-By B.A.Kader
(Lanka-e-News -03.July.2025, 11.00 PM) [The Israel-Iran war is not an isolated or extraordinary occurrence; rather, it reflects the evolving global trends of our time. This article explores this trend from a historical viewpoint, supported by credible evidence.]
Amid concerns that the Israel-Iran conflict might escalate into a regional war and potentially ignite a third world war, the erratic tweets of the 'Tweet King' Donald Trump were increasingly surfacing and fuelling the tension.
It resembled a whirlwind horror movie, filled with surprising twists that abruptly ended. Trump's another tweet brought an unexpected halt to the war. The waring parties didn’t engage in negotiations, and no formal agreement was signed. Consequently, analysts are left puzzled about whether to call this situation as a ceasefire or merely a temporary pause for another war.
The world was concerned that this war in the Middle East, a hub for international transportation and vital energy production essential for today's modern society, would affect all countries and all people, unlike the Ukraine war. Somehow the sound of the explosions there has subsided, providing a momentary sense of relief.
Two formidable countries, separated by a distance of 1,112 miles with no shared borders or land connection, clashed here. Despite both countries possessing formidable navies, they remained unused. Although the United States boasted the most advanced aircraft carriers globally and sought to deploy them in support of its ally, Israel, they found themselves preoccupied running around to protect themselves from Iran's missiles. Missiles and drones played a major role in the war, while aircraft carriers and military bases largely remained unused. This was a war fought without enemy boots on its soil.
This suggests that in the coming years, wars will become less about warships and more about missiles, drones, satellite communication and air defence technologies. This strategy can be characterized as high-tech guerrilla warfare, where costly weaponry is met with more cost-effective alternatives.
Iran and Israel share a notable similarity: the rulers of both countries are driven by extreme religious ideologies, each possessing a 'Chosen People' mindset. They hold the belief that it is justifiable to harm or eradicate other religious groups, regardless of the atrocities that may ensue.
Nonetheless, there is also a difference. Iran is a stable country that has a long history and a rich cultural heritage. . However, Israel is a modern military installation that was established in 1948 to serve imperialism's needs by occupying other peoples' lands and erecting it on the piles of their corpses.
It has no permanent boundaries. It has no permanent boundaries. It is an imperialist military base that is always expanding and shows no regard for human decency or the law. In Gaza, its barbarianism is on display. The terrorist genocide committed by the Israeli military against the Gaza population is more horrific than the one committed by the Nazis in Germany against the Jewish people.
Every religious state actually stands in the way of human advancement, and Iran is no different. Indeed, there are numerous fundamental human rights violations and a second-class treatment of women.
However, Iran differs from many oil-rich Arab countries that serve America, where monarchies exist and rulers lead lavish lives with numerous wives. Science and education are prioritized in Iran. Iran stands tall in part because of this. Even the head of their religious sect, Hassan, lost his life as a martyr in a war with an unscrupulous empire. His bravery and sacrifice are still ingrained as the foundation of their value.
The Jewish people also have a noble past. They have coexisted peacefully with others despite having lived in the Middle East for a long period of time. They had no intention of creating and expanding a kingdom for themselves in the past. It has produced brilliant thinkers and scientists for the world. Israel, however, must be set apart from them.
In the religious book of Ezra, the Persian rulers are credited with permitting the Jews to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. The fact that the Persian kings have long protected the Jews is a fascinating fact of history. Iran is today's Persia. In 1935, a name change was made.
Lawyer and journalist Theodor Herzl proposed the idea of a Jewish homeland in 1896, when capitalism was evolving into imperialism. He advanced this concept with the protection of his people in mind, during a period when anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise in many European countries. Political Judaism has its roots in this.
This slogan was exploited by British imperialism against the Ottoman Empire at that time. Then, in the 1930s, oil was discovered in the predominantly Muslim Middle East, coinciding with the horrific genocide of Jews perpetrated by Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany. In 1948, the imperialists established Israel for their own gain, capitalizing on the global outpouring of sympathy for the Jewish victims following the Holocaust during World War II. Religious ideology turns into a threat to humanity when it is tainted by imperialism for its own ends. This is evident in Israel. This is also evident in the way the US created ISIS and the Taliban.
The recent remarks made about Israel by German Chancellor Friedrich März make it abundantly evident why Israel was established. "This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us," he said explicitly.
The sole justification provided by Israel and the US for declaring war on Iran was that Iran's nuclear program had progressed to the where it could produce a nuclear weapon. They crafted a perception that Iran's acquisition of a nuclear bomb poses a severe threat not just to Israel, but to all of humanity, and that it must be averted.
However, that's not the true reason. The real catalyst was America's initiative in promoting "peaceful nuclear energy," along with the technical expertise it provided during the time of Mohammad Reza Shah, who was effectively a puppet of the US in Iran. On March 5, 1957, U.S. President Eisenhower and the Shah of Iran formalized a pact. The Shah aimed to construct a series of nuclear power plants over the next 20 years, with an expected capacity of approximately 23,000 megawatts of electricity.
In 2023, despite pressure from numerous Iranian political leaders advocating for the development of a nuclear bomb to counteract Israel’s nuke threat and deter threats from other countries, Supreme Leader Khomeini refused to grant approval, stating that the creation of a nuclear bomb is contrary to Islamic principles.
Moreover, it is worth recalling that US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated that Iran possesses no nuclear bomb, a fact that was affirmed by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.
It was based on this same unfounded accusation that the United States initiated a war in Iraq in 2003, claiming to protect humanity from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction while seizing its gold reserves and oil resources.
