Most Impenetrable Shield of Defence & Most Formidable Weapon

 

By: S. Nawabzadeh

At a time when the enemies of humanity, Islam, and Iran, are indulging in economic terrorism, flaunting their financial power, boasting of their monetary might, bragging about their cyber capabilities, flexing their military muscles, waxing proud over their ‘beautiful’ weapons of mass destruction, and dreaming of browbeating into submission all independent and freedom-loving Muslim entities, whether countries or popular movements, what lines of defence does the Ummah has against these tyrants?

Do we have any hope or any helper to break the stranglehold of these satanic forces over our planet, which is being spiritually and materially destroyed through their breach of God’s commandments and their misuse of the bounties of nature?  

How can we turn the tide of the corruption of societies by Global Arrogance, led by the US, which completely disregards religious precepts and openly indulges in the destructive culture of oppression, exploitation, occupation, usurpation, deprivation, violence, terrorism, wars, and bloodshed, in addition to spread of drugs, diseases, famines, crimes, promiscuity, and unnatural sexual relations?

Will the juggernaut of ecological disasters unleashed by blind materialism make the Earth inhospitable through deforestation; water, air, and sound pollution; piling of dangerous industrial wastes; manufacture of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; and release of dangerous gasses that are depleting the Ozone layer and resulting in global warming with the melting of glaciers, rise of sea levels, and submerging of coastal lands, in addition to desertification, drying up of fresh water resources, and ultimately the death of agriculture?

Does this bleak situation of the modern world mean there is no one to deliver humanity from the yoke of suicidal tyrants, such as the US president, Donald Trump?

Perhaps there are no viable answers to the above questions in societies and cultures devoid of spirituality and ignorant of God, the Just, the All-Merciful, the All-Observant and All-Wise Creator of the Universe, Who has promised the believers of the deliverance from tyrants and the triumph of justice.

In contrast, in the countries and communities that adhere to the teachings of the Prophets and follow the Revealed Word of God, there is nothing to be despaired about. 

Such people are neither overawed by the might of tyrants, nor have they lost self-confidence in their power of resistance which makes them indomitable, to the frustration of their enemies.

This in fact, is not just the strongest line of defence against the plots of Global Arrogance but the most formidable weapon to defeat the satanic powers and their bid to destroy Planet Earth.

Yesterday on the 25th of the sacred month of Dhu’l-Qa’dah ("Dahw al-Ardh” or Earth Day), the faithful throughout Iran, unfazed by the sanctions of the US, undaunted by Trump’s terrorist threats, and unperturbed by the rumours of American agents, supplicated as usual to God Almighty with the words:

"O Allah! Curse the tyrants of the past and the last generations; who usurped the rights of Your representatives.

"O Allah! End their sway, destroy their followers and agents, hasten their ruin, expropriate their realms, straiten their ways and policies towards a dead end, and damn their theoreticians and their associates;

"O Allah, hasten the advent of Your Representatives, restore to them their usurped rights, and raise with truth their "Qaem” (Imam Mahdi [AS] and his global government of peace, prosperity and justice), to make Your religion prevail, and to carry out Your commandments against Your enemies.”

This supplication is lengthy, and was also recited in the Land of Revelation, Hijaz, where the Hajj pilgrims in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, either in the precincts of God’s Symbolic House the Sacred Ka’ba, or in the blessed shrine of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA), invoked Divine Protection against the disbelievers.

The southern parts of Lebanon also buzzed with these dynamic words yesterday to the horror of the devilish Zionists whose doom is around the corner.

Because of a day’s difference in the sighting of the crescent of Dhu’l-Qa’dah in Iraq, India, and Pakistan, this supplication is being recited today by the faithful in the said lands by the faithful with full certitude in the Infinite Power of God Almighty to end tyranny on Earth and make the Planet a peaceful place to live.

Glory to God for granting the believers the most impenetrable shield of defence and the most potent weapon for defeating the enemies of humanity, Islam, and Iran. 

Necessity of “effective reaction” against US hybrid war

By: Hanif Ghaffari

TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) – The recent trip of Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council to Russia was of crucial importance, especially because he talked about “hybrid threats” posed by United States to Iran and other world countries.

Over this trip, Shamkhani made a speech in the international security conference held in the Russian city of Ufa on Tuesday. This was a joint meeting with top officials from Russia, China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Shamkhani also had one-on-one meetings with high-ranking officials from these countries to discuss security issues.

