The Pirates Of The Persian Gulf


 

Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (the IRGC) has done it again. The designated terrorist organisation has earned itself a new title, the pirates of the Persian Gulf. Within period of one week, it attacked an Israeli oil tanker in which they killed two crew members. They are also believed to have hijacked another commercial ship in international waters close to the coast of Oman.  

However, during their hijack attempt, when the IRGC commandos noted a US navy ship and Oman’s coastguard boat were on their way to rescue the hijacked-ship, they backed down and abandoned their catch runaway with their speedboats. The US, UK and perhaps most importantly the NATO condemned the attacks in strongest terms.  


Whether it is their first drone attack in which they killed two innocent British and Romanian citizens onboard or this new adventure, the issue is not what the IRGC did. Rather the real issue is the nature and ideology of the Islamic State of Shiite Caliphate established, with the IRGC as its military arm, in IRAN over 43 years ago. An ideology which is to expand and dominate the Islamic world with the ideological goal of creating a state of chaos and destruction in the world for their 12th Imam to come out of hiding and  "inaugurate a reign of justice that will presage the final judgment". The IRGC is assigned to this task.  


Importantly, a critical part of the IRGC is called Quds Force under the umbrella of which their other regional terrorist organisations such as Lebanese Hezbollah, Al-Hashd al-Shaabi, Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, to name only a few, operate. They have created and operated, by Iran's resources, this network of terrorist organisations as well as ad hoc terrorism operations where required. They maintain and use these terrorist organisations by way of financing and arming them with the newest technologies including drones and missiles. Since the demise of Saddam Hussain of IRAQ in 2003 followed by the removal, or made neutral at least for now, of the ISIS in Syria, they have had their position further strengthened. The IRGC has now become illusional to the extent in which it sees itself as an unleashed monster moving around the Middle East, and like to think and see well beyond. Its recent adventures are manifestation of that illusion. 


To that end, a key issue to note is that the former US President Trump dented that illusion by simply terminating its former head of Quds Force, general Soleimani. In response, the IRGC and its Quds Force were hypercautious not to give President Trump any excuse to retaliate as he was unpredictable. They even warned, in advance, the US Command in Iraq of their intention to send a few missiles into a US base there in response to the Soleimani termination. They did that because President Trump had warned them that injuring even a single US personnel in Iraq or elsewhere was his redline. 


The IRGC sent those missiles to the US base for one reason only. That was to save face domestically and before their regional allies and proxy terrorists, whilst were extremely anxious of the US response. That was not a calculate response but rather a fearful one from unknown ramifications of a US response which could mean the demise of their Shiite Caliphate. 


Indeed, that was not an action by a dangerous creature the IRGC tries to depict itself. And it perhaps provides the reason for the IRGC terrorists, or the pirates of the Persian Gulf as they are now known, which first attacked by drone and killed two British and Romanian nationals; but in their second hijack attempt simply abandoned the ship and runaway empty-handed once the US Navy ship and Oman Coastguard boat speed to rescue their target.


World cannot be complacent as to the danger the international peace and security faces due to the Shiite Islam's ideology, and the IRGC’s task to that effect. At the same time, the IRGC is the same IRGC as of the President Trump time! 

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