World’s most feverish region in the shadow of Dirty War

Ammar Ul Islam
3 min readDec 2, 2020

Given the rapidly changing situation, the clear reaction of Iran’s enemies is to demonstrate the enmity of humanity in the next 50 days before the change of US administration.

Unexpected developments in the tense region, meetings between US, Israeli and Saudi leaders, the suspected assassination of Iran’s most prominent nuclear scientist in the suburbs of Tehran, blamed on Israel by the Iranian president and other central leaders has been assigned.

The most powerful but least visible player in the US administration may be trying to appease some of Iran’s antigovernmental groups, but a wide-ranging dispute with Tehran stands in the way of its long-term agenda. The Trump administration is rushing to leave Afghanistan and Iraq immediately. According to experts, the Trump administration is trying its best to keep its promises to the American people in any case before the new administration comes.

The possibility of a confrontation between US diplomats and Israel, the largest US ally in the Middle East, with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and long-range missiles cannot be ruled out. That is why, in the current context of the United States silence has prevented the United States from assaulting Iran itself, as the United States has killed the Iranian general ‘Qassim Soleimani” in the past. American silence encourages anti-Iranian forces to show that they want to spread as much hatred as possible to complicate the reconciliation process with Iran. This is easier said than done with a full-scale war with Iran.

Inflation and the COVID-19-stricken Iranian economy and Iranian cities are preventing Iran from going to war. Recent events have had a profound effect on Iran’s presidential election. As far as Israel is concerned, Israel can throw anyone into battle to achieve its goals. This can be gauged from the speech of the Israeli Prime Minister in 2018 that “remember this name” pointing deceased nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh.

Ahead of the recent US presidential election, holy rites were offered in favor of Donald Trump in Israeli places of worship. According to some experts, the visit of Israeli Prime Minister and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to a new Saudi city before the US presidential swearing-in and the assassination of an Iranian scientist a few days later could be two sides of the same coin. They can obstruct the work of the upcoming President.

For Biden’s team, Netanyahu is likely a problem to be solved rather than an ally, and this killing suggests in that likely fractious relationship with the new US President that Israel can do useful and aggressive things for the White House. It does not hinder Biden being the good cop, when the bad cop has just shown it can kill one of Iran’s most precious human resources in the secure suburbs of Tehran.

With the joint efforts of the current US administration and the Israeli Prime Minister, ending the nuclear deal with Iran is giving the Iranian economy a difficult time. While Biden’s election victory has signaled the resumption of the nuclear deal, anti-Iranian elements are pushing Iran into a dirty war to thwart that signal. That could force the US president to change the terms of the agreement. If the current agreement is implemented in light of its points, the narrow Iranian economy could find great support in the face of an epidemic and inflation.

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Ammar Ul Islam

Ammar Ul Islam is a Pakistani freelance writer, business executive and a contributing member.