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(Kaieteur News) – Iran has been battered by a hail of high-tech, fearsome, devastating weapons. The hailstorm came and intensifies from two directions: the US and Israel. The expectation was that with Iran pushed to its knees, its resolve would crumble, and after that it’s wide open and ripe for the changes contemplated in Washington and Tel Aviv.
According to reports, a sizable portion of Iran’s spiritual, political, and military leadership corps has been eliminated from the face of the earth in balls of fire. The surprising has since occurred, in that the severely jolted and decimated Iranian leadership has still found the fortitude and will to wage broad-based resistance and retaliatory efforts against its enemies. To this point, what was supposed to be a smooth and overwhelming show of force doesn’t seem to be working out, as planned in America and Israel. Instead of a short, decisive victory, an unequivocal one, for both militarily powerful countries, they could be staring into the unknown, with untold consequences in the making.
A sticky quagmire more and more seems to be what has been unleashed. Rich and bold hyperbolic press releases aside, and from all three countries now bitterly entangled, the perpetually volatile Middle East region could become engulfed in the unthinkable and the unwanted. No one knows for sure the range of the destructive weapons that Iran has at its disposal. But the US and Israel are both in possession of frightening nuclear capabilities. The question that worries everyone is if Iran has such weapons available to it.
North Korea has made some sounds about ‘evil and criminal aggression’, and it is nuclear armed. Iran is the second country that has been subjected to a preemptive attack, and Cuba appears to have been the target of what looked like another Bay of Pigs reincarnation. It went the same way as its ill-fated Kennedy administration predecessor with four reported dead. Which other country would be content to sit on its hands, and watch to see if it is going to be the next sitting duck coming under US fire?
Meanwhile, the Gulf States are bristling with armaments of awesome capabilities, and countries that have been hit could be encouraged to join in the battle that has started. If not encouraged, there could be the sense in countries on the receiving end of Iranian missiles that they have a right to self-defense, and only as a matter of national pride. The Middle East is a region that has a history of living and reliving vengeance. What genie has been set in motion, and now roams with growing strength in this combustible mix of politics, alliances, religion, and ill-concealed hostility?
We don’t know the answer to that question. There is some certainty that the neat calculus of the US and Israel may not have dissected that question, either. All that is required in the Middle East tinderbox was one spark, and that match has been lit. The US’ position is regime change, where the evil ones are removed, and a new era is ushered in for the benefit of Iranians living in hardship, and with the added weight of being constantly under the gun. There is a significant amount of anger in Iran against a regime that initially appeared to be on its deathbed, but which may be not close to that condition, as yet. Is the simmering anger stoked and given an opening for the fullest expression, now enough to be rid of those that the US and Israel are bent on seeing their backs? Or their heads securely laid out in mortuaries? These are not easily answerable questions in the fog of war and the shifting developments represented by clashing media releases.
Moreover, Iran has already taken the expected step of attacking US and UK oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. What may give the impression of a contained conflict is sure to seep out into countries across the globe, with economic fallouts being one of the impacts. There is interest in what is the endgame of the US-Israel Axis, and how close to that point ground realities indicate. Presently, it seems as though the Iranians aren’t operating according to plan, with trouble ahead.
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