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The energy crisis across the world doesn’t emanate from the blockade of Strait of Hormuz. The crisis was caused by the blockade of the Strait of Conscience. It’s not the sea; the remedy lies in the crooked mind. Heads of state so desperately seeking oil and gas should first explain why seas and deserts are splattered with blood; why the air is filled with the stench of burnt bodies, why reason and are rationale strewn on the ground with dust and debris. Oil and gas are scarce because conscience and morality have vanished.

Who are the prima ballerinas of this danse macabre? The same people who rejoiced over the Gaza massacre; those who killed, maimed and left the survivors to starve to death on the false pretext of fighting terrorism. 

They reached Iran with frightening credentials of butchery and brutality; they came with astonishing experience of deception and lies. They boast of sinking ships for fun; they threaten showering death and destruction from the skies and celebrate victim’s suffering. The dead and the alive in Gaza bear testimony to their cruelty.  Threads from the same saga tied another set of people in grief. 

This time Iran before some other nation is hounded. One irrational man seduced by another into this carnival of destruction that triggered a global turmoil. While millions grieved and mourned, they gloated in a contrived sense of victory. As the Israeli minister Zeev Elkin confessed: “War against Iran is an enormous blessing for Israel.” 

 The “blessing” for Israel, however, hasn’t delighted most of the people in the United States whose president enabled this catastrophic crisis. While American Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard struck down the logic of going to war, denying Trump’s claim that Iran was barely weeks away from making a nuclear bomb, top security officer Joe Kent resigned saying Israel forced America into this illegal war. 

Former US ambassador to Iran Chas Freeman said, “There are a lot of things wrong with this war from the beginning. There was no strategy. There was tactical hubris. This illegitimate........

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