Waseem Shehzad
That Muslims are subjected to genocide is no longer in doubt. It has been going on for decades. It took a more virulent form after the false flag operation of 911 although Muslims were being targeted well before that.
Certain defining moments can be identified. The success of the Islamic revolution in Iran in February 1979 immediately led to a massive propaganda campaign. Newspapers carried hysterical headlines against the Islamic Republic.
The Internet was not in vogue at the time. The few television networks that existed were equally hostile, especially in the US.
The west’s favourite puppet in West Asia, the Shah, had been overthrown. Until then, Iran was a base for CIA and Mossad operations. The Islamic revolution demolished those pillars of disruption. It did more.
It opted out of the western-crafted world order imposed since the Second World War. This was a dangerous development and Iran had to be brought under control, or destroyed.
In addition to the propaganda campaign, a vicious war was unleashed against Iran in September 1980 through Iraq, then led by the despot, Saddam Husain. The entire world supported Saddam’s criminal attack. Iran stood all alone. The people of Iran made immense sacrifices to defend the revolution.
When Saddam failed in his assigned task to destroy the Islamic revolution, then the same west that had backed him with all kinds of weapons including chemical weapons, was attacked and overthrown.
The west indulges in much talk about human rights, but it is applied selectively. When Saddam’s regime resorted to using chemical weapons against Iran—supplied by the west— for five years (1984-1988), the UN refused to name the perpetrator—Iraq—because the victims were Iranians.
The UN established a special commission at the specific complaint of Iran. Each year, commission members visited Iran and Iraq. They saw that the victims were all Iranians. Yet, not once from 1984 to 1988 did the commission name Iraq as the guilty party. It merely condemned the use of chemical weapons.
It was only after the western-backed Iraqi-imposed war ended in August 1988 and Saddam used chemical weapons against the Kurds in Halabja that the west suddenly discovered he was committing a war crime.
This, too, was deliberate. Saddam had to be punished for failing to destroy the Islamic Republic. He was then lured into a trap to invade Kuwait (August 1990). Thereafter, a vicious war was unleashed against his regime—twice—to get rid of him and the stock of weapons that were left unused against Iran.
Prior to the success of the Islamic revolution in Iran, Muslims had suffered repeated humiliations. In June 1967, the zionist war criminals defeated a number of Arab armies in what came to be called the ‘Six Day war’. Masjid al Aqsa was abandoned to the invading zionist forces without the Jordanian army putting up a fight.
This was followed, in December 1971, by the humiliating surrender of tens of thousands of Pakistani troops to the invading Indian army. Pakistan, then ruled by the military dictator General Yahya Khan, ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Bengalis because they had won the October 1970 elections but the West Pakistani elite refused to hand over power.
These humiliating episodes in the life of Muslims were preceded by even earlier setbacks. The Ottoman Turks were defeated in the Balkans in 1878 and forced to retreat from there. Then in 1917, they also lost Greater Syria including Palestine to the invading British and French forces.
Arabian clan rulers were used to undermine the Turks. This paved the way for the implantation of the zionist monstrosity in the heartland of Islam.
Thus, when the Islamic revolution in Iran succeeded, it was the first flash of light in a sea of darkness. The west, however, was not prepared to let this happen without trying to undermine it.
In addition to the Iraqi-imposed war, for 47 years, Iran has been subjected to illegal sanctions. These have inflicted enormous suffering on ordinary Iranians. They are even prevented from importing medicines for critically ill patients.
Yet when Iran sanctioned oil by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, suddenly the entire world rose up in arms. It denounced the act as “illegal”.
Are the sanctions against Iran legal? What about its $120 billion assets that the US and its western allies have frozen for decades? Was the assassination of General Qassem Solaimani on January 3, 2020 as he arrived on a diplomatic mission in Baghdad legal? What about the US-zionist wars unleashed against Iran on June 13, 2025 and on February 28, 2026? Both attacks were launched while indirect negotiations were taking place between the US and Iran.
During the 40-day US-zionist onslaught on Iran, more than 3,000 people were killed. Another 25,000 were injured. Among those martyred were the Rahbar, Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, several of his family members, many top commanders as well as other officials. And who can forget the heart-wrenching attack on the girls’ elementary school in Menab in which 168 young school girls were martyred?
Iran’s refineries, energy production facilities, bridges and buildings have been destroyed. The damage is estimated at more than $270 billion. The west that immediately screams “illegal” at the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is complicit in the multiple illegal acts committed against Iran.
The suffering of the Iranian people does not merit attention. For the west, there is clearly a hierarchy of humanity. Some lives are more important than others.
The western-practised hierachical nature of life can be gleaned from a recent episode at the United Nations. The Arabian potentates sponsored a resolution at the Security Council condemning Iran’s attacks on their territory. Bahrain is currently the rotating president of the Council.
The 15-member Council adopted on March 11 resolution 2817 (2026) by a vote of 13 in favour to none against, with two abstentions (China, Russia). Even Pakistan voted for the resolution totally ignoring the fact that the US and zionist Israel had launched an illegal and unprovoked war against Iran on February 28.
American military bases in Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were used to attack Iran. Tehran had warned that if these military bases are used to launch attacks, it will retaliate. Does Iran not have the right to defend itself? The aggression was launched amid negotiations between the US and Iran to resolve the nuclear issue.
Iran has been falsely accused of seeking nuclear weapons. The indicted war criminal, Benjamin Mileikowsky (aka Netanyahu) first raised this bogey in 1996. Each time he opens his mouth, he alleges that Iran is “only six months” away from acquiring a bomb.
That the zionist entity has 200 to 400 nuclear bombs is overlooked. The US has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and it is the only country in the world to have used them, not once but twice.
So while western regimes including the zionist entity can have nuclear weapons, Muslims cannot have them. Who makes this decision and on what basis?
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