Sadly neither Israel nor the US gave up on their war mongering. No, they intensified their narrative by blaming Iran to have attacked Japanese related oil ships while Japan’s Abe was visiting Iran’s Khamenei. You may find some images the US provides, claiming it proves Iran’s involvement – using manually attached mines. Noticeable the ship damage is above sea level.
Fast forwarding just a few days, today the US made Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein proud and Kafka probably couldn’t cry any louder being brain frozen while listening to the latest spin of an excuse to start a war with Iran. The NY times couldn’t wait to write about today’s US House party, spinning a Hook
.. because ..
Mr. Kaine, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, declined to discuss details of classified briefings, but said senior administration officials had “talked about Iran providing safe haven to Al Qaeda.
And so it goes, the US’s new narrative aligns Shia Iran with Sunni Wahabi Terrorists, who they actually fight in Syria, helping the Syrian people. It is actually the west who supported (or still supports) the terrorists to weaken and destabilize Syria and the overall region. Call them Al Qaeda, Daesh, Al Nusra or maybe even White Helmets – whatever, they belong all to the very same group of paid terror actors. If this doesn’t make your brain freeze ..
Yes, this latest trick tries to free the legal way for the US to initiate a direct war with Iran using the 2001 A.U.M.F..
As the ex-CIA director now US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted: We lied, we cheated, we stole. Disinformation & distraction is a common tool for politics & wars, where the truth dies first. No news here. But this blatant attempt to align Iran with Al Qaeda only to get around a US constitutional declaration of war voted upon by their US congress, while being covered with the 2001 A.U.M.F. .. is the cherry on top of the icing on the bullshit cake.
PS Rant: Just to be clear, I am not fan of Iran’s leadership at all, neither like some of their fatwas, nor their other means to suppress freedom of speech within their own country.But comparing Iran’s almost non-existing (war) crimes with the western empire, Iran is more of an innocent young school boy. Maybe it is just that the Iranian government ruined the western ‘wet dream’ of controlling the middle east. First the US destroyed Iran’s democracy and installed the Schah and then he became more of a burden to their society than the religious fanatics motivated. Sounds a bit like Cuba & Venezuela? But never mind Iran’s suppression of speech, the west is stepping up censorship, utilizing hate speech laws and lately is even trying to internationally hunt down whistle blower or journalists. And those who sit in the glasshouse at least since WW2, having thrown the first stone twice against Japan, shouldn’t really be too concerned about a country like Iran who has earmarked nuclear weapons as Haram already. Iran even made a fatwa against production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons – now this is a fatwa I surely can agree upon. And bottom line, Iran is a sovereign country with some form of democracy. Not that I can vote for a political party I like here in Germany, for that matter – I only can vote for a not lying satire party here anyways. But for some reason, the exclusion of nuclear weapons by Iran never got to Israel’s current leader, who conveniently is a friend of Trump’s son in law‘s father. Such conflict of interest is quite mind blowing, but maybe not and explains a lot lately – like the Trump Heights, cough (Golan) .. cough (Jerusalem). And a US citizen better not dares to criticise these developments or even consider boycott Israel – it is forbidden as the first new law signed in 2018.