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A Costly Lapse that Needs to be Urgently Rectified

Date: 04 December 2020 - 21:12

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

After a two-week lockdown to stem the tide of the Coronavirus pandemic we at Kayhan International are back again on the newsstands, but with Iran facing mixed results in checking the devilish designs of the evil brains behind Covid-19 because of the grave loss these elements have inflicted on the country over the past few days.
The rampant spread of the pandemic may have been controlled for the moment through the complete or partial closure of most offices and businesses as the ‘red alert’ situation in Tehran and most cities and towns seems to have changed colour to orange.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, however, is still not out of the danger zone as borne out by the cowardly assassination of topnotch scientist Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was working on the project to manufacture the Coronavirus vaccine.
Although the genius that he was, Fakhrizadeh achieved martyrdom while loyally serving Islam and the Iranian people’s vital needs for defence against diseases and the destabilizing policies of the enemies, his death, without the least doubt, was a costly security lapse, which could have been avoided.
It is not the time for the relevant organs to play the blame game for failure to prevent the daylight act of terrorism that took the life of a person who for over a decade was the intended target of the illegal Zionist entity and its godfather, the US, for his noteworthy efforts in various scientific fields including the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
What is important is to do real soul-searching by the various state bodies to make the nation immune against all acts of dastardly terrorism, since Fakhrizadeh was the second high-ranking brain to be taken out of the national circuit of peace, stability, defence, and development, within a year, following the assassination in Iraq on January 3 of the iconic anti-terrorism figure, General Qassem Soleimani by our archenemy, US, the Great Satan.
Here, it should be mentioned that the targeted killing of these two prominent figures was not a feather in the cap of either the US or Israel, no matter how boastful the CIA and Mossad are of their cowardly acts of the murder of the innocents.
Yes, we have to admit that both Soleimani and Fakhrizadeh were victims of overconfidence by our security agencies, if not the unwarranted laxity that made them drop guard, which the enemies exploited to the full.
It could also be said that Dr. Fakhrizadeh would have been alive today if we had fully exercised our right of retaliation and self-defence in executing some of General Soleimani’s assassins, rather than being content with the barrage of missiles on the US base at Ayn al-Assad of which we had spoken as an indication of the vengeance awaiting the Americans.
It is still not too late to punish the cowardly terrorists, who view our undue patience as a sign of weakness, and are embarking on more deadly plots against us; this time in coordination with the unrepresentative and rootless regimes in our regime.
This means, the assassins as well as the collaborators ought to pay for their crimes against humanity, whether or not there is any change of guard at the White House in Washington.
Of course, efforts by Dr. Fakhrizadeh to produce coronavirus vaccine has not been aborted and the project is now in the human trial phase as a result of the round-the-clock efforts by the Late scientist and his colleagues, who earlier this year had produced the first test kits to diagnose coronavirus infection in Iran.
It is these selfless efforts that matter when in the defence of the country or the campaign against diseases, and this warrants us to work more diligently in not just eradicating the Coronavirus but also the more dangerous pandemic called Israel which has now spread its tentacles perilously near to our doors in the Persian Gulf.