There are a number of subjects that should be highlighted here:

One of the most important topics discussed over Ufa meeting was the threats of US “hybrid warfare” for Iran and other countries who play an important role in the international arena. 

Discussing this topic means that the Asian countries whether in central, eastern or western parts, have now found a better understanding of the meaning of US “hybrid warfare.” 

Hybrid warfare is a complex and calculated political warfare that blends conventional military strategies with other influencing methods.

Hybrid warfare is not necessarily a “military warfare”; on the contrary, it is based on analyzing both the potential and the actual strengths and weaknesses of all the players in the field.

According to Munich Security Conference 2015, hybrid warfare may include using diplomacy, economic power, mass communication for propaganda, cyber-attacks, and even supporting local riots and guerilla warfare. 

So, when we talk about US hybrid war against other international powers, we need to forget about the classic definition of war and adopt a new outlook.

Trump administration has proven the world that it will not respect the international agreements and decisions. Trump unilaterally left US nuclear deal with Iran, abandoned Paris Agreement and is now challenging other international agreements such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These actions are all red flags for the whole world about the immediate danger of US to the world.

Therefore, as a first step, the world independent countries need to form a joint understanding about “Washington’s threat to the humanity” and “the parameters of US hybrid warfare.” meetings such as Ufa conference will be a major step toward achieving this goal.

Now, in 2019, Washington is trying to rearrange his battle plan against other countries based on a complex set of new parameters. This new dangerous scheme, designed by US, will not be thwarted, unless new offensive and defensive strategies against US hybrid war are designed.

Washington has majorly devised this complex scheme based on the “predictable behavior” of its contestants; but with drafting a new “guideline for counteracting US hybrid war”, this scheme can be thwarted.

The meeting between Afghanistan’s six neighboring countries in Russia has been one of the events that sabotaged parts of US plans in successful operation of its hybrid war against the countries who are key decision-makers in West Asia and Indian subcontinent.

“Purposeful distribution of tasks” between Afghanistan’s neighboring countries in solving its issues (provided that each of the countries meets their responsibilities) will disrupt a major part of Washington and NATO’s plans. In such an environment, there will be enough room left for others to help, so that the crisis in Afghanistan will finally end and the country achieve real, permanent security.

The recent conference in Ufa is an example of “effective reaction” of active countries such as Iran, Russia, China and India against US hybrid war. These kind of reactions must continue and be defined as long-term permanent plan because Washington’s hybrid warfare against world countries will not stop under any circumstances, even if Trump goes out of office.

Trump has a moment of sanity that begs for continuance

By: Martin Love

TEHRAN, Jun. 24 (MNA) – “Cocked and loaded” Donald Trump claimed the US military was, just before, as he alleges, he decided not to attack Iran last week because the lives of an estimated “150 Iranians” were too heavy a cost for the downing of an unmanned drone that was brought down in Iran’s territorial waters while on a spy mission.

What is one supposed to think? That Trump suddenly has a heart? That he has a brain? Well, maybe a bit of the latter for a moment. It is, in any case, not hard to speculate about what happened:

The two tankers incident off Oman was probably an Israeli false flag, and when that did not “work” then the drone incident was staged. It is likely the drone was just over Iranian territorial waters, or else the Iranian navy would not have retrieved parts of the drone in its own waters. The drone pilots could not have been sure what Iran would do, but Iran did switch on its radars and brought it down, in effect telling the pilots something about Iran’s defenses.

But Trump did the right thing, which was nothing. Not launching an attack was probably the high point of his Presidency to date. He deserves credit for that, likely realizing that the only way to destroy Iranian defenses would have to be a prolonged, like in at least a couple weeks, attacks on the entirety of Iran’s southwest coast which would, as Iran has warned correctly, turn the Persian Gulf into an inferno and wreck oil production facilities along the entire coast of Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. That, in turn, might have sparked a revolution in Saudi Arabia, especially by the Shi’a component of the Saudi population, and serious trouble for the UAE. And farther to the west, who knows what?

 It is likely the Zionists might have attacked Hezbollah, no pushover, and parts of Israel would also have been severely damaged. One could also speculate wildly about a recurrence of the “Arab Spring” in countries like Egypt, where sullen Egyptians are angry about Morsi’s untimely death and where Sisi is hardly popular. Morsi was, it should be noted, the first truly ELECTED Egyptian president!

