The destruction of the third world continues with the illegal and potentially genocidal attack on Iran through the American instrument of Israël. Both Israël, and its controllers, especially the United States of America, have been unambiguous in their declaration of intent to strike and cause calamity upon the nuclear sites of Iran. It is certainly a war crime as per article 56 of the Geneva convention and, following logically from that, it is also ambiguously genocidal in that any attack on nuclear facilities can cause the mass destruction of a population as the USA itself recently admitted in the case of Ukraine, and in regard of most consequences it is not different from the very use of an atomic weapon1. In other words, what America did to the Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a genocide.
This is not the first time that Israël has made these threats and committed actions which threaten the survival of the human animal on earth. The UN resolution in 1985 titled “Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security” condemned “all military attacks on all nuclear installations dedicated to peaceful purposes”2. It is important to note that the UN security council adopted a resolution against Israël in the same year on the complaint brought by Tunisia and it found that “the act of aggression which the latter [Israël] committed against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Tunisia” had “caused heavy loss of human life and extensive material damage”3.
The conclusions of this resolution of 1985 should be read again today as it shows how the world has come to accept all illegalities and evil as long as they perpetrated by Israël, on behalf of the white nationalist coalition that we call “the west”: the resolution
1. Condemns vigorously the act of armed aggression perpetrated by Israel against Tunisian territory in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and norms of conduct;
2. Demands that Israel refrain from perpetrating such acts of aggression or from the threat to do so;
3. Urgently requests the States Members of the United Nations to take measures to dissuade Israel from resorting to such acts against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States4
There are several other laws and conventions that are violated by Israël and the white coalition in this instance but international law as such does not exist as we know too well5. However, as the decline of the United States of America picks up pace, Israël, and eventually ‘the west’ will also cease to exist.
An attack of the kind witnessed on Iran since last week had been in preparation for a long time since their revolution of 1979, which a dear friend and philosopher in France has called, “the only real revolution since the French revolution”, an observation that falls in line with Foucault’s assessment of the Iranian revolution as “a tidal wave without a military leadership, without a vanguard, without a party”. Iran was captured by Britain at the fall of the Ottoman empire to extract its oil and wealth. The elected government of the democrat and intellectual Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup organised by Britain and America in 1953. The condition of enslavement and exploitation created there and then the conditions for the revolution which would come decades later. That was also the phase during which Iranian intellectuals and revolutionaries identified with the plight of the Palestinians. Iranians would travel to the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon to join and wage their joint struggles and would return with the lessons learned from those experiences of deep friendships.
However, Iran would continue to develop and retain something of its own history, or the complex dunamis that still remain irrepressible as “Iranian pride”. When we study the works of Foucault who wandered the streets of Iran during the revolutionary upheavals of 1979, and met with Khomeini in Paris, this “Iranian pride”, which in reality is a sense (the reasons and the maps of ends given through an extraordinary and long history) of themselves as enduring towards something that in itself is quite endless, came to be identified with the theological problematic of the “end of the world”, which Foucault himself perceived as the concept of the arrival of the 12th Imam, and which Khomeini explained to him as analogous with the judgment day for Christianity.
That mistaken identification of the revolution of 1979 as Islamic in Foucault (almost ‘Eurocentric’, but we will come to its meaning later) and others, and today in the rulers of Iran, is also convenient for the white nationalist project in the region which suppressed or erased the history of these ancient worlds to substitute them by an ahistorical or a recently constituted history of Islam. The assault on the region by white nationalisms had been preconditioned by that distinct model of cultural supremacy which asserts its right to the universal but is quite recently invented in being a derivative of the “Aryan doctrine” acquired by Europe from India from the 18th century as Divya Dwivedi has demonstrated—and by the imposition of a model of barbarity and primitiveness upon Asia with the addition of Islam itself as a religion of mere obedience and submission without historical or cultural developments. This is the Islam one finds in the puppet regimes, which are also merely the military bases of white nationalisms, where the puppets use Islam to make the people submit and be satisfied in their enslavement. That is, the instrumentalization of Shoah on one side and that of Islam on the other side is how the white nationalist control is exercised in west Asia.
