By Aram Mirzaei for the Saker blog
A year has passed since US President Donald Trump, like the coward he is, ordered the murder of General Qassem Soleimani and PMU second in command Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The Islamic Republic and the US were on the brink of all-out war as a result of the savage actions of the US President. Immediately after the act of terror, western journalists, think tanks and analysts started to speculate on whether the Islamic Republic was finished in the region.
“Soleimani’s death is a major blow to Iran” they said. Some even speculated or rather hoped that with Soleimani gone, the entire Islamic resistance would collapse as it now apparently looked leaderless.
The Americans and the Israelis made the same arrogant calculations, thinking that Soleimani was irreplaceable and that the Resistance Axis had been dealt a severe blow. Little do they understand how the Islamic Resistance works and why it exists.
Martyr Soleimani acted as the coordinator between Iran and its allies among the Islamic resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan. The man commanded a lot of respect and was admired not just in the region but worldwide, which makes it easy to understand why he had to die. This terrorist act was consistent with US foreign policy since Trump assumed power as Washington has sought to humiliate, punish and bully Iran into submission through terrorism, siege warfare and threats.
This policy of humiliation was very apparent when Trump, the imbecile openly bragged about the murder and claimed that Soleimani was “saying bad things about our country” before the strike, which led to his decision to authorize his killing. (I use the word imbecile to describe him because that is how the rest of the world sees him and I don’t care how much MAGA fans thinks he is a “genius” at home. To the world, the man is a vile and disgusting terrorist. So please, if you’re going to comment on this piece, know that I am no Democrat, I am not American and I couldn’t care less about how he is viewed over there)
So what exactly did Trump achieve with this act of terror?
One of Washington’s long-term goals has been committed to “isolating” Iran, thus weakening the Islamic Republic’s resolve. What they call “Iranian proxies” across the region have become a real headache for Washington and Tel Aviv. It is therefore no surprise that Iran’s allies are being targeted everywhere. The Islamic resistance has gained a lot of strength over the years. The Lebanese Hezbollah has become the strongest ally of Iran, the best armed and trained group in the Middle East, a fact that the Zionist entity is clearly worried over. In the words of IRGC General Mohammad-Reza Falahzadeh “the ability of the resistance front is today at its peak throughout the region and has defeated America, the Zionists and the Wahhabis.”
It is for this exact reason that Washington and Tel Aviv are so violent and hateful against Iran and its allies. “How dare these savage Muslims stand up against ‘the greatest and most freedom loving country’ in the history of mankind?”
Not only did the murder not manage to break up the Resistance Axis, but it actually made them stronger. The Islamic Resistance’s resolve is stronger than ever today, and the battles against the forces of evil have continued with success for the anti-imperial forces. I’m not surprised that Western journalists, think tanks and American/Israeli intelligence couldn’t make the correct calculations of what Soleimani’s murder would mean. How could they ever understand? The other side believes in nothing, they are godless, morally depraved and would even sell out their own people for profit. They have nothing to fight for except to satisfy their lust and greed. Of course they will in their arrogance think that everyone else in the world thinks and acts like they do.
They are incapable of understanding that resistance is an ideology- an idea of a free and independent Middle East. It is not dependent on one man like Ayatollah Khamenei or a group of Generals in Iraq. Killing Iranians or Iraqis will not kill an ideology and a religion that has existed for more than 1400 years, it will only make new martyrs and strengthen the faith. Martyrdom is the core of the Shiite faith ever since the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in 680 AD. The tyrant Yazid couldn’t destroy the ideology back then when he slaughtered Imam Hussein and his followers savagely, what makes Washington believe that they can do it now? Of course, being a racist bigot like Trump or Netanyahu, makes it rather difficult to understand most things about their enemies.
This is why they still cannot understand how Martyrs Soleimani and Al-Muhandis did more damage to Washington in their death than they ever could in life. The region responded with hatred. The assassination united the Iranian and Iraqi peoples under the banner of Resistance. From Pakistan to Lebanon, and from Yemen to even parts of Europe, millions of people came out in solidarity with the martyrs and showed their absolute disgust with the Trump and Washington altogether. The martyrs’ funeral procession across Iran and Iraq were among the largest ever seen.
