Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani, condemned Israel on Saturday on “X” for practicing “medieval forms of torture” at the detention center for Palestinians at Sde Teiman, where it was revealed this week that rogue military police had engaged in gang rape and severe torture of detainees, sending one to hospital in critical condition for injuries to his rectum and allegedly resulting in the deaths of others. He compared the torture there to that practiced by the U.S. at Abu Ghrayb in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.
Nasser wrote:
- The report published in the Washington Post on July 29, 2024, concerning the medieval forms of torture against Palestinian detainees in Israeli regime prisons, only reveals the tip of the iceberg.
Leaked reports about some of the torture methods and crimes committed in the prison at the military base at Sde_Teiman in the Negev Desert, 30 kilometers from the #Gaza Strip near the city of Beersheba, indicate that the Zionist regime has set a new record compared to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
International bodies and #Human_Rights activists should fulfill their legal and humanitarian responsibilities.
Nasser’s boss, Acting Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri Kani, had called European foreign policy head Josep Borrell on Friday, urging the European Union, “in line with its responsibility to maintain international peace and security,” to put pressure on Israel so as to prevent it from continuing its crimes. He insisted that if “the European side does not take serious action to curb The Zionist regime” that “will encourage the criminal gang ruling in Tel Aviv to start a war and endanger regional and international peace, stability and security.”
For his part, Borrell agreed that Iran had a right to defend itself from attack. This is not something Americans will be used to hearing, since in our society international law is a cudgel to use against our enemies but can never be invoked by them.
Baqeri Kani went on, however, to say that Iran would invoke its inherent right to punish Israel for its crime (of assassinating a civilian political leader on Iranian soil). He said, “violating the territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and violating Iran’s national sovereignty has endangered regional and international peace and stability, and Iran will certainly use its inherent and legitimate right to punish” Israel.
Meanwhile, Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf accused Israel of trying to distract from its crimes in Gaza by assassinating what he termed resistance leaders, showing, he said, how “barbaric” the Israeli government is.
For his part, the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami, sent a message of condolence to Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah, the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon, for the Israeli assassination of high Hezbollah official Abu Muhsin Fuad Shukr. Salami said that such men are yearning for union with the divine beloved and so cannot be harmed. He added, “The enemies of the Islamic nation, especially the criminal, murderous, and terrorist Zionist gangs responsible for killing the innocent women, children, and men of Gaza should, along with their supporters, expect the sacred wrath [of God] and the severe and inevitable revenge and blood lust of the faithful, determined, and resolute fighters of various contingents of the Muslim resistance.”
It seems clear that Iran is determined to restore deterrence to its relationship with Israel, since the Israelis have repeatedly crossed the red line of violating Iranian sovereignty. Last spring, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bombed the Israeli embassy in Damascus, which is considered Iranian soil, killing a high official of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the equivalent of the country’s National Guard. On that occasion, Iran bombarded Israel with a barrage of missiles and drones, which were intercepted by the US military in the region, save for a couple that got through Israel’s missile defense.
Iran has supplied its ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, with a large stockpile of rockets, missiles and drones. Iran had earlier pressured Hezbollah to avoid a major confrontation with Israel, despite the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. Some observers believe that Iran will now withdraw that pressure and ask Hezbollah to subject Israel to a more concerted missile barrage, which would be calibrated so as not to start an Israel-Lebanon war on the scale of 2006.
That will be a tricky thing to pull off, however, for which reason the US and other major embassies in Beirut are urging their nationals to get out of the country however they can and as soon as possible.
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Bonus Video:
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