By Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor

If we believe that the current aggression towards Iran will change the Persians, we must be deluded. 

In fact, it will not only reshape the contours of the Middle East, especially the Gulf, but also diminish the power of the US to merely a country and Israel, the most arrogant and hubristic nation. 

That would transform the world’s geopolitics, which Washington and its allies have thus far dominated. A few more countries from the global south will take centre stage, displacing the US and other old colonial powers. 

The influence of social media has revolutionised opinions, stories, and beliefs. Mainstream media is undoubtedly a victim of the digital era, particularly amid the current global unrest. 

Iran and Israel have a long history of hostility. The recent escalation mainly arises from Israeli occupation and aggression towards Palestine, along with its ongoing policies of attacks, killings, and expansionism, which have covert support from Gulf countries, enabling espionage bases in the Middle East.

While the United States adopted a policy of intimidating Iran and strengthening Israel, it interpreted any hostility towards Israel as its own. However, nobody expected that the Jewish lobby in the United States would cross such a red line that it would compel the US President to attack Iran twice during negotiations. 

That has come as a surprise to its citizens, as reflected in recent poll results. 

The United States has not only overlooked Israel’s faults, excesses, or violations, but has also tacitly collaborated in its aggression against many neighbouring nations. It is as if the agenda to destroy the Muslim world is set by Israel for the US and its allies, and has been followed in both letter and spirit from Afghanistan to Iran. 

During the US-Iran talks in June last year, the United States immediately joined in Israel’s aggression. It announced the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities through twelve days of air strikes. After pounding the Persians, the world believed that Iran’s nuclear enrichment was over and........

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