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Nobody ever bore responsibility for NATO aggression against Yugoslavia
— Russian diplomat
NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia began on March 24, 1999,
and continued for 78 days
BELGRADE, June 28. /TASS/. None of the initiators of the 1999 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia ever was ever brought to account, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Monday in an interview with Serbia’s Kurir newspaper.
"The task of people who know history is to always remember it and never let this period vanish in oblivion. The NATO aggression against your country that took place in 1999 was accompanied by many deaths, a lot of innocent people died, including children. Nobody ever bore any responsibility for it. It is lamentable that only rarely can you hear words of regret from some Western politicians," she said.
NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia began on March 24, 1999, and continued for 78 days. The operation, dubbed Allied Force, cited "the prevention of the genocide of Albanians in Kosovo" as its main cause. According to NATO’s statistics, warplanes of the alliance carried out 38,000 sorties during the operation, including 10,000 bombing runs.
According to Serbian officials, the bombing resulted in deaths of 3,500 to 4,000 people, while some 10,000 people were injured. Two thirds of the victims were civilians. The material damages amounted up to $100 billion. During the three months of the bombing, NATO dropped 15 tonnes of depleted uranium as bombs. After that, Serbia registered the biggest number of cancer diseases in Europe. In the first 10 years after the bombings, some 30,000 Serbian citizens were diagnosed with cancer, and between 10,000 and 18,000 of them died.
This was, of course, NATO's mission to prove itself as 'not irrelevant' after the fall of communism. A multi-billion dollar organization had to prove it still had some value even if it had to go far afield. NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization stepped into Yugoslavia because of Yugoslavia's long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean... I guess.
There should be some format through which a country or group of countries can be held responsible for aggressive action in another country. An investigation that falls 5 or 10 years after the event when all the spin and propaganda has been exposed, as in the Douma, Syria attack.
Unfortunately, politics will always interfere and truth will always suffer.
Iran's Raisi sets sight on Palestinians, Yemen and Iraq - analysis
Iran has a tendency to use proxies, pushing others to defend and die for it in its regional wars.
That is why Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis and Yemenites all are pushed by Iran to fight.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
AUGUST 9, 2021 00:05
Iran's new President Ebrahim Raisi receives the endorsement decree for his presidency from Iran's
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran August 3, 2021.
(photo credit: OFFICIAL KHAMENEI WEBSITE/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)
The Iranian-backed Houthis have suffered some setbacks in the battle for Marib in Yemen recently, and there has been increased attention on their drone attacks, as well as on the Iranian attack on a ship off Oman.
For the new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, these will be part of his first moves in the region. He will be shoring up support for Hamas, and may also travel to Baghdad.
We can determine some of Raisi’s objectives by looking at Iranian media connected to the IRGC.
This media claims that Marib will soon be taken by the Houthis in what would be a setback for Saudi Arabia, and meanwhile The Houthi leadership has accused Saudi Arabia and the UAE of being “tools of the United States.”
Hamas showed their support and sent a delegation to Iran for Raisi’s inauguration, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was quoted in Iran’s Tasnim as saying “the Palestinian resistance is on the side of Iran.”
This is an attempt by Iran to increasingly take over the Palestinians and create influence and control and use them to attack Israel. Iran already did this in May during Operation Guardian of the Walls, and will likely prod the Palestinians towards more attacks.
Iran has a tendency to use proxies, pushing others to defend and die for it in its regional wars. That is why Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis and Yemenites all are pushed by Iran to fight, while Iran’s regime strangles its own people at home and profits off all the instability, terror and suffering.
There is no country Iran is involved in that has become wealthier and more stable as a result. Most places where Iran empowers militias, such as Iraq, barely have electricity, and others, like Lebanon, are bankrupt.
Iranian media says Iraq’s foreign minister is coming to Iran soon, and Raise may be hosted in return during his first foreign trip, Fars News says.
According to the report “the Iraqi Foreign Minister also invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend this important security meeting with officials from Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.”
The meeting may take place in Iraq, and if the Iranian president attends, it would be an important regional meeting. According to this narrative, the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi wants to solidify Iraq’s role in the region.
Iraq needs to solidify its role in Iraq or the Taliban will be in control!
Iraq has also had discussions with Egypt and Jordan about regional security and normalizing more regional ties with Syria. If Iraq were to host the Saudis, Turkey and Iran, as well as representatives of Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and the EU, this would be a major milestone.
It remains to be seen what will happen, but the inclusion of Syria would be a major signal to the region. Iran wants the US to leave Iraq and this would also bolster attempts by Turkey, Iran and others to remove the US from Syria.
Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah's recent speech is also heavily quoted by Tasnim News. This is because he is trying to redraw the deterrence equation with Israel, and pretends Hezbollah is equal to Israel.
Hezbollah has taken over much of Lebanon and now conducts its foreign policy, and Nasrallah’s point now is that the recent rocket fire was designed to show Israel that Hezbollah can prevent Israel from escalating.
Raisi was also quoted recently as saying that the Palestinians would soon be free. They are free now, if they choose to be and give up their genocidal attitude toward Israel. But that's not going to happen; evil hates what God loves.
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