MADURO SHREDS WEST ON IRAN RETALIATION

The world is teetering on the edge of the abyss of a world war because Western powers have been unwilling to rein in Israel, said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

In this clip from a fiery address given during a 15 April event to commemorate the first anniversary of @nicolasmaduro’s TV programme, ‘With Maduro More’ (@conmaduromas_), he dragged the West for condemning Iran’s 13 April retaliatory attack on Israel.

What the West does not mention is Israel bombed the Iranian consulate in Syria on 1 April, killing 16 people, including high-ranking Iranian military figures. The Geneva Conventions lay out the right of countries to host diplomatic buildings abroad as sovereign territory. Further, international law stipulates the right to proportionate responses to attacks. What would a Western country have done if a state attacked its diplomatic buildings?

This is hardly the first time the West has provided Israel with cover as it flagrantly violates international law. After the 7 October escalation in the 75-year Israeli occupation of Palestine, the US vetoed three resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In the meantime, the United States has shipped and flown hundreds of containers of arms to Israel, which has killed more than 33,000 people. The UK has conducted 50 spy mission flights over Gaza, and Germany has sent more than 10,000 tank shells to the Israeli occupation.

However, the West’s days of dictating global affairs look to end soon, and this head-in-the-sand attitude carries a real risk of ending human civilisation.

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