Press Release
As We Recall the Demolition of the Khilafah (Caliphate): Muslims Are Paying the Price of the Treachery of Their Rulers by Bringing the Snake into Their Lands

On the morning of Saturday, 28 February, America and the Jewish entity launched a surprise attack on Iran that resulted in the assassination of a number of leaders of the Iranian regime, foremost among them the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran then responded by launching hundreds of missiles and drones toward the Gulf States, targeting the American military bases and striking civilian infrastructure across various parts of the Gulf.

What these insignificant rulers are doing by establishing bases for the leaders of disbelief in our lands, foremost among them America, is the greatest betrayal of the Ummah. America has turned them into forward attack lines for its conflicts and domination over the lands of the Muslims. The price of this betrayal has been that the lands of the Muslims burn in futile wars serving their enemies, instead of all their capabilities being united against their enemies; instead we see them harnessed to grind one another.

O Muslims: The kafir (disbelieving) West did not suffice with tearing apart the State of the Khilafah (Caliphate). Rather, it made these cardboard states into friendly states and hostile states according to its interests, always setting some of them against others. Yesterday Iran was America’s stick in the region and it long provided it with great services in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria. Iran was the stick with which it struck the peoples of those lands to implement America’s plans and tighten its domination over them. Yet today it claims to protect the region and the Gulf States from the danger of Iran!

O Ummah of Islam... O Ummah of goodness and guidance: The arrogance of America and with it the grotesque entity would not have existed if the confrontation had been between them and an independent principled entity supported by the Ummah. The whole world witnessed the humiliation of this arrogance in the aggression against Gaza, that small besieged city. Over the course of more than two years, neither its intelligence services nor what it calls the Delta forces were able to free a single captive or reach its leaders. Rather, their martyrdom occurred in the field of confrontation and battle. The power of America is an illusion whose cause is the weakness of the Ummah. They do not possess the ability to decisively settle battles if the confrontation were with a principled state and an Ummah that has dedicated itself to martyrdom. The weakness of the Ummah has reached the point that the most cowardly of Allah’s creation—the Jews—have dared against it, threatening and bombing while boasting that their hand can reach any land of the Muslims.

Indeed, the reality of the weakness of this enemy, who is weaker than the house of a spider, we will see with our own eyes, by the permission of Allah, when the Ummah regains its authority and announces the birth of the rightly guided Khilafah state upon the method of Prophethood. This is what your enemy fears, and they work tirelessly to bury this newborn. But as Allah (swt) said:

[وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ] “And they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners.” [Surah Al-Anfal:30].

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Iraq