Israel’s Attack on Iran: Operation Clear Break Coming To Fruition.
Some friends are wondering about the Iranian response … some of whom want to be the first to comment on Israel’s recent attack on Iran which was, in essence, nothing short of a declaration of war. They suggest that the fact that Iran has of yet (Friday, June 13 at 2:30pm Mountain States Time) responded to the Israeli harsh strikes is a sign of weakness.
Could be but I doubt it.
As someone who has FOR DECADES supported negotiated solutions (and still do) that would normalize or start to normalize U.S.-Iranian relations, I openly supported the current negotiations, regardless of how minimal the gains from them might be on the principle that a lousy negotiated agreement is better than intensifying war plans.
I’ll take the lousy agreement over war anytime.
Unfortunately, what Israel did last night – the scope and extent of its attack on Iran was more aggressive than anything it’s done till now had a number of now obvious goals, among them:
1. to put more pressure on the Trump Administration to engage Iran militarily hoping that Iran would “over react”
2. End any pretense of working for a negotiated settlement over Iran’s nuclear program and the reduction or end of the sanction’s regime
3. a blatant attempt at regime change, not much different that the cell phone murders against Hezbollah’s leaders, that is, to decapitate the Iranian leadership and induce chaos that would lead to an uprising and the overthrow of the current government. Like all the noise about Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, the hysteria about Iran’s nuclear program is a meaningless diversion – there is no way, the U.S. or Israel, can destroy it.
The goal is the overthrow of the current government, the last of the seven countries the U.S. intended to overthrow as a part of Operation Clear Break which targeted seven countries for imperialist destruction: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and last but not least Iran.
I doubt Iran will take the U.S.-Israeli bait although the response will be strong; The current negotiations were NEVER about improving U.S.-Iranian relations but were little more than a ruse to buy time so that the plans for the Israeli attack could be finalized. Although the attack did accomplish some of its goals (assassinations of some high-level Iranians) the idea that as a result the government will collapse, is, from where I’m sitting, utter nonsense, the typical racist stereotyping that underestimates non-white adversaries.
I am not a betting man. In high school I got into a fight with a close friend over a poker game (he accused me of cheating) and promised myself I would never gamble again – and haven’t – but I’d bet dollars to donuts (and at my age, frankly I’m more interested in the donuts than the dollars) that the Iranian response will come and it will have a kind of intensity that the Israeli’s and the U.S. have never seen before. I do not write these words “with pleasure” or some kind of satisfaction. There will be a lot more blood spilled and I have to wonder if the conflict will not spiral out of control. Dunno. Hope not, but fear so.
Newsweek, you know, that “radical left” news source to the right of Hillary Clinton, ran the piece below. It speaks of Iran opening “the gates of hell”. Rhetoric? I doubt it.
No war with Iran!
End the Gaza genocide!
Cut all aid to Israel, a genocidal state!
For a nuclear weapons free Middle East!
Rather than bloating it, cut the f-ing military budget,
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