The Iraqi parliament immediately voted to expel the US occupation troops and Iran responded by striking US bases in Iraq despite the White House imbecile’s crude threats to annihilate Iran’s cultural heritage.
The Islamic Republic’s retaliation on January 8th, was not only defiant in nature, but it was also unprecedented. It was a long time ago that another country, especially a smaller country with fewer resources and considerably less military strength, dared to directly attack US forces. I argue, just like the Saker that this was the day that the Empire truly lost.
Washington didn’t respond, despite Trump’s threats to commit crimes against humanity if Iran dared to retaliate. The emperor was shown to be naked behind those pathetic Twitter threats, Washington had nothing to respond with. I believe the reason for Washington’s non-response was due to what happened on the night of January 8th. Immediately after Iran’s retaliation, Iran’s allies Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hashd Al-Shaabi of Iraq threatened to start an all-out regional war if the US dared to attack Iranian soil. I believe that message was received loud and clear by Washington.
So instead, Trump responded with more sanctions, a policy he has continued over the past year. Doubling down on failed policies seems to be Washington’s top priority. The maximum pressure campaign didn’t force Iran to the negotiations table, yet the imbecile still bragged that after his supposed election victory in November “The first call I get will be from Iran, they are dying to make a deal”.
This shows that Trump has no idea what he is dealing with. He has no understanding of the region, how some countries actually care about their independence and how his pathetic Twitter rants have only garnered the collective hate of Muslims in the region.
The Zionists know this. They know that his policies have only emboldened the Resistance front. This is why they are hoping to pressure Trump to attack Iran with less than three weeks remaining of his presidency (again I don’t care if MAGA fans think he will get his second term). Hoping to provoke and all-out war with Iran, they are making the mistake again to think that the Islamic Republic will stand alone, which it will not. I’ve said before that a war with Iran means a regional war, and possibly one where Russia would have to get involved as well. It is therefore troubling to read reports on how Mossad agents have travelled to Iraq with the aim of staging a false flag attack on US interests and pinning it on Iran. It is no coincidence that Washington has been flexing muscles and building up troops in the region, as a “deterrent” against “Iran’s revenge” on the eve of the 1st year anniversary of the murders of Soleimani and Al-Muhandis.
Whether the imbecile will start a war on behalf of his Zionist masters or not, we will see in the coming days. In any case, the Resistance Front stands ready to face any threat.
Iran is defending itself . USA is attacking .
And as Sun Tzu said in The Art of War :
“Invincibility is a matter of defense ,
vulnerability is a matter of attack “
Iran is defending itself vs not only the USA but vs the true enemy of the region and mankind: Apartheid Israel.
Israel’s lust for blood and power makes it the most dangerous entity on earth. And their desire to become a mini-imperial power to control the region as they see fit will bring the world to catastrophe.
Hence, Israel is the real problem.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/israel-is-the-problem/
Don’t dismiss too lightly the US role in bringing instability and eventually war to the region. In allowing itself to be manipulated by Israel, the US is equally at fault.
Sun Tzu = Sūnzi in the modern spelling of the last forty years. “Sūn” is one of his two putative surnames, and “-zi” a honorific appendage. The to-be-avoided spelling Sun Tzu makes Tsu or Tzu look like a personal name, which it ain’t,
But what a welter of inspirations this article serves us, trully news anslysis pĭnpánr, Pepé-zi/tBeibei-tzu!
A wonderful article – thank you Aram Mirzaei and the Saker community for hosting this kind of analysis, this truth held high like a red flag.
It’s a good reminder of the date, that January 8th is the anniversary of the slap that Iran delivered to the US enemy and revealed him to be, not the great Shaitan, but the great Micky Mouse.
This revelation itself was of a great stature, as many across the world saw clearly. The game was over for the Zionists on that day, and the stature of that revelation was equal to the measure of the martyrs. Their deaths indeed achieved the great results they longed for.
And this was just the slap, the first rebuke to bring the adversaries eye to eye, bringing the inflated US down to human level, as humans on their knees, and revealing the height from which the Resistance and the Islamic Republic stood, as standing tall on their feet.
