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To: Les H who wrote (46386)	6/20/2025 11:19:27 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) of 48696

Israel's attack on Iran: The violent new world being born is going to horrify youTwenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the 'birth pangs' of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force – and they will not end in Iran Jonathan Cook Jun 19, 2025 Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of aggression against Iran as some kind of "defensive" move. This time there was no rationalising pretext, as there was for Israel to inflict a genocide in Gaza following Hamas’ one-day attack on 7 October 2023. There was not a serious attempt beforehand to concoct a bogus doomsday scenario – as there was in the months leading up to the US and UK’s illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. Then we were lied to about Baghdad having “weapons of mass destruction” that could be launched at Europe in 45 minutes. Rather, Iran was deep in negotiations with the United States on its nuclear enrichment programme when Israel launched its unprovoked attack last Friday. The West has happily regurgitated claims by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel was forced to act because Iran was on the cusp of producing a nuclear bomb – an entirely evidence-free claim he has been making since 1992. None of his dire warnings has ever been borne out by events. In fact, Israel struck Iran shortly after President Donald Trump had expressed hope of reaching a nuclear agreement with Tehran, and two days before the two countries’ negotiators were due to meet again. more... jonathancook.substack.com There were warnings over 50 years ago that a global hegemon (then USSR, now USA), would act aggressively to expand and maintain its position in order to prevent any country from challenging its supremacy. It's unmistakable that the US is following in the footsteps of British empire in invading countries and breaking them into smaller new countries to prevent any existing country from challenging as a regional hegemon. Israel seems to be the exception to US policy of preventing new regional powers from emerging.

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