What does Iran’s renewed missile bombardment of Kuwait and Bahrain mean?

What are the three slaps that the Lebanese president received, and who owns them?

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard shelled American military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain at dawn today in response to American aggression on Qeshm Island and the downing of four Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz, effectively ending the two-month truce and the futile Iranian-American negotiations. This incident has established a military confrontation front in Lebanon as a prelude to a larger war of attrition, which the Iranian leadership has threatened to initiate multiple times.

This renewed Iranian missile strike on American bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, in response to the downing of four drones and a communications tower on Qeshm Island at the entrance to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, confirms the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s policy of immediate retaliation against any American-Israeli aggression. The fragile ceasefire could collapse, allowing Iranian rockets to target Tel Aviv, Haifa, Akka, and other occupied Palestinian cities.

The Iranian message, easily detected amid the rubble of the recent clashes with America in the Strait of Hormuz and southern Lebanon, as well as the fierce response of Mr Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian Foreign Minister, to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s provocative statements, confirms three fundamental truths.

• The first: Iran will never renounce its nuclear stockpile or its sovereign right to enrichment, no matter how serious the American threats of destruction become.

• The second point is that the Iranian leadership, both politically and militarily, will never abandon “Hezbollah” to face the new alliance aimed at disarming it, which comprises the Lebanese state and its old and renewed ally, the Israeli army.

• Third, never give up control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Minister Araqchi’s response, which he published today on “X,” addressed the Lebanese president’s violation of all diplomatic red lines and raising the red flag when he said, “It appears, Mr. President Aoun, that you believe Iran, not Israel, occupies one-fifth of Lebanon’s land, displaces a quarter of its people, and bombards its territory daily. “We say to you, Mr. President, ‘Save Lebanon from the real enemy.”

The Iranian leadership was enraged by President Aoun’s comments during his CNN interview, in which he insulted Iran, demanded that it stop interfering in Lebanese affairs and using Lebanon to achieve its own interests, and claimed that Sheikh Naim Qassem does not represent the Lebanese because he opposed direct negotiations with Washington, the Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire agreement, and Hezbollah disarmament.

The Lebanese president suffered two further slaps, in addition to the hard Iranian one stated earlier:

• The first came from the Israeli occupation state, whose planes targeted a Lebanese army barracks in the south today, killing three troops, including two colonels and one private.

• The second is represented by the warning of Mr. Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader, who stated his fear that the direct Lebanese-Israeli negotiations in Washington would suffer the same fate as the Palestinian Oslo negotiations and that it would be “negotiation for the sake of negotiation”.

President Aoun will stand alone against the majority of Lebanese if he engages in discussions and the normalisation process, betting on the Israeli enemy’s trust and following through on the ceasefire agreements he signs. This trust has become a subject of ridicule due to its breach over 8,000 times, the occupation of the majority of the south, the transfer of the experience of destruction and genocide to him, and the yellow and red lines in the Gaza Strip, which apply to all of Lebanon, not just the south.

Netanyahu accomplished a big feat by entangling America in a war trap with Iran, and now he is attempting to draw it into the Lebanese war, capitalising on the idiocy, recklessness, and political and military illiteracy of its president, Trump. However, this “achievement” has had the polar opposite effect, driving the deep American state to move quickly. The first phase was an increase in general resignations from the military and security sectors in protest, followed by the two major legislative institutions (the House of Representatives and the Senate) voting against the war in Iran and limiting the president’s powers.

America’s true war is elsewhere, because the Strait of Hormuz has no American oil or commercial interests, unlike European countries and China, which use it to transport the majority of their oil (20 million barrels per day). Ironically, closing it would benefit the vast alternative American oil exports. America’s true battle is to liberate itself from Israeli hegemony, which no longer threatens its security-wise or militarily and which only destroys its global prestige as a superpower, as well as causes it to lose the entire Middle East, its wealth, and its global strategic position since WWII.

Ali Akbar Velayati, counsellor to the Iranian Supreme Leader, was correct when he summarised the Iranian war and its outcomes in a few words: “Permanent peace is built on a balance of power, not appeasements.” And Iran’s might is rising, reshaping the map of influence.

We hope our Arab brothers will take note of this saying, which embodies reality and confirms the beginning of the erosion of the false American military hegemony projects in our region, represented by military bases that are now being bombed with missiles almost daily, while our leaders are content with condemnation statements, even though the fire has reached not just the hem but the entire garment.

When the United States Air Force Command announced today the abandonment of its “MQ9 Reaper” drones, which are considered the most expensive in its air force (each valued at between $15 – 30 million), after Iranian and Yemeni (Houthi) air defences shot down more than 30 of them in the current war… The wall displays the facts, and what’s next is even better.

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