The Iranian people will never forgive or forget US-Israeli attacks

Middle East Eye

4 hours ago

The pernicious deception led by the US charlatan-in-chief, President Donald Trump, culminated this weekend in a massive attack on the heels of unprovoked Israeli warmongering in Iran.
Israel's aggression against Iran's industrial infrastructure, along with its military and scientific leadership, has also killed hundreds of civilians - a trademark of the vicious Israeli army, on the model of what it has done in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
With the US directly entering the conflict on Saturday night with a stealth operation to bomb Iran's nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, this warmongering is now on steroids.
The resolve of Iranians to defend their homeland will not leave a single stone unturned. Complicit Arab countries with active American military bases on their soil could face severe consequences for this attack on yet another sovereign nation in the region.
Trump's gaudy ruse of pretending to negotiate ahead of the weekend bombing was not just a silly political decoy. Israel is not an independent entity. It is a garrison arms depot, there to serve the interests of its owners and benefactors.
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Israel and its US and European enablers have spent decades manufacturing Iran as the top enemy, always on the brink of building an atom bomb to drop on Israel. This is a flat-out lie propelled by a settler colony that itself sits atop a massive nuclear stockpile, alongside a deadly arsenal of conventional weapons that have been used to devastate Gaza and commit genocide against the Palestinian people.
Any sane person would concur that neither Iran, nor Israel, nor any other country should ever have a nuclear weapon.
But are the genocidal Zionists still engaged in the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians really in a position to point fingers at Iran and start bombing it? Is the US, the only country to have actually dropped nuclear bombs - on Japan during the Second World War - in that position? Are the Europeans, with their own heavy baggage of colonial fascism? Of course not.
Murderous distraction
Fear of Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb is an excuse, a subterfuge. Israel and its Zionist advocates in the US and Europe have manufactured Iran as their number one enemy, and have now invaded it, as a pretext to distract attention from Palestine.
Right now, as the world's attention is drawn to Iran, the Israelis are busy killing more Palestinians and stealing more of their lands. Iran is a murderous distraction, a decoy. It would not be a reach to imagine the Israelis going after Pakistan, Turkey, Yemen or Timbuktu next - anything to distract attention from Palestine. The appropriate response to this threadbare distraction is thus very simple: remain focused on Palestine, where the genocidal Zionists continue to slaughter tens of thousands of civilians.
The Iranian people will come after Israel not with bombs or missiles, but with their long memories, steely determination, and utter contempt for its murderous military machinery
One of the most ludicrous propaganda gimmicks of Israel's campaign in Iran has been Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sending gaudy messages 'to the great people of Iran', a silly hasbara concoction aimed at fomenting dissent within Iran to his advantage. Legitimate dissent in Iran comes from the grassroots, and cannot be manipulated by such garish propaganda, nor by the native informers who tell Israeli media that bombing Iran will bring democracy.
While Iranians hold a broad diversity of political views, the underlying consensus is shaped by the importance of defending their homeland. Iran is a deeply rooted ancient civilisation, of which every single Iranian is a repository and walking memory.
Iranians may detest their ruling elite, and rightly so - at least they did, until a gang of thieves intent on stealing Palestinian lands began bombing their homeland too. Iranians aren't siding with their government; they are taking possession of their homeland. The sovereignty of nations belongs to nations themselves, not to the transient rulers who control them today and are gone tomorrow. Settler-colonial entities such as Israel, the US, Canada and Australia fail to grasp this fact.
The nuclear sites bombed by Israel and the US are the property of the Iranian nation, not the possession of a ruling regime. Iranians own their homeland. This is a simple fact that the genocidal Zionists building a pipe dream on someone else's homeland will never understand.
Israel will lose this battle with Iran, and that loss will have a catalytic impact on peoples across the region: the Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and Yemenis defending their own homelands. It will also further destabilise the gutless Arab ruling regimes that are aiding and abetting Israel's slaughter of Palestinians, having signed onto the delusional Abraham Accords.
Tide is turning
The vulgar, genocidal Zionist regime in Tel Aviv always overplays its cards. The tide is now turning against it. If Israeli leaders truly thought the waves of innocent and idealistic students camping out on campuses to protest the Gaza genocide constituted a key threat to their murderous ideology, wait until they see what's coming.
Today, from the very centre of American nationalism that the Israelis thought was under their thumb, a radically anti-Zionist current is taking shape. Just listen to people like commentator Tucker Carlson, strategist Steve Bannon, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the millions of Americans they represent, who are sick and tired of genocidal Zionists imposing on them one war after another. They will not take it anymore.
The eternal, unwavering and unending hostility of the Iranian people towards Tel Aviv and its backers in Washington is what this military invasion has created. Israel and the US have attacked the homeland of Ferdowsi, Hafez and Rumi, all the way down to Nima Yooshij and Forugh Farrokhzad. These icons will hold this nation together against an invasion by an entity whose luminaries include Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, Baruch Goldstein and other rank terrorists.
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Israel did not destroy Iran's nuclear programme. If anything, it expedited Tehran's rush to obtain nuclear bombs. No one could blame Iran if it now opts to go fully nuclear to defend itself against this monstrosity unleashed on the lives and livelihoods of an entire region.
The vintage Washington cliche, that this attack has strengthened the ruling elite in Iran, is flawed. The attack has rendered the government irrelevant. Iranian people are now in charge of their homeland - and Israel will never see the end of this. Whatever the ruling Islamic Republic does to defend itself has nothing to do with the will and determination of the Iranian people.
Iran's people will never forget or forgive any foreign power for invading their homeland, destroying its infrastructure, and slaughtering innocent civilians. The Iranian people will come after Israel not with bombs or missiles, but with their long memories, steely determination, and utter contempt for its murderous military machinery.
They will also come after the treacherous Pahlavi family and the new breed of native informers popping up in the US to demean their homeland and cheer for Israel.
Legend has it that when Alexander the Great invaded Iran more than two millennia ago, and the Persian patriot Ariobarzanes of Persis mounted a valiant attempt to defend his homeland, a treacherous shepherd helped Alexander outflank the Persian army, very much on the model of the Greek Ephialtes betraying his own people in the Battle of Thermopylae.
We do not know the name of that treacherous shepherd, but we do know the names of the native informers cheering for Israel today - and we will hold them accountable.
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