Prof Marandi argues that the murder of the IRCG colonel may have been committed by MEK’s members (People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran), or some ISIS terror group, all working under the Israeli Mosad umbrella, with likely involvement by the usual Western intel services (NATO), especially British and US.
A senior official of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Colonel Hasan Sayyad Khodaei, was assassinated by unknown assailants at around 4 pm local time in Tehran on Sunday, May 22. As per reports, gunmen riding two motorcycles fired at Khodaei when he was entering his house.
Khodaei had been a Colonel in IRGC’s elite Quds force responsible for international operations. He had led operations against ISIS in Syria.
According to Iranian news reports, the alleged assailants have not yet been arrested and an investigation is on to uncover the real culprits behind the assassination.
Almost 85% of rabidly imperialist Neocons are Jews. Russophobia runs deep in the Jewish community today, yet, it didn’t use to be that way. Not when progressive and left-wing Jews had a voice in the media and the civic life of the US and Western Europe. Before Zionism preempted the Jewish conversation with its obsessional mono focus on Israel, Jews were leaders in many vital struggles, some outright revolutionary. Where did they go? And now we have this.
Hiding behind the US, and with an enormous military for a country its size, Israel is accustomed to bombing and attacking targets in sovereign nations all over the Middle East—Syria, Iran, etc.—with complete impunity. That may be about to change, as Iran serves notice that the rules of the game are now being completely rewritten.
ABDEL BARI ATWAN—In recent days, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried to adopt the intermediary role – that Israel is now seeking – to extract himself from a similar dilemma. He tried to cloak his bias towards Ukraine by presenting himself as a mediator in this crisis, but was also ignored.
Erdogan is already too neck-deep in his Ukraine faux pas for Putin to forgive. In recent months, Turkey and Ukraine have been discussing the joint production of ships, turbine engines and military aircraft. The Turkish president has sent around 500 Turkish Bayraktar drones worth $69 million to Ukraine, condemned the Russian annexation of Crimea, and dropped into Kiev for a photo op at the height of the crisis.