Despite losing the presidential debate to Republican candidate Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s electoral campaign appears to be in full swing now. The founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange has been set free after a plea deal in order to woo progressive voters. In Gaza, Biden is simultaneously playing the role of arsonist and the firefighter.
Last October, he sent aircraft-carriers and nuclear
submarines in support of Israel and provided military assistance to the tune of
billions of dollars, including bombs, missiles and aircraft, to slaughter
hapless Palestinians. But at the same time, he built a shoddy pier to let
humanitarian aid flow, and persuaded Netanyahu to let him at least create
optics of being a neutral arbiter while he is the main enabler of Zionists’
genocide of Palestinians.
The only theater where the purported peacenik can’t do much
is the Ukraine War because the Pentagon’s military brass won’t let him squander
the opportunity to destabilize arch-rival Russia. Therefore he would have to
convince gullible neoliberals by deploying Orwellian jargon that war is peace,
bombs are rose petals, America’s adversaries are recalcitrant villains, while
the United States is the only bastion of democracy and civil liberties under
the thumb of corporate interests and the deep state.
As far as the Zionist regime’s genocidal war in Gaza is
concerned, this isn’t even a war but downright genocide of unarmed
Palestinians, as war is between two comparable armies, whereas in the Gaza
Holocaust, a regional power backed by the world’s most powerful military force
is committing merciless ethnic cleansing of hapless Palestinians.
Incidentally, the death toll of the savage slaughter is
grossly understated by mainstream media for ulterior motives. 38,000 is just
the number of dead bodies counted by aid workers, whereas the exact death toll
is well above 100,000, as most dead bodies are still buried beneath the rubble
of Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah and would take months, if not years, to
recover after the rubble is cleared.
Besides the Biden admin’s reluctance to start another
devastating Middle East war in the election year and eliminating Biden’s
chances of winning a second term, another reason the American deep state is
also hesitant to greenlight Israel’s ground invasion of Hezbollah’s bastion
southern Lebanon is that all the military resources of the Pentagon are
currently being consumed by the protracted proxy war in east Ukraine.
Moreover, the Biden admin is also concerned that mounting a
military offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon might provoke Iran to
mount retaliatory missile and drone strikes on critical energy infrastructure
in the Persian Gulf, such as the Abqaiq oil installation attack in September
2019, thus disrupting global energy supply in the election year and eliminating
Biden’s chances of winning the elections.
However, Israel’s opportunistic policymakers are yearning to
draw Iran into Gaza War, thus creating a pretext for the expansion of the war
in southern Lebanon in order to cash the opportunity to dismantle the
Iran-Hezbollah nexus once and for all, posing a security threat to Israel’s
northern borders.
Even though by the mainstream media’s own
accounts the Shiite leadership of Iran and Hezbollah wasn’t even aware of
Sunni Palestinian liberation movement Hamas’ October 7 assault. It’s worth
pointing out that Hamas’ main patrons are oil-rich Saudi Arabia, the Gulf
States and Egypt, not Iran, as frequently alleged by the mainstream
disinformation campaign. In fact, Hamas as a political movement is the
Palestinian offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
Notwithstanding, while craven Arab petro-sheikhs, under the
thumb of duplicitous American masters enabling the Zionist regime’s atrocious
genocide of unarmed Palestinians, were squabbling over when would be the
opportune moment to recognize Israel and establish diplomatic and trade ties,
the Iran-led resistance axis, comprising Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon and
Ansarallah in Yemen, has claimed stellar victories in the battlefield against
Israel.
As far as Israel’s airstrike at Iran’s consulate in Damascus
on April 1 is concerned, killing two top commanders of the IRGC, it is the
declared state policy of the Zionist regime of medieval assassins to use
deception and subterfuge in order to eliminate formidable adversaries if it
lacks the courage to cross swords with them in the battlefield.
It’s worth noting that a tip-off from the Mossad led to the
cowardly assassination of Iran’s celebrated warrior Haj Qassem Soleimani in
January 2020, after Haj Soleimani gave the Zionist regime and its American patrons
a bloody nose in Syria’s proxy war.
Nonetheless, after the consulate airstrike, Iran retaliated
by mounting the first direct airstrike on Israel with over 300 drones, cruise
and ballistic missiles on April 13. The airstrike was codenamed Operation True
Promise, or Vada-e-Sadiq in Persian.
In response, Israel vowed to avenge the direct Iranian
airstrike on its territory. Immediately afterwards, on April 19, Israeli F-15s reportedly
launched Blue Sparrow ballistic target missiles at Isfahan’s military sites
from Iraq’s airspace that destroyed the radar system of S-300 air defense
battery at a military airport in Isfahan.
But the retaliatory strike failed to assuage the murderous
frenzy of Israel’s military hawks who vowed to teach Iran a memorable lesson
for punching above its weight. Then Mossad Director David Barnea presented a
detailed plan to the war cabinet to execute Iran’s president, which was immediately
approved by PM Netanyahu and Israeli military’s top brass because the covert
assassination plot left sufficient room for claiming plausible deniability. The
Biden admin and CIA Director William Burns also gave green light to the Mossad,
according to Turkish and Azerbaijani security officials who were briefed on the
matter by CIA officials.
Thus, on the fateful day of May 19, Iran’s charismatic and
eloquent President Ebrahim Raisi was due to inaugurate a hydroelectric dam in Iran’s
East Azerbaijan province, alongside Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. It’s
pertinent to mention that Azerbaijan is one of the closest allies of Israel in
the region that has longstanding trade and defense ties with Israel. It
received generous Israeli military assistance during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
with Armenia, and hosts several listening posts of Mossad in order to spy on
Iran.
After the inauguration of the dam, the Azerbaijani
delegation presented a souvenir to the Iranian delegation to be conveyed to
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. It was a voluminous, handwritten book
on Islamic jurisprudence dating back to the Safavid era, according to Iranian
security officials who refused to be identified. The book was placed in a box
and handed over to representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan
Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem.
Ale-Hashem boarded the same helicopter as President Raisi
and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and placed the box with a hidden
enclosure containing remotely controlled explosive device in the luggage
compartment. The helicopter was part of a convoy of three helicopters that departed
for Tabriz after the inauguration of the dam. But the Iranian delegation didn’t
know that an Israeli stealth drone operated by Mossad was chasing the convoy.
Forty-five minutes into the flight, the pilot of Raisi's
helicopter, who was in charge of the convoy, ordered other helicopters to
increase altitude to avoid a nearby cloud. Thus, under the cover of the clouds
the drone sent a signal and the explosive device in the briefcase detonated,
causing the helicopter to crash on the rocks below, killing all eight people
onboard.
I’m not sure if that’s a coincidence but the crash site is
identified as the village of Uzi in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. Because
Uzi is a globally renowned Israeli sub-machine gun, often brandished by
gangsters and assassins in the Hollywood flicks. In any case, Mossad’s
operatives do have a sense of irony.
Although Iran’s competent investigators are quite capable to
figure out the Mossad’s assassination plot, they were forced by Iran’s
political leadership to declare the assassination an accident. Because
hardliners in Iran have been clamoring for a full-scale war with Israel after
witnessing the merciless genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Had Iran’s political leadership admitted the fact that Ebrahim Raisi’s death was in fact an assassination by Mossad, then it would have become impossible to hold back the war hawks. Therefore the leadership decided to bury the hatchet and immediately called elections in which moderate candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has been elected the new president of Iran.
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