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Titolo: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf

Una lettura interessante, che sicuramente non piacerà ai brulicanti 
palmiri, impegnati a sostenere la preparazione della guerra.
 
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WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western 
Aggression in the Persian Gulf
 
by Finian Cunningham and Michel Chossudovsky
 
The year 2012 may become known as a watershed for humanity – the year 
when mankind was precipitated into a global conflagration involving 
nuclear weapons. The signs are indeed grimly ominous as formidable 
military forces converge on the Persian Gulf in the long-running 
stand-off between the United States and Iran.
 
On side with the US are its European allies in NATO, primarily Britain, 
Washington’s Middle East client states: Israel and the Arab monarchies 
of the Persian Gulf – all bristling with weapons of mass destruction. 
Recent naval exercises by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz have also 
displayed a fierce arsenal of missiles and military capability, and Iran 
has strategic alliances with Russia and China, both of whom will not 
stand idly by if their Persian partner is attacked.
 
As we have consistently analysed on Global Research, the conflict 
between the US-led powers and Iran has wider ramifications. It is part 
and parcel of Washington’s bid to engineer the social and political 
upheavals across the Arab World in order to redraw the region in its 
strategic interests. It is no coincidence that fresh from NATO’s 
conquest of and regime change in Libya, the focus has quickly shifted to 
Syria – a key regional ally of Iran. As Michel Chossudovsky has pointed 
out “the road to Tehran goes through to Damascus”. Regime change in 
Syria would serve to isolate Iran. Subjugating Iran and returning it to 
Western tutelage is the prize that Washington and its allies have been 
seeking for the past 33 years ever since their client the Shah, Mohammad 
Rezā Pahlavi, was deposed by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
 
Iran is an energy-rich colossus, with oil and, more importantly, natural 
gas reserves that put it, with approximately 10% of global reserves, in 
the world’s top three oil economies alongside Washington’s client states 
of Saudi Arabia and Iraq.  In sharp contrast, the US has less than  2% 
of global oil reserves.
 
The conquest of Iran's oil riches is the driving force behind America's 
military agenda.
 
The US-led conquest of Iraq – costing over a million lives in a 
nine-year occupation – is part of Washington’s long-held plans to 
dominate the globe’s vast energy resources that reside in the Persian 
Gulf and Central Asian regions. The decade-long war in Afghanistan is 
another flank in this US bid for hegemony over the fuel for the 
capitalist world economy. For nearly three decades, the US-led Western 
capitalist world has been deprived of exploiting Iranian energy wealth. 
The Islamic Republic has remained defiantly independent of Washington’s 
control, not just in terms of its vast hydrocarbon riches, but also 
politically. Iran is no puppet of the West as it was formerly under the 
despotic Shah Mohammad Rezā Pahlavi.
 
Tehran has shown itself to be a trenchant critic of Western imperialist 
meddling in the region and fawning over the criminal Israeli persecution 
of Palestinians. Another important source of Western animus towards Iran 
and the deeply held desire for regime change is the loss that the 
Iranian revolution implies for the lucrative American, British and 
French weapons industry.  When Shah Mohammad Rezā Pahlavi was kicked out 
in February 1979, so too was a massive market for Western arms dealers. 
  The recent $50 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia – the “biggest-ever 
in history” – that had the Pentagon salivating, would be easily 
replicated in Iran, if a similar client regime could be installed there.
 
 From the Western powers’ point of view, Iran is both an elusive prize 
and a frustrating obstacle. Bringing Iran back into the orbit of Western 
capitalist control has the added significance of depriving energy and 
other geopolitical advantages to rival powers, in particular Russia and 
China. In a strategic review earlier this month, Washington highlighted 
China as its pre-eminent global competitor in the coming decades. The 
militarized agenda towards China was also heralded by US President 
Barack Obama during his Asia-Pacific tour at the end of 2011. China is 
heavily dependent on Iranian oil. Some 20 per cent of all Iranian crude 
oil exports are traded with China. The latter has billions of dollars 
worth of energy investments in Iran, in particular the natural gas 
sector, which energy analysts view as the primary fuel in forthcoming 
decades. Washington’s policy of hostility and regime change towards Iran 
and furthering its hegemony over this vital region is as much about 
wresting control from its perceived competitors, Russia and China.  That 
factor takes on added importance as America’s economic power wanes.
 
These issues form the bigger picture that explains the drive for war in 
the Persian Gulf, which the mainstream media has chosen to carefully 
ignore. The broader implications of this war are either trivialized or 
not mentioned. People are led to believe that war is part of a 
"humanitarian mandate" and that both Iran as well as Iran's allies, 
namely China and Russia, constitute an unrelenting threat to global 
security and "Western democracy"
 
While the most advanced weapons system are used, America's wars are 
never presented as "killing operations" resulting in extensive civilian 
casualties.  While the incidence of "collateral damage" is acknowledged, 
US-led wars are heralded as an unquestionable instrument of 
"peace-making" and "democratization".
 
