THE ARGIE AND THE WORLD

Who with ambiguous and false arguments has facilitated Israel's aggression against Iran and which Donald Trump tried to finish off?

 

By Sir Charlattam 

How could I forget that goal with Diego Maradona's hand in the game with the British national team in the 1986 World Cup, while I was on a mission and waiting for a courier in a Berlin safe house. At the time I just said: ‘you miserable Argentine cheating son of a bitch’, but on reflection I realised that it was just a ruse, like the ones my employers at the time used to put me up to for 10 Downing Street.

Today it's all just child's play, but I thought I'd never hear of any more cheating Argentinians.

When our lovely plump prime minister David Cameron in 2010 embarked with Francoise Sarcosi's France and the libidinous Italian PM Julio Berlusconi on Barak Obama's plans to remove the Arab regimes in North Africa that no longer served him and which with the cooperation of the mainstream media and social networks like Facebook (scripted by MI6 and the CIA) spread as a spontaneous revolt they called the ‘Arab Spring’. One of these was the destruction of Libya, the massacre of part of its population and the assassination of Muhammar al-Gaddafi.

It was on this occasion that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, another Argentinean, Luis Moreno Ocampo, took the ridiculous step of accusing the Libyan government which was in the midst of an incredible and brutal aggression by nothing less than waves of Arab mercenaries (jihadists paid by Qatar and Saudi Arabia) in the service of NATO. Moreno Ocampo's role was so obvious that it was not long before he was removed from his post. When I consulted with some contacts in Buenos Aires about this guy I understood everything and surely, the prosecutor had decided to ‘play it safe’ and get an extra profit for it.

Guys like that not only ruin the reputation of the institutions they represent, they spread corruption like a damn virus.  And understand me well, it's not something against Argentines per se since in 1982 they were about to kick us in the ass and send us back from the south atlantic. It is these guys like Moreno Ocampo who, with high positions, have a remarkable vice with influence and money. 

But today it is another Argentinean who takes a pitiful lead and who has repeatedly brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, has been displaying a shameful bias on the issue of control and safety at nuclear facilities around the world, pretending to be distracted on some issues and misinforming on others.

It is true that the IAEA's record of performance in contemporary history is simply lamentable, if not to recall the fabricated history surrounding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the falsified evidence of Saddam Hussein's plans for a nuclear programme. Back then it was the individuals of honest and courageous men who made a difference even at the cost of their own lives.

The American Scott Ritter in his position as UN inspector in Iraq may have sung the song of those in Washington DC who were imposing (through the Media Corporation) as truth, but he was honest and made it clear that there was no such thing as what the George W. Bush administration and its band of neo-conservative thugs grouped in the PNAC were claiming. Or what can I say about David Kelly (who should be declared a Sir) who, also driven by his honesty and having seen for himself what was being done in Iraq, told the truth and exposed Tony Blair's government who would pay him for that honesty by sending him an MI5 assassin.

So Kelly and Ritter could have made a difference if they had looked the other way and sold their souls to the devil. But they didn't and despite this and the heavy price they paid, they are a testament to transparency in a very opaque and dirty world.

But these sizes are too big for Mr Grossi. For him, it would seem, one has to stand on the side that warms the sun according to the occasion, similar to the politicians who govern his country. But a post of such sensitive importance as the one he holds should not be filled by careerists or those with a malleable will such as he has shown himself to have.

During the constant Ukrainian drone attacks on the Energhodar nuclear complex in Zaporiye, despite Russia opening its doors to him to inspect and study the evidence of the crime that Zelensky's neo-Nazis were committing at the risk of creating a new Chernobyl, Grossi said he could not determine where the attacks were coming from. He may have believed he was dealing with amateurs or a government using his twisted logic. Had it not been for the Russian defence that was inhibiting each of these attacks, it could have created a catastrophe that Kiev sought to capitalise on militarily. His pro-Atlantistic positioning has been so disgusting that even a blind man would see through it.

Rafael Grossi should know that respect for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is for all, not for some.

With the current circumstances surrounding the deliberate Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear plants, which put and may continue to endanger the security of all humanity, we see this bias again. Some rumour that it was Donald Trump himself, speaking for Bibi Netanyahu, who called Grossi to intimidate him to behave in this way. Equally if he had integrity (like David Kelly) it doesn't matter if the devil himself orders him to turn a blind eye.

Tehran has for years and with respect for international law been willing to show its facilities and nuclear development for peaceful purposes, something we have not seen from Israel. But the most serious thing that this man has demonstrated and that Netanyahu used to justify his aggression on 13 June was the provision of information to Tel Aviv that Grossi should not use as a bargaining chip. Or can anyone believe that he has not received a good reward for that hand?