{"id":371203,"date":"2018-07-28T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-preparing-for-war-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T15:52:21","slug":"us-preparing-for-war-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-preparing-for-war-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Preparing For War Against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months.<\/p>\n

The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder\u2019s cry, \u2018delenda est Carthago!\u2019. \u00a0Iran must be destroyed.<\/p>\n

So far, Tehran and its ally Damascus have refused to respond to US naval and air incursions or Israel\u2019s growing air attacks in Syria. But the war of words between the US and Iran has now reached a critical phase.<\/p>\n

Last week, Trump, who evaded military service during the Vietnam War, made his loudest threats yet against Iran, bringing the danger of war to the boiling point. \u00a0On 21 May, the hard-line US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a thunderous ultimatum to Iran during an address to the US Heritage Foundation, a rich, influential arm of America\u2019s Israel lobby.<\/p>\n

Pompeo made 12 totally unacceptable demands on Iran that were clearly designed to be rejected by Tehran.\u00a0 Not since Austria-Hungary\u2019s ultimatum against Serbia in 1914 have we seen such a clear effort to bring about war. Tehran quickly dismissed Pompeo as \u2018a gangster.\u2019
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We are by now used to blood and thunder rhetoric between Washington and Tehran.\u00a0 But this time White House policy is clearly being directed by pro-Israel American neocons who want the US military to crush Iran as it did Iraq.<\/p>\n

Crushing Iran will leave Israel with unfettered control of the Mideast and its oil \u2013 unless Russia or Turkey intervene against Israel, which is most unlikely.\u00a0 Some think Russia and Israel \u2013 and the US \u2013 have already made a deal to divvy up the central Mideast.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months. The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder\u2019s cry, \u2018delenda est Carthago!\u2019. \u00a0Iran must be destroyed. So far, Tehran and its ally Damascus have refused to respond to US naval and air incursions or Israel\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}