Countercurrent – June 28, 2025
The Israel / US Aggression on Iran & the changing balance of power
by Feroze Mithiborwala
The primary goals behind the Israel/US aggression on Iran were the following:
1. The agenda was to bring about “Regime Change” in Iran, and by replacing the government with a pliant collaborator from the Shah Pahalvi family.
Israel/US totally failed in this plan. In fact Iran has never been more united as a nation. Today the Iranian people, the armed forces & the government all stand as one.
2. To destroy Iran’s Nuclear programme.
Here again, the Israeli & US strikes on Fordow, Isfahan & Natanz have miserably failed & the US strikes were more political theatre for domestic consumption than anything really causing significant damage. Here again Israel/US plans failed.
3. Therefore there is support for Iran’s decision to reject and break all ties with the IAEA, which has been untruthful and has operated like a spy for the West, leaking sensitive Iranian information to Israel/US. IAEA Chief Rafael Grossman is now deemed untrustworthy and has been accussed of leaking the identities of the leading Iranian scientists, who were them assassinated by the Mossad during the current phase.
4. The Iranian hypersonic missile systems proved way too powerful for the American anti-missile systems to apprehend. Thus the Patriot, Iron Dome, David’s Sling & Thaad, all failed. Israel has faced massive damage and it’s major military, intelligence, energy & ports infrastructure lie in ruins. The financial drain on the Israeli economy is also unsustainable.
5. Iran & Axis Resistance attack on US bases in Qatar, Iraq & Syria and the threat to block the Strait of Hormuz, along with the fact that Israel had been defeated, unable to defend itself, then forced a desperate Netanyahu & Trump to declare a ceasefire to actually save Israel from Iran’s fury.
6. The attack on Iran, was also an attack on BRICS & the SCO, as it is these EurAsian regional formations that lead the path to a multipolar world, thus ending the hegemony of the West dominated Unipolar world.
7. Iran has definitely emerged victorious and the entire world recognises this fact. On the other hand, Israel stands devastated & the US much weaker. More significantly, the evolving alliance of Russia, Iran & China – the new R-I-C, all at the forefront of countering US-Zionist hegemony, has emerged stronger & is changing the strategic balance across the region & the world.
8. Iran’s military lessons & options. Missile programme, Nuclear Deterrence, Advanced Fighter Jets & Countering Spy networks.
● Iran has proved it’s breathraking technological advances in its astounding and powerful missile programme & they are unstoppable.
● Interestingly there are reports of Iran now acquiring 40 Chinese J-10C, fourth-and-a-half-generation Jet Fighters which integrates a host of advanced features, including sophisticated avionics, powerful engines, and enhanced weapon systems. This will ensure that the only advantage that Israel has, that of its airforce, will now be nullified, neutralised & countered. This will tilt the strategic balance of power in favour of Iran without a doubt.
● Since Iran has been repeatedly betrayed by the US & Europe on its right to the pursuit of its peaceful nuclear programme, it should now consider withdrawing from the NPT & acquiring a Nuclear Bomb as a deterrent. The psychotic leaders in Tel Aviv & Washington DC are more than capable of inflicting a Hiroshima-Nagasaki on Tehran, and this has been publicly stated & threatened as well.
A nuclear deterrent will ensure that any such evil design is kept at ba7iy. Lessons drawn from Iraq, Libya & Syria, all attacked & regime changes brought about, whilst North Korea still stands despite the threats, clearly points to the importance of a ‘Doctrine of Nuclear Deterrence’ to protect one’s nation from the preying talons of the US & it’s allies.
● Iran has proved to be internally compromised with Mossad/CIA Spy networks & assassination squads active within Iran & in bordering states such as Azerbaijan. Iran is currently dealing with the situation & has broken a number of these spy rings, but will clearly have to do far more as there are internal collaborators & traitors working alongside the Mossad.
9. The ceasefire is only temporary and was sought in desperation by the US to save Israel. The next war is not far away. Israel having failed to draw in the US into a full-fledged war with Iran is now desperate as it’s very survival as a Jewish ethno-religious supremacist state is under threat.
10. For the first time the powerful extremist Jewish Lobby failed to draw in the US into a long war, as that was Netanyahu’s planned objective of long standing. This is also due to the fast changing public opinion in the US & Europe and a clear public sentiment for fighting another war for Israel, this time against Iran.
11. The Israeli Genocide of Gaza, post the 7th of October Gaza Ghetto Uprising, the Prison Break from the Judeo-Nazi Concentration Camp has been cataclysmic and has changed the very narrative and perception of the Israeli entity, it’s leader people. The overwhelming majority support the Genocide & ethnic cleansing & thus Global public opinion has totally turned against Israel & it’s extremist Jewish Zionist supporters.
