The media furor surrounding the Iranian threat continues apace on Monday, with a dubious claim that Iran gave serious consideration to attacking US military bases in the Middle East in September, before deciding against it.
The report is built around quotes from an unnamed Iranian official, who claimed there were five secret meetings on the matter, which ended with the Yemeni drone strike on Saudi Arabia. This intends to present the Yemeni attack as an Iranian attack, something US officials have tried to do, but which both Iran and the Yemeni Houthi movement have denied.
That the story doesn’t make sense is an afterthought, as the goal is to portray Iran as an aggressor, exemplified by the unnamed official quoting an unnamed Iranian commander saying “it is time to take out our swords and teach them a lesson.”
Yet since the story doesn’t end with an actual Iranian attack, but just an attack that officials want to blame on Iran, the portrayal of Iran’s aggressiveness also doesn’t pan out even in-narrative.
The report claims concerns about a “direct confrontation” leading to a devastating war was what stopped Iran from attacking the US, which makes sense, but contradicts US generals claiming over the weekend that the US had not deterred Iran from attacking.
Iranian officials, naturally, rejected this report, saying these meetings never took place. There is no evidence the meetings did take place either, and since there was no attack there is no reason to even suspect that there were multiple meetings about the attack, beyond that being a way to keep Iran in the headlines.
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Exactly!!
Nonsense!! If their ever was a pile of BS in front of you, this is it!!
It is not just that Iran and the Houthis deny it, there hasn’t even been an argument presented, let alone proof.
Considering the Iranian involvement in the attack, it is plausible that there was some. Scott Ritter thinks they may have provided terrain following navigation components, but on the issue of providing assistance, the amount of assistance matters, not the principle. They are looking for the speck in the Iranian’s eye.
In order to call the Houthis an Iranian proxy there have to be extensive ties and assistance, there has to be considerable control. In order to call this an Iranian attack.
The funny thing is that by extrapolating the story too far it has been going the other direction: The Iranians are helping the Houthis, a lot. Yugely. then the Iranians do the attack themselves. Wait. Are the Houthis not good enough then?
Ludicrous.
Since when hasn’t the USA “mulled” attacking Iran. This “media furor” is why I NEVER pay attention to the MSM, except for the sports scores, and even then…
I don’t pay any attention to the Pirhana Press either, Thomas. You’re right .. This “media furor” is exactly why I ignore them, save for sports scores.
Iran’s a peaceful nation that hasn’t attacked its neighbors in 500 years .. The same cannot be said for the US/UK/Saudi Arabia/Israel in less than 75 years. However, Iran’s more than capable of defending itself from these very neighbors and the US/UK/NATO if it’s attacked.
Iran also has powerful allies in China and Russia, who’d destroy those US bases, as well as its Naval fleet.
Masterful. They “settled” on the drone attack. The propaganda machine has no peers. Other than Israel’s.
Yes, though, frankly, there wouldn’t be much daylight between ours and Israel’s.
The dark comedy of this is that it may even largely be true; but it’s immaterial and given all the lies of the past century, who would believe anything the MSM says about war?
There is no trust. There is only the deadly momentum of empire left, western peoples going through the motions, paying taxes in support of huge militaries, which can still kill millions, as we’ve seen.
I see Mek’s fanfic department is still up and running. Good for them. It’s hard to get published.