The unjust war against Iran by the US and Israel has pushed the world into something so dangerous that it can have terrible consequences for decades to come if it is not stopped at the earliest. The UN has warned that tens of millions more people will face acute hunger if the US-Israel war on Iran and its reverberations through Iran’s retaliation continue through to June. If the Middle East conflict continues through June, an additional 45 million people could be pushed into acute hunger by price rises. The ongoing genocide in Gaza had already pushed innocent Palestinians to the brink. Now, residents in Gaza are rushing to stockpile dwindling goods as border closures and the Iran war further strain already fragile supplies, with shortages worsening across the besieged enclave while Israel continues its genocide there. From Palestine to Iran, the evil actions of Israel cannot be escaped.
The war in Iran has not just engulfed the Middle Eastern region but the entire world in unimaginable ways. Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on energy facilities across the region have spiked energy prices and fuelled fears of a rise in inflation globally. It is quite obvious that Israel is playing a very dangerous game with the help of the US. The two sides play ‘good cop, bad cop’ but are essentially one and the same. After Israel carried out strikes in Iran’s South Pars gas field, Tehran attacked a major energy hub in Qatar on Wednesday. The South Pars mega-field is the largest known gas reserve in the world, and supplies around 70 per cent of Iran’s domestic natural gas. Predictably, US President Donald Trump blamed Israel for the South Pars attack and promised to punish Iran severely if it attacked Qatar again. Media reports say Trump knew about the Israeli strike and was on board with it. An urgent debate has been demanded at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva over Iran’s strikes on civilians and energy infrastructure across the Middle East. However, many have pointed out how Iran is the victim here of aggression, and the debate should be on how to end this war rather than condemning Iran, which is fighting for its survival as Israel continues to target its leaders and has killed thousands of civilians in Iran, including school-going children.
This is what the US-Israel duo are up to: assassinating Iranian top leadership, killing hundreds of civilians in order to carry out those assassinations and also killing civilians elsewhere in Iran, hitting at Iranian oil/gas fields, forcing Iran to hit back at US allies in the Gulf so that eventually these Arab states are provoked enough to get into Israel’s war against Iran. Many are worried that Israel may succeed in its violent plans. Meanwhile, the Saudi foreign minister met with his counterparts from Egypt, Pakistan and Turkiye on Thursday on the sidelines of an emergency Arab and Islamic foreign ministers meeting to discuss the Iran war crisis. The ministers discussed Iran’s military escalation in the region and the ongoing consultations and coordination to achieve security and stability in the Middle East. The Saudi FM said the kingdom “reserves the right to take military action if deemed necessary", warning that continued Iranian escalation would carry political and moral consequences. So far, we have seen that Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries have resisted this urge to get embroiled in Israel’s war, and one hopes this stays the case. Eventually, it all boils down to just how much havoc, chaos and violence the US is prepared to wreak on to this world. Because let’s face it: this is no longer just a ‘Middle East’ war.