12. Alongside the ceasefire with Iran, a ceasefire in Gaza & the West Bank is the need of the hour. The war on Gaza, the siege, the starvation, must end. Israel must withdraw from all of Occupied Palestine and a comprehensive political solution be arrived at implemented.
According to Prof. Gideon Polya, the leading researcher on Genocides, on a recent webinar, he stated that 6,80,000 People, have been murdered in Gaza – yes, 6,80,000 people. This is a Holocaust, a Genocide, unparalleled in the times we live in, broadcast 24×7 on to our mobile phones.
13. Significantly, the Israeli population is no more confident in the capability of the Israeli regime or its military to defend Israel. Thus hundreds of thousands Israelis are leaving for safer havens. As the tensions carry on, the Israeli entity will carry on to implode, if it doesn’t find a path to peace & coexistence instead of perpetual wars & hegemony.
14. We are living in an epic, an historic period, a great time for historic changes for the nations of the Global Majority, as the western nations are in terminal decline, and the Global South, the Global Majority is rising.
15. Thus whilst the scared Israeli citizens flee only after a few days of the Iranian missiles raining down upon Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ashton, across Israel, the Gazan population, despite a genocidal bombing over 20 months, still stand steadfast & refuse to surrender, refuse to leave their land, refuse to be ethnically cleansed by Netanyahu & Trump. They continue to resist and thus exist. Their very existence is their resistance.
Palestine is the central geopolitical and moral issue of our times. Now the liberation looks closer….
Feroze Mithiborwala is Founder, National Gen. Sec., India Palestine Solidarity Forum
Global Research – June 23, 2025
Iran Is the Sixth Country on the List of the Countries America Is to Destroy for Israel
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
A couple of days ago President Trump took over Israel’s war with Iran by ordering unconditional surrender of Iran to Israel or Trump would murder Iran’s leader. This outrageous demand and threat was followed last Friday with a different Trump declaration giving Iran two weeks to negotiate with him–which by all accounts means doing what Trump orders–or Trump is bringing Americans into Israel’s war with Iran, a war that neither side has declared. Then on Saturday night Trump launched a US surprise attack on Iran.
Wars are everywhere, but no government acknowledges the fact by declaring war. Putin doesn’t even consider the West’s attack on Russia’s strategic forces an act of war. When we find leaders fleeing Reality, we should understand that we are in trouble.
Why does Trump need another war when he is already in one in Ukraine and seems determined to pick a fight with China? Here is Trump’s ridiculous excuse as provided by his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt:
“Let’s be very clear: Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon. All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that, and it would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon, which would of course, pose an existential threat not just to Israel, but to the United States, and to the entire world.”
The US intelligence services contradicts this absurd White House repetition of Netanyahu’s erroneous claim. President Trump’s reply was that he was not interested in what US intelligence thinks. He has it from God himself–Netanyahu.
Trump is giving us the same exaggerated propaganda that the Cheney/Bush regime fed us about Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction.” President Bush even sent the American Secretary of State to lie to the UN. It is the same exaggerated propaganda the Obama regime fed us about Assad in Syria and Gaddafi in Libya. New boss same as old boss.
All the while Israel, a criminal government of which Trump and Putin are both extremely protective, is exterminating the Palestinian people without a peep of protest from Trump and Putin. As they say, birds of a feather flock together. Putin has sacrificed two Russian allies, Syria and Iran, to Israeli aggression, and Trump has provided the weapons, money, and diplomatic protection for Israel’s aggression. United as Putin and Trump are in the protection of Israel, you would think they would be bosom buddies.
In the United States Israeli propaganda rules. If you expose it, you are cancelled. Christian Zionists–a contradiction in terms–have been taught for decades that God’s purpose for America is to die for Israel. The result is that a large chunk of MAGA-Americans are Israel’s puppets. All of Trump’s senior appointees are Zionists. They have all been taken in by the 9/11 propaganda and the orchestrated “war on terror.” Huge numbers of indoctrinated Americans believe that Muslims are out to get them, but where is the evidence? There is none.
Evidence long ago ceased to matter. Indeed, evidence is now dismissed as misinformation. In its place are unsupported assertions that cannot be challenged.
