Paris (Imran Y. CHOUDHRY) :- Former Press Secretary to the President, Former Press Minister to the Embassy of Pakistan to France, Former MD, SRBC Mr. Qamar Bashir analysis : In a world suffocated by strategic deception and media filters, one conversation pierced through the fog. In a bold 28-minute interview with Tucker Carlson, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a message so clear, calm, and compelling that it shattered decades of crafted misperception about Iran’s foreign policy, nuclear ambition, and regional posture. In doing so, Pezeshkian positioned himself as the face of reason — while exposing the reckless belligerence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose war-mongering agenda has long dictated U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Pezeshkian began with humility and conviction: “We did not start this war and we do not want this war to continue in any way.” His words echoed the constitutional stance of Iran’s post-revolution leadership — defensive, not expansionist; committed to sovereignty, not conquest. He emphasized that his administration is built on the twin pillars of “national unity inside the country” and “peace and friendship with neighboring countries and the rest of the world.”
This is not mere rhetoric. Pezeshkian substantiated this vision by recalling that Iran has “never invaded another country in 200 years.” At a time when regional militarism is disguised as security, this record is not only rare — it is disarming.
What, then, explains the decades of suspicion cast on Iran? Pezeshkian points squarely to Benjamin Netanyahu, who, since 1984, “has created this false mentality that Iran seeks a nuclear bomb,” embedding this narrative so deeply into the psyche of American leaders that even diplomacy itself became a threat to the status quo.
And yet, the president insisted: “We have never been after developing a nuclear bomb, not in the past, not presently, or in the future.” His reason was not strategic, but spiritual. “It is in contrast to the religious decree — the fatwa — issued by His Eminence, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is religiously forbidden for us to go after a nuclear bomb.”
This declaration alone upends the central justification for Israeli and American hostility. Iran’s nuclear program — routinely monitored by the IAEA — was never about weaponization. But it was Israel, Pezeshkian revealed, that sabotaged peace: “We were in the middle of talks with the United States… and Israel torpedoed the negotiating table.”
This act, far from being reactive, was strategic. Israel’s pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was based not on verified intelligence, but a desire to kill diplomacy in its crib. “Unlawful attacks against our nuclear centers,” Pezeshkian said, “severely damaged our equipment. We can’t even verify what remains.” The IAEA, instead of condemning this violation of international law, issued a report that further inflamed tensions — and emboldened Tel Aviv.
Pezeshkian’s outrage was rooted in justice, not vengeance. When asked whether Iran would retaliate through proxy terror or sleeper cells, he responded with dignified defiance: “Have you ever seen an Iranian killing an American? Has any Iranian ever committed terrorism on your soil?” The answer, of course, is no. He clarified: “We don’t believe in sleeper cells. We don’t need them. We defend ourselves through diplomacy, and when forced, directly with our own hands.”
This moral clarity extended to the often-misunderstood chant of “Death to America.” The president dismantled its literal interpretation: “It doesn’t mean death to American people or officials. It means death to crimes, bullying, and atrocities.” In other words, it is a political condemnation — not a genocidal threat.
But even as Pezeshkian appealed for understanding, he drew a hard line: “If war is imposed on Iran, we will defend ourselves to the last drop of blood.” Yet again, this is defense, not aggression. “We put our trust in God and in the resilience of our people. We don’t need help from anyone — not Russia, not China. Iran will stand alone if it must.”
Contrast this with Netanyahu’s doctrine: forever war, regional hegemony, and a theologically-rooted belief in Israel’s divine entitlement to land and dominance. Netanyahu, Pezeshkian implied, has long used deception — whether about Iran’s nuclear program, sleeper cells, or fabricated assassination attempts — to manipulate American sentiment and force Washington into conflicts that serve Israeli, not American, interests.
The consequences have been catastrophic — not only for Palestinians and Iranians, but for the very fabric of international law and order. Pezeshkian recounted the assassination of Iranian scientists, the murder of off-duty commanders, and the slaughter of children and pregnant women in Israeli airstrikes. “Just to kill one person, they demolish an entire building,” he said. “And they call this security?”
