World Class Scoundrels Oozing Sanctimony

"It's very important for us to exchange views of the situation in the region, particularly regarding the Palestinian situation."

"Our relations are developing very well. Please convey my best wishes to leader [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei."

"Thanks to his support, we have gained good momentum over the past year [in Ukraine]."

Russian President Vladimir Putin

 

"[There is an urgent need to stop Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip', a child is killed there every ten minutes."

"It's not just a regional issue, it's an issue for the entire humankind."

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi 

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (R) at Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia on December 07, 2023. (Photo by Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

 

Preparing to run again for his fifth term as President of Russia, after having changed the Russian constitution from its previous limits, to pave the way for his planned undisturbed czardom with new elections upcoming in March of 2024, Vladimir Putin has been busy consolidating his/Russia's status as new major influencer in the Middle East. He is amenable in the process to extending Russia's loyal friendship to all the states, Sunni, Shia, and Judaic, strategizing his responses to whoever and whichever audience he finds himself in company with at any given time.

The current blitz of Middle East diplomacy included state visits to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, all geared to raising Moscow's power broker profile in the region. The current Israel-Hamas conflict has been cast by this master Rasputin as a failure of diplomacy on the part of the United States, where Moscow could step in as an effective mediator, one with friendly ties to both Israel and the Palestinians. As for Iran's concern over the danger to Palestinian children, this is an Islamofascist theistic regime that hangs its own children for 'crimes against the state'.

The Islamic Republic of Iran which materially supports Hamas as it does Yemen's Houthis, both proxies of Iran like Hezbollah in Lebanon, has repeatedly warned that the current conflict dating from October 7 -- when Hamas invaded southern Israel to pillage, slaughter, rape, mutilate and torture Israeli citizens living in towns and villages, kibbutzim bordering on Gaza, brought the wrath of the Israel Defense Forces down on Gaza, pledging to destroy the terrorist group once and for all -- could spread to other areas in the ME. 

 

The hypocrisy is staggering in its blatant sanctimony. Vladimir Putin is concerned with the misfortune of his two friends, Israel and Hamas, who are fighting one another; both intent on destroying the other; he doesn't seem to care which one succeeds. This, at a time when his two-year bombardment of Ukraine has visited ruination and broken towns and millions of displaced civilians, tens of thousands killed -- at his command, relentless in his pursuit of neutering Ukraine and absorbing its territory.

 

And Iran, which cultivates terror groups under its aegis in a command performance of long standing geared to enhancing its position as the rightful power in the Middle East, in a Shi'ite versus Sunni, Persia versus Arab states power play replete with nuclear threats and declarations of total innocence of intent, yet arming the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza, strenuously lays plans to ensure that a wider conflict will ensue, enabling Iran to mount its throne of ME control.

 

In Russia's all-out, implacable war against Ukraine, it is the Islamic Republic that is supplying Russia with most of its lethal drones, helping it toward accomplishing its goal of destroying Ukraine. The United States suspects as well that Tehran may be providing Moscow with ballistic missiles to be used against Ukraine. Iran, for its part, has announced a deal finalized for Su-35 fighter jets from Russia and additional military equipment including attack helicopters, radars and combat-trainer aircraft, from Russia.

 

How, which is the entity absorbed in drawing the entire Middle East region into a conflagration?

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, welcomes Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, left, for the talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Dec. 7, 2023. (Pool Photo via AP)