IRAN SEEKS TO AVOID HARMING GAZA CEASE-FIRE TALKS WITH RETALIATION BUT CRITICS VIEW IT AS A U-TURN

Sun 11 August 2024:

Iran on Saturday said it wanted to avoid negatively impacting Gaza cease-fire talks with its anticipated retaliation against Israel over the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh last month.

Achieving a permanent cease-fire in Gaza remains a priority, Iran’s permanent mission to the UN said in a statement following inquiries about whether Tehran would delay its retaliation plans for the planned cease-fire talks.

It also said that any agreement accepted by Hamas would be acceptable to Iran as well.

The statement condemned Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran as a “violation of Iranian national security and sovereignty.”

Iran emphasized its right to self-defense but stressed that it hopes its response would not impede the ongoing cease-fire efforts.

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“Dream”

Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says the country is seeking to prevent realization of the Israeli regime’s “dream” of triggering an all-out regional war.

The top diplomat made the remarks in a series of posts on the X social media platform on Sunday.

Bagheri lambasted Western governments for their “reprehensible” double standards, when it came to the regime’s atrocities.

The Iranian statement comes amid heightened tensions following Haniyeh’s assassination on July 31, as well as earlier Israeli strikes in Beirut that killed Fouad Shukr, a senior commander of Lebanese group Hezbollah.

U-turn

CJ Werleman, an independent journalist and anti-Islamophobia campaigner, sees this as Tehran’s U-turn, sharing an article from Iranian state-owned Press TV, CJ claims, “My tweet is aging very well, indeed. This is Iran offering excuses for why it won’t exact revenge against Israel i.e. 3 dimensional chess. Meanwhile, its militias killed 12 Muslim civilians in Syria, yesterday”.

My tweet is aging very well, indeed. This is Iran offering excuses for why it won’t exact revenge against Israel i.e. 3 dimensional chess.

Meanwhile, its militias killed 12 Muslim civilians in Syria, yesterday. https://t.co/pKl2RBWVMT pic.twitter.com/pCWhWaqPNk

— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) August 11, 2024

Commenting on CJ’s Tweet a user says: “As expected i can not believe how some Muslims still putting Iran on a pedestal they should be ashamed of themselves.”

As expected
I CAN NOT BELIEVE HOW SOME MUSLIMS STILL PUTTING IRAN ON A PEDESTAL
THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES

— Jalal (@Jalal_NDM) August 11, 2024

“Another user says: Tell em CJ it’s going to be hard for people to stomach but it’s the truth, after the light show, the attack on the Iranian general, now the leader of Hamas I have never seen anything from Iran except attacking Muslims themselves, preach my brother.”

Tell em CJ it’s going to be hard for people to stomach but it’s the truth, after the light show, the attack on the Iranian general, now the leader of Hamas I have never seen anything from Iran except attacking Muslims themselves, preach my brother

— Hazza Brown (@HazzaBrown4) August 11, 2024

More than 10 months into the Israeli onslaught, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

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