Even more chilling was the attempted assassination of Pezeshkian himself. “Yes, they tried. But I’m not afraid to sacrifice my life for my country.” The irony? This act of terrorism — reportedly foiled by Iranian intelligence — was meant to prevent the very peace talks that could have stabilized the region.
Yet despite everything, Pezeshkian extended a remarkable offer: “We see no problem in re-entering negotiations with the United States.” He went further: “There is no limitation for U.S. investors to come to Iran — even now.” This invitation stands even as American sanctions, not Iranian policy, prevent such engagement.
And so, we arrive at the defining choice: Two narratives now confront the conscience of the international community.
One is Netanyahu’s — driven by a supremacist ideology, a fabricated threat matrix, and a relentless drive toward regional domination. It is a doctrine of perpetual war, waged under the pretext of self-defense, while enacting wholesale slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank. Netanyahu has turned entire neighborhoods into rubble, hospitals into graves, and innocent civilians — including women and children — into nameless casualties of military “precision.” This isn’t security. It’s a slow-motion holocaust, unfolding with impunity.
The other narrative is Iran’s — a nation invoking religious fatwas against nuclear weapons, calling for diplomacy, and rejecting the logic of proxy terrorism and sleeper cells. Its leaders, from the Supreme Leader to the newly elected President Pezeshkian, argue not for conquest, but for sovereignty. Not for dominance, but dignity. Not for retaliation, but restraint. And yet, it is this very nation that remains under siege — economically, politically, and militarily.
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin once warned that “if peace is not restored in the Middle East, Europe and the United States will be held hostage by extremism.” That warning has come full circle.
But the ultimate irony — and tragedy — lies in the words of President Donald Trump himself, who in his campaign and inaugural promise declared that his would be a “government of common sense.” A government that would reject endless wars. That would put America First — not Tel Aviv first. That would protect innocent lives, not shield aggressors behind vetoes at the United Nations. That would respond not to genocidal allies, but to the cries of children dying beneath collapsed buildings in Gaza and Rafah.
Common sense dictates that when a nation turns refugee camps into graveyards, when it hunts down civilians with drones, when it assassinates scientists in their homes and bombs residential towers to kill one man — that nation is not defending itself. It is dismantling the very moral fabric of global civilization.
And if America continues to partner with that behavior — if it continues to treat Netanyahu as a statesman instead of a war criminal — then the United States is not just complicit. It is corrupted.
It is time for the American public, lawmakers, and leaders to make a choice grounded in facts — not fear; in law — not lobbying; in morality — not military-industrial deals. The truth is now on the table. Netanyahu’s war has been exposed. Pezeshkian’s peace has been declared. The next move belongs to Washington.

Paris (Imran Y. CHOUDHRY) :- Former Press Secretary to the President, Former Press Minister to the Embassy of Pakistan to France, Former MD, SRBC Mr. Qamar Bashir analysis : The Israel-Iran conflict has revealed a truth the Muslim world can no longer afford to ignore: Israel is not invincible. Without the shield of the United States, it is not the iron fortress it pretends to be—it is fragile, overstretched, and deeply dependent. But once wrapped in the diplomatic, military, and political embrace of Washington, Israel becomes a force few dare to challenge. It is not superior military strategy or moral high ground that sustains Israeli power—it is American sponsorship, bought and secured through decades of strategic manipulation.
No amount of resistance in Gaza, no fiery speech at the United Nations, no emotional outcry from the Muslim world will dismantle Israel’s machinery of oppression. Because that machine doesn’t run on Israeli fuel—it runs on Washington’s power grid: congressional endorsements, media narratives, think tanks, and corporate lobbying.
And Israel’s greatest tool to harness that power is AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee—a political juggernaut that does not merely influence U.S. policy, it engineers it. With over $100 million spent in the 2024 elections alone, AIPAC and its Super PACs didn’t just promote pro-Israel candidates—they systematically crushed dissent, targeting Muslims, progressives, and even Jewish critics of Israeli apartheid. Through campaign donations, policy drafting, media alignment, and think tank funding, AIPAC ensures that support for Israel is not just bipartisan—it’s mandatory.
The irony is staggering. The U.S. sends Israel $3.8 billion in military aid annually. Israel uses that money to fund lobbying infrastructure that then cycles back into American politics, shaping public opinion and buying silence. This is not foreign policy—it is political laundering.
