My feelings are mixed regarding what is happening in Iran and the Middle East…
On one hand, I am pleased by the thought and idea that some young people might experience the charms of life without a rigid religious shadow, that some Persian women and girls might see the day when the sun will illuminate their beautiful faces, now hidden beneath hijabs and burqas.
On the other hand, I fear that if America finishes the dirty work for the Zionist regime and its frontman, a hardened criminal alongside Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Atatürk — if, therefore, some new or the old, shah-like provisional arrangement is established with Pahlavi Junior at the helm, or any other vassal leader who will answer not in Tehran but in Tel Aviv — that it will be a Pyrrhic victory for the one in whose name all this is allegedly being done — the Iranian/Persian people.
That their happiness, which I see has spilled onto the squares of some cities, will be short-lived.
For it was not American and Israeli fleets and rockets, although they are trying relentlessly to hammer that into our heads through the media, that flew toward Iran because of nuclear weapons, which it has long been proven it does not possess, neither in atoms nor in barrels, nor because of the Iranian poor who suffer under medieval sharia.
This entire slaughter, which in its scope threatens to grow into a mini Third World War, was initiated because of the sick fixation of one clique, led by one pathological case, in whose office I once long ago even stayed, to dominate one part of the world, to the detriment of all others who live under that turquoise Middle Eastern sky.
Israel, with the money of its lobbyists in America, with budgets as full as Croesus’ treasury, returned Trump to the White House, so that he might now repay them with interest, trampling the campaign promises on whose wings he flew into the Oval Office.
The man who swore that America under his leadership would not wage wars around the world, and that American youths would not return to their mothers in plastic bags, forgot his “mad celebrations” already in the first year of his mandate. Melania did not manage to change three outfits, and Trump already managed to disappoint many who believed in him and supported him in recent years, including myself.
Choosing between Israeli money and our trust, he chose the former, which is not so unexpected since the man is, after all, the author of a book titled “Art of the Deal.”
But let us leave Trump aside, who will pay his bill already this year in the elections by losing the majority in Congress, and return to this Iranian galimatias, whose consequences we may all feel, not only Iranians.
If, therefore, today’s bloodshed ends with Israel installing a puppet government in Tehran, that will not mean the end but, on the contrary, the beginning of an era of new conflicts throughout the region and a war of extermination between Shiites and Sunnis. From which, of course, only one will profit… you guessed it — Israel!
Whoever does not believe it, let them take a look at what is happening in Syria, where Israel, after the overthrow of Assad, with American support, placed at the head of the state a toothless leader of Al-Qaeda, that same organization that leveled the Twin Towers and whose leader was eliminated by the Marines so that even his grave is unknown, presumably so that at some trial, before some jury, he would not utter a word about his connections with the Bush family and oil magnates.
Who later, for two whole decades, under the pretext of toppling Islamic despots, first plowed the terrain with bombs, and later installed taps on the wells in Iraq, Libya, Kuwait, yesterday Venezuela, and tomorrow, why not — in Iran.
And now that toothless man, whom Trump once sprayed in the White House with his branded perfume, persecutes and exterminates Christians and Shiites, provoking hostility that only awaits the ideal alignment of Mercury and the stars to escalate into a new fratricidal war.
Which is, of course, Israel’s old policy that escalated with Netanyahu’s return to power, and which bets all its money on the card of hostility among Arab tribes who, preoccupied with mutual friction, forget that they have a more pressing, primordial enemy, that is, Them.
That perfidious burlesque is also illustrated by the case of neighboring Iraq, where Washington and Tel Aviv brought to the position of prime minister and instrumentalized an extreme Shiite, Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani, whose father and three brothers were executed by Saddam’s (Sunni) regime when he was only 10 years old.
It is not difficult to assume what we can expect in the near future from two such leaders of neighboring countries. That they will jointly celebrate Ramadan and share a lamb — certainly not.
The new world order in Israel’s direction will not be felt only by the peoples in the region, but that evil and misery will spill further, onto oversaturated Europe and America, which will be flooded by new waves of refugees, unfortunate people who will have to vent their trauma somewhere far away, where they are not understood, and often not loved. And thus endlessly prolong the chain of misfortune…
And all of this only so that the leader of a people who were the greatest victims of the Nazi policy of “Blood and Soil” might, one century after Hitler, complete his “Lebensraum” in a manner that surpasses even the dark minds in which the idea of the Holocaust was born.
“He who does not remember, relives,” goes the saying.
In Netanyahu’s case, it could read: “He who remembers poorly and draws bad lessons from memory does to others the same that was done to him, or to his ancestors.”
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Source: Antonije Kovačević Foto: Nathan Howard for The New York Times