There is no real evidence that Iran is even considering taking such an
action, but the US Maritime Administration issued a statement Friday claiming that it was possible Iran would attack commercial ships, maybe even oil tankers, in the waters around their country.
This is a continuation of US claims of an Iranian attack, which would be
used to justify the ongoing US military buildup in the area. US ships, warplanes, and other assets continue to arrive in the region, so the excuses also continue.
Previously, the US narrative was built around Iran attacking US military
targets. Those claims have been seriously questioned, with officials
saying the administration deliberately exaggerated the intelligence.
Instead, officials are leaving those claims on the table, and throwing
out new allegations of things Iran conceivably could do. More and more
US forces are being thrown into the region, raising the risk that the US
is going to talk itself into a war.
The people who are fabricating the fake Iran threat, are the same people who fabricated the fake intelligence to the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq.
The Neocons and Neo liberals.
Don’t leave out those crazy Christian Zionists like Pence and Pompeo. For them, invading Iran is all part of the “divine” plan. They’re already creaming in their jeans about the prospect of imminent Armageddon.
Besides crazy Christian Zionists, Pence and Pompeo are Neocons.
That means they’re evil every which way from Sunday.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse: Trump Pence, Bolton and porcine Pompeo.:
Lets face it. Financial aristocracy cannot keep the pyramid going without interventions, that is /- taxpayer military spending. They do not care about those countries riches, they just need the PROMISE OF RICHES by occupying, regime fixing. Thus keep pyramid going. It is this big fat pie of military romp around globe that needs extending. Now all these forces need suport, food, all imaginable. Seriosly. Need big enemies now. After Venezuela, domething theatrical is needed, Bsck to the Middle East!
i agree. The MSM, politicians on both sides are puppets and tools for that policy.
Neocons, neoliberals, use any label you want. Only trump can order a carrier fleet into the gulf, only trump can order a b-52 bomb wing to deploy to Iraq. The trump campaign promise was clear, any perceived slight by Iranians in the gulf would be met with full spectrum dominance.
What I find so disheartening is that the Trump backers give Trump a pass on any of the nasty things that he promised during his campaign and delivered on since. As if that shows integrity.
Yup, I would expect trump support on any number of mainstream blogs, but antiwar.com? Its bizarre…
Here’s one of his campaign promises.
https://reverbpress.com/politics/donald-trump-enhanced-interrogation-waterboarding/
Spanky is real tough guy….
Two heads of the same toxic beast.
Exactly.
Yes, yes, next thing you know Iranian agents, replete with shades, ear piece, and silenced pistol will be popping out of potted plants, water features, and bowls of rice to menace good ole mom and apple pie. We simply HAVE to do something….
Of course, the fat “security” pie needs extending. Notice how all MSM media, is either pro or against Trump, but ALL are for the same list of enemies. Their narrative is IDENTICAL. So, the fact that DNC accused Russia of hacking to help Trump amounted of accusation of treason — was fluffed off without investigation. FBI requested acces to servers to investigate, and was refused by DNC.
That was the moment our justice system died. FBI should have seized servers and charged DNC with obstruction. Or DNC had a right to withdraw the accussation. No third way. Instead, a charade of “16 agencies said” that Russia meddled, and establishment accepted that. First, knly FBI is responsible for counter intelligence, not CIA or Coast Guard. A private company, Crowd Source, ran by well known Russia meddler, Dmitri Alperovitch, produced a report to prove meddling. Technically — embarrasing report, but who cares! Both parties, being corporations, are very compliant when it comes to cafering to financial aristocracy, and they all accept a story of Rusdian meddling. Mueller added the spice by accusding Rusdian internet click-bait trolls of nefarious something, then charged some FSB staff without any proif — just picked names from a telephone book. So, why is not the internet troll firm charged?
THEY CAME TO WASHINGTON TO FACE CHARGES. AND WERE TOLD THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN LEGALLY SERVED , SO THEY CANNOT BE CHARGED. But ee are here? Serve us! Nope.
This is a circus the world is watching.
So, they all accept the same list of enemies, say absurd lues about them, absurd lies about the actual life in those countries, and no MSM will stray an inch from the propaganda.
The Bolton non-interventionist plan comes into view.
bolton is queer.
Israel gets away with this all the time (the vicious Palestinian terrorists attacking the poor defenceless IDF for no reason) so why not BFF USA?
Never satisfied with destroying economies and ensuring humanitarian disasters wherever it acts, the USA under the trio of tyranny now wants “real war”. I suppose it has not noticed its success rate this century.
iran is in russia sphere. they are mobbed up. vlad shot down venezuela and will do the same for iran.
This may be a diversion. While talking up a threat to Iran, the purpose of these extra forces may be to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon once Israel sets up another “false flag” they can pin on Hezbollah to justify another Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Israel can’t take Hezbollah by itself but with the assistance of the US they would have a better chance of degrading Hezbollah’s missile arsenal at less cost to themselves. The US can provide strategic bomber aerial attacks that Israel can’t do.
The B-52s sent to the region in particular may be part of a planned attack on Hezbollah. B-52’s could attack all the way from the US but having them in the region would be preferable because it would enable more sorties to be flown. This would be critical to destroy Southern Lebanon to prevent excessive missile attacks on Israel before Israeli and US forces could occupy Southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley.
Alternatively those forces might have been sent near to Iran to enable an attack on Iran once the US and Israel attack Lebanon with other forces in the region in case Iran tries to support Hezbollah. It’s also possible that those forces might be used to attack Syria should Syria attempt to support Hezbollah or in case the US and Israel intend to extend the attack on Lebanon into Syria. All three countries are targets of Israel and the US and all three may be intended to be attacked once the attack on Hezbollah is initiated.
What we do know is that Israel can’t afford Iran to be attacked until Hezbollah’s missile arsenal is degraded.
save trump by starting wars…Its a great policy. Tried and true for the red white and boo
The ultimate con, make demands on Iran while at the same time making it impossibly for Iran to comply without betraying her people then punish and destroy an entire nation. It’s worse then stacking the deck, it’s worse then back stabbing it’s satanic and we as a so called Christian nation have allowed these monsters to take over our government.
Bell,, As long as we are busy aborting babies and attacking other nations with abandon and support porn, we are not a Christian nation, have not been for a long time. God will not be blessing the USA, until we repent and change our evil ways.
We wouldn’t be a Christian nation even if abortion were illegal, we didn’t “support” porn and if we didn’t frolic through the world killing people. Or don’t you believe in the separation of church and state?
The USA has no official religion, so-called or not. Freedom of religion is supposed to be kind of a big thing in this country. [off topic: And even those filled with hatred, have twisted ‘freedom of religion’
into ‘freedom to discriminate based on my sacrosanct religious beliefs.’]
Trump, as well as most all of the Ghouls of DC, are BiBI’s bi#ch. Not to mention that 99% of the MSM fawns over is#ael and BiBi, our true Masters.
INSANITY!
ps: forget MAGA, the buzzword regarding US policy now is MITA (Made in Tel Aviv).
If some mad people reach position of power, that also absolute power. and decides to excercise that powers in any way they want we the hapless can only watch. Netinyahu, Trump and USA are irrelavant, is bent upon a war with Iran and we are going to have it.