Al-Qalam 
By Iqbal Jassat
Media Review Network welcomes Iran’s incredible resilience in defending the country and its revolution that has led to an amazing military victory.
While analysts and strategists within the military industrial complex across the US, NATO and the Zionist-apartheid regime will be staring at their drawing boards to make sense of their humiliation, Iran’s steadfastness will ensure that its fingers remain on the trigger.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been bitten more than once since its brave people overthrew the corrupt Pahlavi dynasty during the Islamic Revolution of 1979, led by Imam Khomeini (RA).
The pattern of deception engraved in Western duplicity is a badge of dishonour which Iran is fully aware of and will be on guard against.
It knows that the defeat inflicted on Israel has left the settler colonial regime in disarray, angry and extremely bitter.
Zionist leaders such as Yair Lapid have sharply criticised the ceasefire. He lashed out against it by blaming Netanyahu and described it as a failure of political and strategic leadership, warning of long-term consequences for Israel’s security. “There has never been such a political disaster in all of our history,” Lapid said, arguing that “Israel wasn’t even at the table when decisions were made concerning the core of our national security.”
That Netanyahu has been opposed to Trump’s inclination to seek an exit strategy by maliciously sabotaging offramps is well known. And that he apparently was sidelined and forced to eat humble pie has left him to account for the devastation caused by Iran’s missiles, without him achieving any of his military or political goals.
Indeed, the irony of Netanyahu’s messianic zeal to obliterate Iran confronts him in the ashes of a synagogue in central Tehran, destroyed by him in a missile strike. Jewish representatives condemned the attack, saying Torah scrolls remained buried under the rubble.
“The Zionist regime showed no mercy towards this community during the Jewish holidays and attacked one of our ancient and holy synagogues,” Homayoun Sameh, Jewish representative in the Iranian parliament, was quoted as saying. “Unfortunately, during this attack, the synagogue building was completely destroyed”.
Netanyahu’s failure to obliterate Iran stares him in the face as he grapples with the reality of defeat.
It was after all his pressure on Trump based on a presentation designed to persuade the US that Iran’s regime could be toppled within 48 hours.
He outlined a scenario in which the country’s “ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks, the regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz, and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against US interests in neighbouring countries was assessed as minimal.” Forty days of spirited retaliation by Iran, which undermined and defeated Netanyahu’s goals in addition to exposing Trump’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war, and extracted a ceasefire on terms dictated by the IRGC, have reinforced Iran’s status and prestige among the oppressed masses of the world.
Israel’s genocidal regime has had to unwillingly, reluctantly, with resentment and annoyance, pay a price for the ceasefire.
Despite Netanyahu’s efforts to sabotage the ceasefire, Trump was desperate to be relieved of his erratic demands and obligation to follow through on his threat to “open the gates of hell” on Iran.
Now that the US has conceded defeat and Netanyahu is being forced to halt his war on Hezbollah, Iran has rightfully re-emerged as the leading edge of the global Islamic Movement and the axis of Resistance.
*Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of Media Review Network, Johannesburg