In the midst of an ocean of tears for the filthy crime and for the martyrs from that crime – in the midst of this a fierce poetry of justice bloomed, when Iran of all the nations of the world stood toe to toe with the United States and slapped it in the face.
And if the Pentagon ever fails to know beyond all doubt that this was just a slap, and that utter defeat awaits beyond this slap at the next engagement, then the Pentagon itself will be gone.
And all of this, we in the west will owe to Iran. This is a story of great heroism – and there are those of us who are grateful.
western media was silent regarding the mysterious bomb found on the iraqi tanker last week. doesnt take much imagination to link that with the many other mysterious explosions etc within the region
Well the good news is that the American people were able to vote Trump out. The bad news is that they voted Biden in. So, the Middle-East (and and the rest of the world including the U.S. itself) will continue to have a lot of the same problems facing them.
the American People don’t have much say in US’s version of democracy, no matter which mafia faction ends up in power. They are the fig leaf.
I spent a Year in the US as a thirteen-year old. Attended hihghschool there i Colombua MO, Ann Arbour Mi and Berkley CA. Did not understand that those schools constituted the excemptins to the low-class numbifying dis-education that was already starting to take place all over USA.
Recent claims about US Navy moving its Nimitz carrier battle group to San Diego is being spun as USA “wanting peace.” I think it is just as likely the USA is preparing to launch airstrikes from that carrier in the Indian Ocean, because US Navy Admirals know full well Iran would sink the CVN if confined to the Persian Gulf.
I’m curious to know if Iran can launch torpedoes from shore to destroy Israeli submarines. Furthermore, I’d like to know how successful Iran has been in upgrading it’s air defence network. We know Iranian SAMs can shoot down the best American drones, but do they have enough of those and/or S-400s?
You don’t launch torpedoes from shore. You launch them from subs, fast attack craft and warships when you are in attack range. You launch anti-ship missiles from shore, from hundreds of miles away, thousands of them which fly supersonic and are hard to intercept. The Persian gulf is 50m deep on average. That Israeli sub fully submerged will still be visible on certain days, without even resorting to sonar to detect it. It is useless in the Persian Gulf. Also, Iran has tens of thousands of SAM’s, HQ-2’s, S-200’s, Kub’s, I-Hawk’s, S-300’s, Buk, Standard and Strela’s. All locally manufactured, modified and/ or reverse engineered.
Not only did the murder not manage to break up the Resistance Axis, but it actually made them stronger.
Yes it did ! The danger is as I said before in a comment the sun is setting on the American empire and its vassals! I do not hope they do not do something completely suicidal in their demise!
Aram,
This is not an excuse, but Trump completely underestimated the depth and depravity of Washington. From the beginning of his administration to the present, he surrounded himself with individuals, i.e. supposed loyalist who turned out to be swamp creatures that joyfully lied to him, misled him and ultimately frustrated his policies. To be honest, only people who study the Anglo-Zionist Empire truly appreciate its corruption, its evil and the depth of its hold on America and the West.
Like most Americans, Trump was clueless. He failed to realize that Anglo-Zionist were his actual enemy and the ultimate enemy of the American people. He never tried to appease the Anglo-Zionist monster, he simply failed to understand that is never sated, that it has an unlimited appetite for power and control.
With the stolen election, all is obvious now. The Deep State and the Anglo-Zionist infection runs deep within the veins of the nation. Trump’s only friends are the American people and he has finally learned that the only people he needs to serve are the American people.
A second Trump term would not be magical, but it still could be the greatest breakthrough we have to world peace in the last fifty years. Every American president who attempted to make peace was take down by the Deep State. Trump is the first politician to realize he does not need the Deep State.
That is a power that terrifies Washington and the Anglo-Zionist Empire and which pushes them to stop him at all costs.
Was the murder of General Soleimani a crime and a tragedy. Yes. Just like the murder of every Palestinian child, every Syrian villager, every Libyan patriot, and even the death of an average American voter crushed by economic policies that favor the private central banks and lied to by the Deep State main stream media. In 2021, we are all victims of the Deep State/Anglo-Zionist Empire.
