Archives Crimes of the Empire - New Eastern Outlook

After Washington and the West’s failure to achieve strategic goals vis-à-vis Iran after decades of sanctions and ill-conceived bombing campaigns, Western pundits have reverted to an exhausted scare tactic: reviving the USSR’s caricature.

In their unjust, illegal, and criminal war against Iran, the United States and Israel have suffered an undeniable, historic, and crushing defeat. They now find themselves forced to comply with Iran’s demands, despite all the victory posturing and triumphalist rhetoric from the very first days of the war.

Gradually, the West has maliciously replaced international law with an antithetical “rules-based order.” Behind the apparent normative neutrality, this novel concept reveals a hierarchical architecture of power; that is to say, an asymmetrical structure shaped by interests.