Under international law every diplomatic embassy is protected under article 51 of the Geneva Convention 1961. The Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, is deemed to be Iranian national territory, therefore an attack on the embassy is seen to be an attack on the sovereignty of Iran.
Now that we have that clarified, let us explore the reasons why the apartheid colonialist regime carried out this atrocious crime. There are in reality only two ways of exploring the rationale behind the Zionist attack. In scenario number one, the Israeli war criminal cabinet deliberate attack on the diplomatic mission in Damascus in order to assassinate the current leaders of the Iranian Republican Guard Corp and the Qassam Brigades was to disrupt the efforts of the Axis of Resistance to alleviate some of the inhumane suffering being experienced by the civilian population of Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
In a further continuance of Israeli American and British targeted attacks on high ranking Iranian officials from scientists to military strategists, such as General Qassam Soleimani, these assassinations are used to inhibit the sovereign right of Iran to carry out its peaceful military and scientific programs in line with international norms. Israel may have destroyed 80 % of the infrastructure in Gaza, slaughtering 35,000 civilians and maiming 75,000 others in the process. It may have devastated hospitals, schools, water treatment plants, desalination plants, bakeries, livestock, agricultural lands and animal farms, But it has not freed one hostage nor defeated the resistance factions in Gaza, who I might remind you have the right under international law to resist foreign occupation by any and all means necessary including the right of armed resistance.
The second scenario portrays the attack on the consulate in Syria as a trap, used to lure Iran into a regional war with Israel where the Americans, the British and others will attack Iran using the excuse of defending Israel. In 1953 Britain and America led a coup in Iran to oust the democratically elected leader Mohammad Mosaddegh who had recently nationalised the oil industry. The Anglo Iranian oil company, now BP, stood to lose millions. A coup followed, with the Shah installed and between 1953 and the Iranian peoples revolution of 1979, Western imperialism and its capitalist masters drank deeply from the trough of Iran’a natural resources.
The day after the Iranian people's revolution succeeded, the Western backed counter revolution began and has been running in place ever since trying to destabilize Iran in the interests of Zionism and Western hegemony. If indeed the embassy was a trap, then where might we possibly go from here? The Zionist regime is already claiming that Iran will fit nuclear warheads to its long range hypersonic missiles and is trying to coalesce a regional coalition of the willing to stand against Iran.
The leaders of Iran, recently returned to power in the country's elections, have vowed never to use nuclear weapons as they are an abomination before god, And the apartheid regime appears to be reusing the weapons of mass destruction narrative which we all know was the lie used by Blair and Bush to destroy Iraq, which they once used in a proxy war to attack Iran for over a decade in which saw 800,000 combatants on both sides perish, leaving Israel as the only winner in that conflict. The irony is that having disposed of Saddam Hussien an enemy of Iran, Iraq is now an ally of Iran, alongside Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
In conclusion either the IRGC has called Israel's bluff and a new era is dawning where the apartheid regime will have to reconsider its present policy of murdering anyone, anywhere, anytime, without being held to account; or Israel has manoeuvred the West, Britain, USA, Germany, France, Italy, the G7 and others into another Iraq-type conflict where Westerners and Iranians might die while Zionists hide in their bomb shelters letting the Christians and Muslims slug it out and then resurface as the victors in another war in West Asia, engaged by the West in order to save their surrogate colonial settler state by destroying all those who oppose the abomination of fascism that is found within supremacist Israeli society and its war criminal leaders whom they elect, reelect and endorse.
Only time will tell.
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| Fra Hughes is a Belfast based writer and activist. |
Never heard of the 'Iranian Republican Guard Corp'. Those killed in Damascus were from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who are just a fascist as any other Jihadi. There was nobody from the Qassam Brigades ( a fancy way of saying Hamas) there either. There were 4 killed who were senior members of the Quds force and if you think they were there with good intentions I've a bridge to sell you.
ReplyDelete".. these assassinations are used to inhibit the sovereign right of Iran to carry out its peaceful military and scientific programs in line with international norms"
What like stoning gays to death or chucking them off buildings? The subjugation of their women? The denial of science that contradicts the Koran?
Throwing accusations of Fascism at Israel in defence of Jihadi's is hypocritical in the extreme.
No embassy exists with good intentions other than the intention to further what is good for itself.
DeleteTheocratic Iran or Nazi Israel, you would be sort of hoping they both lose.
In this latest clash the Iranians are right and have played it much more cute than Israel.
Putin must be delighted at the way Israel has tarnished the US reputation. Any moral authority it pretended to speak with on Ukraine has gone up in smoke.
As for Iran - one of the people we regularly feature - Maryam Namazie - gives a good insight into the theocratic despotism that has a grip on the country.
Certainly hope people stop dying. The US's moral authority evaporated half a mile above Nagasaki and Hiroshima long before now.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that but I think its authority was not always judged through that action. It hit a low with Vietnam and now a similar one with this.
DeleteIran is a horrible regime - it just sentenced a hip hop artist to death over backing the protests against the violence of the morality police.
DeleteIt is consistently low in its overseas escapades. Years ago I worked in a place that was an international melting pot. Nipped out for a smoke and got talking to a guy from Chile. He remembered when the CIA came to his village and shortly after pinochets goons started taking people including his uncle. His family escaped by the skin of their teeth and ended up in Oz. Kissenger had a lot to answer for.
DeleteOn a humorous note during the same conversation we were swapping war stories of things we seen growing up. We thought we were " one upping" each other when a big Palestinian overheard us and started talking about F16's dropping bombs on his village in front of him. Sounds horrible and it is but he did say it in mirth. Gallows humour but also why I'll never support Israel.
Fra Hughes is a serial apologist for the Assad, Putin and Iranian clerical regimes and so doesn't deserve to be taken seriously
ReplyDeleteHe has sided with some horrible regimes but not with any before the ICJ on charges of genocide. The Putin regime looks humane compared to Israel.
DeleteAs a slight aside, can I recommend a very good BBC documentary; 'Shadow Commander: Iran's Military Mastermind'.
ReplyDeleteIt provides some startling insights into the regions geopolitics.