by DR BRIAN TAWANDA MARWENZE
WHEN US and Israeli warplanes hit Tehran, Isfahan and Tabriz, they weren’t stopping a bomb—they were launching one.
UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi had already said Iran was enriching uranium but not building weapons.
Pentagon briefings told President Trump there was no plan for an Iranian first strike but still the White House called it “preemptive,” killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family, and marked as collateral damage more than 100 children buried in the ruins of a school in Minab.
Those deaths weren’t intelligence failures; they were the baseline the planners accepted.
Haim Bresheeth Zabner, the Israeli-born scholar who has tracked Zionism as a project since the 1940s, calls what happened “murder covered by a lie.” He notes negotiations in Oman were still alive when the missiles flew, that Iran had never attacked first, and that Israeli streets responded with dancing instead of mourning for him the deeper danger isn’t Iran—it’s a cornered Israel.
Ammunition stocks are thinning, civil society is fraying, and old strategic doctrines like the Samson Option hover closer now that Iran has answered with attacks on US bases in Qatar and Iraq.
The Arab world hears something else: a message that Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are on a waiting list. In Damascus and Ankara commentators write openly that today’s “preemptive strike” in Tehran becomes tomorrow’s precedent for Riyadh or Cairo.
Bresheeth Zabner argues this is why BRICS and the UN need to act, sanctioning Israel and removing it from international bodies before the next cascade begins.
He calls Gaza “the most democratic genocide in history” because of public approval, and sees the same logic now aimed at Iran.
What the world must see are the innocents, not the talking points.
In Minab, in the apartment blocks flattened in central Tehran, in a hospital near Tabriz where rescuers ran out of blood bags within hours—these scenes are the evidence that replaces speculation.