by Jonathan Cook,The Unz Review:
The embers of resistance – in Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen – have not been snuffed out. With the attack on Iran, they are being fanned into a fire
It is near impossible to make sense – at least from the justifications on offer – of what US President Donald Trump really hopes to achieve with his and Israel‘s blatantly illegal war of aggression on Iran.
Is it to destroy anIranian nuclearweapons programme for which there has never been any tangible evidence, and which Trump claimed just a few months ago to have “completely and totally obliterated” in anearlier lawbreaking attack?
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Or is it intended to force Tehran back to negotiations on itsnuclear energyenrichment programme that were brought prematurely to an end when the US launched its unprovoked attack – talks, we should note, that were made necessary because in 2018, during his first term, Trumptore up the original dealwith Iran?
Or is the war supposed to browbeat Iran into greater flexibility, even though Trump blew up the talks at the very moment Oman, the chief mediator, insisted that Tehran had capitulated on almost every one of Washington’s onerous demands and that a deal was “within our reach“?
Or are the air strikes designed to “liberate” Iranians, even though the early victims includedat least 165 civiliansin a girls’ school, most of them children aged between 7 and 12?
Or is the aim to pressure Iran to give up itsballistic missiles– the only deterrence it has against attack, and which would leave it utterly defenceless against US and Israeli malevolent designs?
Or did Washington believe Tehran was about to strike first, even though Pentagon officials haveconfided to congressional staffthat there was zero intelligence an attack was about to happen?
Source: SGT Report
