Iqbal Jassat
“Iranian attack on Saudi air base heavily damages key US surveillance aircraft” – The Times of Israel – March 29, 2026.
Headlines such as the one above were unimaginable before February 28, 2026.
However, resulting from Netanyahu and Trump’s unprovoked and illegitimate war on Iran, the amazing retaliation by the Islamic Republic has paved the way for rearranging the political architecture of West Asia (aka the Middle East).
Iran’s incredible defensive war has brilliantly lit fires under the feet of Arabian oligarchs.
At the same time, it offers the Arab population a golden opportunity to wrest control from Israel’s Gulf monarchs by asserting their sovereign duty to revolt against unelected despots.
The dominion of Islam’s civilization which stretched across the entire Arabian Peninsula and which was broken by imperialism and colonial powers, needs to be re-established.
Iran provides the opportunity to have the region cleansed of western colonies and their unwelcome military bases.
The paradox of US/Israel’s regime change agenda in Iran, has ironically created space and opportunity for millions of poor and marginalised Arabs to rid their nation-states of western imposed monarchs.
The spark was lit by the powerful #ToofanAlAqsa on October 7, 2023 and continues to this day to wipe zionist colonialism and its US hegemony from the region, thanks to the resilience of Palestinian Resistance movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The baton carried by Hizbullah in Lebanon, Ansarullah in Yemen, the resistance in Iraq and of course Iran, carries a huge price.
The prize though is freedom for themselves but also for the world—freed from zionist tyranny.
Many analysts may argue that the notion of liberty from entrenched authoritarian Arabian regimes is complex.
However the desire for justice and freedom is not.
Recent polls, such as from the Arab Barometer, indicates that over 70% of Arab respondents support democracy, with many still viewing the goals of the Arab Spring favorably.
While it is true that the “Arab Spring” was brutally targeted by repressive regimes who were aided by the west to strengthen their control including by expanding military footprints, resistance to it remains alive.
The intensification of repression which has seen thousands jailed, tortured and killed has not dimmed demands for freedom and liberty, particularly among the youth who were forced to endure the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, as mere spectators.
The revulsion against Israel in solidarity with Palestine's freedom struggle and the anger against their emirs, sultans and kings for being complicit in zionism’s war on Iran, will fill the streets of Arab capitals if allowed to protest.
Though the “deep state” in various Arab autocracies including Egypt have placed huge barriers to change, what we are witnessing in Iran’s sophisticated and strategic retaliation has attacked these obstacles.
We are at the cusp of revolutionary changes with the potential to finally see the last kicks of a dying zionist project.
The Arab population whose demands for accountability from their US-backed rulers are not an exception to the anticipated collapse of artificial nation-states.
Their voices matter and must be heard.
Iqbal Jassat, Executive Member, Media Review Network, Johannesburg, South Africa
Islamic Iran’s leaders have decided that strategic restraint in responding to US-zionist attacks does not work. If attacked again, Tehran ...
