Deconstructing a Twisted
Press statement by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Feb. 1 2025
Press statement by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in response to the article Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East: A Critical Moment for Regional Transformation published in Mainichi on January 28 2025
Beneath the surface of the article "Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East: A Critical Moment for Regional Transformation," published in Mainichi on January 28, lies a horrific reality
The article attempts to construct a perverse narrative, obscuring the stark reality of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes perpetrated over the past 16 months by the Israeli regime in Gaza. This has cost the lives and limbs of 200,000 innocent Gazans and displaced 2 million Palestinians, in a profound affront to the very foundations of international moral and legal authority
Employing Orwellian manipulation, the article promises "fundamental shifts in Middle Eastern dynamics, creating unprecedented opportunities for regional cooperation," based on the regime's purported "recent strategic successes" against the so-called "axis of terror." It does so by deploying the same old tricks of the trade: reducing legitimate resistance to 'terrorism' to cast the regime as a blameless victim, thus justifying its atrocities and obscuring its genocidal acts
The article's fallacy that the demise of a sovereign state is a prerequisite for regional peace and prosperity is patently absurd and violates international law and the UN Charter. This deliberate distraction, designed to deflect attention toward a fabricated external enemy, effectively obscures the global demand for the regime's accountability
The world, however, cannot be fooled. It is Israel, not Iran, that has been identified as the 'only apartheid military regime' on the planet, committing a continuous 'colonial erasure of a nation by forcibly removing its people from their homeland
For the past 76 years, Israel, not Iran, driven by its expansionist ideology, has been engaged in a pattern of conflict with its neighboring countries, resulting in the killings and displacement of millions
Contrary to this twisted narrative, the Iranian nation, possessing a civilizational legacy of thousands of years, has positioned itself on the right side of history, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, advocating for self-determination, and recognizing the inherent right of the Palestinians to resist occupation
History underscores the critical oversight resulting from the marginalization of the Palestinian issue-a profound omission that enables the continued occupation of Palestinian territories to persist unexamined
Against the perilous agenda advanced by the article, a genuine strategic opportunity for collaborative harmony can only be realized through the recognition of the inherent rights of the Palestinian people and the unwavering pursuit of justice, upon which a lasting peace must be built