The Martyr's Revenge
The Martyr's Revenge
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech during a ceremony in the capital Tehran, on January 3, 2022, commemorating the second anniversary of the US drone strike in Iraq that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. (Atta Kenare/AFP) |
"If Trump and [former Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo are not tried in a fair court for the criminal act of assassinating General Soleimani, Muslims will take our martyr's revenge.""The aggressor, murderer and main culprit -- the then-president of the United States -- must be tried and judged under the [Islamic] law of retribution, and God's ruling must be carried out against him."Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani AP |
The
death of General Qassem Soleimani by missile strike in 2020 relieved
the world of yet another psychopathic monster entitled to slaughter
those whom the Islamic Republic of Iran viewed as an enemy of its
theocratic rule and its plans to subject the Middle East, its Arab
Muslim Sunni majority countries to the inevitable conquest that the
Shiite Persian state was carefully crafting in its annexation of Syria,
Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen as independent countries becoming vassals of
Iran, under the stewardship of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
As
head of the al-Quds branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,
Soleimani was the influential mastermind of all the activities of his
segment of the corps assigned to perform the training and supply of
weaponry for terrorist groups loyal to Iran, including Islamic Jihad,
Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as well as tribal Shiite militias
under Iran's thumb. Their commander's death was a tragedy for their
cohesive purpose in spreading violence and terror in the region and
abroad, but a relief for those countries and governments his command
targeted.
At
the second-year anniversary of Soleimani's assassination by order of
then-U.S.President Donald Trump, the Iranian Republic and its allies in
other countries have held memorial events in honour of the late
commander of the Quds Force representing the overseas arm of the elite
Revolutionary Guards. In the immediate aftermath of Soleimani's death,
Iran ordered its IRGC command to avenge his death, and rockets were
dispatched into Iraq to hit two U.S. bases there. Anticipating a U.S.
response, Iran was on high alert.
The
Iranian Revolutionary Guards shot down a Ukraine International Airlines
plane near Tehran, evidently mistaking it for a possible U.S. rocket
attack. All aboard the airliner, 175 people, died, on Flight 752. Many
of those who died were Iranian Canadians, many more Iranian students
heading to Canadian universities on study visas. At first denying it
shot down the plane, when evidence indicated otherwise, Iran finally
admitted the airliner was shot down through a "disastrous mistake" by
forces on high alert during confrontation with the U.S.
Iranians lift national flags during a ceremony in the capital Tehran, on January 3, 2022, commemorating the second anniversary of the killing in Iraq of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani (portrait) and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a US raid. (Atta Kenare/AFP) |
Now,
while negotiating in Geneva with the United States over the resumption
of the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, Iran threatens repercussions against the
U.S. unless it brings the former president to trial as an assassin. In
that case, a clear-eyed assessment of a man in military authority of a
country guilty of terrorism on its own account who authorized the
obliteration of a state assassin. Under the new U.S. administration,
Iran has become bolder and more arrogant, prepared to risk another
encounter with the U.S. which it doesn't believe will materialize.
But
it does believe that in issuing a threat of this magnitude that it has
given fair warning that it has the will, the intention and the capacity
to launch strikes against the U.S., likely by one of its proxies to
avenge the death of its elite commander, depriving the country of a
merciless, brilliant tactician whose thirst for provoking fear in the
nation's adversaries, and in ordering death and destruction to those
same adversaries could be slaked only by incapacitating him permanently.
As
a warm up to vengeance implied, Monday saw an opening salvo: two armed
drones targeted a Baghdad airport site used by the US-led coalition
against the Islamic State group. "Two fixed-wing suicide drones, or improvised cruise missiles,
attempted to attack Baghdad Airport this morning at approximately 4:30
a.m."
A counter-rocket, artillery and mortar, or C-RAM, system “engaged
them and they were shot down without incident", stated a coalition official.
Israel,
of course, is held by Iran to be equally guilty in the death of
Soleimani, against whom the Ayatollahs have issued threats of
annihilation as the 'little Satan' to the U.S.'s 'big Satan'. Iran has
been dabbling in cyber warfare, just as China and Russia have been. It
frequently issues threats to Israel, to wipe it from the face of the
Middle East. Monday came another threat proposing to destroy its Dimona
nuclear reactor. The Jerusalem Post website was hacked with a contrived
photograph of the reactor being hit by a stylized missile, with a very
special message of destruction.
An image showing a missile being fired from the ring of Qassem Soleimani toward Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona is used to hack the Jerusalem Post website on January 3, 2022, the 2nd anniversary of Soleimani's killing (Screenshot/ The Jerusalem Post) |
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