By Daily Revelation Editor
Zambia has joined the United States in co-sponsoring a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that condemned Iranian attacks against Gulf states, despite the USA and Israeli aggression against the former.
Iran has retaliated to US and Israeli aggression by striking United States bases in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq and even Israel following the aggression against it.
The resolution Zambia has co-sponsored has been criticised by countries such as Russia in that the same did not denounce the US aggression which necessitated the retaliations from Iran.
Zambia together with over 130 countries backing a UNSC resolution condemned Iran’s ‘egregious’ attacks.
It urgently urged an end to the conflict while cautioning Iran against the dangers of jeopardising shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, which carries 20 percent of the global shipping late for international oil.
The 15-member Council adopted the Bahrain-led resolution on Wednesday with 13 votes in favour and none against, while permanent members China and Russia abstained.
The Bahrain-led resolution was co-sponsored by Zambia along with more than 130 countries including India, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Yemen.
The resolution condemned in the “strongest terms” Iran’s attacks on the territories of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, stating that such acts constitute a breach of international law and pose a serious threat to international peace and security.
The cost that this war has brought on the parties involved and the world in general cannot be overemphasised. The war has resulted in the destruction and loss of livelihood mostly in Iran, but also in Israel and the countries in the gulf regions. Predictably, the US has also taken very serious hits including the loss and injuries sustained by some of their service members. Actually, the US might not have anticipated that the retaliation from Iran would be so severe as to threaten their very continuation or continued safety in the gulf region as their bases, some of their diplomatic missions and key vital interests have taken very serious hits.
The war has actually exposed very serious vulnerabilities in what many could have viewed as US invincibility. One wonders, if the whole United States of America cannot protect its own bases in the region, what’s the guarantee that they would protect the countries who host those bases? If they can sustain such serious hits against just one Iran, with their combined forces with Israel, plus the tacit support of their own allies, how possibly could they fare and aide Europe or their Asian partners for instance in a hot war against either Russia or China?
Yes, Iran has suffered very serious losses. But that was to be expected. In fact, if one asked anyone before the war started, probably their estimation would have been that Iran won’t last three days against the combined force of the USA and Israel. Some could have probably thought the whole operation would end with the same surgical speed they exhibited when capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. However, we are now two weeks into the conflict and Iran’s capabilities are on full display including the continued retaliatory strikes on Israel, where they have exposed the famed Iron Dome, as well as strikes in the gulf regions, closing the Strait of Hormuz which is a vital passage for 20 percent of the world’s oil and today causing serious chaos in the global supply chain.
Clearly, the world would not be contending with all these misfortunes without the US and Israeli aggression against Iran. US President Donald Trump claims that he attacked because Iran was almost creating a nuclear bomb with their enriched uranium. But not too long ago, the same man boasted that they had completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear programme through another bombing raid last year. He also claimed that Iran was creating missiles that could reach the United States. However, his own country’s intelligence agencies have debunked both his lies that Iran was near to making a nuclear bomb, or that they were making weapons that could reach the US.
This is where Zambia and the other countries should have exercised caution when it came to sponsoring that UN resolution. We know that the government could have probably done so in order to rub the right side of the US. However, wrong is wrong. Even in poverty there should be dignity. Why would Zambia and the nations it co-sponsored the resolution with participate in condemning Iran, without demanding for the condemnation of the the US, which launched an unprovoked war? A war that necessitated retaliation from Iran in the first place?
Iran argues that the Gulf nations they are hitting are hosts to US bases, which pose a security risk to them, especially during this period of war. Therefore, they argue that those are legitimate targets. Iran has also argued that some of the other vital infrastructure that has been struck in that region which is civilian in nature was hosting US service members, and other American installations, which they say risked their security. They have queried whether the US would allow a supposed Iranian base in Mexico to stand for instance, especially during this period of war? Others actually have raised the fact that the US was almost going to war over the missile crisis in nearby Cuba.
The best that Zambia could have done was to denounce the US aggression in the first place, or at the very least condemn US aggression and Iranian strikes on other countries.
However, if that proved too much of a challenge, they probably could have just abstained like the other nations did. At least that would help in saving face. This world needs peace, and those who threaten the peace must be denounced. If the world denounced Russia over the war in Ukraine, surely the US and Israel should be condemned for their unprovoked aggression against Iran.