In 2021, President Trump will not listen to Washington. He maybe an imbecile and a vile and disgusting terrorist. But even imbeciles can learn to make the correct decision.
imbecile: mental age of seven or eight years and an intelligence quotient of 25 to 50
Injecting this word into every stanza, and maybe spitting on the ground at the same time, makes a fairly reasonable analysis sound like a rant. Same goes for the commentators.
Missing is some analysis of who Iran is dealing with. It ain’t just the imbecile Trump (ptui!). Come what may, Washington and the Zionists will be there January 20th.
the whole narrative that trump was a deer in headlights being president to the zio swamp mafia is tiresome. trumps father donated land to jewish organisations and was a tireless advocate. trumps older brother (although the family claims to not be jewish ) joined a jewish frat house while in college. yadda yadda the example can go on. he did his job. destroy usa while appeasing zionists as per the plan. mediator for “steal of the century ” with gay robot lubavicher son in law at the helm. even trumps pardons sway heavily to his corrupt convicted jewish swindler mafia mates.
Like most Americans, Trump was clueless. He failed to realize that Anglo-Zionist were his actual enemy and the ultimate enemy of the American people. He never tried to appease the Anglo-Zionist monster, he simply failed to understand that is never sated, that it has an unlimited appetite for power and control.
Unfortunately there are too many “coincidences” to prove that statement is false:
*His own son-in-law is a long-time family friend of Netanyahu; how can he not know that?
*All of his cabinet was chosen from deep state operatives
*After being sworn in, he declared the Clintons are “good people that have suffered enough”(WTF?!?)
*He pardons convicted WAR CRIMINALS, but refuses to pardon Julian Assange!
Right after being sworn into office in January 2017, Trump could have had 70+ million Americans march on the offices of AIPAC, George Soros, etc if he was truly serious about draining the swamp. Alas he is not Vladimir Putin.
Trump lost on day one of his new administration when he chose to do the bidding of his backers the Jews who dumped million into his campaign, then his pick of the neocons to head different agencies making an ex CIA man his Sec. Of State, and one who had been involved in torture as head of the CIA. And filled the rest with those like Nikkei Haley who had no clue as to what they were doing or even supposed to do.
No we are not going to miss him the wars still continued to rumble on, stealing the oil that belongs to Syria, still refusing to get out of Iraq and Syria, drone killing reached a new peak and getting involved in Yemen for Saudi Arabia, A loosing trade war with China slurring them over the virus blaming them for his inaction on the virus, no we are not going to miss him a bit but the 1% will, and the sad part is Biden is no better, so I suppose you can say good-bye to America which is probably the best for the world at large…
”The other side believes in nothing, they are godless, morally depraved and would even sell out their own people for profit. They have nothing to fight for except to satisfy their lust and greed. Of course they will in their arrogance think that everyone else in the world thinks and acts like they do.”
Excellent summary. It is precisely what brings their inevitable downfall appreciably closer. It’s also refreshing how Aram Mirzaei (correctly) uses imbecile when referring to the Orange Buffoon and his horrific tweets.
And to be precise, they are selling out their own people right now. They have been degrading their own people’s culture and civilization for decades, of course, and degrading their own people’s economic opportunities for close to 50 years. Now they are going for mass sterilization. All for profit, or more accurately, increasing and/or maintaining their own power.
they (the psychopaths in charge of the moder-day zio MORDOR) are not just selling us (their ‘own’ people) – the are actively trying to democide us with franken vaccines which were developed by companies with jewish CEOS like Pfeizer and MOD eRNA – in 6 months (instead of ten years as is common).
The jewish Pfeizer CEO is a vet who basically created Mad Cow Disease – when he was in charge of Animal Health for the whole of EU. It was his idea to feed dead sheep to cows. Thousands of people died. And he is now in charge of the frankenvax – he himself refuses to take.
I talk to people here in Canada when I go for a walk (strangers) – and am pleasantly surprised that most of them think that our corrupt government is actually trying to kill us.
A childhood friend in Zurich told me 4 days ago how his next door neighbor who was 80 and very healthy took Pfeizer vax and was dead half an hour later.
