"Was The Iran War Really Necessary" an outrageous article in the Straits Times on 2nd April, 2026, by Bilahari Kausikan

PART     ONE

 In the article the writer's perspective gives the impression that it is necessary for the United States and Israel to start a war to take down Iran on the false and fake premise that Iran has intention to own nuclear weapons and therefore it must be destroyed before it succeeded. 

Surely for its own security  Iran must have nuclear weapons to counter and deter US / Israel aggression and  terrorism.

The United States and Israel have overcapacity inventory of nuclear weapons in Middle East. Surely it is not for the peace and security of Middle East, but rather  for intimidation against  Arab muslim states and Iran to ensure US hegemony of the region and the world. Thus the writer is barking at the wrong country. It is the evil United States and Israel that must be taken down and destroyed for the good and security of the world.

The writer ignores the fact that Israel is an illegal and Illegitimate state planted in Arab Palestine by the European countries and United States to suit Western interest to colonize Middle East and Africa. The fake Zionist Israel state is an existential threat not only to the Middle East and Africa but to the free world of the South at large. So it is only right that Israel must be taken down and destroyed.

In the meantime he refused to condemn Israel for having the nuclear bomb already and condemn the United States for having more than a hundred military bases in all Arab countries in the Middle East and in Africa where nuclear bombs are stationed is an open knowledge. So US / Israel might is right and must be worshipped and not condemned . The writer like all pro US / Israel supporters are sick in mind for they have lost the faculty to differentiate right from wrong, truth from falsehoods and Good from evil. He ignores the fact that the West especially the Anglo-Saxon US, UK and the Zionist Jews have for hundreds of years been notorious in their brutal invasions and conquests of non-white countries usually ended up in wanton and savage genocide of the local native populations before taking over all native lands as their own.

Will the writer please check on the history of how the continents of both North America and South America,  Asia and Africa as well as Australia and New Zealand came under white men's brutal control and possession. It is really so pathetic if a so-called intellectual does not know history from facts. He should go back to school to learn history.

He accused Iran of Shia messianic zeal to rule over all muslims in the world, including the Arab Sunni muslims. Let the Sunni and Shia muslims solve their religious scism among themselves. Don't be too smart to interfere in the muslims scism and stir more animosities. The West headed by the United States has been for decades exploiting and sowing seeds of dissension and hatred between the Arab led Sunnis and the Iran led Shia  muslims to suit their agenda of divide and rule. It is the West headed by the United States that for decades have been terrorising the world and not Iran as he  claimed.

The writer ignores the sinister messianic ideology of the European Christians wh5ose Doctrine of Christian Discovery has for over five hundred years been used to justify not only their invasions and conquests of non-Christian lands all over the globe but also to justify their religious bigotry and  genocide of natives in their fake and fraudulous claim that they were empowered by their Christian God and they  did so in the name of  Jesus Christ.

He ridiculed Iran for pursuing nuclear weapons to further its ambition of  muslim hegemony stating that the West headed by US and Israel will never allow and will destroy Iran in no time. He further accused Iran of terrorist attacks on October 7th 2023, behaving as if he is the spokesman or mouth piece of CIA and Zionist Israel. He chose to ignore the fact that the October 7th incident was but a pent up reaction to decades of Western, US and Israel brutal and barbaric terrorising and genociding of Palestinian Arabs and muslims in the Middle East. Then he made derogatory remarks at Iran's inability to protect Iranians from barbaric US and Israel mass bombings of Iran cities and industrial sites and extolled US and Israel total air superiority and ability to fly over Iran everywhere with impunity. He rediculed at the inadequacy and inefficiency of Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthis, the three allies of Iran and claimed that their existence is inconsequential to the cause of Iran. He claimed that after US and Israel horrific mass bombings Iran had lost its last deterrance against the United States and Israel. In short he expected Iran to surrender to barbaric US and Israel. Well, let's see who has the last laugh?

The poignant question is what makes him think only US and Israel can have nuclear weapons and not Iran. He seemed to be ignorant of the fact that the only country in the world that had used its nuclear weapons against others is the United States which had dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And at least three or four times the United States had threatened to nuclear bomb China. The United States threatened to nuclear bomb China in the midst of the Korean War in 1950 to 1953. It again threatened to nuclear bomb China during the China - India border war. In 1996 in the as yet unfinished Chinese civil war the US again threatened to nuke China. The United States is a nuclear rogue state and so it must be destroyed and not Iran.

NB:  To be continued

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