Kuwait’s regional Al-Jarida newspaper has reported secret negotiations between Pentagon’s high-ranking military, Iran’s Foreign Ministry and military intelligence as mediated by Oman.
According to the outlet, a bunch of American generals and officers took off from Turkey onboard a private helicopter heading for the city of Karaj outside Tehran, where they had a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Iranians right at the airport under strenuous protection of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ special squad. The source claims that negotiations have been marked by a calm atmosphere.
The American side informed the Iranians that if did not have data on Israel's intention to physically annihilate HAMAS political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, thereby recognizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s outright responsibility for the crime. According to them, President Joe Biden has been unhappy with his loss of control over Netanyahu, holding that his political course does not meet the Jewish state’s best interests and threatens both regional and global security.
"Netanyahu plans to unleash a major regional war to engage not only the United States, Iran, Lebanon, North Yemen, Syria, but also Turkey, and Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa," Al-Jarida writes, citing the Americans. According to them, the Israeli PM is seeking a "major holocaust" that "would force everyone to sit down together and recognize Israel's right to exist, in exchange for establishing a comprehensive lasting peace for all the parties involved."
The American side tried to assure the Persians of Joe Biden's peaceful intent as the POTUS is hardly interested in a confrontation with Iran. At the same time, they stressed that allied obligations would force the United States to side with Israel if attacked. And this, in turn, would encourage other countries to side with the Jews in the war.
The response of official Tehran to Washington's promises has been anyone’s guess. Humiliated and insulted by the Israeli-committed crime, Iran is expected to come up with a fitting reply so as to preserve its image and authority in the Muslim world. August 6 saw Tehran issue a warning about its intended revenge on the Jews for the "martyr death of Ismail Haniyeh", making clear its readiness to go all lengths.
In turn, the Israeli Foreign Ministry warned its Iranian counterpart via the Hungarian diplomatic mission of its alert status as regards repelling attacks and “delivering a crushing retaliatory strike against the aggressor."
Thus, Iranian leaders are faced with a dilemma: to use all of its high-tech weapons against Israel’s both military and administrative facilities, or limit themselves to muscle-flexing with conventional weapons alone.
Iran seems opting for the second (and safer) option in order not to disrupt Netanyahu's plans to unleash a large-scale regional armed conflict he is interested in. Alternatively, lessening the magnitude of the confrontation would inevitably entail a crisis of power in Israel followed by a shameful resignation of its current government.
As for the Americans, all of their exhortations regarding Israel's disproportionate weapon employment against the Arabs are worthless: a single warning from Washington to cease all kinds of military assistance or political support for Israel could put an end to the Gaza carnage, along with military confrontations with Iran, Syria or Lebanon. The Pentagon keeps clinging to non-existent reasons for its military presence in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan, maintaining logistics bases in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Sultanate of Oman.
And now the United States has concentrated an impressive naval force in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf zone to support Israel's missile and air defenses, while deploying additional Patriot systems in Jordan. Without that, Israel had been notified of suspended American aid; Ismail Haniyeh would not have been assassinated; and a sharp political and military aggravation would have been avoided in the region.
In a full-scale war, if it breaks out at the end of the day, the Arab states of the Arabian Peninsula would stay on the sidelines, and the United States would not allow for an Israeli defeat. But Brother Johnathan’s clout in the region would plummet, making Washington face unpredictable consequences. That's what the White House has been afraid of. And hence the abovementioned meeting and negotiations in Karaj.
