Becoming a member of us on this version of the Information Assessment now we have author and political columnist Saeed al-Shehabi who’s becoming a member of us from the British capital London and likewise becoming a member of us from Saidia, Morocco, now we have editor of Veterans As we speak, Mr. Kevin Barrett. Gents, welcome to this system.
Let’s bounce proper in, Mr. Shahabi, and provides us your ideas on the latest feedback coming from the Iranian president. President Raisi mentioned that there shall be a robust response to any attainable bullying towards Tehran.
Saeed al-Shehabi: Thanks very a lot. The scenario within the Center East usually could be very tense at this second due to the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the killing, the maiming. And naturally, its extraterritorial assaults on different international locations, on Syria, on some elements of Iraq.
So all this has put Israel within the limelight of the disaster. It appears to me that the Israelis imagine that they will solely survive in an environment of conflict. So so long as there’s conflict, they are going to survive. If there’s peace, they can’t survive. So they’re threatening to strike and supported by America. However America additionally, American involvement within the area is destabilizing the area….
Mr. Kevin Barrett, the Iranian President mentioned that the adversaries and enemies, in his personal phrases to the Islamic Republic, used to resort to language of menace towards Iran, even stating on a number of events that the army choice was on the desk, however he additionally mentioned that they’re not searching for a confrontation with the Islamic Republic. Do you suppose that the USA was ever at a degree the place it was considering any type of army motion towards Iran, most notably just lately?
Kevin Barrett: Nicely, I feel the American facet is undoubtedly considering some type of escalation in its comparatively low degree back-and-forth—it’s not a conflict, however there has positively been stress placed on the American occupation of the area by varied Axis of Resistance teams. Within the wake of the (Tower 22) assault that killed three American servicemen and wounded much more, the Individuals had been most likely doomed to escalate to some extent. However then the query grew to become: Would they struggle an precise assault inside Iran’s borders, and the way huge would it not be in the event that they did? This is able to after all threaten to escalate right into a regional conflict, as a result of clearly Iran would retaliate, as President Raisi made clear. Or will they proceed with the tit-for-tat exchanges with varied resistance teams?
The Individuals are working illegally in Iraq. The Iraqi parliament has voted to expel the US and the US hasn’t left, so it’s an unlawful occupying energy. And it’s an much more blatantly unlawful occupying energy in Syria. The latest assaults on Individuals (at Tower 22 in Jordan) occurred proper subsequent to the Syrian border. And one may argue that Jordan can be occupied and that choices for Jordan are created from throughout the gigantic American embassy compound there.
So the US occupation of the area, which isn’t widespread within the area, particularly now that the Zionist genocide of Palestine has gone into excessive gear, has led to the scenario the place the native resistance teams are more likely to need to goal American transport within the Crimson Sea, American occupying forces in Iraq and Syria, and put stress on the Individuals.
The thought could be that maybe the U.S. would dial again its help for the genocide of Gaza. And so on this confrontation, the Axis of Resistance is on the facet of imposing worldwide legislation and the judgment of the World Courtroom that simply discovered possible trigger that Israel is engaged in genocide in Gaza. Whereas the Individuals are genocidal international outlaws.
I don’t suppose the Individuals need to escalate the conflict within the area (particularly) on this scenario through which they’re the outlaws and are hated by the overwhelming majority of individuals within the area.
The Iranian President mentioned that Iran’s army may poses no menace to the West Asian area and that regional international locations can depend on Iran’s army energy. Is he as soon as once more hinting to feedback the Iranian President particularly has made previously stating that, hear, we will handle safety in our area, ourselves, regional international locations, and mainly overseas forces, they should pack up their luggage and depart?
Saeed al-Shehabi: Look, primary, the safety of the Persian Gulf must be left to the folks of the area. It shouldn’t be secured by the presence of worldwide or western or American and British warships there. If the safety of that essential place is left to the folks, then the chance of flare-up of stress and wars shall be a lot much less. That is primary.
Quantity two, the Iranians are identified for his or her tit-for-tat coverage. I nonetheless keep in mind what occurred I feel in 1986 in a gathering in Switzerland when some Kurdish folks had been there they usually had attacked some Iranian installations and the Iranians went additionally and attacked them. All in all, the Iranians won’t preserve quiet if they’re subjected to an assault. And that is what the Iranian president mentioned, that Iran won’t stay silent whether it is attacked.
Quantity three, the assorted teams which are working throughout the area, principally they’re impartial. They’re left to their very own choices. They take their very own choices. If the Individuals, as my colleague mentioned, select to assault Iran, then that shall be a declaration of conflict, which isn’t going to learn anybody.
And Israel just isn’t going to learn from conflict as a result of its hated coverage in Gaza has uncovered a whole lot of shortcomings and inhumane remedy to the extent that they wished to impose, they usually did impose, some type of stopping meals and medication. So I feel the scenario could be very tense and I hope that it’s going to cross with out main incidents.
Kevin Barrett, one final query for you earlier than we wrap up this section. With all of the years of the U.S. and its allies mainly making an attempt to exert their hegemony within the area, a degree has now been reached the place the folks of the area are fairly unified of their demand that the U.S. and overseas forces ought to depart the area. How essential and vital is that this level that the area has reached proper now?
Kevin Barrett: It’s critically essential. It’s additionally essential to underline that it’s not solely the folks of the area that need the American imperialists to depart. It’s even the governments in Iraq and Syria—nicely clearly Syria, which has been on the outs with the U.S. for fairly a while—however even in Iraq, which was invaded, occupied, and put beneath heavy American stress all of those years, the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel American forces. And the Individuals refused to depart.
So I feel the American empire is already getting very shaky with its loss in Afghanistan, its impending loss in Ukraine, and now its completely doomed help for the genocide of Gaza. And it will be very sensible for the US to consider withdraw from the area and from its position because the supposed unipolar world empire, and begin minding its personal enterprise and caring for its personal folks and its personal infrastructure.