The selection of articles below is intended to give readers a condensed 
overview of the events and issues at stake in the so-called stand-off 
between the US, its allies, and Iran. We have selected articles with a 
news emphasis while also providing a historical background.
 
In Part I, Playing with Fire: Covert Acts of Aggression, Provocation and 
War, our reports and analyses show how the military build-up in the 
Persian Gulf has an alarming deliberation and potential for an all-out 
regional conflict. We also expose Washington’s criminal covert war 
against Iran, including the assassination of Iranian scientists and the 
incursion of the country’s territory with spy drones. However, we don’t 
merely report the occurrence of these events, our writers show how this 
mainly US-led militarization is part of the wider strategy for American 
global dominance.
 
We also demonstrate in Part II, War-Making is a Crime: The Latest 
Episode in America’s Long Record, that the belligerent policy of 
Washington and its allies is criminal. Before even firing a shot, the 
Western powers are violating international laws and protocols of 
diplomacy. Equipped with this legal insight and knowledge is essential 
for citizens to mount an effective anti-war movement. In this section, 
we also provide a historical background showing that Washington’s 
hostility towards Iran is but the latest episode in a long history of 
criminal war-making by the US.
 
Central to the Western powers' avowed rationale in the Persian Gulf is 
their presentation of Iran as a threat to world peace, in particular 
from its alleged development of nuclear weapons.  In Part III, Media 
Manipulation: Lies, Distortions and Selling Yet Another War to the 
Public, we dispel the myths, fog and fabrications behind these 
allegations to show that Iran does not have, nor is intending to build, 
nuclear weapons. Its “nuclear ambitions” (a phrase so often said with 
sinister connotations) are to develop civilian energy and medical 
capabilities – well within the provisions and entitlements of the 
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Countless inspections over several years by 
the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy 
Agency (IAEA), have not found any evidence to support Western claims. 
Yet these well-worn and hollow claims continue to be recycled in the 
mainstream media. The IAEA has also shown itself to have become a 
willing political tool for Western governments and intelligence agencies 
by casting sinister doubt on the Iranian nuclear programme even though 
the IAEA has not found any proof to justify such doubts. We show that 
the supposed nuclear threat feared by the Western powers is a specious 
pretext for their otherwise criminal aggression towards Iran and its 80 
million people.
 
Finally, in Part IV Towards a Global Conflagration, we point to the very 
real danger of a horrendous cataclysm – if Western governments persist 
in their criminal drumbeat for war in the Persian Gulf. Russia and China 
are fully aware that a war on Iran is a stepping stone towards a broader 
war. The Russian government, in a recent statement, has warned the US 
and NATO that  "should Iran get drawn into any political or military 
hardships, this will be a direct threat to our national security.”
 
The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve 
nuclear weapons and the collision of global powers in what would 
constitute World War III. The consequences are barely imaginable for the 
loss of life in such a scenario and for the very future of the planet. 
Yet all the while, the mainstream media has served to justify this march 
to war or to downplay its horrific possibilities.
 
The complacency of Western public opinion --including segments of the US 
anti-war movement-- is disturbing. No concern has been expressed at the 
political level as to the likely consequences of  a US-NATO-Israel 
attack on Iran, using nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state.
 
Such an action would result in "the unthinkable": a nuclear holocaust 
over a large part of the Middle East. It should be noted that a nuclear 
nightmare would occur even if nuclear weapons were not used. The bombing 
of Iran's nuclear facilities using conventional weapons would contribute 
to unleashing a Chernobyl-Fukushima type disaster with extensive 
radioactive fallout.
 
The "Globalization of War" involving the hegemonic deployment of a 
formidable US-NATO military force in all major regions of the World is 
inconsequential in the eyes of the Western media.
 
War is not front page news in comparison to the most insignificant 
issues of public concern, including the local level crime scene or the 
tabloid gossip reports on Hollywood celebrities. The broader 
implications of this war on Iran are either trivialized or not 
mentioned. People are led to believe that war is part of a "humanitarian 
mandate" and that both Iran as well as Iran's allies, namely China and 
Russia, constitute an unrelenting threat to global security and "Western 
democracy".
 
In the face of ceaseless media disinformation, We at Global Research are 
committed to raising public awareness of the injustice and criminality 
being perpetrated by Western governments. We began this News Reader by 
saying that 2012 could be a watershed year for ominous reasons. It could 
also be a watershed year for a better future in which citizens rise up 
to avert war and overthrow their oppressive governments, to create 
societies that are worthy of human beings. In order to achieve that, we 
first need to know what is at stake and why. This Online News Reader 
(N-Book) aims to do that.
 
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