By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

On Tuesday, the illegal Zionist entity committed its umpteenth act of terrorism when it launched missiles on Syria’s principal port of Latakia as part of its policy of unabated provocation of the government of Damascus, and then boasted of its latest crime to the applause of its godfather, US, the super terrorist.
As the UN looks the other way, Usurper Israel which has a bleak, black, and bloody record of abuse of human rights, especially of the oppressed Palestinian people, continues to threaten the Islamic Republic of Iran with war.
For these countless crimes against humanity, the lawless regime is rewarded with billions of dollars of aid by Washington, while the American poodles in the Persian Gulf region open up their own coffers of billions of petrodollars to the occupiers of Palestine.
This is the pathetic situation of the world in which we live and where might is right, while justice, fairness, respect for humanitarian values, and a fully certified weapons-free civilian nuclear project, is subject to economic terrorism, political pressures, military threats, and the sickening addiction to imposing of more and more sanctions by the US.
Not that these sanctions in any way create impediments in the path of progress of the Islamic Republic of Iran and that of other countries fighting internationally-backed terrorism, such as Syria.
No, American sanctions are actually a blessing in disguise that make the free world and independent countries more determined to assert their inalienable rights, while exposing to the world the diabolical face of a devilish power.
The other day, the US, which is a racist entity that denies birthrights to tens of millions of its Afro-American citizens, imposed fresh sanctions on several Iranian officials and organs accusing them of human rights abuses.
The assumption of the harebrained policymakers in Washington is that during the forthcoming talks in Vienna for removal of all American sanctions, such extra territorial measures will force the Islamic Republic to bow to blackmail – as had happened in 2015 in Geneva.
Iran brushes aside the latest bid of economic terrorism by the US Treasury, and so does Syria, some of whose officials have been placed on the American blacklist for nullifying the chemical gas attacks by terrorists on the payroll of CIA and Mossad, which supply them with internationally banned weapons.
While the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed the US measures by saying that doubling down on sanctions won’t create leverage for Washington in the Vienna talks, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad, who was in Tehran for a 2-day official visit, said:
“Constant acts of aggression by the Zionist regime and its military presence in Syria as well as US unlawful sanctions against Damascus are violation of Syria’s territorial integrity and the root cause of insecurity and economic pressure in the country.”
Of course, Syria reserves the right to respond decisively to Israel’s air raids and at the appropriate time will definitely give a teeth-shattering answer that will make the Zionist rue their provocations.
As for the Islamic Republic, it will continue with its principled policy of supporting the oppressed people and aggressed governments of the region, and any adventurism by either the illegal Zionist entity or by its godfather, the US, will prove devastating to these two purveyors of international terrorism.