The casualty report that ended the war and Iran's reckoning

In the war that began with the US-Israeli attacks against Iran, the ceasefire continues under its own peculiar conditions. The unprecedented attacks that Israel launched against Lebanon from the moment the ceasefire was declared showed that this ceasefire too would have no validity. The truth is that Israel, as in Gaza, was turning this ceasefire into an opportunity for its aggressive domination. What was aimed at with the ceasefire was for the other side to cease fire, and after this was achieved with the help and mediation of the international community, Israel attacks more comfortably. Iran's very successful use of the Hormuz card in response, by making the US, which suffered great damage, also put pressure on Israel, ensured that its attacks on Lebanon were stopped. Thus the conditions of the ceasefire were secured not by an agreement but by a necessity.

Trump, who says that the closure of Hormuz does not directly harm the US, is of course not telling the truth on this point. Perhaps it really does not directly harm it, but the negative effect of Hormuz's being closed on America's allies leads to a heavy questioning of America's leadership. The pressure of the great damage suffered because of this irresponsible attitude of Israel by the Gulf countries, from which it takes tons of money on the pretext of ensuring their security, by the European countries that are still, in spite of everything, America's official allies, and by many other countries falls directly on the US.

The truth is that these pressures are in a position to determine the future course of the war as well. This course is toward the war's gradually coming to an end. The US and Israel have definitely come out of this war as losers. They caused great destruction in Iran but could not secure any of the benefit they hoped for from the war. They gave the Iranian regime, which had at the beginning come to the point of collapse, almost a historic opportunity and led it to consolidate even further. They saw the final limit, perhaps up to the nuclear, of what all the weapon technologies they tried could do. Any order they might establish with their threats from now on has been left with no seriousness and no enforcing power.

Moreover, just as they led to the formation of a very serious public opinion in the world in favor of Iran, Israel, after Gaza, has recorded one more stage on the way to becoming the world's accursed country and people. So much so that support for Israel within the US, even in the House of Representatives and the Congress, has fallen to the lowest level in its history. We can now expect resolutions against Israel to come out of Congress as well.

All these developments relate to the consensus beginning to form in the world regarding the injustice of the war that the US and Israel are waging in the region. No sensible person can be found who would support the war against Iran.

AS FOR "IT IS REALLY NOT THE TIME..."

Here we come to a point. We too said that we are at a point where everyone should now support Iran's stance against this aggression. Above all, we said that while being subjected to this aggression as an indisputable part of the Islamic world, it is not at all the time to bring up sectarian debates. We said that now is the time to condemn US-Israeli aggression without entering into any "but" or past-record debates, and we say it again.

However, saying this means neither that we should forget the crimes the Iranian regime has committed against its own people and forgive them without questioning, nor that we should whitewash the Shiitization policies it has carried out in Sunni countries, which have led to the lives, property and displacement of millions of Muslims and to the destruction of their homes and hearths. This record of the Iranian regime stands there somewhere like an indelible stain. In essence, neither the aggression it is subjected to today nor the struggle it is waging against Zionism cleanses this record in any way. In response, even if we from a window of responsibility mindful of the unity of the ummah were to stay silent, you cannot even advise the peoples of Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon, who were directly subjected to that oppression, whose children and women were subjected to the rapes and massacres of the Shabbiha and the Hashd al-Shaabi, to forget it.

THE PROBLEM OF MORE IRANIST THAN IRAN

The reason we are raising this subject in this way today, although we said it is not at all the time, is not so much Iran itself as the irresponsible and voracious aggression displayed against all Muslims, in the name of defending Iran, by people known today for their Iranism. Starting from Iran's being subjected today to the attack of the US and Israel, they do not merely whitewash it, but while trying to present it as the sole, indisputable, undaunted representative, immune from all errors, of right and truth from the beginning, they also directly place those who do not accept this in the American, Zionist camp.

As we keep saying it is not at all the time to start sectarian debates while Iran is fighting the real enemy, Zionist Israel, we see that the well-known Iranist figures are opening sectarian debates with even greater appetite and reopening, in favor of Shiism, all the files concerning the Noble Companions. Reopening accounts with cherry-picked narrations about events that took place 1400 years ago is nothing but sowing strife, nothing else. While we today, by saying it is not the time, are trying rather to calm the Sunni segment, unfortunately more-Iranist-than-Iran accounts are putting forth more-Shiite-than-Shiism ravings. What on earth are they trying to do with this? Are they giving support to Iran against the US-Israel? Are they serving the total Islamic Union that is our only solution against the Zionist-Crusader aggression?

Yet the greatest support that could be given to Iran was to criticize it while it was making obvious mistakes, while it was shedding Muslim blood, even while it was carrying out despotic practices against its own people. In this respect we actually really wanted Iran's good. Of course the only reason Iran has been left alone today against the US and Israel is not that this enemy is very strong, but that Iran's actual hostility displayed toward the Sunni world came before its present enemies. Moreover, no one has forgotten that Iran in Iraq, in Afghanistan and in Syria, during the Arab Spring process, did not shrink from cooperating with the US against Sunni Muslims in order to gain power. Had Iran wished and followed a different policy, today it would really have received the indisputable support of the entire Islamic world.

Despite this, we say today that it is not at all the time. Despite this record of Iran, today, when even in the Sunni world a new page has been opened for Iran, a separate protection is needed against the whisperings of the more-Iranist-than-Iran, who have no nature other than strife.