Trump’s colonial phase of Gaza ceasefire

It was the late Ayatollah Khomeini who described US as the “Greatest Satan” and the US Embassy as a “den of spies and espionage”.

- By Dr. Ameer Ali

What happened afterwards is history with revolutionary consequences US lost one of its wealthiest and strategic allies in the Middle East to maintain the imperial order. The shah and his family were thrown out of the country and the revolution ended in putting to power a semi-theocratic Government. But the scars of that wound continue to hurt the superpower till now, and the surviving remnants of Iran’s Pahlavi Dynasty are still looking for an opportunity to stage a comeback. That opportunity came in the recent expression of public discontent over rising cost of living, which in fact is a global pandemic emanating from a collapsing world economic order built on the foundation of extractive capitalism. However, what began as a protest over economic mismanagement was soon hijacked and turned into a murderous riot by mercenary elements funded and armed by agencies from outside. US and Israel are obviously the main culprits behind this convulsion. Global North’s media propaganda spread its own narrative that what is taking place in Iran is a political campaign calling for regime change. President Trump promised the rioters that help was on the way, and the son of the late Shah started preparing for his return and be installed by Trump as the future Iranian monarch. In short, the riots seem to be a prelude to the next US-Iran-Israel war with unpredictable consequences.

According to information available so far, Gaza Strip would be administered by a 15-member committee of technocrats apparently headed by a 67-year-old civil engineer Dr. Ali Abdel Hamid Shaath, a native of Gaza residing in the Occupied West Bank.