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By Daily Revelation Editor
Zambia has joined the United States in co-sponsoring a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that condemned Iranian attacks against Gulf states, despite the USA and Israeli aggression against the former.
Iran has retaliated to US and Israeli aggression by striking United States bases in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq and even Israel following the aggression against it.
The resolution Zambia has co-sponsored has been criticised by countries such as Russia in that the same did not denounce the US aggression which necessitated the retaliations from Iran.
Zambia together with over 130 countries backing a UNSC resolution condemned Iran’s ‘egregious’ attacks.
It urgently urged an end to the conflict while cautioning Iran against the dangers of jeopardising shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, which carries 20 percent of the global shipping late for international oil.
The 15-member Council adopted the Bahrain-led resolution on Wednesday with 13 votes in favour and none against, while permanent members China and Russia abstained.
The Bahrain-led resolution was co-sponsored by Zambia along with more than 130 countries including India, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Yemen.
The resolution condemned in the “strongest terms” Iran’s attacks on the territories of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, stating that such acts constitute a breach of international law and pose a serious threat to international peace and security.
The cost that this war has brought on the parties involved and the world in general cannot be overemphasised. The war has resulted in the destruction and loss of livelihood mostly in Iran, but also in Israel and the countries in the gulf regions. Predictably, the US has also taken very serious hits including the loss and injuries sustained by some of their service members. Actually, the US might not have anticipated that the retaliation from Iran would be so severe as to threaten their very continuation or continued safety in the gulf region as their bases, some of their diplomatic missions and key vital interests have taken very serious hits.
The war has actually exposed very serious vulnerabilities in what many could have viewed as US invincibility. One wonders, if the whole United States of America cannot protect its own bases in the region, what’s the guarantee that they would protect the countries who host those bases? If they can sustain such serious hits against just one Iran, with their combined forces with Israel, plus the tacit support of their own allies, how possibly could they fare and aide Europe or their Asian partners for instance in a hot war against either Russia or China?
Yes, Iran has suffered very serious losses. But that was to be expected. In fact, if one asked anyone before the war started, probably their estimation would have been that Iran won’t last three days against the combined force of the USA and Israel. Some could have probably thought the whole operation would end with the same surgical speed they exhibited when capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. However, we are now two weeks into the conflict and Iran’s capabilities are on full display including the continued retaliatory strikes on Israel, where they have exposed the famed Iron Dome, as well as strikes in the gulf regions, closing the Strait of Hormuz which is a vital passage for 20 percent of the world’s oil and today causing serious chaos in the global supply chain.
Clearly, the world would not be contending with all these misfortunes without the US and Israeli aggression against Iran. US President Donald Trump claims that he attacked because Iran was almost creating a nuclear bomb with their enriched uranium. But not too long ago, the same man boasted that they had completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear programme through another bombing raid last year. He also claimed that Iran was creating missiles that could reach the United States. However, his own country’s intelligence agencies have debunked both his lies that Iran was near to making a nuclear bomb, or that they were making weapons that could reach the US.
This is where Zambia and the other countries should have exercised caution when it came to sponsoring that UN resolution. We know that the government could have probably done so in order to rub the right side of the US. However, wrong is wrong. Even in poverty there should be dignity. Why would Zambia and the nations it co-sponsored the resolution with participate in condemning Iran, without demanding for the condemnation of the the US, which launched an unprovoked war? A war that necessitated retaliation from Iran in the first place?
Iran argues that the Gulf nations they are hitting are hosts to US bases, which pose a security risk to them, especially during this period of war. Therefore, they argue that those are legitimate targets. Iran has also argued that some of the other vital infrastructure that has been struck in that region which is civilian in nature was hosting US service members, and other American installations, which they say risked their security. They have queried whether the US would allow a supposed Iranian base in Mexico to stand for instance, especially during this period of war? Others actually have raised the fact that the US was almost going to war over the missile crisis in nearby Cuba.
The best that Zambia could have done was to denounce the US aggression in the first place, or at the very least condemn US aggression and Iranian strikes on other countries.
However, if that proved too much of a challenge, they probably could have just abstained like the other nations did. At least that would help in saving face. This world needs peace, and those who threaten the peace must be denounced. If the world denounced Russia over the war in Ukraine, surely the US and Israel should be condemned for their unprovoked aggression against Iran.
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