The combined invasion of Iran by the USA and its vassal state Israel on Saturday morning has plunged the world into an uncertain situation, dealing a devastating blow to the international rule-based order, the United Nations as the world body to prevent wars, international law, and the universally recognised conventions governing interstate relations.

The lone superpower used talks as a ruse. The USA leadership’s claim that Iran posed security threats to their country through its fast-developing nuclear and ballistic missile projects was also a blatant lie. The aggression against Iran is part of Jewish expansionism to occupy all lands lying between Israel and the Euphrates.

In one of my TV talk shows in October 2023, I had doubted that the conflict in Gaza was sparked by Hamas. I was confident that the conflict was provoked by Israel to be converted into a full-scale war, to bury the well-touted two-state solution to the Palestinian issue forever, and that this war would overshadow the security of the entire Middle Eastern region.

Earlier, I had also discussed the Israeli plan to become the superpower of the Middle East in my book The Fast Changing Geopolitical and Geostrategic Dynamics: Challenges for Pakistan, published in July 2018. It contains a copious chapter on Israel.

After destroying Gaza, killing over 70,000 Palestinians, including children, driving away the anti-Israel regime from Syria, weakening Hezbollah in Beirut, and neutralising wealthy Arab countries through the Abraham Treaties, Israel, with the USA at its beck and call, is advancing its plan for political and strategic control of the entire region.

It is a big lie that the Iranian nuclear programme and........

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