Explainer: Why are anti-Iran lobbyists in West cheering genocide of Palestinians

By Yousef Ramazani

As we enter the eleventh day of the Israeli regime’s aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of almost 2,900 Palestinian citizens, including more than 700 children, the international community has come out openly in defense of the occupying entity.

Even Muslim and Arab countries have been reluctant to unequivocally condemn the genocide of Palestinians in both the besieged Gaza Strip as well as the occupied West Bank.

Iran, which has extended its full support to the Palestinian resistance movement, has warned that the war will expand beyond Gaza and occupied territories if the regime launches the ground offensive.

Top Iranian officials, including President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, have in recent days spoken to leaders of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, calling for a united front against the Israeli regime.

Western media and politicians have strongly backed the Israeli aggression on Gaza, including the bombing of densely-populated civilian areas and hospitals, and fanned the disinformation campaign.

Remarkably, joining them are anti-Iran lobbyists in Western countries, especially in the US and the UK, who have found a common cause with Zionists – cheering the genocide of Palestinians.

Exiled monarchists

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed Western-backed Iranian dictator, has explicitly supported the Israeli regime’s aggression against the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance movement.

He described the Palestinian groups as "terrorists with a murderous ideology" and "forces of evil," repeating the already-debunked propaganda that they "kill children, women and innocents."

The US-based rabble-rouser promoted and amplified similar gross disinformation about Iran during last year’s riots, such as the Iranian police “killing and torturing” a 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini.

Pahlavi went on to state that the Israeli regime is "under attack from the same poisonous ideologies that returned the once progressive and prosperous region to the dark ages," indirectly glorifying the times when Iran was a puppet petro-state under his father, a Western-backed tyrant.

His statements are fully in line with the official positions of Washington and Tel Aviv.

He also called for complete submission to American and Israeli plans to dominate the region and to hand over neighboring countries to their dictators and Takfiri terrorists.

Pahlavi's connection with the Israeli regime is not new. This year he visited the occupied Palestinian territories, glorified the Israeli army, and met with the regime premier Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu and the Israeli regime have supported him with anti-Iran propaganda, which is evident from the increase in internet bots aimlessly rooting for the return of the monarchist dictatorship.

MKO terror cult

Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist cult, in her social media posts, accused Iran of "instrumentalizing the Palestinian issue, saying it is "a well-known tactic of the Iranian government that does not deceive anyone."

On X (formerly Twitter), she shared an article from The Wall Street Journal that claimed Iran had helped Hamas in planning the operation, something even American officials haven’t acknowledged.

Rajavi and her cult's close relationship with the Israeli regime has been known for years, as the Zionist lobby funds their bases, activities and annual events, where regular guests include the most radical American Zionists and high-ranking Israeli officials.

As Albanian historian Olsi Jazexhi explained to Press TV in one of his recent interviews: "Many of the people who speak in their conferences are die-hard Zionists who support Israel and want the extinction of the Palestinian people."

He said the MKO is being used as a tool to pressure Iran to stop its support for Palestine.

The fact that the Islamic Republic, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, has staunchly supported the oppressed people in Palestine has created bad blood between Rajavi and Palestinians.

Also, because Tel Aviv is backed by the US military-industrial complex, which bankrolls Rajavi’s Albania-based terror cult and its extensive troll farms, she has found common cause with the regime.

Celebrities and shame

Support for the Israeli regime in its terror campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip has also come from a number of individuals who have been bent on creating social unrest in Iran through disinformation.

One of them is Ali Karimi, a Dubai-based former Iranian footballer who during last year's riots aggressively lobbied for the “regime change” in Iran and the return of the former dictator's son.

On the X platform, Karimi commented on the aggression against Gaza by saying that "Israel will take care of itself" and that "Iran and the Iranian people will pay for the crime in lives and money."

Masih Alinejad, a US-based and CIA-funded anti-Iranian propagandist and self-proclaimed spokeswoman for Iranian women, also jumped on the bandwagon and played the devil’s advocate.

She called for the removal of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution’s page on the X platform, spoke in favor of normalizing relations between the Israeli regime and Arab countries, and called on Western countries to blacklist the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization.”

Alinejad played a key role in fanning the flames of Western-backed riots in Iran last year and has continued to peddle lies about the Islamic Republic in line with the Western agenda.

Another self-proclaimed Iranian women's spokeswoman, British actress Nazanin Boniadi, also came out in support of the Israeli regime and made outlandish accusations against Iran and the IRGC.

Anti-Iran media and Israel

Anti-Iran media outlets based in the West, including Iran International and Monato as well as some Persian-language media channels, have also been aggressively batting for the Israeli regime.

After the Hamas resistance group launched the Al-Aqsa Storm (also known as Al Aqsa Flood) operation last Saturday, Iran International anchors were visibly frustrated and couldn't hide it.

The guest analysts appearing on the two propaganda outlets run by anti-Iran groups and bankrolled by the US and its European allies have clearly and unapologetically supported the apartheid regime.

One of the reporters for Iran International even admitted on air that we was airlifted from the US and taken to the occupied Palestinian territories to help spread the Israeli narrative of the war. 

The same outlets last year fanned the flames of deadly riots in Iran, which led to the killing of innocent civilians and policemen by West-backed armed rioters.

The same outlets have been spearheading the propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic with an aim to bring about a "regime change" in the country, without any luck. 

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