Patrick Wintour – The Guardian Apr 16, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to trap the west into a total war across the Middle East that would have incalculable consequences for the region and the world, Iran’s top diplomat in the UK has claimed, in his first interview since Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel at the weekend.
Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Matin also warned that if Israel made “another mistake” by launching an attack on Iran, there would be a response from Iran that was stronger, more severe, and administered without a warning like that issued before the weekend attack.
The salvo of more than 300 drones and missiles – almost all of which were intercepted by Israel and its allies or fell short of their targets – came in retaliation for a 1 April airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, that killed several Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards officers. Israel’s top general, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, has said the country would respond, but it remains unclear what form that would take.
“The response to the next mistake of the Zionist will not take 12 days’ time. It will be decided as soon as we see what the hostile regime has done. It will be immediate, and without warning. It will be stronger and more severe,” said Matin, Iran’s chargé d’affaires in London. He ruled out Iran attacking civilian centres or building a nuclear weapon, even though he said Iran knew Israel was an undeclared nuclear state.
Both the US and EU have signalled further sanctions against Iran over its attack on Israel, while western leaders have also urged Israel to exercise restraint against escalation. The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, said it was a “moment for calm heads to prevail” in a call with Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on Tuesday.
Matin, who has been Iran’s senior diplomat in the UK since February 2022 when the ambassador was recalled, denied that Iran had made a strategic mistake by attacking Israel’s military bases, so shifting attention from Gaza to the wider regional conflict in which Iran’s long-term role came into question.
Matin argued that the west was losing credibility in the Middle East in a way that would ultimately lead to the US leaving the region, and a peace being reached by regional powers alone.
“This is a good opportunity for western countries to demonstrate that they are rational actors, and they are not going to be entrapped by Netanyahu and his goal, which is to be in power for as long as he could actually stay in power,” he claimed.
“Iran has considered its actions very carefully, and understood that there is a trap, but not for Iran, for the western countries and allied countries in which they are drawn by the Zionist state into a total war inside the Middle East, and the whole world soon may be unable to control the consequences.”
Matin insisted that before the attack on Israel, Iran had urged western officials – including the British foreign secretary, David Cameron – to back a UN security council statement condemning Israel for attacking the Iranian consulate in Damascus. It had also urged the west to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, he said.
Matin said Cameron had last week refused the Iranian request, even though this week he had admitted that the UK would have responded very strongly if a hostile power flattened a British consulate. “As Cameron mentioned, rightly, every nation has the right to defend itself against this kind of flagrant breach of diplomatic and international law.”
He also denied Cameron’s claims that there could have been thousands of civilian casualties if the mass attack of Iranian drones and missiles, which decisively moved its years-long shadow war with Israel into the open, had penetrated the defence of Israel and its allies. He said he found such an accusation extraordinary coming from a government that had armed a regime that had killed 34,000 Palestinians.
“Iranian forces didn’t target any populated sites so as to prevent human casualties, nor did it attack government buildings and centres. It was a legitimate defence operation that was conducted in a way that gave considerable warning,” he said. “Now, I can say that the mission is accomplished. And that’s it. That’s what we have announced very publicly, that that mission is concluded.”
Matin portrayed the attack as a show of force – “displaying military capabilities, missiles, and drones more powerful than what all the international community expected from Iran” – as he claimed it had been necessary to demonstrate deterrence so no other country would dare to take action threatening its security. “Nobody can, at the moment, imagine that Iran is Iran of the Iran-Iraq war. Iran is now a regional superpower,” he said.
He also insisted that Iran had withstood sanctions before, and if the west imposed further sanctions, it would not change course, as since the beginning of the revolution in 1979 Iran had resolved to act independently.
Asked about the condemnation of Iran in the British parliament, he said the call to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was coming only from rightwing Conservatives, but if ever enforced would lead to reprisals, since the IRGC was part of the Iranian state.
“We think that it is better to hear the voice of the British people during the last six months demanding a ceasefire and ending the killing of innocent Palestinian people in Gaza,” he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ekmap34L0
NEWS FROM THE TRENCHES
The British Governments war on its own people
The war on the people since 1945 has seen the mass importation of foreign nationals
Black Gang leader Johnny Edgecome put it simply quote ” those who are work settled
law abiding folk will not come, you will get the transients criminals nutters and those looking to take and steal”
and true enough they opened the prisons and sent them here.
The war on the motorist was obvious, as was the war on our NHS. but the war took a serious turn with the positive discrimination laws
in favour of coloured folk, this was their reward for the London riots.
Perhaps the most evil was the war on our children, the introduction of the LBGT programme with transvestites coming and giving talks to children
one lecture was called ” the joys of homosexual buggery”
Whole classes of kids were leaving school told that they were Gay.
Children with problems were told they were in the wrong bodies and needed to take hormone blocking tablets and put on the
sex change surgery list.
Alongside this a campaign was launched through the media to put out adverts showing white girls with black men
white men were shown as homosexuals
Boris Johnston spoke in private about how sick it was, and his remarks on ” tank topped bum boys ” and ” filthy bunch of poofters” were seen in the press.
