All Discussions Tagged 'for' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-29T09:21:10Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?groupUrl=target-iran&tag=for&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIran Gives OK for Counterattack if Invadedtag:12160.info,2013-03-17:2649739:Topic:11530012013-03-17T22:14:58.448ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Infowars.com</strong><br></br> March 17, 2013</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 380px;"><img alt="" height="232" src="http://static.infowars.com/2013/03/i/general/irandestroyer.jpg" width="380"></img><p class="wp-caption-text">Iran launched a guided missile destroyer Sunday on the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Photo: Press TV.</p>
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<p>As tension grows over Iran’s nuclear program, the Islamic Republic has given its military the go-ahead to counter attack, according to…</p>
<p><strong>Infowars.com</strong><br/> March 17, 2013</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 380px;"><img alt="" src="http://static.infowars.com/2013/03/i/general/irandestroyer.jpg" height="232" width="380"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Iran launched a guided missile destroyer Sunday on the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Photo: Press TV.</p>
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<p>As tension grows over Iran’s nuclear program, the Islamic Republic has given its military the go-ahead to counter attack, according to <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/16/293894/iran-cmdrs-authorized-to-counterattack/" target="_blank">Press TV</a>.</p>
<p>“Our commanders have received authorization to immediately respond to any hostile action by the enemy without allowing enemy to think twice [about its act of aggression],” Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, the Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, said on Saturday.</p>
<p>Press TV reported that the decision was made in response to recent threats by Israel to attack Iran. On March 4, in a speech delivered to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said if Iran crosses “the red line” Israel has established a military response to its nuclear program is inevitable.</p>
<p>“Words alone will not stop Iran. Sanctions alone will not stop Iran. Sanctions must be coupled with a clear and credible military threat if diplomacy and sanctions fail,” Netanyahu said.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Iran launched a domestically built Jamaran-2 <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/17/report-iran-launches-destroyer-in-caspian-sea/" target="_blank">guided missile destroyer</a> from the port city of Anzali, about 150 miles northwest of Tehran on the oil-rich Caspian Sea.</p>
<p>Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are at odds on how the strategic area should be divided.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.infowars.com/iran-gives-ok-for-counterattack-if-invaded/">http://www.infowars.com/iran-gives-ok-for-counterattack-if-invaded/</a></p> Military Muppet: TV character urges Israelis to prepare for strike on Irantag:12160.info,2012-08-29:2649739:Topic:9720612012-08-29T00:35:46.578ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><a href="http://rt.com/news/israel-iran-military-nuclear-744/" target="_blank"><strong>rt.com</strong></a><br></br> August 28, 2012</p>
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<p>A new emergency pamphlet in Israel instructs residents to prepare for the worst if Tel Aviv conducts a military strike on Iran. But the face on the brochure isn’t the country’s President or Prime Minister – it’s a Muppet.</p>
<p>The cover of the 15-page leaflet pictures a smiling Moishe Oofnik, the Israeli Muppet version of Oscar the Grouch.…</p>
<p><a href="http://rt.com/news/israel-iran-military-nuclear-744/" target="_blank"><strong>rt.com</strong></a><br/> August 28, 2012</p>
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<p>A new emergency pamphlet in Israel instructs residents to prepare for the worst if Tel Aviv conducts a military strike on Iran. But the face on the brochure isn’t the country’s President or Prime Minister – it’s a Muppet.</p>
<p>The cover of the 15-page leaflet pictures a smiling Moishe Oofnik, the Israeli Muppet version of Oscar the Grouch. He’s the resident pessimist on Rechov Sumsum, Israel’s co-production of the long-running American children’s program ‘Sesame Street.’</p>
<p>Muppets on the popular show are known for teaching children numbers and the alphabet, but Moishe Oofnik has taken on a different job with this pamphlet – instructing Israelis how to react if their nation’s government launches a war against Iran.</p>
<p>The booklet, issued by the Israeli military, says that once air raid sirens sound, residents of the Jewish state would have between 30 seconds and three minutes to find cover before rockets hit their area. The brochure, which is being distributed across the country, also teaches Israelis how to prepare a safe room or shelter for emergency situations.</p>
<p>The furry Muppet puts a happy face on the warnings, though the issue is anything but lighthearted: Israeli ministers have estimated that up to 500 civilians could die in the conflict that would follow a strike on Iran.</p>
<p>The pamphlet comes in the wake of recent remarks by Israeli officials suggesting that Tel Aviv may soon launch a unilateral attack on Tehran’s nuclear program. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak reportedly favor a strike on Iran. <a href="http://rt.com/news/israel-strike-iran-nuclear-739/" target="_blank">Public statements and anonymous quotes</a> to Israeli media in the past week have raised speculation that Israel may soon attack Iran.</p>