The Neocons warmongers and their supporters in the US are upset Trump did not pull the trigger last week. War alone gives them purpose amid their manifold inadequacies, as journalist Glen Greenwald has opined. And what is even more incredible is that they have chosen to support what is probably the most unpopular (terrorist) organization to Iranians, the MEK, to supplant Iran’s current leaders. This alone should tell the world that the US isn’t looking for better leadership for Iran’s nearly 90 million people, but merely for Iran to be overwhelmed by internal chaos.

Trump may in time do something precipitous because he is under tremendous pressure. As said, it’s either the firing of Neocons like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo…or Trump succumbs to their pressure … and ultimately and foolishly loses any chance he has to win a second term in the White House, too, which is his primary aim. And one must not forget Trump’s original, possibly fatal mistake: groveling to the demands of Jewish billionaires in the US who coughed up millions of dollars to support Trump and the GOP, provided he would tear up the JCPOA.

 In fact, if Trump had not scuttled US participation in Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement on Zionist demand, none of what’s happening now would ever have occurred. At bottom, Trump insofar as he attacks Iran militarily, could set off a chain of events that could destroy the US economy and even collapse the world’s banking system, leading to an economic depression like no other. And then atop all this is the threat of a war that becomes a world war.

 And meanwhile, Israeli military analysts are apparently afraid that a WEAK US attack on Iran could precipitate an Iranian attack on Israeli interests. What could they possibly be hinting at? The necessity of a nuclear attack on Iran? This, of course, is worrisome, but you cannot discount some ultimate Zionist or Israeli depravity. Zionist Sheldon Adelson has already said not long ago that the US ought to nuke some under populated part of Iran as a warning.

The great tragedy is that for 60 years the US has been hostile to Iran and its people, a hostility which at the beginning of it in the 1950s was largely due to the fact that Iran had and still retains an abundance of natural resources. The creation of an independent-minded Islamic Republic 40 years ago, in part the result of previous U.S hostility, only added to the blind refusal of the US to recognize Iran for what it has been for millennia.

A unique land and culture and people which though many political iterations have stood the test of time that few other countries have ever achieved. It is impossible to imagine the US will ever achieve nearly as much, or give the world so much as Iran has over the millennia. The US “empire” looks to be but a brief, dull flash in the pan given its greed and hubris and militancy this century.

US is the obvious benefactor of attacks in Oman Sea: Cartalucci

TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) – Referring to US policy papers, Bangkok- based geopolitical expert says familiar pattern by the US to rush to conclusions before any investigation makes the US and its allies the prime suspects of attacks in Oman Sea, not Iran.

While the Japanese Prime Minister was visiting Iran after 4 decades and many expected even more reduction of the tensions in the region due his visit, in another suspicious and provocative move two large tankers were hit by explosions in the Sea of Oman on Thursday, a move that can intensify the tensions more than before.

Following the attack, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hastily accused Iran of carrying out the attacks without providing any evidence to back up his accusation.

In this regard, Iran rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's anti-Iran accusations, saying the suspicious nature of the recent attacks on two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman is "not funny or ridiculous but alarming".

To shed more light on the issue, an interview was done with Bangkok- based geopolitical researcher Anthony Cartalucci.

Following is the full text of the interview:

The US administration has hastily accused Iran of being behind the attacks on two oil tankers in Oman Sea. How do you assess validity of the accusations?

As the US has done before with now verified fabrications, it has hastily - and without any evidence or investigation - accused Iran of being behind these attacks. It did so within the same day of the attacks. So of course, there is no validity to the accusations. Even a local crime committed within the United States cannot be "solved" in a single day and without any sort of investigation, so how could an incident as serious as this be somehow solved without an investigation or evidence so quickly?

The US reveals its hand by quickly accusing Iran before any sort of independent investigation can be mounted. We've seen this pattern before in Iraq in 2003 where the rush to war was made before inspectors could confirm US claims of "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. We also saw the US did this last year in Syria where it quickly accused the Syrian government of a "sarin chemical attack" in Douma before carrying out military strikes - all done before the OPCW could even begin its investigation - which by the way, concluded claims of sarin gas were false.

This familiar pattern by the US to rush to conclusions before any investigation is mounted makes the US and its allies the prime suspects, not Iran.

