Mohamed Ousman
With the exception of Abu Bakr, the following four (Umar, Uthman, Ali, and Hasan) of the immediate five Islamic leaders of the Muslim Ummah to assume responsibility after Allah’s Prophet passed on were assassinated.
Despite these assassinations being a historical fact, the internal hand colluding with external enemies remains an enigma for Muslims.
The sectarian speculations that characterize these assassinations are beyond the scope of this article.
However, recent developments, including the threat to assassinate the current leader of the Ummah, Imam Khamanei, may spotlight forces that may have been at work in the Islamic State and society, then and now.
Zionist Israel conducted major attacks on the Muslims in Iran on June 13, attacking nuclear sites and assassinating its top military commanders and nuclear scientists.
The air defenses of the Islamic Republic were paralyzed during the course of the initial attacks due to sabotage by Mossad agents inside Iran.
By the evening of June 13, Islamic Iran’s Air defenses regained their ability and they shot down two Israeli F-35s.
This was the first time in history that an F-35 had been shot down.
Islamic Iran then launched Operation True Promise 3, attacking various targets inside Israel including Israeli military Headquarters Kirya in Tel Aviv.
Three waves of attacks were launched against Israel resulting in more than 70 Israeli casualties and at least seven buildings in central Tel Aviv being completely destroyed.
Many people, including Muslims who had been brainwashed by Marxist ideology, could not understand how it was possible for the air defenses of Iran to have become paralyzed.
This article attempts to address this question.
Obsessed with survival after committing war crimes, Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion conceived Israel’s periphery doctrine in the 1950s.
In terms of this doctrine, pre-Islamic revolution Iran, Turkey and Ethiopia were foundational.
Iran under the Shah had been an Israeli playground until the Islamic revolution in Iran led by Imam Khomeini.
The Islamic revolution in Iran destroyed the periphery doctrine.
The Islamic civilization is one of rahmah/grace and mercy.
Once there is an Islamic revolution there is no revenge killings, ethnic cleansing and genocide as is the case in Marxist revolutions where millions of people were wiped out.
Islam gives people a fresh start.
This was exemplified by Allah’s Prophet upon the liberation of Makkah when he amnestied generational opponents of the Islamic order.
The Islamic civilization is not built on spying on its citizenry and terrorizing its subjects into compliance with Islamic ideals.
It is concerned with the redemption of the soul of every citizen.
Despite such goodwill, there will always be remnants from the pre-Islamic era who will not be able to surmount their prejudice and reciprocate goodwill with Islamic goodwill.
This inability was demonstrated by Abu Sufyan, his son Mu‘awiyah and others after they were amnestied by Allah’s Prophet.
Similarly, it was also re-demonstrated by remnants of the Pahlavi regime after the Islamic revolution in Iran.
These remnants from the pre-Islamic era bided their time after Allah’s Prophet liberated Makkah and it appears that such remnants bided their time after the Islamic revolution in Iran.
While biding their time, they feigned loyalty to the Islamic order.
Plotting to reverse the changes ushered in by the Islamic revolution continued.
During this time, if it furthered their hidden agenda to partake in Islamic rituals and cultural practices, they happily participated.
It is within this dynamic that the paralysis of Islamic Iran’s air defenses must be viewed.
The Islamic state is not a police state; a new phenomenon which was ushered in by King Mu‘awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan when the Khilafah/Imamah was replaced by the tribal-cum-monarchist state.
In the absence of strong reason to believe there is a thin line between the intelligence services of the Islamic state keeping an eye on potential enemy collaborators and spying on them.
In a world that accuses Islam of suppression, this is an example of the freedom that the Islamic state affords its citizens.
This is an example of where the level of freedom in Islam is un-surpassed by any other system.
It also is the price it has to pay in the absence of clear evidence of sabotage, espionage, treachery and betrayal in an attempt to save the souls of people.
One final matter needs comment, viz. the resurrection of the Mossad agent Catherine Perez-Shakdam.
It’s highly unlikely that the recent assassinations and assassination attempts can be attributed to the intelligence gained by her.
Her resurrection and multiple repeats of her infiltration enabled by the Iranian Nationalists and Shi‘i firsters is not only an attempt to cover up the rot but also an insult to intelligence.
It has been over four years since she set foot in the Islamic Republic.
With the passage of these four years, especially after the revolutionary leadership became aware that she was a Mossad agent, it is highly improbable that the routines of those whom she met would have remained the same.
It is time that the revolutionary leadership in the Islamic Republic face facts.
Catherine Shakdam was just one Mossad agent among a much wider spy network.
And while that spy network is being exposed at the operative level, the internal hands that enabled it are yet to be exposed.
The leadership in the Islamic Republic will continue to pay a high price if it goes with the narrative of pinning all the recent assassinations on one Mossad agent.
To go through a timeline: some of the assassinations of senior figures and scientists even preceded Shakdam’s first visit to the Islamic Republic, illustrating that the rot definitely runs deep.
How can one forget that nationalist and Shi‘i elements within the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic who have barred Imam Muhammad Al Asi from entry since around 2015.
This writer recalls an incident at one of the Majma‘ at-Taqrib Conferences (2008 or 2009) where Imam Muhammad al Asi had presented a paper in which he highlighted a meritorious act of Umar and the translator who was translating into Farsi messed it up totally such that he obscured and translated it in the totally opposite manner making it into a sectarian point.
Fortunately Imam’s wife who is fluent in Farsi brought it to her husband’s attention who in turn raised it with the late Ayatullah Taskhiri and the matter was addressed.
Then, there’s the issue of some Rothschilds presenters on PressTV, the whole bunch of “former” intelligence operatives in the Iranian media.
A closet South African gay appearing there, every now and again who is/was known for his anti-Islamic Revolution stances.
So the rot runs deep.
Unfortunately, when these occurences are brought to the attention of some senior people they continue as if the information has not reached them.
And seeing that they take no action, when subsequent attempts to bring the information to their attention is done on groups and forums, rather than remedy the situation they remove such people.
This is indicative of the rot that permeates various institutions.
And then there are the sectarian Shi‘is.
Another factory of worms on its own that stretches from Najaf to Shiraz.
The battle to dislocate the Walayat al-Faqih doctrine and relocate the center of the Ulama out of Qum and back to Najaf where the anti-Walayat al-Faqih Akhbari Shi‘is are dominant is another bomb waiting to explode.
It too has its fair share of Mossad agents and others who operate under scholarly cover.
Of course, once such remnants are found, through the legal process, to be guilty of the crimes of sabotage, espionage, treachery and betrayal, they attract capital punishment.
“And say, ‘My Sustainer! Grant me access in all that I do] to all that is true and sincere and disengage me [in all that I do] in a manner of truth and sincerity and render to me from Your presence a reassuring worldly power.’ And say ‘Truth and justice have come and lies and injustice have been eliminated: by its nature lies and injustice are bound to be eliminated’.” (The Ascendant Qur’an, Surat Al Isra’, verse 80-81)
