ASIATODAY.ID, GENEVA – Russia, China, and Pakistan have submitted at the UN Security Council a draft resolution condemning the US attack on Iran.
The text of the draft strongly condemns the US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, which are under monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The document emphasizes that these strikes pose a significant threat to global peace and security.
Additionally, the draft calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and highlights the obligation of all parties to protect civilians in accordance with international law.
Bombing of Iran’s Nuclear Sites Latest ‘in Long List of Acts of War’ by the US Across the World
The Iranian Foreign Ministry warned that the US strikes on the Islamic Republic will have “everlasting consequences”.
Israel’s previous air raids against Iran “sufficiently prepared the ground” for America’s attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Brian Berletic, geopolitical analyst and former US Marine.
The Israeli strikes helped the Pentagon scope out and neutralize Iran’s air defenses, allowing the US to “adjust its regional military posture” ahead of its own attacks, Berletic underlines.
Both international and American laws were violated during the US strikes on Iran, which are just the latest “in a long list of acts of war” by America across the world, according to the expert.
The bombing came as “multipolarism appears to be in irreversible ascent leaving the US with a closing window of opportunity to destabilize it and reassert American primacy,” Berletic concludes.
Iran’s Response: Smart, Calculated, Painful
Donald Trump likely decided to attack Iran after yielding to pressure from US war-hawks, political and security analyst Ali Rizk told Sputnik.
Trump “increasingly adopted the Israeli line of thinking” and his insistence that Iran cannot be allowed to enrich uranium essentially torpedoed the US-Iranian talks.
With no tangible evidence or intelligence suggesting that Iran has been working on a nuclear weapon, the US attack hardly seems legitimate.
“But regardless, this is something we’re used to,” Rizk notes, with “US presidents pursuing or taking steps that are not in accordance with international legitimacy.”
Iran’s Retaliation—It’s on the Way
Iranian retaliation “has to be very smart, very calculated, but at the same time very painful,” Rizk says, arguing that Tehran would prefer to avoid dragging the US further into the Israel-Iran conflict.
Trump’s War on Iran May cost Him Presidency
The US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was a gamble on Trump’s part, Professor Joe Siracusa, political scientist and dean of Global Futures at Curtin University, tells Sputnik.
By ordering the strike, Trump ignored “all the advice” from US intelligence agencies who insisted that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
“If he gets away with it, if he brings it to an end, he’ll be heroic. If he doesn’t, then there’ll be the end of his presidency,” Siracusa warns.
US and Israel are in Cahoots
The academic argues that the US has been “deeply involved in Israeli military planning” for Israeli attacks that began last week.
“I don’t think the Israelis did anything without the American green light,” Siracusa says.
What Are Iran’s Options?
With its large missile arsenal, Iran could strike US military bases in the Middle East or even attack infrastructure of US allies in the Persian Gulf region.
Iranian forces could also “indirectly threaten Americans at embassies around the world” and even conduct cyberattacks against US interests. (Sputnik)
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