This photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry shows Pakistan's Army Chief and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, right, meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, upon his recent arrival in Islamabad.
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THE column, "The demise of the Middle East peace: a precarious ceasefire and the rise of instability", by Roshan Jainath (the POST, April 22 – 26), requires a response.
I rise in response to the op-ed by your learned columnist. What follows is an appreciation of a well reasoned op-ed with my input that I believe your readers will best understand what is happening and why. I pray that everyone read the op-ed as supplemented by my response.
What we are witnessing requires us to, as the cliché goes, connect the dots in order for us to understand the bigger picture that the learned Mr Jainath paints for the discerning, objective reader. Brevitas causa or, for the sake of brevity, the current crisis identified as a "demise" of sustainable peace in the Middle East rides on Iran's rise and rivalry with the US/Israel for the conquest and evisceration, read that as "neutering" if you will, of the Middle East.
Iran is the only Islamic state that stands defiantly in the way of the US/Israel confederacy and its 55 Muslim state enablers of a complete enslavement and exploitation of resources and assets in the region. What's happening and why precedes 1948, and goes to the history that saw the carving out of spheres of influence through borders etched in the shifting sands of the Middle East.
Without understanding and referencing historical antecedents, I fear that Mr Jainath's attempts will be lost and relegated to loud noises clamouring to achieve degrading and drowning out those who seek to revive and restore a sustainable peace. If Iran falls without a fight, all is lost and the prospects for peace is, as Mr Jainath puts it, to which I append a state of permanent illusion. This would instigate an Arab storm graduating into a tsunami.
Saber Ahmed Jazbhay
Castlehill
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