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<p>The bellicose rhetoric comes over Israeli and Western allegations that Iran’s nuclear program is a cover for the development of atomic weapons, while Tehran claims the facilities are for civilian purposes.</p>
<p>Less than two weeks ago, Netanyahu announced that negotiations with Iran had “failed,” and claimed that Israel will attack Iran in the near future, with or without US consent.</p>
<p>The Israeli Defense Minister also supports military action against Iran: <em>“Barak is advocating for action and the defense establishment is investing billions to prepare for an Israeli military operation,”</em> an Israeli official told Ynet News.</p>
<p>But the ambition to set back Iran’s nuclear program could come at a high cost to Israel’s citizens, causing many Israelis to <a href="http://rt.com/news/israelis-oppose-iran-war-936/" target="_blank">protest a potential attack</a>. The country’s president also recently spoke out against a unilateral strike against Iran.</p>
<p><em>“It’s clear to us that we can’t do it alone. We can only delay [Iran's progress]. Thus it’s clear to us that we need to go together with America,”</em> Shimon Peres told Israel’s Channel Two television.</p>
<p>Iran has promised to retaliate against in Israeli attack in what could lead to a wider regional war among several different forces. Tel Aviv fears that Tehran could induce its <a href="http://rt.com/news/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-netanyahu-676/" target="_blank">Hezbollah guerrilla allies in Lebanon</a> and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip to launch rocket strikes against Israel if Iran were attacked.</p>
<p>As the Israeli government prepares for the worst, it is urging residents to have a “family talk” about preparing for a national emergency. But it’s not just pamphlets that indicate that an attack may be imminent – Israel increased the distribution of gas masks and other protective gear to the public several weeks ago.</p>
<p><em>“There are always innovations the public needs to know about, it doesn’t mean anything is going to happen today, tomorrow or the next day,”</em> an Israeli military source told Reuters.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/229322.html" target="_blank"><strong>Press TV</strong></a><br></br> March 1, 2012</p>
<p>US Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz says the Pentagon has prepared military options to strike Iranian nuclear energy facilities.</p>
<p>Schwartz said that as far as the military options are concerned, Marine Gen. James Mattis, the Mideast combat commander who would oversee a potential war with Iran, “is satisfied that we have been as forthcoming and…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/229322.html" target="_blank"><strong>Press TV</strong></a><br/> March 1, 2012</p>
<p>US Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz says the Pentagon has prepared military options to strike Iranian nuclear energy facilities.</p>
<p>Schwartz said that as far as the military options are concerned, Marine Gen. James Mattis, the Mideast combat commander who would oversee a potential war with Iran, “is satisfied that we have been as forthcoming and imaginative as possible” in the planning.</p>
<p>“We have an operational capability and you wouldn’t want to be there when we used it,” he said when asked about a 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bomb in a meeting with defense reporters on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The general, however, refused to comment if the MOP bomb could reach underground nuclear sites in Iran.</p>
<p>“Not to say that we can’t continue to make improvements and we are,” he said.</p>
<p>“The bottom line is we have a capability but we’re not sitting on our hands, we’ll continue to improve it over time,” Schwartz added.</p>
<p>The US and Israeli officials have intensified their anti-Iran war rhetoric in recent months to put more pressure on the country over its nuclear energy program.</p>
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<p>Asked whether Iranian nuclear sites are immune to the US air power, Schwartz said, “It goes without saying that strike is about physics. The deeper you go the harder it gets.”</p>
<p>The general noted that the US arsenal “is not an inconsequential capability,” saying that the outcome of any preemptive attack would depend on the goal of the strike.</p>
<p>“What is the objective? Is it to eliminate, is to delay, is to complicate? I mean what is the national security objective. That is sort of the imminent argument on all of this,” he said.</p>
<p>The United States had previously portrayed its policy as one that attempted to engage Iran in negotiations over its nuclear energy program through various coercive measures such as the imposition of sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s oil sector and central bank.</p>
<p>However, a Wall Street Journal report revealed on Tuesday that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Tel Aviv officials have put the US President Barack Obama administration under pressure to adopt a more aggressive policy regarding Iran’s nuclear energy program.</p>
<p>Netanyahu is also due to meet Obama in Washington on March 5 to discuss Iran’s nuclear energy program.</p>
<p>Iran has promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.</p> Israeli claim: ‘Iran has uranium for 4 nukes, builds US-reach missiles’tag:12160.info,2012-02-03:2649739:Topic:7658622012-02-03T21:38:33.661ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