Official narratives, every one false, are so securely in place that even alternative news sites fall victim. The Epoch Times, which attempts to be an alternative and more truthful reporter of news than the official narratives issued by CNN, NPR, NY Times and the rest of the media whores, seems unable to ever break completely free of them. The Epoch Times reporter, Jackson Richmond, repeats the Israeli propaganda that Israel’s strikes were on Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile sites, but Iran retaliated by hitting civilian population centers and a hospital. That, of course is what Israel has been doing in Gaza for two years.
The Epoch Times has a long way to go before it establishes its bona fides as a reliable news source. I encourage them to keep trying. There is certainly an opportunity for them.
Paul Craig Roberts is a renowned author and academic, chairman of The Institute for Political Economy where this article was originally published. Dr. Roberts was previously associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-6th-country-america-destroy-israel/5892254
Al Jazeera – September 22, 2003
US ‘plans to attack seven Muslim states’
Presidential hopeful General Wesley Clark says the White House devised a five-year plan after the 9/11 strikes to attack seven majority-Muslim countries.
A former commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, Clark claims he met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who told him the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq first before taking action against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
The general’s allegations surface in a new book, The Clark Critique, excerpts from which appear in the latest edition of the US magazine Newsweek.
Clark says after the 11 September 2001 attacks, many Bush administration officials seemed determined to move against Iraq, invoking the idea of state sponsorship of terrorism, “even though there was no evidence of Iraqi sponsorship of 9/11 whatsoever”.
Ousting Saddam Hussein promised concrete, visible action, the general writes, dismissing it as a “Cold War approach”.
Clark criticises the plan to attack the seven states, saying it targeted the wrong countries, ignored the “real sources of terrorists”, and failed to achieve “the greater force of international law” that would bring wider global support.
He also condemns George Bush’s notorious Axis of Evil speech made during his 2002 State of the Union address. “There were no obvious connections between Iraq, Iran, and North Korea,” says Clark.
Clark’s culprits
The former NATO commander acknowledges Iranian and Syrian support for resistance groups such as Lebanon’s Hizb Allah and the Palestinian movement Hamas.
“But neither Hezbollah [sic] nor Hamas were targeting Americans,” he writes. “Why not build international power against Al Qaeda?”
Instead, Clark points the finger at what he calls “the real sources of terrorists – US allies in the region like Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia”.
Clark blames Egypt’s “repressive policies”, Pakistan’s “corruption and poverty, as well as Saudi Arabia’s “radical ideology and direct funding” for creating a pool of angry young men who became “terrorists”.
The recent Democrat Party convert says Bush should have adopted a more preventive measures and targeted extremist leaders. “The way to beat terrorists was to take away their popular support,” adds Clark, though he offers little to suggest how this would be achieved.
But White House policy was quickly set in order to achieve particular goals, Clark writes, saying the US administration used the 9/11 attacks to address broader objectives in the Middle East.
Clark, who supervised NATO’s campaign to oust Serbia’s forces from Kosovo in 1999, also takes a swipe at the United States’ allies in Europe, which provided staging bases and planning headquarters for “radical” groups.
War record
The retired general last week declared his intention to win the Democrat nomination to challenge George Bush for the presidency in 2004.
Just days after entering the presidential race, Clark has raced ahead of the nine other Democratic contenders in the latest polls.
Many political observers have portrayed Clark as an anti-war candidate whose own war record – he was decorated after being shot and wounded while serving in Vietnam – means he cannot be accused of lacking courage or patriotism.
Clark has frequently criticised Washington’s policy towards Iraq.
He claimed previously that after the 9/11 attacks, he was pressed by the Bush administration to link the strikes directly to Iraq but refused – a claim the White House denies. However, once the war on Iraq began, he urged decisive action to achieve a rapid US victory.
Despite his anti-war stand on Iraq, the general has had a reputation for being belligerent. He was criticised during the Kosovo campaign for defending attacks on civilian Serbian targets, including the bombing of a television station that left about 20 journalists and other staff dead.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/9/22/us-plans-to-attack-seven-muslim-states
Deutsche Welle – June 29, 2025
Muslims struggle to find mosque location in central Prague
In 2024, the central mosque in the Czech capital, Prague, was shut down. Since then, the Muslim community has not been able to establish a new one.
Muslims in Prague have been struggling for the past six months to find somewhere in the center of the city to establish a mosque.
The previous central mosque was shut down after neighbors lodged more than 500 complaints with the property owner.
The absence of a central mosque has significantly affected Prague's small Muslim community, many of whom are forced to travel long distances to mosques on the city's outskirts. This often means missing obligatory prayers, and it has damaged their sense of community.
The Muslim community said its difficulty in finding a location for a new mosque in the city center is being hampered by anti-Muslim sentiment, which experts say surged after the 2015 migration crisis.