As Greville Janner said 25 years ago, ” the day will come when men will all have their own Bumbadillo ” ( teenage sex slave)
The present LBGT agenda is the most vile Heterophobic attack on our young and vulnerable to date
In W W 2 Lord Rothschild chose his disciples whom he put in high places to betray their country to the Soviet Communists were all Homosexual,
and many like Alan Turing had convictions against young boys
Strange how the 2 personality disorders Socialism and homosexuality so often go together
Home school your kids and do not let them go to college.
this is happening now in the UK UK people including ex soliers are refusing to fight for israel
https://www.renegadetribune.com/whites-against-war-for-israel/
“We are at war. [Scare] necessary event. Covert operations while setting up the public narrative of a WWIII scare event”, this we have been told.
I don,t see ‘the West’ capable of waging war on Iran with boots on the ground .. on the other hand with Russia stepping in on behalf of Iran, we have a scare event ..
Looks like (2) Jews…Ukraine’s (((Zelensky))) and Israel’s((( Netenyahu)))won’t waived the inevitable white flag but instead send thousands more Goyim to their deaths.
“Jeffrey Sachs Exposes: Israel Is Planning To drag US Into War…
(EU Is Tired Of The Ukraine Conflict) ” / 13 hrs ago 18 April
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSW_mpuevEE
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“Iran Just Attacked A US Base Near Israel” / 14 hrs ago 18 April (?!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq2N2gxZXdw
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Hezbollah Strikes Israeli Command Center! Israel Responds with Airstrikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ure2qX91pjU 3 hrs ago
0.29 14 israeli soldiers injured / 6 critical / ( israhell responded with airstrikes against Hezbollah’s air defense units in several areas of Lebanon ) < 0.48 attack in just a day after idf killed Hezbollah commander
1.41 " between Hezbollah militants & israeli forcesSince the day following the isrtahell hamas conflict on October 7 / there has been an ongoing exchange of fire between Hezbollah millitants & israeli forces
Since then fighting has claimed 260 Herzbollah members & about 50 civilians on the Lebanese side of the border
On the israeli side in 9 civilians & 11 soldiers…" ( 9…11…where have we heard these numbers before monsieur the commentator ?)
CIA O
This 3min video reports Israel has decided on its response to Iran’s retaliation but has not yet decided on its timing, which they say isn’t imperative because the upcoming Passover brings certain complications to the planning. In the modern age why one side broadcasts its intentions to the other is a mystery but maybe it’s to judge the public mood. A majority of Israelis (74%) don’t want their government to respond. That’ll pretty much be the same majority of Israeli cowards (68%) who want to see the Palestinians wiped out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOvRUKFhtBA
Nosmo King ‘Strange how the 2 personality disorders Socialism and homosexuality so often go together’
That instantly chimed, as I came to the conclusion independently that Socialism is genuinely a serious personality disorder.
Personality Disorders ARE serious when they have lethal long term consequences, such as the damage to children Nosmo King emphasised.
This is not meant as cod-psychological political rhetoric, of which there is more than far too much these days –
But Socialists only ever go one way, and you can see it happening -you can see before it happens that they and their ideas are going to Burn Down the Nursery, and the post-Election Theft American Democrats – TWO WARS instigated in one sitting, and the deliberately contrived Criminal Illegal Invasion of the Homeland, in addition to the demented mania for Abortion as a ‘Right’ – has been possibly the largest scale demonstration of the psychotic lunacy of Socialism in History.
The old genocidal Communist regimes would NEVER have permitted the too-Clown-for-Clown World Rachel Levine to be seen as representing Child Policies or any other aspect of the Regime.
But, of course, it was contrived that way by the Bajers .
And that is what REALLY wrankles; these Lunatics delude themselves that their power is a sort of inevitable progress/process as opposed to themselves being the unwitting placements of Evil Minded hereditary little Anti-Christs –
Bajers –
@JAMES
stoneaged boots on the ground are no more necessary
in age of missiles, TR-3B + proton laser .
my prediction :
israel will do a falseflag nuking on germany blaiming
with their false propaganda medias the Iranians . why ?
every rabbi + some jew politicians + IDF generals already
threatened because ashkeNAZIS, kazars, talmudists hate
us germans not since 90 years but since centuries like
they hate the rest of Amalek . I take comfort not more
freezing on a psychikal, psychological, physical cold
continent !
“Iran Just Attacked A US Base Near Israel” / 14 hrs ago 18 April (?!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq2N2gxZXdw
Why the > (?!) < in the gj comment above…..:
"Crypto-Jews And Freemasonry In Iran"
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GjuCjlkC1uGK/
Irans former pres. Ahmadinejad blews his burka (cover) of crypto j. when he hold up his passport in March 2008
0.11 A close up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian a j. name (meaning clothweaver)
3 October 2009 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret, evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows <<< ( Mein Amph Hitler style / I would say )
0.22 There are at least 25 masonry lodges in Iran (vorher Persia) / there are everywhere pyramids in the (anti- islamic) parliament…….masonic pyramids all over the place
1.55 Mashad a religious city ( near Turkey) / zionism in clergy clothes ../ destroy Muslims from the inside in alliance with EU & US masonry…
https://www.conspirazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/lina-architects-deception.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4282337 Introduction to history of freemasonry in Iran…
https://freemasonrywatch.org/freemasonry_in_iran.html
"The Shah of Iran once concluded that, if his country was to become a modern state, it must have its own branch of Freemasonry. He invited Lord Elgin to explain Masonry to him. Elgin describes meeting him as a special memor …"
Flying carpet bombers between Tehran & Tel Aviv to usher in Pikes WW III ?
CIA O
@ CIA O..
You bet…all this nonsense is performative…but the imbeciles can’t get their heads round that…