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<p>Iranian scientists have already managed to enrich enough radioactive material to successfully produce not just one, but four nuclear…</p>
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<p>Iranian scientists have already managed to enrich enough radioactive material to successfully produce not just one, but four nuclear bombs, Israel’s military intelligence chief has announced.</p>
<p>General Aviv Kochavi broke the news at a security conference on Thursday. The intelligence chief says he believes Iran would need a year from the word go to actually producing a crude device, and another year or two to manufacture a nuclear warhead that can be installed on a ballistic missile.</p>
<p>Kochavi also claimed that <em>“Iran is very actively pursuing its efforts to develop its nuclear capacities, and we have evidence that they are seeking nuclear weapons."</em>However, no actual evidence was produced or even referred to at the conference.</p>
<p>The Israeli Deputy PM added fuel to the fire, claiming that Iran has also succeeded in building a long-range missile capable of putting the US within its reach. Moshe Ya’alon, who had just returned from Washington where he discussed the Iran situation with President Obama’s administration, chose to echo Kochavi’s words of warning, saying <em>“The Israeli government will stop Iran one way or another.”</em></p>
<p>These latest statements are very much in line with the position of Israel and its allies who are accusing Iran of using its nuclear industry to mask plans to develop nuclear arms, a charge official Tehran has frequently and vehemently denied.</p>
<p>Israel, backed by its key ally the United States, has long pushed for tougher sanctions against Iran. Top level officials in both Tel Aviv and Washington DC have recently said they do not rule out a military attack against the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>As sparks continue to fly around the powder keg of Iran’s supposed nuclear ambitions, the Middle Eastern state is not playing dead either. A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Thursday that the country is planning to double its military spending over the next year; a sign that is being interpreted by many as “taking a stand” against pressure from the West.</p>
<p>The United States and their NATO allies are also flexing their muscles, with recent transfers of US fighter jets and other military planes to the region. Troops have also been reportedly arriving at various American military bases in the Persian Gulf, with another ten thousand soldiers recently transferred to Israel – allegedly to test the US anti-ballistic missile defense system.</p>
<p>On top of that, two US Navy aircraft carriers – the USS Abraham Lincoln and Carl Vinson – are on patrol in the Persian Gulf and are expected to be joined by the USS Enterprise in March. The USS Annapolis, a nuclear submarine, was earlier reported to have entered the Red Sea and is rumored to be heading towards the Gulf as well.</p>
<p>Together with the US military bases already established in the region – for example, the 5th Fleet, stationed in Bahrain – all of this is interpreted by many as nothing shy of intimidation, and some experts believe the US is trying to provoke Iran into making the first move.</p>
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<h3 class="r">PressTV - <em>India snubs US call for ban on Iran oil</em></h3>
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<div id="divLead">India has refused to bow to Washington's pressure on Delhi to cut its energy ties with Tehran, saying it will continue to buy Iranian oil despite US and EU sanctions.</div>
<p><span id="ctl00_body_spnDetail"><br></br> <br></br>Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee made the remarks…</span></p>
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<div id="divImageDesc">Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (file photo)</div>
<div id="divLead">India has refused to bow to Washington's pressure on Delhi to cut its energy ties with Tehran, saying it will continue to buy Iranian oil despite US and EU sanctions.</div>
<p><span id="ctl00_body_spnDetail"><br/> <br/>Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee made the remarks at the end of a two-day visit to Chicago on Sunday. <br/> <br/>"It is not possible for India to take any decision to reduce the imports from Iran drastically, because among the countries which can provide the requirement of the emerging economies, Iran is an important country amongst them," the Indian finance minister said. <br/> <br/>India, the world's fourth-largest petroleum consumer, is Iran's second largest oil customer after China and purchases around $12 billion worth of Iranian crude every year, about 12 percent of its consumption. <br/> <br/>On December 31, 2011, US President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions against Tehran, seeking to penalize countries importing Iran's oil or doing transaction with Islamic Republic's Central Bank. <br/> <br/>Also during their meeting in Brussels on January 23, EU foreign ministers reached an agreement to ban oil imports from Iran, freeze the assets of Iranian Central Bank across the EU, and ban sales of grains, diamonds, gold and other precious metals to the country. <br/> <br/>Washington has been trying to persuade emerging economies in Asia -- Iran's biggest oil market -- to cut imports of petroleum from the country. Both India and China have voiced opposition to the sanctions. <br/></span></p> Turkish Intelligence Says Iran Plans U.S. Embassy Terror Attackstag:12160.info,2012-01-18:2649739:Topic:7499902012-01-18T05:05:16.174ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Kurt Nimmo</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> January 17, 2012</p>
