By Roya Pourbagher
In a candid confession, US President Donald Trump on November 5 said he was “very much in charge” of the Israeli military aggression against Iran on June 13, which led to the martyrdom of many top military commanders and nuclear scientists, as well as ordinary people.
“Israel attacked first. That attack was very, very powerful. I was very much in charge of that,” the megalomaniac, war-mongering US president told media persons at the White House.
“When Israel attacked Iran first, that was a great day for Israel because that attack did more damage than the rest of them put together,” he hastened to add.
Israel had earlier framed the aggression as “pre-emptive,” claiming without evidence that Iran was planning an attack on the Zionist entity. If so, doesn’t this confession drive a hole through that justification, since the order appears to have come from Washington?
Also, don’t Trump’s remarks make it clear, once again, that it was a pre-planned aggression engineered by the war hawks in Tel Aviv and Washington?
Let us leave these questions for the legal play at the international community stage, as Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei hinted at during his weekly presser on Monday. He called it “the newest and clearest evidence of America's definitive participation in the military aggression.”
“This explicit confession to the commission of an international crime entails the full responsibility of the US government, and we immediately, in extension of this issue, registered it as a document in the UN Security Council and the United Nations,” he asserted.
The facts are plain and crystal clear for the world to see – glaring at us like the genocide live-streamed over the past two years. US seeks to maintain its dominance in West Asia, and any entity that dares to defy its hegemonic and destabilizing policies becomes a target of Washington’s aggression.
This explains the aggression on Hezbollah and Yemen after they began supporting the Palestinian resistance against America’s “military outpost.”
Make no mistake, all the crimes carried out by Israel in the region, from the genocide in Gaza to the devastating war on Lebanon, the attacks on Yemen, and the aggression on Iran, were at the behest of Washington because the existence of Israel in the first place was the project of the same powers that rule the US as well.
But, of course, we are dealing with the land of Hollywood, and that means the US political-military-industrial complex will get away with its acts of aggression through blatant lies, selective media framing, and theatrics.
Trump’s admission proved that the US officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, lied following the June 13 Israeli strikes on Iran by saying that it was not involved in the attacks.
“Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region,” Rubio said at the time.
US has a long tradition of using false pretenses for fanning the flames of war, and it’s hardly the first time a US Secretary of State has peddled lies to advance Washington’s interests. Colin Powell’s infamous presentation in February 2003 before the UN, claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction to justify an invasion, was later exposed as a fabrication.
Let us not forget that the US did not merely enable the initial strike; it later directly joined the war by striking Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan using B-2 stealth bombers and 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs.
Trump subsequently celebrated the unprovoked and illegal aggression in a television address, claiming that the nuclear facilities were “completely and totally obliterated.”
However, Iran maintained that its nuclear program cannot be destroyed as it is rooted in knowledge and indigenous innovation. In response to the American aggression, Iranian missiles successfully struck the largest US military base in the region, Al-Udeid in Qatar.
Israeli regime claims to be the strongest military power in West Asia because of the hefty military aid it receives from the US, which has provided at least $16.3 billion in direct military aid to the regime since October 7, 2023.
That’s the legacy he will leave behind – as someone who started wars himself and engaged American proxies in the region to keep the flames burning, because destabilization is what feeds the American war machine. And that’s exactly what the Israeli regime, America’s biggest military outpost in the region, has been doing on its behalf.
Roya Pour Bagher is a Tehran-based writer.
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