As I recently wrote, the Islamic world is marked by notably low average IQ. In fact, ‘Palestine’ scores so low that its population could be classed as functionally retarded. Iran fares much better, but still below average.
Like it or not, these are facts – and those facts have consequences.
Such as not learning that attacking Israel is not a good idea. From the very instant the modern state of Israel was re-established in the ancient Jewish homelands, its Islamic neighbours have repeatedly ganged up to try and destroy it.
And got their arses handed to them, every time.
To be fair, the dim bulbs eventually lit in some Islamic states. Egypt made peace decades ago (although that led to the prompt assassination of the president by enraged Islamic morons). More recently, the Donald Trump-brokered Abraham Accords showed that the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan were coming to their senses.
The dimwit mullahs of Iran are slow learners, though.
The Iranian ayatollah’s strategy from the outset was to light a “ring of fire” around Israel to burn it to death.
Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and “the day after October 7 was the day Iran ignited the ring of fire”, says retired Australian army colonel Mike Kelly, a former Labor minister for defence materiel.
The ring has many parts to it and all flared up: Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq, just to name the biggest.
All are armed, financed and directed by Iran. For instance, as the late Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, once said: “Hezbollah’s budget, everything it eats and drinks, its weapons and rockets, comes from the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
As I often say, there’s genuine intelligence... and then there’s rat cunning. They are not the same. Criminals, for instance, often possess the latter but are known for being generally of low intelligence. Which is why they almost always come a cropper.
Rat-cunning Iran thought it was playing the smart game.
Iran’s strategy is shrewd. Why should Iran expose itself to Israeli attack when its armies of affiliates were only too happy to martyr themselves for the cause?
“A situation was created,” says former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, “in which Iran had a border with Israel but Israel had no border with Iran, which is more than 1000 miles away.”
Like all rat-cunning but thickheaded criminals, though, the Iranian regime is suddenly finding that it’s about to be nicked.
But the strategy is failing. Israel has inflicted so much damage on Iran’s proxies, has doused so much of the fire, that Iran finally felt compelled to engage the enemy itself […]
The result? Iran bombarded Israel with 180 ballistic missiles on Tuesday night, Australian time. After its missile and drone assault on Israel in April, this was only the second time Iran has struck Israel directly.
And, once again, the dunderheaded hate of the Islamic world is learning the hard way that, as Orson Scott Card put it, ‘Jews don’t lose’.
And, for the second time, while it terrified Israeli civilians, Iran’s missiles proved impotent against the combined interception effort of Israel, the United States, Britain, France and Jordan.
And, for the second time, Iran is pulling back its burned hand. But it may be too late.
The regime of Ayatollah Khamenei is unpopular at home and its economy is crushed by sanctions imposed by the West. “Iran doesn’t want an all-out regional war because of the damage it would do to Iran but also damage it would do to the regime,” says retired Australian major general Mick Ryan.
But with the ring of fire sputtering and smouldering, Israel now confronts the chief arsonist in his own home. And Iran has given Israel the opportunity to impose a punishing retaliation.“Netanyahu,” observes Ryan, “is also in regime-preservation mode.” He has promised to retaliate and, unlike in April, the White House this time is not urging restraint.
So, now the mullahs are left sweating on what the ‘yahud’ are going to do, next. They’ve already shown that nowhere and no one is beyond their reach. If wasting Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh in a compound protected by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard didn’t get the message home, then sending the two brothers known as Hezbollah’s ‘terror royalty’ to their 72 virgins should make even the dimmest bulbs in Tehran start to sweat.
One thing’s for sure, they won’t be answering their pagers in a hurry.
Nor would they want to be anywhere in the vicinity of Iran’s nuclear facilities for a while.
Who knows? Maybe this time they’ll finally cotton on.