And yet, there is an even darker undercurrent to this influence—one rooted not just in money, but blackmail and coercion. That shadowy underside came dangerously close to exposure with the saga of Jeffrey Epstein.
Though widely branded as a disgraced financier and sex offender, Epstein’s real role was far more sinister. Backed by vast, unexplained wealth and cloaked in luxury, Epstein constructed an elite trap—an opulent web of yachts, villas, and underage girls designed not for personal pleasure alone, but for surveillance and leverage. Powerful politicians, industrialists, scientists, and media figures were lured in, indulged, and secretly recorded. His guest list included former presidents, royalty, billionaires, and lawmakers—many now suspiciously silent.
According to multiple intelligence reports and leaked sources, Epstein was an operative tied to Mossad, Israel’s elite spy agency. The data gathered—videos, images, confidential conversations—formed a cache of blackmail so extensive and so damning that it could paralyze the upper echelons of American power. Epstein’s mysterious death in custody—whether suicide or assassination—is widely believed to have been an effort to prevent those secrets from ever seeing daylight. What remains is a chilling reality: those files still exist—and they’re being weaponized by Mossad to control, blackmail, and compromise the very people entrusted with U.S. policymaking.
This is why every resolution at the UN demanding accountability for Israel is vetoed. Why every bomb dropped on a school in Gaza is whitewashed. Why every massacre is met with the same script: “Israel has a right to defend itself,” “Hamas uses human shields,” “It’s complicated.” These aren’t diplomatic statements—they are the product of manipulated consensus created by fear, funding, and in some cases, deep compromise.
The Muslim world’s response to this has been, at best, symbolic. Protests erupt. Speeches are delivered. Hashtags trend. But the facts on the ground remain unchanged. Gaza still burns. Settlements still grow. Aid convoys are still bombed into oblivion. Because the real battlefield is not Gaza—it’s Washington, D.C. And unless Muslims engage there—with the same precision, professionalism, and persistence as Israel—nothing will change.
This is not a call for violence. This is a call for strategy.
Muslims have failed to build a lobbying apparatus to challenge AIPAC’s grip on American power. Yet the resources are not lacking. The Gulf States alone manage over $2 trillion in sovereign wealth. Even a fraction—just $1 billion annually—could fund an American-staffed, data-driven, secular Muslim PAC, built not on sermons, but on strategy. Former lawmakers, PR experts, constitutional lawyers, media consultants, and think tanks could be mobilized to reshape the American narrative from within.
This would not be “interference.” It would be participation in democracy—the very kind Israel has perfected. It would fund candidates who support justice, oppose apartheid, and understand that human rights cannot be selective. It would challenge biased media through ownership and oversight. It would publish studies, mobilize communities, organize town halls, and train the next generation of Muslim American leaders to speak in the language Washington understands—policy and power.
Some will recoil at the idea of using money and lobbying to influence governance. But this is how the American system works. Corporate America lobbies. The gun industry lobbies. Big Pharma lobbies. Christians, Jews, Armenians, Cubans, Taiwanese—all have professional lobbying infrastructure. The only group that continues to shout from the outside is Muslims—and that isolation is costing innocent lives.
Now, cracks are forming in Israel’s carefully choreographed illusion. Western academics like Judith Butler and Pankaj Mishra are labeling Israeli policies as genocidal. Editorials in CNN, BBC, and even the New York Times have begun questioning Israel’s brutality. European parliaments are debating sanctions. Youth protests across American campuses are echoing the cries of “Free Palestine.” Even Jewish activists are joining the calls. And yet, despite all this growing unrest, nothing changes—because Israel still owns the power centers of the United States.
More disturbingly, Israeli thinkers now justify conquest with colonial analogies—likening the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to the U.S. treatment of Native Americans or the British colonization of Africa. This isn’t just immoral—it’s legally and philosophically bankrupt. If colonial conquest is acceptable, so too is resistance—as enshrined in international law, the UN Charter, and the Geneva Conventions.
Palestinians, like Afghans before them, have the right to resist occupation. But until the machine enabling that occupation is dismantled, resistance alone will not prevail.
That machine is AIPAC. It is Epstein’s tapes. It is Mossad’s silent hand. And it is America’s refusal to confront its own corruption.
