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America’s lawless arrogance has
gone too far with the assassination of
Iran’s top military commander. The
deadly airstrike against General Qasem
Soleimani was carried out on the order
of President Donald Trump.
Several other senior Iranian military
officials were also killed in the US
missile attack on Iraq’s international
airport in the capital Baghdad,
including a top Iraqi militia leader.
Iranian politicians called it “an act
of terrorism” and vowed harsh revenge.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi prime minister,
Adel Abdul Mahdi, condemned the US
violation of his country’s sovereignty.
Other Iraqi leaders are demanding the
immediate expulsion of US forces from
the country, where they number about
5,000 troops.
Trump taunted by tweeting the
American flag after the news of the
assassination emerged on Friday, and he
later declared that the Iranian general
“should have been taken out years ago”
because he allegedly was responsible for
the
deaths of “thousands” of US troops,
according to Trump.
Certainly, Soleimani was
considered an enemy by the US. He
organised effective military resistance
to American imperialist designs in
Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere
across the Middle East. For such
strategising, the 62-year-old Iran-Iraq
War veteran was revered, not just in his
own nation, but across the region.
Trump claims the assassination was a
necessary “pre-emptive defensive strike”
because Soleimani was personally
planning to launch region-wide attacks
against US forces and diplomats.
Pre-emptive “defensive” murder is not
legally credible. The accusations
against Soleimani are merely hearsay,
and rely on the dubious word of
internationally disgraced American
intelligence agencies. Recall that US
officials have been warning for months
about Iranian plots to sabotage American
interests in the Middle East – based on
similar empty speculation.
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For Trump to order the killing
of such a revered public figure of a
state which the US is not officially at
war with is a brazen violation of
international law. There can be no
justification for this act of murder,
despite the Trump administration’s lurid
claims.
Qasem Soleimani, as
leader of the elite Quds Force of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,
was seen by the Iranian nation as second
only in importance to Ayatollah Khamenei,
the Supreme Leader of Iran.
What Trump has done is not just order
a barbarous act of violence, it is a
reckless act of war.
To order the murder of senior foreign
officials by presidential decree without
any pretence of lawfulness is to set a
new low bar for US state roguery.
Many people in the Middle East, as
well as around the world and among the
US’s own population are rightly anxious
about the consequences.
Trump is tempting to unleash an
all-out war with Iran that will
potentially drag several countries into
a world war.
For several decades now, the US has
acted as if it were above the law.
Countless illegal wars and invasions
against foreign countries, leading to
the deaths of millions of people, are
now climaxing in the form of a so-called
president and ruling clique which shows
absolute disregard for even legal
niceties. American lawlessness is now
rampant and shameless in its arrogance.
Whether Iran retaliates this
week, next week or in the coming months
is perhaps besides the point. US
aggression and its sense of impunity has
taken the world into an extremely
dangerous situation where international
law is evidently redundant. Washington
is behaving as a full-on tyranny that
does what it pleases. War, sanctions,
killings, bullying all done with a
frightening delusion of
self-righteousness.
Arguably, nothing on this scale
of state criminality has been seen since
the Third Reich.
But one suspects that such hubris and
hypocrisy comes with
fatal ignorance among US establishment
politicians and media. America is an
overstretched empire whose lawlessness
is stumbling towards its own collapse.
The murder of General Qasem Soleimani
this week rattled US financial markets
from the repercussions of possible war.
We can just imagine how the American and
world economy will implode if Iranian
ballistic missiles send a few US
warships to the bottom of the Persian
Gulf.
This article was originally
published by "Sputnik"
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