THE attack was repeatedly predicted by observers and analysts, including the US attempt to distance itself from the reckless adventure despite providing Israel with all the weapons used. There is a very high possibility that the US was directly involved.
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Activating long-term plans to destroy Iran
THE US involvement in this strike is impossible to conceal for many reasons, including that Washington, gives Israeli military resources equivalent to Brazil鈥檚 military budget every year. The recent made-up divide between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu was the last sign of an imminent attack, as the US thinks tank had plotted to instrumentalise Israel for this attack while both sides feigned disagreement to shield Washington from responsibility. However, Trump in his hubris stopped just short of admitting Washington鈥檚 culpability by praising Israeli aggression and reminding audiences how it occurred exactly after the 60-day ultimatum he had given the Iranian leadership lapsed. This means that Trump ordered the attack through Israel, noting that he has also already used it to threaten Iran to make a deal before Israel launches more such attacks. In his social media post, Trump did not appear concerned that the attack violates the UN charter or that it caused massive civilian casualty. The US and Israel do not care about civilian casualties due to their racist mindsets; Trump has already issued a veiled threat that more civilians will die if Iran does not capitulate. Both think that people in the non-Western world were born to serve or die to advance the West鈥檚 interests. Therefore, negotiating with a party with such supremacist views is pointless and is only designed to mislead countries to freeze in fear as the West advances its modern colonial rampage.
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What does the attack reveal about negotiating with the West?
WASHINGTON鈥橲 facilitating Israeli attack on Iran, and Trump鈥檚 proceeding to praise it only a day before US-Iran talks were scheduled, illustrate how pointless it is to negotiate with the West. The US, Europe, and Israel view negotiations as a psychological ploy designed to make their appointed opponents delay their actions or lower their guards as the West escalates. It should be noted that the Israeli attack occurred only two days before US-Iran negotiations were scheduled in Oman. This attack was similar to the attempt on the Russian president鈥檚 life in Kursk, which occurred a few days before a major round of Ukraine-Russia negotiations was scheduled in Turkey. To illustrate the disingenuous nature of the US leadership, Trump would condemn Russia鈥檚 response to Ukraine鈥檚 attack while shifting responsibility to Vladimir Putin. Apparently, Trump expected Russians to lower their guard or pause military action even while his administration was facilitating Ukraine to assassinate Russia鈥檚 president and later conduct attacks on Russia鈥檚 strategic aviation.
Since no helicopter has been downed by a drone across the Russia-Ukraine front before, the Kursk attempt on Putin means that the West was applying higher capabilities while expecting Russians to halt their operations in anticipation of disingenuous peace overtures from Trump. Furthermore, audiences should note that the former Hezbollah leader was assassinated when the US had claimed that a ceasefire was impending. From the above experiences, Iranians or other parties that may believe the West鈥檚 overtures for diplomatic solutions will be disappointed. Washington鈥檚 appointed opponents must decide whether to use their weapons to defend themselves or wait to be eliminated with their weapons intact, which will not spare their populations of Western genocide. A good example that their populations will not be spared can be seen in how Israel has continued violating Syrians after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, whom the West and Israel had framed as the only enemy and not the civilians.
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West鈥檚 offer to the world: endless wars, and zealotry
A WAR against Iran has been a consensus of Washington鈥檚 deep state parties that have only disagreed on how to market it to American audiences. For instance, in 2001, Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme allied commander for Europe during the Kosovo War reported receiving plans developed by Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to destroy 7 countries, the last of which was Iran. The US and its vassals have already destroyed the other 6 countries, with Iran surviving because Washington thought attacking it would have prohibitive consequences. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has gone to Washington several times calling for an attack on several countries, for instance, his call to attack Iraq in early 2000, his cheering of destabilisation of the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, and his calls to invade Iran on several occasions. Also, his addresses to the US Congress and the UN in 2023 and 2024 entailed calls to invade Iran, which can be understood as statements from Washington.
Israel has historically operated as America鈥檚 forward operating base, with its civilians being a source of conscripts and a trip-wire used to blackmail the rest of the world to defend US reckless military adventures. This latest attack is particularly brazen, as it cannot be justified by the usual claims of targeting Hamas or Hezbollah leaders in Iranian cities. Also, it was imperialist noting that Netanyahu鈥檚 claimed that it aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring Nuclear weapons, despite targeting several military leaders and civilians. These justifications are pathetic for among other reasons that no international body mandates Israel to prevent countries from having nuclear weapons. Also, Israel runs nuclear facilities and has undeclared nuclear weapons, making it chauvinistic to try barring Iran from developing nuclear technology. Importantly, Netanyahu鈥檚 justifications fly in the face of Article 2, part 4 of the UN charter which prohibits countries from threatening or using force against others. This attack evolved exactly according to a 2009 Brookings Institute report, which outlined how an attack on Iran was supposed to be preceded by diplomatic gimmicks designed to fool other countries that Washington was giving Iran a good off-ramp from developing nuclear weapons, which Iran would be painted as having rejected. However, it was Trump who withdrew from Iran鈥檚 nuclear deal, making the attack on Iran through Israel as reckless as George Bush鈥檚 war against Iraq. The pressure leveled against Iran has been baseless since the country鈥檚 leadership has an internal policy that prohibits the development of nuclear weapons, and has also signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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Total contempt for the international law
THERE was nothing 鈥榩reemptive鈥� about Israeli鈥檚 attack on Iran, only a colonial and imperialist attitude that must not be allowed to stand. Israel and its Western backers are progressively showing all possible disdain for international law and multilateral bodies. This contempt can be noted in the notion that they are supposed to have control of what Iran does within its boundaries, noted in Netanyahu鈥檚 and Trump鈥檚 demands that Iran stop Nuclear enrichment, while their countries possess nuclear weapons and routinely bomb others. Also, a world in which the West鈥檚 nuclear scientists receive Nobel Peace Prizes while Iran鈥檚 get to be assassinated is unacceptable. The US, Israel, and other colonialist states must not be allowed space to unilaterally decide what other countries do within their sovereign territories.
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New Eastern Outlook, June 15.Simon Chege Ndiritu is a political observer and research analyst from Africa.
