Virtual embassy: New Iranian dealings in Jerusalem

Eslam Mohamed

In the context of the ongoing Iranian dealings in the Palestinian issue and the bidding on Arab regimes and peoples in support of their first central issue, lawmakers in the Iranian parliament revealed the preparation of a draft law that includes opening a virtual embassy for Tehran in occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

Iranian MP Mohammad Ali Pourmukhtar said that 40 deputies signed the project until Tuesday morning, May 12 to establish the virtual embassy, noting that the project includes a ban on any scientific or financial dealings with Israel.

It should be noted that there is virtually no official Iranian dealings, whether scientifically or financially with Israel, as the exposure of relations between the two parties in the 1980’s Iran Contra scandal led to a great scandal for the Iranian regime, which was then claiming its hostility to Tel Aviv.

For more than 40 years since the outbreak of Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolution in 1979, the mullah regime has raised slogans against Israel and the Zionist movement, but it practically directed all its wars and military attacks against Sunni Arab states, igniting a sectarian war spanning several countries, by spreading its terrorist movements to instill division. While what it offered to serve the Palestinian cause were empty slogans without content, Tehran supported Palestinian division, such that the battle became Palestinian-Palestinian in many cases, and Tehran sought to spread Shiism among the Palestinian people, which sparked the division further. The Shiite Sabreen movement was established in Gaza as the spearhead of the Iranian project in Palestine.

As soon as he took over, Khomeini established a military corps in the name of Jerusalem, the Quds Force, but the corps instead targeted Iraq and recruited thousands of Iraqi Shiites in its ranks to fight in the first Gulf War under the slogan “the road to Jerusalem starts from Iraq”. Over the past years it fought in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and it was active in Venezuela and Western and Arab capitals, except for the capital of Palestine.

Despite all forms of conflict, tension and recklessness between Iran and Israel, and despite the increasing targeting by Tel Aviv of Iranian bases or military installations belonging to Tehran in Syria and Iraq, Iran did not respond and often did not dare to complain.

Iran also organizes World Jerusalem Day annually on the last Friday of every Ramadan, and demonstrations that raise the slogans of “liberating Jerusalem” are produced, but these demonstrations aim to renew allegiance and loyalty to Iran’s Supreme Leader and his terrorist regime without clarifying what they have done for Jerusalem specifically.

During the celebration of this day in June 2017, Iran condemned an innovative idea that ridiculed it. It published a poster depicting Iran’s allies at a Jerusalem summit, which was set in the year 2040 led by Iran’s Supreme Leader. Appearing in the picture were Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani (who was assassinated in January), Nigerian Shiite leader Ibrahim Zakzaki, and Yemeni Houthi leader Badr al-Din al-Houthi.