The joint US-Israeli strike has not brought peace closer — it has made it a distant, perhaps impossible, dream
Syed Shahab Ud Din Andrabi
Peace in the Middle East was an aspiration which everyone yearned to accomplish. However, with the barbaric assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei through a military operation conducted jointly by the United States and Israel, it has closed all doors of peace and stability that might come to the Middle East at some point in time. Khamenei’s Iran was the only palpable block that would impede the expansionist spread of the Imposter State of Israel. Khamenei’s assassination is the last nail in the coffin that has sealed the fate of the Middle East now.
Nothing in the Middle East will remain the same. Everything will go haywire and get snowballed into an unending chain of events, destroying the region. Inter alia, it has paved the way for Israel to practically launch its expansionist agenda, capturing and invading a major chunk of the already debilitated region. And this is what they call “The Greater Israel”. This idea may seem clichéd, but I assure you it isn’t. It’s a real one which the world is going to witness very soon in a manner and fashion which is inexplicable
Israel and the United States are not going to stop at Iran. They are going to go much further. The next in line on their radar are Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The fate of Turkey is going to be much worse. They are going to lose Istanbul/Constantinople, as indicated by a Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Saudi Arabia is not going to lose much of its territory, but it will be viciously attacked and might lose some portion.
Knowing full well that the above assertions are brazen, however, it is a fait accompli. They are directly in nexus with a major event that is awaited by the followers of all three Abrahamic religions-The Great War, which is just around the corner. The assassination of Khamenei can mark the beginning of that war just as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand brought about World War I. Given the recent history of Iran before Khamenei’s death, Iran had been exercising a sheepishly calculated restraint in the face of the blows it received from Israel and the United States; nonetheless, the scenario right now is different, complex and unpredictable.
We don’t know how Iran is going to respond to the assassination of its supreme leader. But one thing that can be said with utmost certitude is that Iran will respond. And it will in a manner that is unaccustomed to. If it used the same approach as used earlier, then things may cool down, which seems improbable at the moment. But if Iran chooses to avenge Ali Khamenei through a full-fledged war, then the dream of the Middle East getting out of the woods would be thought to have been nothing less than a pipe dream.
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