Guest Post by Ron Paul
Hypocrisy seems to have become a defining characteristic of US foreign policy, especially when it comes to Iran. After breaking the Iran deal last year and, de facto, forcing the Europeans to violate the deal in May, the US Administration is now complaining that Iran is no longer abiding by its obligations under the deal!
It’s remarkable to see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo take to Twitter to complain of Iran enriching uranium to pre-deal levels, as if somehow the US believes it can still dictate the terms of a deal to which it is no longer a party.
This latest neocon push for US war on Iran started last week when Iran exceeded the limit of a 300 kilogram stockpile of low-enriched uranium. As usual, the media only reported part of the story. One reason Iran went over the limit was that the countries to which Iran was exporting its excess uranium were notified by the US in early May that they would face US sanctions if they continued taking the uranium off Iranian hands.
The US created the crisis by preventing Iran from exporting its excess uranium and then pointed to the expanding Iranian stockpile of uranium enriched to 3.6 percent as proof that Iran was about to launch a nuclear weapon!
Make no mistake about it: Trump’s neocons are determined to trap him into a massive, disastrous war with Iran and they are using the same tactics they used to hoodwink George W. Bush into a multi-trillion dollar war on an Iraq that could not have attacked us if it wanted to.
Secretary Pompeo Tweeted yesterday the exact kind of dishonest hysterics used to terrify many Americans into supporting an Iraq attack 13 years ago: “Iran’s regime, armed with nuclear weapons, would pose an even greater danger to the world.”
As the former head of the CIA, surely Pompeo knows that his own agency had determined back in 2003 that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program and that every US intelligence assessment since them has concurred with that conclusion. But then again, he did brag recently about his excellent ability to lie, cheat, and steal.
Though the Europeans promised Iran that they would continue to honor the deal, they have proven themselves unable to put forth a credible alternative to the US-dominated SWIFT system, meaning no trade in Iran’s number one export: oil.
Iran responded over the weekend to European fecklessness by announcing that they would begin enriching uranium up to five percent, which is a level needed to run one of its nuclear power generating plants. As could be predicted, this move – which is allowed according to section 36 of the Iran deal – is being treated as the equivalent of Saddam’s “mobile chemical weapons labs.”
The Iranians are not backing down. They rightly feel cheated, as they continued to honor the deal even as the US re-imposed crippling sanctions meant to destroy their economy and starve their people.
President Trump has a very serious decision to make. He is being frog-marched into war by his neocons and his Middle East “partners.” He has very little time left to change course. If the neocons are not swept out immediately, he is risking both his second term and his legacy.
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No one is frog-marching Trump. He is Commander In Chief. If he didn’t want a war, he wouldn’t have it. The excuses are that anything negative that happens on Trump’s watch are due to outside forces beyond his control. If a positive thing happens on Trump’s watch, then of course you give him the full and sole credit. Too much bias is the driver of American politics. And you call this alternative media?
Old grampa Ron is quite right on this one, the deep state wants/needs another useless war, or else their budgets will be cut.
Events not mentioned:
1. on July 3, US spy plane flies over Iran’s “castle” in the Persian gulf, with transponders set to Iranian aircraft, this was baiting the Iranians to shoot down our plane, had they done it, Trump would explain on national TV on July 4th that we needed to respond.
2. Since the Persians did not take the bait, the Brits hijack one of Iran’s super tankers, a completely lawless action
It does not take much more before the Iranians will respond in an asymmetric manner, probably against one of the gulf monarchies oil production assets.
it is a win-win for the deep state, they either get a war or they raise the price of oil, and oil=US$$.
Believe it or not, the people who own most of everything do not want cheap oil for the masses, they would prefer it if we paid all our disposable income for it.
The elite are not our friends, they never have been and never will be, they see us as simpletons, cash cows, that need to be milked.
The elites only friends on this earth are the deep state, the unelected bureaucrats who remain in positions of power, before and after elections. The same folks who deal in blackmail and treason, to ensure the policy never changes, regardless of who is elected.
Since setting up their theocracy, the mullahs have declared themselves to be at war with the Great Satan.
So far it’s been mostly noise by politicans/mullahs trying to impress people.
The most public military act since then was Jimmy Carter’s display of competence(pause for eye roll).
Most of what we have been seeing is the US showing Iran that yes, we are paying attention – but even that depends on who’s prez at the time. Sometimes we’ve been paying pallets of cash instead.
I hope that the US stays out of Iran – the people there supported the overthrow of the shah(thanks CIA/s) and it should be their role to do the same here; much like Venezuela voted in their socialist paradise, and need to be the ones to solve their own problems.
The US should revert back to being an example, not a cop; but I suspect that ship left harbor some time ago – and sank.
I realize this is redundant for many…but to some it will not be.
The 200 year overview of how the invisible demonic hands got around our throats:
What happened from WW2 on as three fingers of the evil demonic hands, the CIA, the Mafia, and the Vatican used drugs, money, money laundering and murder to strangle the world and destroy the lives of millions while wallowing in their putrid, soulless, darkness.