<p>The Turkish newspaper <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/news-268843-iranian-revolutionary-guardquds-force-could-be-planning-attack-in-turkey.html" target="_blank">Zaman</a> reports today that a cell of the Quds Unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is planning to attack U.S. embassy in Ankara and other targets across the country.</p>
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<p>Turkey’s intelligence service claims the Iranians plan to stay at…</p>
<p><strong>Kurt Nimmo</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> January 17, 2012</p>
<p>The Turkish newspaper <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/news-268843-iranian-revolutionary-guardquds-force-could-be-planning-attack-in-turkey.html" target="_blank">Zaman</a> reports today that a cell of the Quds Unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is planning to attack U.S. embassy in Ankara and other targets across the country.</p>
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<p>Turkey’s intelligence service claims the Iranians plan to stay at a five-star hotel and break into the U.S. Embassy or one of its consulates. In addition to the Quds Unit, the report states that the Lebanese group Hezbollah will participate in the attacks.</p>
<p>The Israeli newspaper <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-iran-planning-attacks-on-u-s-targets-in-turkey-1.407860" target="_blank">Haaretz</a> reports that according to Turkish intelligence, Iran is attempting to support the operations of “small, illegal Turkish organizations” following Turkey’s decision to establish a NATO radar installation on its territory, and due to Ankara’s condemnation of the al-Assad regime in Syria.</p>
<p>Last November it was <a href="http://www.infowars.com/libya-redux-france-and-al-qaeda-assist-free-syria-army-in-turkey/" target="_blank">reported</a> that Turkey is hosting the Free Syria Army (FSA) on its territory. The FSA is a paramilitary group opposed to the al-Assad regime. According to Milliyet, a major Turkish newspaper, France sent its military training forces to Turkey and Lebanon last year to train the FSA which is supported by the British intelligence asset the Muslim Brotherhood and the National Transitional Council in Libya, an al-Qaeda front.</p>
<p>The establishment of the NATO radar system in Turkey has created tension between Turkey and Iran. Prior to the NATO move, relations between the two countries were generally peaceful. Iran claimed the radar system was a <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=iran-tells-turkey-change-tack-or-face-trouble-2011-10-09" target="_blank">move by the United States to protect Israel</a> from a counter-attack should Iran be attacked under the pretense of taking out its nuclear program.</p>
<p>In October of 2011, the U.S. Justice Department claimed <a href="http://www.infowars.com/feds-foil-own-saudi-assassination-plot-pin-it-on-iran/" target="_blank">Iran was behind a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States</a>. The alleged perpetrator was an incompetent Iranian national who supposedly plotted with Iran’s Quds Force to kill ambassador Adel al-Jubeir. The sensationalized story was immediately questioned and dismissed as ludicrous by terror and Iranian experts.</p>
<p>Iran later said the plot was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/19/iran-dissident-saudi-ambassador-plot" target="_blank">hatched by the People’s Mujahideen of Iran</a> (MEK), a CIA created group that has carried out terrorist attacks inside Iran.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/russia-should-anything-happen-to-iran-this-will-be-a-direct-threat-to-our-national-security.html">Washington’s Blog</a></strong><br></br> January 14, 2012</p>
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<h4 style="color: #000099;">Iran and China Would Consider An Attack On Iran – Or Syria – As An Attack On Their National Security</h4>
<p>RT <a href="http://rt.com/politics/syria-iran-nato-rogozin-749/">notes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The escalating conflict around Iran should be…</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/russia-should-anything-happen-to-iran-this-will-be-a-direct-threat-to-our-national-security.html">Washington’s Blog</a></strong><br/> January 14, 2012</p>
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<h4 style="color: #000099;">Iran and China Would Consider An Attack On Iran – Or Syria – As An Attack On Their National Security</h4>
<p>RT <a href="http://rt.com/politics/syria-iran-nato-rogozin-749/">notes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The escalating conflict around Iran should be contained by common effort, otherwise the promising Arab Spring will grow into a “scorching Arab Summer,” says Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s deputy prime minister and former envoy to NATO.</p>
<p>“<em style="font-weight: bold;">Iran is our close neighbor, just south of the Caucasus. Should anything happen to Iran, should Iran get drawn into any political or military hardships, this will be a direct threat to our national security</em>,” stressed Rogozin.</p>
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<p>Here’s what Rogozin is talking about (notice how close the Southern tip of Russia is to Northern Iran):</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="China Iran Russia Russia: Should Anything Happen to Iran ... This Will Be a Direct Threat to Our National Security" src="http://www.pakalertpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/China_Iran_Russia.jpg" title="Russia: Should Anything Happen to Iran ... This Will Be a Direct Threat to Our National Security" height="495" width="600"/></div>