So here lies the choice for the Muslim world: keep protesting, or start investing. Stop reacting—and start shaping. Replace symbolic outrage with strategic influence. Build a Muslim AIPAC. Fund campaigns. Draft bills. Support honest media. Train candidates. Influence education. Enter the boardroom. Make standing for Palestine profitable and political suicide to oppose it.
Only when the cost of supporting Israel outweighs the benefits will the tide turn. And only then will the Palestinians find what they’ve long deserved—not pity, but power. Not charity, but justice. Not slogans, but sovereignty.
Because the war for Palestine will never be won with rockets from Rafah—but with policies from Capitol Hill. And the blueprint for victory does not lie in ancient grievances—it lies in Washington, D.C.

Paris (Imran Y. CHOUDHRY) :- Former Press Secretary to the President, Former Press Minister to the Embassy of Pakistan to France, Former MD, SRBC Mr. Qamar Bashir analysis : What began as a defiant chant by a single British artist at Glastonbury has erupted into a global phenomenon—a symbolic battle cry that has echoed across continents. “Death to the IDF,” shouted from the stage by Bobby Vylan of the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan, is no longer just a slogan. It is a collective cry of the oppressed, a reflection of unspeakable suffering, and a moral indictment of what is increasingly seen around the world as one of the most brutal and morally bankrupt military forces in modern history: the Israel Defense Forces.
The chant, delivered live on BBC’s broadcast from Glastonbury 2025, was not a slip or a shock tactic—it was a deliberate, explosive act of protest against the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the West Bank. The reaction was immediate and deeply divided. The Israeli embassy in London called it “grotesque incitement.” The BBC apologized. Glastonbury’s organizers condemned the act. UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting, while denouncing the chant as appalling, said what few Western officials dare to utter publicly: “Get your own house in order.” He referred directly to the unchecked settler violence in the West Bank and the increasing brutality of Israel’s military operations. In one stroke, the moral lens was inverted—not on the protestor but on the perpetrators of the suffering.
Within hours, the chant had gone viral. From the streets of London and Berlin to the campuses of UCLA and Columbia, it was repeated, amplified, reinterpreted. In Johannesburg, banners bearing the phrase were raised next to Mandela’s warning that freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestinians. In Malaysia and Indonesia, it became a mainstay of anti-apartheid rallies. In Istanbul, it was sung from balconies during blackout protests. No PR campaign, no government declaration, no diplomatic silence could now erase it. What was once taboo was now mainstream—a visceral condemnation of what Israel has done and continues to do in Gaza and the West Bank under the silent complicity of the so-called civilized world.
And the rage behind the chant is not rhetorical. It is rooted in numbers that defy imagination. Since October 7, 2023, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. Over 14,000 of them were children. Thousands more remain under rubble. UNICEF reports that 9 out of 10 children in Gaza are acutely malnourished. According to WHO, 74% of Gaza’s hospitals are either completely destroyed or inoperable. The Red Crescent reports that over 300 paramedics have been killed in targeted strikes. The few surviving doctors speak of makeshift surgeries without anesthesia, of children screaming in agony as their limbs are amputated on cold concrete. One UN physician stationed in Rafah wrote in her dispatch: “This is not war. This is organized, mechanical, bureaucratized death.”
A young nurse from Médecins Sans Frontières wrote, “I have treated babies with phosphorous burns so deep I can see their bones glowing. I’ve seen a child still clinging to the leg of their dead mother, surrounded by debris, unaware that the mother is gone. We do not treat patients. We grieve for them while we try to save them.” These words are not exaggerations. They are real, raw testaments of horror. “Death to the IDF” is not a celebration of violence. It is a lament, a howl of anguish, a demand for the world to open its eyes.
And yet, instead of listening, the West is choosing repression. Donald Trump, now in his second term, ordered the revocation of Bob Vylan’s U.S. visa, calling the slogan “terrorist rhetoric.” But censorship only gave the chant more fuel. Protests erupted in front of U.S. consulates from Paris to Sao Paulo. Demonstrators carried signs that read: “You banned the voice. Not the truth.” Even progressive Jewish voices began to echo the sentiment—not as anti-Semitism, but as anti-militarism. “We will not let our identity be weaponized to protect genocide,” read one statement from a New York synagogue.
