By Latheef Farook
Iran is a fiercely
independent Muslim country ruled by a government elected by its people in a
free and fair elections. Thus any move to topple the government is illegal
under international law.
However this is what US-UK-European
and Israeli war mongers who flourish on wars tried to do in Iran. Iran’s swift response destroyed Israel’s
cities , ports , airports and turned the country into a killing field forcing people to flee the country-never to return.
Despite all the support of
US, UK and European imperial powers millions are leaving and Israel
is a collapsing
Meanwhile US- European
Israeli move to destroy Iranian nuclear facility once again demonstrated their hypocrisy because Israel possess around 400 nuclear
weapons while Iran has no nuclear bomb. Iranian nuclear programme is for
peaceful purpose. Iran signed the the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), while Israel has not signed or opened its nuclear
facilities for NPT inspection.
It was under such circumstance the US and Israel bombed Iran and set ablaze
the Middle East while US demanded Tehran capitulate unconditionally to
imperialist aggression.
On June 22 Sunday , the US carried out a full-scale assault on three
Iranian nuclear sites — Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan — in a coordinated strike
dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer. Trump insisted that the nuclear facilities were “obliterated” by a combination of
bunker busting and conventional bombs.
However the United States’ strikes failed to destroy
underground facilities, and set Tehran’s nuclear program back only by a few
months, according to an assessment of a confidential American intelligence
report. The “top secret” document prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) – the intelligence arm of the Pentagon – and published by major US news
outlets is at odds with President Donald Trump’s
claims about the strikes. The backlash was so sharp, Trump himself rushed to end the war, telling
Netanyahu the US would no longer be involved.
Within 24 hours Iran retaliated by bombing the
Al-Udeid U.S. military base in Qatar and firing a new wave of missiles at
Israeli targets. This marked a turning point. For the first time, Iran and the
United States faced each other on the battlefield without intermediaries. And
for the first time in recent history, Israel’s long-standing campaign to
provoke a U.S.-led war against Iran had succeeded.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said information
from the IAEA was used to bomb Iranian facilities. She added that US and Israel have undermined the credibility of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by using the agency’s information to plan attacks
on Iranian nuclear sites . Grossi admitted just two weeks
ago that the agency had found no evidence that Iran had a “systematic
plan” to build a nuclear weapon but expressed concern about Tehran
enriching uranium to 60% purity.
In this regard David Hearst, editor-in-chief of
Middle East Eye, says
Israel’s blitz on Iran has collapsed into a
strategic defeat. In 12 days, none of Israel’s war aims were achieved. Trump
claimed Iran’s nuclear programme had been obliterated, but US intelligence
quickly contradicted him. Iran’s core infrastructure survived, and key
materials were moved before the strikes. Iran may have already built deeper
facilities elsewhere. Israel also failed to destroy Iran’s missile arsenal.
After Trump declared a ceasefire, Iran launched new waves of attacks, hitting
Beersheba and strategic sites across Israel. The damage was greater than
anything Hamas or Hezbollah had inflicted.
Hearst says Iran did not need to win outright. It only needed to keep fighting. Its missile strikes pinned Israeli civilians in shelters, drained missile defences, and exposed Israel’s limits. The quick victory Netanyahu sought never came. Iran’s ability to stand firm has shifted the balance. He argues this was never about ending a nuclear weapons programme. It was a clash between two worldviews: one that insists Israel must dominate the region, and one that resists occupation. Hearst concludes that Netanyahu’s long project to destroy Iran may have gone too far. Israel has exposed its population to a new kind of war and gained little in return. The result is not dominance, but danger.
Meanwhile in an article titled How the US bombing of Iran exposed Israel's fragility columnist Soumaya Ghannoushi had this to state:
Arab regimes might bow, normalise and suppress. But their people do not. Look into any Arab or Muslim street, and you will find the pulse still beating, the flame still burning. Every dream of submission has ended in smoke. The old consensus is dying. Among Democrats, support for Palestinians has overtaken support for Israel. Among younger Republicans, the same shift is beginning. Even Trump’s base is splitting.
Amid all the military
calculations and geopolitical theater, Ramzy Baroud journalist, author and the editor of The
Palestine Chronicle, says one
truth stands out. When it mattered most, the Iranian people stood united.
He added that Netanyahu did not achieve regime change in Tehran —
the real objective of his years-long campaign. Instead, he faced a resilient
and unified Iran that struck back with precision and discipline. Worse still,
he may have awakened something even more threatening to Israeli ambitions: a
new regional consciousness.
Iran, for its part, emerges from this confrontation
significantly stronger. Despite U.S. and Israeli efforts to cripple its nuclear
program, Iran has demonstrated that its strategic capabilities remain intact
and highly functional. Tehran established a powerful new deterrence
equation — proving that it can strike not only Israeli cities but U.S. bases
across the region.
Perhaps the
most significant development of all is one that cannot be measured in missiles
or casualties: the surge in national unity within Iran and the widespread
support it received across the Arab and Muslim world.From Baghdad to Beirut,
and even in politically cautious capitals like Amman and Cairo, support for
Iran surged. This unity alone may prove to be Israel’s most formidable
challenge yet.
Inside Iran, the war erased the deep divides between reformists and
conservatives. Faced with an existential threat, the Iranian people coalesced,
not around any one leader or party, but around the defense of their
homeland. The descendants of one of the world’s oldest civilizations
reacted with a dignity and pride that no amount of foreign aggression could
extinguish.
Amid all the military calculations and geopolitical
theater, one truth stands out: the real winners are the Iranian people.
When it mattered most, they stood united. They
understood that resisting foreign aggression was more important than internal
disputes. They reminded the world — and themselves — that in moments of crisis,
people are not peripheral actors in history; they are its authors.
The message from Tehran is unmistakable: We are here.
We are proud. And we will not be broken. That is the message Israel, and
perhaps even Washington, did not anticipate. And it is the one that could
reshape the region for years to come.
On the whole Iran woken up Muslims worldwide, restored
their confidence and dignity and exposed
Arab dictators who, in their drive to please Trump and Israel for their survival, failed their own people,
Islam and Muslims .Many political commentators fear it is matter if time that
these regimes fall. Ends
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