If the United States does manage to con itself into attacking Iran,
something which seems increasingly possible as days pass, the narrative
seems to be that US officials are convinced that Iran is going to attack
them first.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo once again warned Iran not to attack, a warning that seems particularly nonsensical following reports where intelligence officials confirmed that the claims of an Iranian plot were heavily exaggerated to justify anti-Iran measures.
The heavy exaggeration is just growing though, with unnamed US officials
telling NBC News that an unnamed Iranian official had okayed a
potential attack on a US military target, an attack these putative
officials tied to putative Iranian proxies, which is almost always
administration doublespeak for Iraqi militias.
The US has been treating Iraq’s Shi’ite militias like it has a serious
problem with them for some time, to the point that some Iraqi political
figures have suggested they want the US out of Iraq, and some militia
leaders saying they’d be willing to commit to helping the government do
that.
The administration’s narrative is that anything is liable to go wrong in
the Middle East, and that it will be Iran’s doing. Once that happens,
all indications are it will be used to justify a US war against Iran,
meaning the US is likely to blunder itself into Iran whether the
Iranians do anything or not.
Standard procedure for the USA to dream up a cause to justify the commands from BiBi.
So all Israel or the Saudis need to do to get the US to attack Iran is find a militia faction with historic or current ties to Iran which they can bribe into doing something dramatic..?!
You left out the CIA.
wars, it must be true, I heard it on the radio out of
Gleiwitz
Netanyahu has been “warning” us all for so long about Iran attacking the poor innocent peaceful nations we know and love, but usually there is someone in charge who is sane.
Has he not done enough damage already?
a simple false-flag attack on some obsolete navy ship will do the trick.
stupid americans will actually bend over backwards to accept the government/media lies.
Most every other war has been based on lies, why should this one be different. What is distressing is how effective the lies are.
No, Iran is not going to haul off and attack Israel, either in Syria or Israel proper. It’s government in Tehran is many things, but stupid is not one of them.
What Israel is attempting to do is create a false flag, to be blamed on Iran, as the justification for attacking it, and bringing it the US in on its side, militarily.
And unfortunately, Netanyahu’s ventrilloquist dummy, here in the US, AKA President Trump, has just made it very painfully clear this morning, that the US’s withdrawal from the P5+1, and the sanctions which will ensue, are the US government’s prelude to a war against Iran.
Just because something isn’t the most ham-fistedly, pig-headedly stupid thing the US government could do, is no guarantee that it will not do it, and President Trump’s speech about the US withdrawing from the P5+1 deal, is no exception to this very dark reality. He is making claims about Iran’s actions and capacities which bear absolutely no basis in reality.
The IAEA, which is staffed by amazinglingly bright people, has looked at the suspected facility, and said that there is no “there” there. And if that is what the IAEA is telling the world, I would very much tend to believe them. What Netanyahu and Trump are doing is tantamount to calling members of the IAEA, in their inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, idiots and liers, and members of this organization is neither.
With a potential corruption indictment hanging over his head, Netanyahu is going to want to jump start this war as quickly as possible, which is most probably the reason President Trump made the decert announcement today, rather than wait until this coming Saturday, 12 May, which was the actual deadline.
Look for this war to generate the revival of the draft in this country, and this time, the US military will be coming after both our young women, as well as our young men. And here is how I see the forces lining up; China, Russia, and Iran on one side, with the US; NATO, Saudi Arabia, and Israel on the other. There is no way that this will be allowed to stay regional; my sense is, it will go global in a heartbeat.