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Essential Reading: Background To U.S.- Iran Dispute

Comment by Larry Ross, July 27, 2006



For a more comprehensive understanding of U.S. policy on Iran, and Iran's offers of concessions to meet U.S. concerns, the following May 27 article is essential reading.

My conclusions after reading it:

  1. The Neoconservatives in the Bush Administration rejected Iran's attempts and offers because they wanted a state of tension and eventually war to exist between the U.S. and Iran.
  2. That is because of neocon objectives to dominate mideast oil and defeat any opposition, and create a state of endless war. from which the U.S. will come to dominate the world, as stated in their plans before Bush was installed as U.S. President in 2000.
  3. The U.S. will use the nuclear arsenals of the U.S., Israel and probably other allies such as UK, to achieve this goal. They are willing to gamble the lives of the world's population that a world-destroying nuclear war will not eventuate.
  4. Their "War on Terror" is their propaganda vehicle to deceive the American people and others, and justify the various wars they will have to fight to achieve their military goals. The American mass media, and that in many other allied countries such as New Zealand, is Bush &Co's strong right arm in getting the right propaganda messages and lies to the public and governments so that enough people and governments support, or at least go along with, the various justifications and steps which Bush & Co take toward their goals.
  5. One motivating factor is greed leading to ever increasing wealth. There are huge profits to be made by the arms industry, and all those associated with it, for every war Bush and Co can start. There are even larger potential profits once they control and harness the oil resources of Iraq, Iran and other middle eastern states. This may help explain the complicity and paralysis of the U.S. Democratic opposition.
  6. Thanks to powerful U.S. Neoconservatives in Bush's Cabinet, with their legendary loyalty to Israel and it's military objectives, the U.S. has become almost an appendage of Israel. They support and finance every Israel objective and assault, such as Israel's destruction of Lebanon and the coming war against Iran. They have made Israel's extreme objectives into America's foreign and military policy objectives.
  7. Having piled one war crime onto another with much more to come, with all branches of the American government now harnessed to this vast criminal enterprise what we now have is a giant military juggernaut dedicated to achieving the Neoconservative Bush Administration goals. I don't think that there is any crime too great or too foul, that would not be committed by Bush & Co, or Israel, in pursuit of their goals. Many have come to fanatically believe their own lies and justifications as most criminals do.

It's time, perhaps it's too late, for people to wake up, examine the evidence and dedicate themselves to political activity that will expose the truth about U.S. policies and Israel, and unseat both governments.

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Iran, Israel And Nuclear Weapons

Ethan Heitner, May 26, 2006


I was just about to start a quick blog advising our readers to examine several recent pieces by Gareth Porter, a historian and journalist for the Inter Press Service, on the history of our diplomatic relations with Iran in the past five years. His articles are critical to understanding the current debacle, revealing the way Bush has continually rebuffed efforts to solve differences diplomatically.

Then he went and wrote a superb article for American Prospect that ties it all together in one neat package.

The story Porter tells is surprising and absolutely essential reading. I'll excerpt now only the broad outlines of the plot, but you really need to read the entire thing.

Iran experts at the State Department had been working throughout 2001 on increasing relations with Mohammed Khatami's Iran. Post 9/11, they immediately realized the strategic value of working with Iran against a common enemy?al-Qaida.

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