The U.S. decision to attack Iran was not made overnight. In the early 2000s, following the fall of the Soviet Union, the US established itself as the world’s sole superpower. During this time, they recruited militant mercenary groups among Muslims to serve their interests, fostered Islamophobia, and, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, invaded Afghanistan under the guise of a war on terrorism. Concurrently, the US and Britain worked together to develop a five-year plan to attack seven Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran, before another superpower emerged. General Wesley Clark brought this to light, leaving the world in astonishment.
Four-star General Wesley Clark is a well-regarded military figure in the U.S. who also participated in the Vietnam War. He held the position of NATO's Allied Commander in Europe from 1997 to 2000 and led Operation Allied Force during the Kosovo War. To see General Wesley Clark discuss this surprising news, you can view the video in the YouTube
Furthermore, for the last 33 years, dating back to 1992, the warmonger Netanyahu has been sounding alarms about Iran developing a nuclear bomb within a matter of months or even days. He has been particularly vocal about this recently.
Netanyahu represents the American and Israeli arms manufacturers politically; he is not an individual. For this reason, he is repeatedly brought to power by the warlords, even though the Israeli people defeat him in elections. The rumour that Saddam Hussein was developing a nuclear weapon in Iraq was initially disseminated by him. He tells this story against Iran for the past 33 years. A recently released video from Al Jazeera features him repeating this narrative about Iran for the past 33 years. You can view it in the YouTube
Thus, it is evident that the US and Israel jointly developed the Iranian nuclear bomb hoax as a pretext for attacking Iran.
Iran is the only country that has stayed true to its support for Palestinian freedom while standing up to American dominance and Israeli territorial ambitions, while many other Arab countries have either secretly or openly given in out of fear of American power and the onslaught of the highly advanced Israeli military, which uses "Auftragtaktik" or "recon-pull" surprise lightning strikes and the intelligence agency, the Mossad.
This defiance is a key source of frustration for both Israel and the United States. The involvement of Iran-backed groups like Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen, which openly resist Israeli aggression and expansion and target U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria, has further heightened tensions. Additionally, both the U.S. and the U.K. have a history of animosity toward Iran.
Together, the US CIA and Britain's MI6 overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh's government in 1953 after he nationalized the corrupt Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP), establishing a puppet regime and installing the Shah as king.
The 1979 Islamic Revolution marked the end of the US-backed Shah's regime. Shah fled the country taking with him the nation's gold reserves. During this upheaval, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an Islamic scholar who had spent 14 years in exile in France for his safety, returned to Iran and took charge of the newly established Islamic Republic. Consequently, Iran emerged from the outset as an anti-American state.
When the US allowed exiled Sha to its country for cancer treatment in 1979 Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran, kidnapped 52 Americans and held them hostage for 444 days, demanding the Shah's extradition to Iran. US severed diplomatic relations and imposed economic sanctions on Iran.
The US-backed invasion of Iran by Iraq spearheaded by Saddam Hussein, a US ally at the time, lasted for eight years and resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. Iraq also used US-supplied chemical weapons against Iran. Ultimately, the war bolstered Iran's military capabilities.
An event that continues to be honoured in Iran to this day took place on October 30, 1980, when 13-year-old Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh strapped a grenade belt around himself and leaped under an Iraqi tank to halt the advance of Iraqi artillery. In Iran, he is celebrated as a heroic martyr of the war.
A bombing of the US embassy in Beirut, orchestrated with Iranian assistance, resulted in the deaths of 63 individuals, including 17 Americans. Subsequently, two suicide truck bombs detonated at the multinational force camp, leading to the deaths of 220 US Marines, 18 Navy sailors, three Army soldiers, and 58 French troops.
In July 1988, a tragic incident occurred when the USS Vincennes, a United States Navy vessel, shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf, resulting in the deaths of 290 individuals on board. Following the incident, the US issued an apology for the mistaken targeting of the airliner, initially claiming it was a military aircraft, and subsequently agreed to provide financial compensation to the victims' families.
While the longstanding animosity between the United States and Iran can largely be attributed to political factors, basically there was an economic rationale for the ongoing animosity between the two. Iran, possessing the fourth largest oil reserves globally, is strategically situated and remains largely out of American influence—a situation that has consistently frustrated the U.S. There was concern that the influx of inexpensive Iranian oil into the global market could negatively impact the prices of American petroleum products. Additionally, there were fears that a strengthened Iranian economy would lead to an even more formidable adversary. This economic threat was a primary driver behind the imposition of sanctions on Iran.
Another factor contributing to the US's ire is Iran's backing of Russia in the Ukraine war along with its recent bolstering of political, military, and economic relations with China.
This US animosity was recently heightened by an unforeseen discovery of the second-largest lithium deposit in the world— which is also referred to as "white gold" – in Iran in March 2025. This deposit is crucial for the rapidly expanding electric vehicle sector. It was dubbed "a potential strategic game-changer" by the Lowy Institute.
There is no other immediate explanation for the US's sudden interest in going to war with Iran, given that China currently has the most advanced technology to extract lithium. This suspicion is further reinforced by the US's actions in waging war on Iran violating all international laws and diplomatic protocol.
Therefore, the real objective of the United States and Israel is regime change in Iran, just as they did in Syria, and install a puppet regime of their own to power. In pursuit of this, they have positioned Reza Shah, the son of the former King Shah.
The CIA-Mossad-MI6 plot to overthrow the regime in Iran has been going on for a long time. This effort has been facilitated through US-financed NGOs and political groups, often under the familiar banners of "democracy" and "human rights." However, this marks the first instance of the US and Israel directly engaging in military action against Iran. The setbacks faced by Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the optimism sparked by the removal of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, have significantly driven this development.
To be continued…..
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