<p>A Chinese general has also allegedly said that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-3xeP7NFRE">China would launch World War III if Iran is attacked</a>. And <a href="http://www.eutimes.net/2011/12/china-joins-russia-orders-military-to-prepare-for-world-war-iii/">see this</a>.</p>
<p>While many Americans still believe that our government would not be crazy enough to attack Iran, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/does-the-american-government-consider-economic-rivalry-to-be-a-justification-for-war.html">economic</a> – not national security – considerations <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/are-the-middle-east-wars-really-about-forcing-the-world-into-dollars-and-private-central-banking.html">may be driving</a> the warmongers.</p>
<p>In addition, Iran and Syria have had a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/feb/17/usa.syria">mutual defense pact</a> for years. And <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/is-the-u-s-about-to-invade-syria-and-pick-a-fight-with-china-and-russia.html">China and Russia</a> might also defend Syria if it is attacked. So an attack on Syria could draw Iran into the war … followed by China and Russia.</p> IRAN: The Next War on Washington’s Agenda Politicstag:12160.info,2012-01-15:2649739:Topic:7471932012-01-15T13:37:01.756ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Paul Craig Roberts<br></br></strong> Infowars.com<br></br> January 14, 2012</p>
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<p>Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28542" target="_new">“Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.”</a></p>
<p>Washington has deployed…</p>
<p><strong>Paul Craig Roberts<br/></strong> Infowars.com<br/> January 14, 2012</p>
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<p>Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28542" target="_new">“Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.”</a></p>
<p>Washington has deployed missiles directed at Iran in its oil emirate puppet states, Oman and the UAE, and little doubt in the other US puppet states in the Middle East. Washington has beefed up Saudi Arabia’s jet fighter force. Most recently, Washington has deployed 9,000 US troops to Israel to participate in “war games” designed to test the US/Israeli air defense system. As Iran represents no threat unless attacked, Washington’s war preparations signal Washington’s intention to attack Iran.</p>
<p>Another signal that Washington has a new war on its agenda is the raised level of Washington’s rhetoric and demonization of Iran. Judging by polls Washington’s propaganda that Iran is threatening the US by developing a nuclear weapon has met with success. Half of the American public support a military attack on Iran in order to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capability. Those of us who are trying to awaken our fellow citizens start from a deficit that the minds of half of the US population are under Big Brother’s control.</p>
<p>As the International Atomic Energy Agency’s reports from its inspectors on the ground in Iran have made clear for years, there is no evidence that Iran has diverted any enriched uranium from its nuclear energy program. The shrill hype coming from Washington and from the neoconservative media is groundless. it is the same level of lie as Washington’s claim that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Every US soldier who died in that war died in behalf of a lie.</p>
<p>It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?</p>
<p>In my judgment, the US government’s war preparations are driven by three factors. One is the neoconservative ideology, adopted by the US government, that calls for the US to use its superior military and economic position to achieve world hegemony. This goal appeals to American hubris and to the power and profit that it serves.</p>
<p>A second factor is Israel’s desire to eliminate all support for the Palestinians and for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Israel’s goal is to seize all of Palestine and the water resources of southern Lebanon. Eliminating Iran removes all obstacles to Israel’s expansion.</p>
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<p>A third factor is to deter or slow China’s rise as a military and economic power by controlling China’s access to energy. It was China’s oil investments in eastern Libya that led to the sudden move against Libya by the US and its NATO puppets, and it is China’s oil investments elsewhere in Africa that resulted in the Bush regime’s creation of the United States Africa Command, designed to counter China’s economic influence with US military influence. China has significant energy investments in Iran, and a substantial percentage of China’s oil imports are from Iran. Depriving China of independent access to oil is Washington’s way of restraining and boxing in China.</p>
<p>What we are witnessing is a replay of Washington’s policy toward Japan in the 1930s that provoked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan’s bank balances in the West were seized, and Japan’s access to oil and raw materials was restricted. The purpose was to prevent or to slow Japan’s rise. The result was war.</p>
<p>Despite the hubris in which it wallows, Washington understands the vulnerability of its Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf and would not risk losing a fleet and 20,000 US naval personnel unless it was to gain an excuse for a nuclear attack on Iran. A nuclear attack on Iran would alert both China and Russia that they could suffer the same fate. The consequence would be that the world would face a higher risk of nuclear armageddon than existed in the mutually assured destruction of the US-Soviet standoff.</p>
