“I’ve heard that the remaining members of Epstein’s network have devised a conspiracy to create an incident similar to 9/11 and blame Iran for it.” – Ali Larijani.
Imagine an Iranian President coolly presenting a “kill list” to a foreign ambassador: the U.S. President, Congressional leaders, top Generals. And then declaring, without hesitation: “We will eliminate them, one by one.”
Within hours, the world would erupt. Emergency UN Security Council sessions. Relentless media hysteria. Sanctions, threats, perhaps even war—wrapped neatly in the language of “international law” and defending the “global order”.
But when it comes to Israel, the usual rules of the game do not seem to apply. The very same guardians of “law and order” fall silent, equivocate, or worse, supply the weapons and the cover.
What is unfolding before our eyes is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy implies shame. This is something colder: a calculated moral collapse—where rules exist only for adversaries, and impunity is reserved for allies.
As always, Israel leads the way in dragging its U.S. partner into an ever deeper moral and political abyss. Israel has no regard for the repercussions of the normalization of its heinous methods of terror.
But the international community should not disregard that recklessness; as for every action there will inevitably and always be a reaction.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
