🔴This is a long one. As Lebanese authorities are holding a new round of negotiations with the Israelis in Rome to discuss Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon, the Israeli army continues to terrorize the area with drone strikes and bombings.
Professor Mohammed
Marandi joins Rania Khalek to discuss the reported US-Iran
memorandum of understanding, why Iran insists Lebanon’s sovereignty
is non-negotiable, and whether Israel could derail the deal before it
is even signed. He explains how Iran views the 39-day war, the battle
over Lebanon, Gaza’s place in the negotiations, and why he says
Tehran has emerged stronger at both the battlefield and negotiating
table.
"It’s not that Iran
just survived, which everyone across the world was stunned by," says Marandi. "Iran, till the very end, was pounding them day and
night. And the damage that Iran did to the US-Israeli regime, and to
their proxies in the region, was far greater than the damage they did
to Iran in costs."
Since Israel attacked
Iran several days ago, the so-called “mainstream” discourse in
the West has been chock full of proclamations that Israel has a
“right to defend itself”.
But there have been few
(if any) competent analyses of the legality of Israel’s actions.
To examine the legality
of Israel's attacks on Iran and Iran's response to those attacks,
Dimitri Lascaris speaks with former United Nations human rights
lawyer, Craig Mokhiber.
Craig is a specialist in
international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October
28, 2023, three weeks after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza
began, Craig stepped down as the director of the New York office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, four days
before he was due to retire.
In his final letter to
High Commissioner Volker Türk, Craig harshly criticized the
organization's response to Israel’s war on Gaza, calling Israel's
military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing
the UN of failing to act.
During the interview,
Craig referred to a recent article he wrote for Foreign Policy in
Focus. That article can be found here: