🚨WAR ON IRAN: No imminent nuclear threat from Iran against the US

Afshin Rattansi: ‘If Iran had a nuclear bomb and threatened to use one, you’re saying the Americans would still continue bombing Iran?

Captain James Fanell: ‘I don’t know how they could use one. I don’t believe that we think they have the capability to suddenly take something that was so severely degraded in June and, under duress in this kind of environment, figure out how to miniaturise it, weaponise it, put it on a warhead, and have any possibility of successfully delivering it.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘So there was no imminent threat.’

Captain James Fanell: ‘I would say that right now there’s no imminent threat. Who knows about before February 28th.’

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It was about stealing Iran’s oil, not a nuclear threat:

‘What we want to do is get such massive oil reserves out of the hands of terrorists.’

The WMD justifications were copy and pasted from 2003; overtly imperialist and packaged simplistically to manufacture consent.

Afshin Rattansi: ‘Only 27% of the American people, according to Reuters/Ipsos, supported Trump starting this war on Iran.

That’s less than the roughly 29% approval a President had towards the end of the Vietnam War in 1973 under Nixon. People in the United States, don’t want this war.

There’s no sign of any imminent nuclear weapon according to the IAEA…

Clearly the cost to the United States, the cost to Western Europe, even if the war was won quickly, would be enormous.

Thousands and thousands of civilians in Iran have been killed, and the relatives of those people won’t forget it when it comes to future asymmetric warfare. Why did Trump do this?’

Captain James Fanell: ‘I would say first of all that I’ve seen other polls that show he’s got support and that it’s growing, especially as we become more successful.’

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Why did Donald Trump go to war with Iran?

For the same reason George W. Bush went to war with Iraq.

For the same reason George H. W. Bush went to war with Iraq.

US🇺🇸 victory in Iran would mean that the US can pivot to the Pacific for the first time and focus on China🇨🇳.’

-Captain James Fanell, former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet

Approximately 313 US military bases surround China. In Washington’s war on the multipolar world, China could be next.

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Prof. John Mearsheimer on China:

‘The US🇺🇸 is not simply containing China🇨🇳, we’re talking about a rollback strategy. We want to STRANGLE China’s economic growth.

You never want to underestimate how ruthless the United States is despite all the liberal rhetoric we use…

In the early 90s I told the Chinese if you continue to grow economically, there’s going to be a fierce security competition and you’re going to be shocked at how ruthless the United States is’

If Beijing does not view the apocalyptic bombing of Iran as a warning to urgently prepare for the coming war on China, then it may prove to be a fatal mistake.

Donald Trump told CNN he is okay with a religious leader running Iran and that it doesn’t necessarily have to be a ‘democratic leader’.

The Iranian diaspora are the latest to find out that the US doesn’t care about democracy or their domestic grievances, only about finding a vassal leader to manage the US’ theft of natural resources.

If they expected a miracle and for the US to suddenly care about ‘human rights’, they obviously didn’t look at the US’ record US in the Middle East and Latin America.

Reporter: ‘Do you think the map of Iran looks the same after this is all done?’

Donald Trump: ‘I can’t tell you…probably not.’

Now an even more daunting horror scenario could be imposed by Washington on the region; a Yugoslavia-style break-up of Iran by pitting ethnic groups against each other.

Iran tonight as of a result of US-Israeli bombing.

Whenever Washington says it wants to ‘bring freedom’, the freedom always ends up being scenes of apocalypse.

In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty and killed 34 American crew members, and injured 171, in an effort to drag the US🇺🇸 into a war against Egypt🇪🇬.

‘We’ve seceded our power to a foreign country. Israel controls us…we don’t control our country.’

-USS Liberty Survivor Phillip Tourney

The US’ ‘calamitous disasters for Israel’ series of imperial misadventures ends with its grand finale with Iran.

Using the same simplistic assumptions for the 2003 war on Iraq, Israel convinced a gullible Trump Administration to allow the US to be its battering ram against Iran.

Now the US is stuck in an unfolding disaster with the whole world blaming it for destabilising the region once again, all for the professed dreams of a Greater Israel by both Netanyahu’s government and its Knesset opposition.

🚨An Iranian missile strikes Tel Aviv, Israel live on NBC News.

Despite US-Israeli ‘death and destruction, all day long’ bombardment for over a week, Iran is still able to strike Israel on a regular basis.

If this is what the war ‘being ahead of schedule’ looks like, one hesitates to think what being ‘behind schedule’ looks like.

The entire region is paying the price for the US’ miscalculations.

🚨Neoconservative assumptions on Iran have all gone up in smoke

Donald Trump insisted selection for Iran’s next Supreme Leader ‘would have to get approval by us.’ On the same day, Iran’s Assembly of Experts announced they had selected Mojtaba Khamenei to be the next Supreme Leader, a candidate Donald Trump explicitly said he could not tolerate.

Another lofty neocon assumption in this war blown out of the water by reality. Trump thought Iran’s political system would fall in line and obey, like Venezuela once the Head of State was removed.

We know this because the Trump Administration considered Venezuela to be the ‘template’ for Iran.

Instead, Iran’s system has resisted and is fighting back, with a choice for Supreme Leader that is the least likely to accept the role of Washington’s designated satrap in Tehran.

Donald Trump also assumed overwhelming US-Israeli firepower and a decapitation strike would shock the Iranian government into negotiations, meaning a quick end to the war. Now we are looking at a seemingly endless war with no signs that Iran wants to negotiate directly with Washington, despite the destruction it has faced

The US assumed that combined US-Israeli air superiority and firepower, as well as the destruction of the twelve day war in 2025 and the depletion of Iran’s missile stockpiles would mean that Iran would collapse like a house of cards.

Instead, Iran is still firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, US bases and civilian+energy infrastructure neighbouring GCC States, in what now appears to be Iran digging in to fight a slow war of attrition.

All of these assumptions that have failed to come into fruition should come as no surprise, as neoconservative foreign policy is based on making idealistic assumptions, which make a war easier to sell to the public and get an administration to commit to, with little to no planning on what happens when those assumptions don’t come into fruition, except just throwing more bombs and bullets at the situation.

Iran’s civilians will face more US-Israeli bombs bringing death and destruction. The GCC states are now dealing with an unprecedented crisis in a war they did not want, with Iranian missiles and drones hitting critical infrastructure.

The entire region is paying the price for idealistic neocon assumptions, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip over US foreign policy.

🚨NEW EPISODE OF GOING UNDERGROUND⚡️

‘This is NOT OUR WAR’ UAE🇦🇪 Navigates Regional Crisis Amid US-Israel War on Iran (Mohammed Baharoon)

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🚨WAR ON IRAN: Why has Western media’s reporting on the situation in the UAE🇦🇪 been hysterically exaggerated?

‘We’ve seen this happening in 2008. We’ve seen it happen in 2020 during COVID. I think it’s just a natural thing for a success story always to be targeted.

And it’s absolutely, unfortunately, natural in this time.’

-Mohammed Baharoon, Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center, on the latest episode of Going Underground

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Reza Pahlavi becomes the Maria Corina-Machado of Iran:

The Iranian market that has been closed to America for almost half a century. It is the only remaining untapped economic opportunity that could mean over a trillion dollars’ worth of revenue for the US economy in the first 10-15 years.

Discarded by the Trump Administration, Pahlavi becomes a salesperson for his own country’s destruction, advertising to US corporations to loot Iran’s natural resources.

🚨WAR ON IRAN: Iran’s strategy is to take the war into the GAS STATIONS of the US🇺🇸 and Europe🇪🇺

‘Iran possibly finds itself at a disadvantage from a military point of view. The only way that it can pressure the US is by expanding the price of war, or the cost of war, and by attacking people who are nearer to them…

That was a way of increasing the price of war on the US, but also on everyone. What we see is Iran targeting the energy infrastructure in the region.

Again, that is targeted to raise the price of oil. Take the battle into the gas stations in the US. We’ve seen this also with gas prices, which are also going to affect people in Europe.

They’re thinking maybe that is going to make people in Europe pressure or campaign for a diplomatic resolution of the war.

The strange thing is that the Iranians come out and say we do not want a diplomatic resolution. But again that’s part of the bravado that we see after the decapitation of Khamenei.’

-Mohammed Baharoon, Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center, on the latest episode of Going Underground

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🚨WAR ON IRAN: US🇺🇸 and Israel CANNOT impose surrender, defeat on Iran as a real solution:

‘Whether it’s the war in Gaza that we did not support, but we got burned by, or the twelve day war on Iran, and this current war that we did not opt for, but we will burn by as well. These are decisions by the US, by Israel, not our decisions.

However, I think our role right now is not to say that look, I am going to be part of this war or not going to be part of this war. I think our role right now is to look at the future and see how can we come out of this, and in the UAE🇦🇪 fashion, I think we also, in the midst of big calamities, we look for opportunities.

Any solution that could come out of this, if it doesn’t involve real benefit to Iran and Iranian people, it will not succeed.

This cannot be a defeat, a surrender, a humiliation of Iranians, because there are 100 million people in Iran, those cannot be ignored. They have their own agency, they have their own aspirations. What we need is to have our aspirations and their aspirations aligned.’

-Mohammed Baharoon, Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center, on the latest episode of Going Underground, as the UAE🇦🇪 deals with the regional crisis unleashed by the war on Iran.

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🚨BREAKING: UAE’s🇦🇪 Al Habtoor Group Founding Chairman Khalifa Ahmad Al Habtoor’s open letter addressing Lindsey Graham’s call for Gulf States to join the war on Iran:

I heard the statements of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, in which he calls on the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to enter this war, saying that we are also under attack and that we must join the fight. And I say to him clearly: We know full well why we are under attack, and we also know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his "allies" in the region.

We thank God that the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are doing well, and we have no need for someone who claims he came to the Middle East to save us. The truth is that hasty American decisions are what embroiled the region in a war whose peoples were not party to its decision-making, and its local allies were not consulted before it was launched.

We do not deny the Iranian threat to the region, which has become clear in recent days. We do not trust Iran. But this is a dirty game in which several powers clash at the expense of our region, with no honor in it and no transparency. In this scene, Iran, Israel, and the United States all move according to their own interests, not according to the interests of the peoples of the Middle Eastern Arab countries.

And for this reason, we say it clearly: We will not enter this war to serve the interests of others, nor will we sacrifice our sons in a conflict that could have been avoided through diplomacy and political solutions. We value the lives of our sons, and we do not treat their souls as "collateral damage" as some do. Nothing in this world is more precious than the lives of our sons, and no alliance with any country in the world is worth risking these lives. If President Donald Trump and Senator Graham are prepared to risk their country and the lives of Americans for Israel's interests, that is their choice. As for us, we will not do the same.

Senator Graham says they are "the Arabs' allies" and that we need and benefit from U.S. protection. And I say to him: We do not need your protection. All we want from you is to keep your hands off us.

He also says: "We sell you weapons." As if that were a service the United States provides us. The truth is that this is no favor from anyone. We invest in our security and pay billions of dollars for these weapons, and it is a massive trade and industry built on these deals. In fact, the United States itself is now turning to buy weapons from Ukraine to supply its allies in other wars. This is an industry that thrives on wars and arms sales, not a charitable endeavor.

And the clearest thing of all is what Senator Graham himself said when he spoke about oil. He stated that Iran and Venezuela together hold 31% of global oil reserves, and that the United States could establish a partnership with this share of the world's oil, and that it would be a "nightmare for China"—he even added that if the regime in Iran changes, there would be a "new Middle East," and the United States would "make a lot of money."

Only then does the picture become clear. And only then do we understand why they want this war.

Finally, I say to Senator Graham: You may be a senator in the U.S. Senate, but anyone who hears your statements might think you're a member of the Israeli Knesset, because you defend Israel's interests more than you defend the interests of the American people themselves.

The peoples of our region have the right to live in security and stability, far from others' wars. We also have the right to decide how to protect our interests and security, and to emerge from crises we did not create but which were imposed on us as a result of conflicts between powers vying for influence in this region.

We want peace and stability. We will not accept being forced down the path of war, nor will we accept being fuel for others' battles.

🚨WAR ON IRAN: After Gaza, Israel returned to its ‘muscle memory of fighting against ALL of the Arabs’-Mohammed Baharoon🇦🇪

‘Saudi Arabia was very close to a deal, or an understanding, with Israel. What made it fall apart was not only Israel’s attack on Gaza, but also the fact that Israel does not want to acknowledge or accept any future for the Palestinians as a state.

We in the UAE, through the Abraham Accords, were trying to create a reality where this is not a threat to the Israelis. The Israelis maintained this for a long time, that a Palestinian state is a threat to Israel.

And our view was that, in an integrated situation where all of the countries don’t fight each other over religion, and we are capable of being part of a wider network, then that will change the dynamics.

Unfortunately it didn’t. We were close to that. The Gaza attack sort of dismantled this and brought Israel back to their muscle memory of fighting against all of the Arabs. And I think that’s where we’re seeing this new approach of Greater Israel.’

-Mohammed Baharoon, Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center, on the latest episode of Going Underground, as the UAE🇦🇪 deals with the regional crisis unleashed by the war on Iran.

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