scared Israeli citizens flee only after a few days of the Iranian missiles raining down upon Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ashton, across Israel, the Gazan population, despite a genocidal bombing over 20 months, still stand steadfast and refuse to surrender, refuse to leave their land, refuse to be ethnically cleansed by Netanyahu and Trump. They continue to resist and thus exist. Their very existence is their resistance.
Palestine is the central geopolitical and moral issue of our times. Now the liberation looks closer….
(The writer is an Indian journalist. Courtesy: countercurrents.org)
