Iran’s recent pinpoint ballistic missile strikes on ISIS-occupied Pakistan, Kurdish occupied Iraq and Turkish occupied Syria send clear messages NATO ignores at its peril.

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Iran’s recent pinpoint ballistic missile strikes on ISIS-occupied Pakistan, Kurdish occupied Iraq and Turkish occupied Syria send clear messages NATO ignores at its peril. That message is that Iran has a huge stockpile of top shelf missiles that can destroy, with pinpoint accuracy, targets as far away as Tel Aviv which, as numerous billboards in Tehran attest, is only 400 seconds, or less than seven minutes, away by supersonic missile.

NATO should listen to Iran. But then, NATO never listens. It certainly didn’t listen to the rumblings in Iran before the Shah and his Peacock Throne got their marching orders in 1979. Even now, over 40 years after those events, NATO does not listen or even analyse how MI6’s puppet Peacock Throne got overthrown. Talk about NATO having its head up its own backside!

I have met charming young Iranian women whose grandfathers were generals in SAVAK, the Pahlavi dynasty’s notorious secret police, and I have smirked surreptitiously to myself as they lamented the passing of those halcyon days when the Shah ruled the roost and the vast majority of Iranians subsisted by the grace of God and little else. And, looking at those anorexic women, I know they have lived their lives in gilded cages, like pathetic and somewhat redundant princesses in an Oscar Wilde fable. But, given that wrestling is Iran’s national sport, I know better than to extrapolate their views or physiques onto the Iranian masses as a whole.

Although we hear a lot about MI6’s 1953 Iranian coup, we hear precious little of MI6’s 1921 coup or of the 1901 D’arcy oil concession, which was a continuation of Albion’s policy of bleeding Iran dry and leaving the Persian masses with, at most, crumbs to subsist on. MI6’s policy towards Persia has been the same devious one it used to create a vast number of other client states following the Versailles Treaty, the deadly consequences of which we are still living with in arenas as diverse as the Ukrainian Borderlands, the Horn of Africa and Mesopotamia itself, the land where life and civilisation itself began.

The long term singularity of Iran’s 1979 Revolution is that it is now inter-generational and, unlike the gangsters of “Kurdistan” or the IRA, the Iranian military have not only stayed with the Islamic program of resistance but have exported it to Lebanon, Yemen and a number of other equally colourful destinations. If they are the cubs, then Iran is the lion, whose tail you should be extremely loath to tweak.

But NATO do not do caution. They go in, as we repeatedly see, with guns, planes and ships blazing and to hell with their victims or, for that matter, with any modicum of civility or civilisation. Send in the marines and keep them stoked up on Coca Cola, Big Macs and little children to augment their kill count.

The Iranians have taken enough and, with those missiles, Iran has signalled that its patience has limits, not only regarding Iran itself but also with regard to Gaza, Lebanon and Mesopotamia, from which MI6 have carved a number of fake statelets, the most recent of which is oil rich Kurdistan which, despite its vast oil wealth, is so corrupt that most try to flee Barzani’s greedy clutches.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

If your schedule ever allows it, go watch Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, the 1962 American psychological horror thriller film starring the wonderful Bette Davis and the equally wonderful Joan Crawford, about an ageing former child star tormenting her paraplegic sister, a former movie star, in an old Hollywood mansion. When I see Savak’s scions or, indeed, Clown Prince Zelensky and that Ursula von der Leyen idiot expound on military matters at Davos, those wonderful Hollywood actresses come to mind.

As does Macbeth’s famous speech on the passing of Lady Macbeth. But, whereas Macbeth, whatever his faults, had the stomach for what lay ahead, Zelensky, von der Leyen and the other lily-livered Baby Janes will, when their time comes, run, Forest, run, like the Great Shah did, first to Egypt and thence to the jungles of Panama, with some very irate Iranians hot on his heels.

Today’s Iran aligned militia see their lives as something more precious than the gloomy picture Macbeth painted. Though the theologians amongst them have their own doctrinaire take on how the world should run, their legions of foot soldiers see themselves, not without justification, as fighting the same defensive rearguard action their ancestors have been fighting since Karbala in 680 AD.

Instead of trying to come to grips with Iran’s global and historical takes, NATO’s Baby Janes can only ever resort to their stock, one size solution of blasting the world to smithereens with “the help of God and a few marines”. Former John McCain sidekick, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee Christian Brose spells all this out in The Kill Chain, which explains how America “can apply advanced technologies to prevent war, deter aggression, and maintain peace”, by getting its kill chain in order and, as the Center for Strategic & International Studies advisss, constantly replenishing NATO’s arms cabinet with ever more lethal weapons of mass destruction.

All very well but the Iranians have not spent the last 40 years watching reruns of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Starting with The War of the Cities, they have developed their drone and missile technology to such an extent that they and their Yemeni and Lebanese chums are no pushovers. And, as much of that development has been done with allies from North Korea and China, they are further variables NATO and MI6 must factor into their crayon and colouring book calculations.

Certainly, when the Iranians really take the gloves off, I hope I am not sitting in Mossad’s Tel Aviv HQ or their sub offices in Erbil or anywhere else for that matter unless I have my affairs in order. Iran’s missiles have signified not only that the Islamic Republic will not go down without a fight but that that fight will be, as the late Saddam Hussein might have put it, the mother of all missile and drone fights that NATO would be well advised to avoid.

Towards a New Versailles & Westphalia

Given that Iran has signalled that it can play both hard and soft, those outside of the NATO alliance who wish to avoid Armageddon should take heed and start building bridges to peace. Those bridges include making Iran and its allies militarily sufficiently robust that attacking them is not worth the candle. Next, sustained paths to economic freedom must be laid for Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and other countries currently dependent in whole or in part on Iran’s security umbrella.

Regarding Israel and Palestine, there must be an urgent rethink there where, for example, Israel agrees to surrender its weapons of mass destruction in exchange for the safe passage of its citizens to Britain, France, Argentina and the United States. The future of MI6’s Gulf States, likewise, should be open to negotiation so that Palestinian, Iraqi and Syrian children might actually have enough to eat and enjoy some semblance of childhood.

There is a lot then even in those basic demands to discuss and agree upon by Lavrov, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and whatever other true diplomats might be out there in the wide blue horizon.

Just as Rome was not built in a day, so will it take longer than a few fireside chit chats to persuade Iran to sheathe its very impressive arsenal. Though Iran’s trading partners hold the key here by helping Iran grow in all fields, the keys to peace in Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Elam and Greater Syria itself lie with the diplomats of Russia, Iran, Syria and those who will talk with them. As Iran’s missile barrages have shown the world, the ostriches of NATO excepted, what the alternative to diplomatic jaw jaw is, the onus is now on those at the top table to break bread and end NATO’s endless wars, if not by fair means, then by the foulest of all missile barrages.