This the result and the consequence of the fact that for the past 500 years it was mostly done to people in the far away lands “unpeople”. As Thysidites, Athenian historian wrote 2500 years ago: “tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself”. It is difficult to write, but I will write this: Westerners have for generations carried out the dirty work of their elites, when committing crimes all over the world. Now the Westerners are finding that their elites do not care about them, and that their governments much to their shock (well the ones who pay attention at least) are in bed with outright neo-nazis. This is no surprise. Death and destruction done in far away places migrates home, eventually. If you study history, it is quite clear. Evil done on others, turns against evil doers eventually. Martin Luther King Jr, once said: “the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice”. It is time to acknowledge this reality for Westerners. If things are to change for the better.
Dear Aram,
I think that you are a bit too kind to the President of the United States. Certainly Trump boasted that he ordered the removal of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, but Trumps’ inability to even perform a simple task frequently appears to be beyond him. And so we look at the manner that Soleimani was ‘set up’ which was extremely crude rude and very unattractive, but there was intelligence within that set up that Trump has never previously demonstrated.
And then there was the next attack on Iran at Soleimani’s wake, in that a version of the Corona virus was unleashed, and I would imagine that that act was planned to remove more of Soleimani’s faithful. But it was the American Democrats who staged Event 201 in October, not Trump, and this should raise more questions especially with the Iranian Intelligence. And of course Israel returns to its assassination of Iran’s nuclear physicists, and that should also be taken into consideration, as it again brings Iran and the false premise that Iran is endeavouring to create nuclear weapons, which is again simply demonising Iran prior to a possible attack on Iran by American forces.
And then there was the incident that created a false impression and caused Iran to shoot down a Ukrainian airliner, for which Iran accepted full responsibility, and this again tells us all the type of fighting the Americans will use against its perceived enemies. But I fear there is no need to warn Iranians of these deceptions, as they have seen them over and over again.
But now I fear there is to be a major psy-ops within America. President Trump has two major media ‘allies’ if you can call them that. There is the ‘Frog-man’ Alex Jones and his collection on Infowars and then there is in Australia the Murdoch Press supporting the Trump cause and similar issues, and I don’t think these should be ignored. However, yesterday, Alex Jones released the ‘news’ that Trump had to flee Mar-de Largo in Florida due to the presence of an Iranian deep cover hit squad. I beg your pardon!!!!
Would any special services endeavouring to protect Trump pass on such information, even if it was actually true? Of course not, so the story is a ‘furphy’ a lie and a deception for the 70 million Trump supporters. Now firstly, this staged event should remind readers not just of the 911 Psy-ops, but a much deeper event, that of the assassination of John F Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
The original plan by General Edward Lansdale and his Military Intelligence was for Kennedy to be ‘wounded’, and the assassination attempt would be blamed on Cuba, and permit America to attack and invade Cuba. However there were other interested parties involved and an SAS team from MI6 was seconded to Angleton’s CIA, and it was they who killed Kennedy, This team was run by ‘Poppy’ Bush, and both Lansdale and Bush were not only sighted, but also photographed in Dallas on the day. And just recently another JFK assassination documentary has been released to emphasise those who conspired to kill the Kennedys.
So we now have a psy-ops with elements of both 911 and the assassination of JFK. So what’s scheduled for the near future? Well, Trump has organised a demonstration in DC on Wednesday the 6th of January, and he will speak to his followers there. And of course good old Alex Jones has just blabbed to the world that there is an Iranian assassination team in America hunting Trump, so should Trump be assassinated on that day, then the America MSM will automatically blame Iran and it’s “Game on”!
Now the only question remaining is would Israel with Netanyahu and the American deep state permit the assassination of Trump in such a manner? That is a very silly question, isn’t it.
yeah, shooting the Orange Guy would get it going, probably. The American sheeple would believe it was Iran. They have no capacity for critical thinking.
A big bomb and thousands of bodies would do it as well… especially if the Orange Goon was one of them. It’s unreal, isn’t it, how evil the US elites are. I’m hoping it doesn’t happen.
Patrick
@ so should Trump be assassinated on that day, then …….
And if not? Then what, same story just different day.
