So, for the second time during the middle of a diplomatic talk that the US has treacherously and dastardly strikes Iran. Last year they did so at Fordow to obliterate allegedly the latter’s nuclear facilities. Last week their unprovoked and evil act led to the death of Iran’s Supreme leader, scores of military commanders and civilians, notably school children in Minab. The aim of the aggressors is not to reach a deal but to topple the regime in Teheran.

TRT World reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi amid US-Israeli attacks on Iran while also asserting that his country is “always open to diplomacy” and acting in “self-defence” after the joint strikes. Indeed, “this is the second time that we negotiated with Americans, and they decided to attack us right in the middle of the negotiation.”

It backfired. Iran is not Venezuela and the Iranian people instead of revolting to change the “remaining elements” of the regime have stood as one to defend their nation, civilization and honor. Mr. Trump blindly believing that the US empire is still the same as if we are still in the Cold War era thought that by knocking out Iran’s leaders and bragging their “shock and awe” superiority is all its takes. In fact, in his moronic estimation this conflict will only last up to five weeks. However, we have yet to reach the first week, but the horrible figures and the bloody pictures coming out from the various warzones is not rosy nor favorable to the imperialist’s aggressors.

In the words of Ali Larijani, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council as reported by Al Mayadeen:

“Iran, unlike the United States, has prepared itself for a long war,” stressing that “as in the past 300 years, Iran did not start this war and our brave Armed Forces have not engaged in any attacks except in defense.”

Vowing a resolute response, he said Iran would “fiercely defend ourselves and our six thousand years old civilization regardless of the costs and will make the enemies sorry for this miscalculation.”

This is a direct contrast with the barbaric view of Mr. Trump when he said that: “America will avenge their deaths (referring to US casualties) and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war against, basically, civilization.”

This is not only laughable, but utterly ridiculous.

According to his so-called Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as reported by Al Mayadeen, has explicitly said that: the US does not care about what international institutions say and dismissed rules of engagement. Indeed, his comments, said bluntly, mirror what critics have said about the US for decades: that it has no regard for international law or rules of any kind. Hegseth and the Trump administration are showing in plainclothes what had been asserted for years, and that is that the US is an empire that has done nothing but commit murder around the globe.

With a few words dismissing “stupid rules of engagement”, Hegseth has laid out the core principle of empire: “Might makes right.”

Up to today, those arrogant imperialists are still operating on what Professor Edward Said described as Orientialism or in that moronic dichotomy of: “Civilized” West vs “Barbaric” East.  

The evil act of US and the Zionist entity received an unprecedented retaliation from the Iranian people. No one has expected their massive counterstrike. The war that begun as US/Israel vs Iran has now spread and put the region on fire. Iran has simultaneously bombed the Zionist entity, and almost all the US military bases, installations and its allies in UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia and even Cyprus.

Only an idiot of the lowest order will believe that the ongoing war is because of the tyrannical regime in Teheran or to stop them from developing nuclear capability. The truth of the matter is: its the Epstein files, the arrogance of US Imperialism, their defense of the pedophilia bureaucratic class and the insidious thirst for blood and greed of the Military Industrial Complex of the neocons, the Zionists and the ruling elite of the world.

Yet, as already noted. They got the shock of their lives. Iran is answering and countering the attacks and its wave upon wave and barrages of missiles and drones are overwhelming the so-called defenses of the US and their cohorts.

I concur with the view of Colonel Scott Ritter in his podcast interview with George Galloway:

We have lost this war… The Iranian regime will not be toppled or changed. And the US and Israel will be compelled to sue for peace.

The world must come together to unite against imperialism, neocolonialism and Zionism. They are the enemies of Humanity! If we, the citizens of the world will not act together as one, then, all we will have are “forever wars.”

Jose Mario D. De Vega

PhD Candidate

Philippine Studies

Asian Center

University of the Philippines Diliman