<p>Washington is getting all of us in over our heads. Washington has declared the “Asia-Pacific” and the South China Sea to be areas of “America’s national interest.” What sense does this make? It makes the same sense as if China declared the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea to be areas of China’s national interest.</p>
<p>Washington has deployed 2,500 Marines, promising more to come, to Australia in order to do what? Protect Australia from China or occupy Australia? Encircle China with 2,500 Marines? It would not mean anything to China if Washington deployed 25,000 Marines in Australia.</p>
<p>When you get right down to it, Washington’s tough talk is nothing but a silly pointless provocation of Washington’s largest creditor. What if Washington’s idiocy causes China to worry that Washington and its UK and European puppets will seize its bank balances and refuse to honor China’s holdings of $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds? Will China pull its balances from the weak US, UK, and European banks? Will China decide to strike first, not with nuclear weapons, but by selling its $1 trillion in Treasury bonds all at once?</p>
<p>It would be cheaper than war.</p>
<p>The Federal Reserve would have to quickly print another $1 trillion dollars with which to buy the bonds, or US interest rates would shoot up. What would China do with the $1 trillion in newly printed paper? In my opinion, China would dump it all at once in the currency market, because the Federal Reserve cannot print euros, UK pounds, Japanese yen, Swiss francs, Russian rubles, and Chinese yuan with which to buy up its newly printed currency.</p>
<p>The US dollar would take a beating. US import prices – which now include, thanks to offshoring, almost everything Americans consume – would rise. The hard-pressed 90% would take a further beating, endearing their Washington oppressors to them to an even greater extent. The rest of the world, anticipating nuclear war, would flee the dollar, as Washington would be a primary attack target.</p>
<p>If the missiles aren’t launched, Americans would wake up the next day a bankrupt third world country. If the missiles were launched, few Americans would wake up.</p>
<p>We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is about? Why is our government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China, Iran? What purpose, whose purpose is being served? Certainly not ours.</p>
<p>Who benefits from our bankrupt government starting yet more wars, picking this time not on defenseless countries like Iraq and Libya, but on China and Russia? Do the idiots in Washington think the Russian government does not know why Russia is being surrounded with missile bases and radar systems? Do the Washington morons really believe that the Russian government will fall for its lie that the missiles are directed against Iran? Only American idiots who sit in front of Fox “news” could possible believe that the real issue is an Iranian nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>How much longer will the Russian government permit the US National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front, to interfere in its elections by financing opposition parties led by the likes of Vladimir Kara-Murza, Boris Nemtsov, and Alexei Navalny, who organize protests of every election that Putin’s party wins, alleging without any evidence whatsoever, but providing propaganda for Washington, who no doubt pays well, that the election will be and was stolen?</p>
<p>In the US, such activists would be declared to be “domestic extremists” and be subjected to rough treatment. In Amerika even anti-war activists are subjected to home invasions by the FBI and grand jury investigations.</p>
<p>What this means is that “the criminal state of Russia” is a more tolerant democracy than the US, or for that matter, Amerika’s puppet states in Europe and the UK.</p>
<p>Where do we go from here? If not to nuclear destruction, Americans must wake up. Football games, porn, and shopping malls are one thing. Survival of human life is another. Washington, that is, “representative government,” consists only of a few powerful vested interests. These private interests, not the American people, control the US government.</p>
<p>That is why nothing that the US government does benefits the American people.</p>
<p>The current crop of presidential contenders, except for Ron Paul, represent the controlling interests. War and financial fraud are the only remaining American Values.</p>
<p>Will Americans again give the sheen of “democracy” to rule by a few by participating in the coming rigged elections?</p>
<p>If you have to vote, vote for Ron Paul or for a more extreme third party candidate. Show that you do not support the lie that is the system.</p>
<p>Stop watching television. Stop reading newspapers. Stop spending money. When you do any of these things, you are supporting evil.</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p><a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/">http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/</a></p>
<p><em><strong>Paul Craig Roberts</strong> was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal . He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington ; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy , and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.</em></p>
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