COLOMBO, APRIL 11, 2026, by Latheef Farook, DM: Iran restored the dignity of Muslims worldwide by single-handedly fighting against the world’s most powerful sole super power United States and the artificial political entity of Israel, planted by British and US powers for Jewish settlers, after driving out Palestinian, sons and daughters of the soil, by means of massacres and genocides.
This happens while oppressive Arab nations, installed in power by Britain and France in the aftermath of the collapse of Ottoman Empire during World War I, and now depending on United States for their political survival, refused even to condemn US-Israeli illegal war on Iran.
Columnist Abdelkader Abderrahman said there was no nuclear threat. US-Israeli war on Iran is nothing but a blind vengeance. Adding to this, columnist Sami Al-Arian stated that Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US.
It is an illegal war, not approved by the US Congress, manipulated by Israel to topple Iranian regime and install corrupt and pliant stooges like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and other regimes in the region to serve US-Israeli interests. These regimes were parties to all US-Israeli conspiracies against fellow Arab regimes.
Perhaps knowing that the US-Israeli war mongers would kill him, days before his death Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a pre-recorded appeal, urged Arab leaders to leave US Israeli enemies and join Muslims to save themselves and Muslims from their wars and destruction to restore their dignity.
However, leading Arab countries, depending on the US master to ensure the survival of their regimes, turned a blind eye to all US-Israeli wars and supported atrocities on Arabs and Muslims such as the wars on Iraq and Libya and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Muslims worldwide will never forgive Arab despots who facilitated the US-European backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Added to it, they invested their countries’ wealth in US and Europe and also started joint ventures with Israel. Their investments of their oil wealth on Muslim countries is virtually insignificant.
These Arab countries continue to view Iran with suspicion and failed to understand that US and Israel are pursuing geopolitical and economic hegemony at the expense of the peoples of the region.
Added to it Arab despots including Saudi Arabia the land of Islam allowed US to establish its military bases in their countries. The question raised by Muslims worldwide has been that how can Saudi Arabia allow a military base of US which invaded and destroyed Muslim counties like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria, slaughtering millions of innocent Muslims.
Displaying their servility, countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, competed with each other to provide lavish multimillion dollar receptions to US President Trump, dismissed Muslim sentiments and recognised occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel where Masjid Al Aqsa the first qibla direction for prayer in Islam.
Muslims worldwide remain fed up with Arab despots, aligned and depending on US-Israeli war mongers, despite their wars against Muslims. However US-Israeli war on Iran destroyed this concept, as the regimes were left by the US to face the wrath of Iran on their own.
Iran knew that these despots have abandoned Islam and Muslims. Thus once US-Israeli military strike began, Iran ruthlessly responded against US-Israeli military bases in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, and took the war to the very heart of Israel.
In the midst comes the disgusting swipe by US President Donald Trump at Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman or MBS, saying, that he did not think that he would have to “kiss” the US President’s “a**”. The comments came amid reports that MBS was asking the US to continue bombing Iran until the regime is toppled.
Trump, described by Professor Jeffrey Sachs as most the stupid man in the world, said during his first term as President said without the US protection, Saudi Arabia Royal family would be overthrown, overnight.
This remark not only insulted Salman but the entire Muslim world as Salman is the de facto ruler of the land of Islam although the concept of Royal family kings, prince and princess controlling the entire wealth and power from their palaces, is alien to Islam.After Trump insulted MBS, Trump’s ally, Steve Bannon, called for Gulf royals to send their children to fight Iran. Meanwhile Iran issued a chilling warning to its Middle Eastern neighbours during an urgent United Nations Human Rights Council debate on April 1, asserting that they will become “accessible targets” if they continue to facilitate Israeli and US military operations.
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, defending their right to respond at the “resource” of these attacks, urged regional unity against what it termed as the “malignant entity” of Israel, while formally protesting the diplomatic language used by Western powers.