Assalaamu alekum dear brothers Andrei Raevsky and Aram Mirzaei,
I wish you a merry Orthodox Christmas and happy new year and my deep condolences go for our great martyrs General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis.
As a Sunni Muslim I support all of the human resistance against the Barbaric oppressors and in particular of them all; that of the Temporary False Messiah Zionist State in the Levant. I also express my total innocence and condemnation of what some unelected leaders (being four so far) have done in our name in the sinful, disgraceful, immoral, hypocritical and illegal recognition of the Temporary False Messiah Oppressor State Of Israel in the Levant. Our “bay3a” has become null and void to these so called “Emir, Sultan, president and King!” after they have openly and shamelessly betrayed Allah, prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, the True Messiah Jesus Christ peace upon him and all of us people whose betrayal was perpetrated on broad daylight in our names.
Jay
The US is a lost cause. So you murder a General in a country that you dislike yet you have not officially declared a state of war. Will Iran retaliate in a personal fashion … most likely yet they will bide their time. Were I Trump’s family members I should be afraid for the next 30 years. It is almost Shakespearean yet I doubt Trump is a student of such plays. Such ignorance for the care of his own family members reveals his stupidity. Those who will consider Biden a more usefull idiot are most likely correct yet he is less than a cypher in the developing scheme of an empires fall. George Carlin said it best ‘it is a big club and you ain’t in it’ – yet with that comment he spelled the certain death of the ‘club’.
The imbecile just listened to the Pentagon or what ever other, building in Washington decided to wake Soleimane. Maybe, it was the Jewish lobby from what ever street they hang out on in CD, DC what ever the heck. The killing was scripted well in advance. The opportunity presented itself and they proded the imbecile when he was agreeable. It is just pulling the bears tail and this bear is an imbecile. The next one is in hibernation and if you wake him up, who knows what will happen. This kind of stuff is on the rise not the wane. Happy New Year.
Without Iraq taking most important decisions and actions….and withstanding consequences….is anything that Iran does now just standing still?
All I would say to someone who doesn’t see America as their friend is that the choice of US Presidents is usually been very bad and even worse. In four years, Trump has done rather less killing and bombing than most US Presidents, which doesn’t mean to say he has done none.
It just says that you might want to consider that if Biden becomes the next mountebank, he may well usher in an era of even greater bombing…..
Iran’s sour and attachable point is the whole generation of wannabe semi-bourgoiasie youngsters who are wannabe “Americans”-
Congratulations on a very thoughtful article. The USA is getting to be a joke. Now it’s a war on Covid. The most recent bill put together by Republican and Democrat leaders in congress involves a trillion plus dollars with a few crumbs to average Americans ($600 won’t even pay one month’s rent). But included in the bill is a billion dollars to Ukraine, over half a billion dollars to Israel and God only knows how much to other such areas. As AOC reported the bill was over 500 pages long and dumped on Representative’s and Senator’s desks. The were told to be present and vote for the bill two hours later. Business as usual in Washington!!!
Now look at the USA military which hasn’t won a war since World War II. If the truth be told they only could claim a victory because three fourths of the German troops were on the Eastern front trying to deal with Russia. USA, Brittan etc only had to deal with one fourth of the German military. On D-Day the German air force had only 340 planes available against Eisenhower’s 10,000 plans. Without advantages like that the mediocre USA and British generals could never have prevailed.
With proper accounting that includes the VA and CIA, the USA is still spending two thirds of all the money the world spends on armies. The USA has more than 800 military bases around the world compared to virtually nothing for any other country. The pentagon generals and admiral are so incompetent that they still can’t win wars wars with these huge advantages. However the USA military has minority generals and admirals and has women generals and admirals. In fact it has the most politically correct military in the world. So even if the USA military is the most incompetent, it is the most politically correct. And that’s what is important in the USA as it slowly fades away.
There was a comment recently from an Iranian official describing Trump’s strategy as ‘maximum failure’. That made me have a good laugh.
The Americans are broken. They are no longer a threat.
@ Arshan
Broken spiritually but not as War mongers….. People of the world… world war iii is about to go kinetic and hot!
RT World News https://www.rt.com/news/511376-israel-iraq-attack-zarif-trump/