- Shaban Syed
It should be apparent by now that protests against Iran are part of a process outlined by a senior Mossad official of how "Israel" and the US can “secretly help to advance regime change in Iran”, and according to the director of an Israeli think tank, ISIS “can be a useful tool in undermining "Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia".
The first casualty of war, as they say, is the truth, but when there is a continuous throttling of the truth through a narrative that supports the US’s long-held agenda for regime change, including the “destruction of 7 countries in 5 years” as exposed by US General Wesley Clark, the duplicity becomes starkly visible.
The duplicity of those supporting this narrative also becomes visible, as in the case of Malala Yusufzai, the Pakistani of Pashtun origin and Nobel Peace Laureate, who is using her celebrity status to support an onslaught of misinformation aimed at engineering a “regime change” coup in Iran.
The false narrative being propagated is that a young Iranian girl was beaten to death in a Tehran police station for not wearing her head scarf properly. The Iranians released a video and the medical records of the girl in question, Mahsa Amini, which clearly show that Amini collapsed while standing talking to another woman and that she had a serious underlying condition.
However, the death of this young girl was enough of the spark needed to gather all the MEK and anti-Iran terrorists within Iran to go on a rampage and slit the throats of policemen, officials, and innocent worshippers, while those urging these protests like Nazanin Boniadi, ambassador at Amnesty UK tweet “say it with me…. It’s a Revolution.”
This was also an opportunity not to be missed by the pro-"Israel" Murdoch press, which went into overdrive with news headlines that the '2022 Iranian Revolution' has begun; with US and UK celebrities cutting off their hair in support and Malala Yusufzai, the Nobel Peace Laureate sending out a video message encouraging the protests: "To the Iranian girls and young women who are in the streets to demand freedom and safety: You are already changing the world with your courage."
At these staged protests, one Iranian woman bared her breasts as a sign of "women’s bodies women’s right." It’s a pity she or Malala couldn’t stand up with the same slogan for Muslim women in France, where hijab for girls under 18 is banned and Muslim women are facing criminal charges for covering their head with a scarf, or they could not protest at the deaths of 35 young girl students killed in a terror attack in Afghanistan.
Therefore, it was cringe-worthy, especially for women of the global south, to watch Malala Yusufzai sending a video message urging the protests. What is even worse for Malala is that she affirmed the rumours that she is stage-managed by the CIA after she joined another CIA asset, Masih Alinejad, the anti-Iran activist whose close links with the organization that lied cheated and stole, are not hidden, nor her links to the American Jewish Committee who awarded her with the Moral Courage Award.
By supporting Alinejad’s shrieks for Iranian women to remove their scarves and overthrow the Iranian government, questions have been raised regarding Malala’s credibility as a women’s rights activist. Or even a human rights activist, in her stance to support the US and "Israel’s" long-held agenda for regime change, while ignoring the abuses and “safety” of women in her own backyard.
In Afghanistan, according to The Borgen Project: “Eighty-seven percent of women have experienced one form of gender violence”, while “62% have experienced all 3 forms: psychological, physical and sexual, where due to poverty the women have no voice and cannot seek justice”.
Or as one writer in Pakistan’s Express Tribune mourns the death of yet another woman by a murderer who is walking free stating: “Another day to realize the gravity and magnitude of the system that is rigged against women…. a long, lonely, grueling battle where her privacy is torn apart, her clothing is questioned, her mental health is doubted… vile accusations are made against her, her right to justice is made to look like an unlawful act and her raising a voice for herself is regarded as a matter of shame.”
While Malala prances around the UN being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, which in real terms has little meaning since it was also awarded to US President Barack Obama in his efforts “to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", the same man who threw over 26,000 bombs, killing hundreds of innocents, while targeting Muslim countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria.
One can only assume that Malala is clueless and just a puppet to the powers that elevated her to ‘celebrity status’, otherwise she would think twice about joining the western media’s narrative on women’s rights in Iran, while ignoring the fact that the US went to war with Afghanistan to “fight for the rights and dignity“ of women, to their detriment. Now, after nearly two decades and over $2 trillion, the country is in dire condition where poverty and hunger are rife, and Afghanistan is ranked as the worst place in the world to be a woman.
A 2018 Time magazine report stated that an estimated two-thirds of Afghan girls do not attend school, and 87 percent of Afghan women are illiterate. A “watchdog report called the USAID’s $280 million Promote program – billed the largest single investment that the U.S. government has ever made to advance women’s rights globally – a flop and a waste of taxpayer’s money”.
What most of these reports will fail to highlight is the duplicity that President Biden unwittingly exposed when he said “our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been about nation-building, it was never supposed to be creating a unified central democracy”.
The 91,000 war logs in the Afghan diary detailed the killing and raping of women and children by NATO’s soldiers. Daniel Hale, who served in Afghanistan as a US soldier, outlined gruesome details of how “drones killed innocent children and then we would put into our reports that they weren’t children but goats”
While Malala and the Pakistani political elite champion the rights of the US to implement its policies with impunity, respected Journalist Vanessa Beeley, speaking on RT (another TV station banned by US and NATO), argues the US is “profoundly hypocritical” and does not care about women’s rights, rather it has “weaponized the issue of human rights in pursuit of their goal to go to war or destabilize a country, as they are attempting with Iran”.
She argues: “where were the rights of women and civilians of Iran when the US was supplying chemical weapons to Iraq to be used against Iranian civilians”?
“Where are the rights of the women of Iran when the US is imposing savage economic sanctions on the people of Iran. Where are the rights of the women in Syria when the West, the US the UK cabal is funding terrorist groups that would take women’s rights groups back to the dark ages to the medieval era…”
Instead of a defender of women’s rights, Malala has become a symbol of the West’s duplicity of ‘smiles’ layered with hypocrisy, symbolizing US foreign policy. The same foreign policy that removed the democratically-elected, most popular Prime Minister Pakistan has ever had, Imran Khan, and installed the Sharif government, many of whom had been indicted by courts for corrupt practices and money laundering.
It is apparent that while Malala enjoys the privileges bestowed on her by Western governments and media, she will not be raising her voice with 90% of the Pakistani population who “do not want the US imported government”. Or question the fact of how a respected Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, who had been accused of voicing “anti-state” opinions and involved in making an anti-corruption documentary targeting members of the US-backed Pakistani government was “accidentally” killed in suspicious circumstances?
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