The functions and the homological powers of the history—the concepts and the ruins which can be given new regularities—of Iran are what one finds as the principles of a distinct Iranian life. The region was once, about 5500 years ago, home to the Elamite civilisational system which continued later on in scattered forms through the Indo-Iranian migrations, which, along with the 4400 old Meluha civilisational system, extended to the Indus valley (which could have been the centre of the former), and its linguistic, ethnic and cultural forces remain in the Dravidian languages and religions of the south of India, and Baloch people, among others. Hiding them, certain selected Indo-Iranian migrations are well discussed within the discourses of white nationalisms which would eventually create the euphemism of the west, slavery, Nazism, and now the new white nationalisms which are running the extermination campaigns.
The self-designation as “Aryan” of a branch of this migration, which invaded Indus valleys and then the rest of India in about 1800 BC, through its mytho-theologico-poetic texts called “Vedas” which systematised caste order later, inspired a people without past—which began to call itself “Europe”—to create a model out of these ancient Indian texts whereby to conceive themselves as “Aryan” and then create a system of white nationalisms. The people without a past, today the phenomena called white Europeans, had to borrow and appropriate a malicious model of self-designation, the “Aryan doctrine”, from the minority people – the upper castes – who continue to deploy it in India even today in order to oppress the very people of India and the rest of the world.
When the Mauryas of India were sending their Buddhist emissaries to west Asian civilisational systems—especially Greece, which is west Asian, as they wanted to have nothing to do with the barbarians of the north west—and when Cyrus was waging his campaigns to expand the Iranian empire, the lands from where white nationalisms still thirst for genocides were not yet the barbarians found by the southern Romans in the forests of the north, without clothes, sleeping in mud, eating the uneatable. Not yet.
These words above are the very ones no one should ever have had to utter; these are the words of disgrace of the one who has written them, and the ones who caused them to be put into pages. We can go on into the stories of Iranians in the era of Islam, the cultural and political continuums with India and west Asia, and the stories of their defiance. But one must not. But if one must not address the past of the people of white nationalisms, one must then address their future, which can only be conducted through curse poetry, called Moiroloi in the Asian Mediterranean region6. The philosopher is without the power to curse. Instead, it was the power of women who survived catastrophes, to address the future of their oppressors and destroyers through curse, and it is the power that is exchanged as one comes to be a philosopher; it is not a decision, but something which takes place before all decisions.
But the most recently ‘civilised’ people of the earth, the white nationalists or the so-called west, are waging these wars of extermination and destruction in Asia, which might soon extend to India, only in order to hide that recent past where they wandered the forests speaking in tongues that nobody recalls today. That is, today’s white nationalisms (‘the west’, ‘Europe’) are of a people whose past itself was erased thoroughly through their own inabilities to come to a system of civilisation, and as a result their colonisation and enslavement by the empire of the south, Rome. Thus, we can only conclude that these are the wars to erase the shame of still being the barbarians in comparison by eliminating all the standards of comparison including India, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Libya, Africa, and eventually perhaps China.
They have to be Über-barbarians (in the hope to become the Übermensch finally) with their bombs and black hearts to fulfil their destiny to be the only people on earth. How else are we supposed to understand this filth and death spread on the earth by the so called ‘the west’? Or the white nationalisms?
Endnotes
- “U.S. Embassy in Ukraine calls nuclear power plant attack ‘war crime’”, 05 March 2022, Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/world/us-embassy-ukraine-calls-nuclear-power-plant-attack-war-crime-2022-03-04/;
Also, see “Objective and Essential Elements of a State’s Nuclear Security Regime”, IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 20, International Atomic Energy Agency, https://doi.org/10.61092/iaea.ajrj-ymul
- “Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security”, Adopted at the 59th plenary meeting, 1 Nov. 1985, UN. General Assembly (40th sess. : 1985-1986), UN. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/103266?ln=en&v=pdf#files
- Resolution 573 (1985) Adopted by the Security Council at its 2615th meeting on 4 October 1985.
- Ibid.
- See, “Palestine Lebanon Extermination Camps: Call to Arms”, Philosophy World Democracy, 14 October 2024, https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/articles-1/palestine-lebanon-extermination-camps-call-to-arms
- See “He Has Lit A Funeral Pyre In Everyone’s Home”, Letter to an Iranian friend, Naked Punch Review, https://nakedpunch.com/he-has-lit-a-funeral-pyre-in-everyones-home/