Israeli officials continue to invoke their mythology—that the IDF is the “most moral army in the world.” But the evidence now overwhelms the narrative. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and B’Tselem have all documented war crimes. The use of white phosphorus in civilian zones. The targeting of journalists. The siege of entire hospital networks. The starvation of refugee populations. And while Netanyahu claims this is all in the name of security, millions of people now see it for what it is: apartheid enforced by cluster bombs, domination enforced by siege, religion used to sanctify slaughter.
Israeli commentator Yehoshua Pfeffer, writing in defense of Israel, called the current moment a sacred process. He compared Israel’s suffering and response to the flowering of Aharon’s staff, a symbol of divine blessing and continuity. But what is blossoming in Gaza is not fruit—it is charred flesh. What is flowering is not hope—it is funerals. To argue that this slaughter is part of a divine process is to desecrate every teaching of justice, mercy, and humanity. While Pfeffer invokes scripture, Palestinian families dig through rubble to find the limbs of their children.
There is also a striking historical hypocrisy that the global south and Muslim world can no longer ignore. When Serbia constructed ethnic concentration camps in Bosnia and slaughtered thousands of Muslims, it was the United States under Bill Clinton—alongside NATO—that intervened militarily to stop the genocide and dismantle Yugoslavia. But now, when Israel is doing the same, with U.S.-supplied weapons, the very same West remains silent. Their eyes are closed. Their ears are stopped. Their hearts have ceased to beat. There is no urgent summit, no red line, no NATO intervention. The same global community that once promised “Never Again” now provides the funding, logistics, and diplomatic immunity that enables genocide in real time.
Not a single world power—be it the United States, China, Russia, the European Union, or the OIC—has moved decisively to stop Israel. The Muslim world, shamefully fractured, remains content issuing hollow condemnations. Worse, some of its own governments have joined hands with Israel and the U.S. to target Iran instead of standing by the children of Gaza. In doing so, they are no different from the tyrants they once condemned. They have failed. Morally. Spiritually. Historically.
The United Nations, meanwhile, has turned into a factory of eloquent failure. Its general secretaries and humanitarian envoys deliver beautiful speeches, full of metaphors and moral anguish, but they remain utterly toothless. Every ceasefire call ends in more bombs. Every resolution ends in more rubble. The normalization of death is the new global policy. The normalization of slaughter is a new political strategy. If this continues, then ethnic cleansing, starvation, and concentration camps will not only be accepted—they will be imitated elsewhere.
The psychological toll of this horror is now global. People with even a fragment of humanity are losing sleep, losing sanity, feeling helpless, disoriented, convulsed by the cruelty they witness. But there is one man who can stop it all—Donald J. Trump. He has the leverage, the influence, and the geopolitical weight. With a single phone call, with a single declaration, he could force Israel into ceasefire. But he has not. And in his inaction, he has become morally complicit. The world will remember that he could have stopped the genocide—and did not. That he could have saved children—and chose silence. If this slaughter continues, history will not honor him as a peace-bringer. It will record him as a facilitator of bloodshed.
And the Muslim nations that continue to fund Israel indirectly, that remain passive while their own faith is defiled and their brothers and sisters massacred, will share in that legacy of shame—not only in this world, but in the hereafter. They will not escape the moral consequences of their silence.
It is the sound of the world’s moral compass spinning wildly in search of true north. It is the voice of the end of our conscience, echoing across Gaza’s broken streets. It is the stitching of bullet-ripped bones under candlelight in overcrowded clinics. It is the bleeding of infants in the arms of paramedics who haven’t slept for days. And it is also the dark shadow that now hangs over the leadership of the entire world—from the United States to Europe, from the United Nations to the Muslim world. Because they have all become complicit in this crime. Israel may be the one pulling the trigger, but all those who fund, defend, and shield it are part of the killing.
If justice cannot be delivered to the people of Palestine today, if those children buried under the rubble of Rafah cannot find justice in this era of humanity, then rest assured—justice will come. It may come not now, not next year, not even in this generation. But justice delayed is not justice denied. Be it in 50 years, or 500, the reckoning will come. Because blood has memory. Suffering writes history. And silence, too, leaves a legacy.