Is it rational for Iran to commit such an action, while the Japanese PM is visiting Iran?

For Iran, it is not rational at all to carry out such an attack, and especially so against a ship belonging to Japan while the Japanese Prime Minister is in Iran. Iran's greatest strength at the moment is Washington's lack of credibility and increasingly blatant aggression against Iran. The international community can see that Iran upheld its part of the so-called "Iran Nuclear Deal" and that it was the US who walked away from it without justification. The best cards in Iran’s hand are the growing consensus that it is being victimized. Thus Tehran has nothing at all to gain by staging attacks against international shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Who in fact is the biggest beneficiary of the provocative incidents taking place in the region that threatens world energy security and route? Can any instability in the region affect EU interests?

The United States in its own policy papers - like Brookings Institution's 2009 "Which Path to Persia?" report - openly admit that the US would greatly benefit from a "provocation" that would allow them to increase military aggression against Iran.

Brookings policymakers would literally claim, "...it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it."

The US is the obvious benefactor. Its partners in the region - believing in whatever promises were made to them by Washington about a "post-Iranian" Middle East - would also benefit by aiding this agenda.

Higher oil prices while sanctions squeeze Iran, Venezuela, and Russia can only benefit Western oil corporations. For the EU - interests are divided between multinational corporations there that seek to dominate the Middle East alongside Washington and Wall Street and those who seek to do business with Iran. Obviously pressure from Washington to accept its version of events would tilt the balance in favor of the former and place greater pressure on those seeking peace and cooperation - just as the staged attacks were designed to do. Higher oil prices as a result of instability and violence in the Middle East will further complicate European energy security which only further plays into Washington's hands which seeks to pry Europe away from Russian and Iranian hydrocarbons in favor of its "freedom gas" and sources from among its allies.

Interview by Payman Yazdani

US illusions: from a pretended crisis to a pretended victory

By: Mohammad Ghaderi

TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA) – The top US military commander in the Middle East General Frank McKenzie said on Thursday that Iran drew back from an apparent attack against US forces in the Persian Gulf region, while it does not precisely mean that the threat is diminished.

This is while, British Army Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika, a deputy commander with the Operation Inherent Resolve coalition, the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, said before that there has been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria.

The top British general comment was at cross purposes with the White House and the Pentagon’s assertions used to justify that Iran is building up a military in the region, yet it is noteworthy that the comment was too harsh for the U.S that reprimanded him.

To put it more precisely, US which directs military presence in the Middle East to Iran’s aggression, is only a plan against the Islamic Republic of Iran pretending that there will be a crisis or dispute, however, it publicly contradicts their plea to negotiate. This is while; Trump had repeatedly claimed to be ready to obliterate Iran.

Therefore, the top US military commander claims can be interpreted as a psychological warfare without any real military mobility.

Indeed, the US claims to deploy 120,000 troops to the Persian Gulf, highlighting the presence of USS Abraham Lincoln in the region, military built-up in Iraq, and responding to threats from Iran, are only dimensions of the psychological warfare, and any of which have not actually been enforced.

But on the other hand, the US is pretending to achieve victory with a policy of threat and pressure. The whole evidences suggest that the US did not dare to take military action if had, certainly would have started so far, and on the other hand, Iran had not taken any steps toward disturbing the Middle East security, along with its preparedness to respond to the threats.

The United States also seeks to extort money from the Arab countries under the pretext of confronting Iran.

In fact, the US claiming that Iran's step back and recalculate after making preparations for an apparent attack, seeks to justify the re-imposed sanctions and threats against Iran, pretending to avoid military confrontation while the world acknowledges that the US is not capable of military action.

The American general's claim is a trick to hide their military disability against Iran, as US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said that Iran has photoshopped images of missile launches to try and show its increased missile capabilities.

So, McKenzie’s claim is based on the three principles of pretended crisis, psychological warfare, and pretended victory, which has been designed so that to protect Trump from the internal protests and hide the failure of "threat and negotiation" policy.

Moreover, US wants to wipe off global dissatisfaction, which was showed in Britain protests during his last trip to London.

The point is that the world being aware of the United States' inability to spark war against Iran, Iran's persistence in realizing its nuclear rights within the framework of implementation of Supreme National Security Council resolution, emphasis on maintaining missile power and playing an effective role in the region’s security all will put an end to the US dreams and unfair policies.