Nimrata’s Nonsense, a New Narrative of the Old Hypocrisy against Iran

The recent theatrical act of the US in a bid to accuse Iran of arming Yemen’s popular Ansarallah Movement has been scoffed by analysts as a clumsy attempt by Washington to distract the world’s attention from the steady supply of lethal weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to bomb Yemen to bits.

The following is a viewpoint written by Columnist S. Nawabzadeh for Iran’s English language daily Kayhan International, titled “Nimrata’s Nonsense, a New Narrative of the Old Hypocrisy against Iran.”
It was not just the most preposterous of the lies she has been glibly uttering at the UN for almost a year, but the latest accusation against Iran, complete with theatrics, including a segment of a supposed missile behind her at an aircraft hangar near Washington, were a blatant violation of the fundamentals of the Sikh religion into which Nimrata Randhawa was born and brought up, in addition to trampling of the tenets of Christianity which the US ambassador to the World Body claims she has been practicing ever since she married army officer Michael Haley.

Nikki, who slavishly serves the roguish US president, Donald Trump, has become so enamoured of the decadent American culture that she seems totally unconcerned about tarnishing her Punjabi Indian roots, by egging her master in the White House to take the suicidal step of military confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

Her latest dramatics, although dismissed by critics as “fake and fabricated”, and shrugged off by US defence experts as “dangerous brinkmanship by Trump & Team” which could badly backfire against American interests, were cheered by the trio of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the illegal Zionist entity – all three of which think God has failed them and only the Great Satan can prolong their precarious existence.

Kayhan International said: While Iran’s envoy to the UN, Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, called Nimrata’s nonsense as further proof of Washington’s “irresponsible, destructive and provocative role”, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, pointing to US complicity in Saudi Arabia’s war crimes in Yemen, drew comparison with the then US Foreign Secretary Colin Powell’s set of lies in 2003 for launching war on Iraq, saying: “When I was based at the UN, I saw this show and what it begat.”

It should be recalled that Powell had glibly lied when he said the US had a “thick intelligence file” detailing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, at one point using satellite photos and a fake anthrax vial as props.

Zarif, brushing aside the fabrications of Iran’s supply of missiles to Yemen in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, as alleged, made it clear that for almost the past three years, it is American weaponry including cluster bombs with which Saudi Arabia and the UAE have instigated a humanitarian catastrophe in the poorest of Arab nations by killing over 14,000 people in Yemen and destroying the infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, factories, markets, mosques, power plants, waterworks, and other civilian targets.

The daily said: In response to Nimrata’s nonsense, it was but natural of Yemen’s popular Ansarallah Movement which fired with remarkable precision the ballistic missile in question at Riyadh International Airport on November 4 in retaliation for the US-backed state terrorism of Saudi Arabia, to state that US accusations of the Iranian origin of our missiles is an insult to the ingenuity and military genius of Yemeni scientists, technicians, and defence experts.

The whole scenario is thus a flagrant lie to implicate Iran in the current crisis in Yemen, so as to leave the Yemenis to the savagery of the US allies, the Saudis.

The English language daily Kayhan International wrote: Analysts rejecting the US claims of Iranian markings on the supposed fragments of the missile displayed in Washington, have been quick to point out that any blacksmith in the US can inscribe the words on the missile part, even in Persian, to put the blame on Iran.

It is worth recalling that in 1961, US ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, presented at the Security Council doctored black & white photographs of the supposed missile system of the Soviet Union in Cuba, for the Americans to watch on TV sets, in order to discredit Moscow.

In view of these facts, and many other faked incidents for which the US is notorious, including the blowing up of the USS Maine in Havana harbour to start the war against Spain in 1898 and the faked Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 1964 by the USS Maddox to justify invasion of Vietnam, Nimrata or Nikki, whatever she likes to call herself, is blindly following the dictates of her white masters.  

It means, a narrative is being built to depict Iran as a monster, while the fact of the matter is that from Day One of the Saudi War against Yemen, the Islamic Republic has been calling for ceasefire, aid and dialogue, in contrast to the US arms sales to Riyadh to kill more and more Yemeni civilians.

Isn’t it the same old rhetoric, the same old pattern, the same old hypocrisy, since the marking of the missiles showered on the innocent people of Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, are without the least doubt “American”?

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