Thanks to POTUS Trump and Hegseth the economies of many countries are never going to recover, even if the Strait of Hormuz is reopened tomorrow.
The pre-war world is just a dream.
POTUS Trump and Hegseth have engaged in an act of economic self-sabotage that will ultimately hurt the U.S. and the global economy. The problem is that the damage is already done. Regardless of what the U.S. does, a new multimillion dollar toll system imposed on the Strait of Hormuz by Iran will remain in place and countries will have to factor it into oil prices.
Quoting one accomplished banker and economist:
“Iran has discovered that they are actually the global oil hegemon overnight by accident."
“We haven’t even begun to see them leverage this as a weapon. Not only now, but in the years to come."
"If hostilities ceased tomorrow on terms Iran found favourable, it would take years for the global economy to stabilise to the new normal; whatever that new normal Iran decides it should be.”
"There is 'no going back' to the free navigation previously seen in the Strait of Hormuz — even if the US undertakes a ground invasion, which would almost certainly fail."
"[T]he world must learn to live with higher oil prices and their effect on inflation.
If the global oil price stays in its current price range ($US100 per barrel), the result will be a 'prolonged inflationary shock' [and] if it goes above $US150 a barrel businesses are going to be shuttering and there’s going to be a recession”.
"A major blow from the war will be long-term damage to the US dollar and the broader Western financial system.
'Overnight, Iran is basically trying to move the world from the petrodollar to a (Chinese) Yuan-backed oil' ... That’s an ominous sign, because it threatens the dollar’s status as the reserve currency of the world and ultimately, the ability of the US government to pay down its $39 trillion debt."
"[I]f global reliance on the dollar wanes, demand for US debt will drop, forcing the US government to offer much higher interest rates.
This chain reaction would ultimately make borrowing more expensive for American businesses and consumers and weaken the dollar’s purchasing power, leading to more expensive imports and higher inflation."
"Ultimately ... the pre-war global economy is fading into an unrecoverable memory, and the world could be paying the cost of the Iran war for years to come, whether it’s denominated in dollars or not."
"'Overnight, Iran is basically trying to move the world from the petrodollar to a (Chinese) Yuan-backed oil' ... That’s an ominous sign, because it threatens the dollar’s status as the reserve currency of the world and ultimately, the ability of the US government to pay down its $39 trillion debt."
Pay down? Or keep ringing up? [BRICS are onto ya.]
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The fiat US$, conjured out of a Rothschild's butt, is bankrupt. It has been looted clean since Nixon dropping "as good as gold" in 1971. Backed by the Kissinger petrodollar deal with the Saudis in 1974-75. Pumped and dumped.
Those days are indeed now over as we exit the free-ride corportocracy and enter the chaos that will precede their planned technocracy.
You need to calm down. Shouting hysterically in all caps and failing to articulate your key premises doesn't aid your case. Your video has the tone of a propaganda piece and that can be good for entertainment but it's entirely irrelevant to the argument that the actions of the current U.S. regime (and the Israeli regime) have irreversibly damaged the global and U.S. economies.
If the economic effects are as predicted then those who supported the actions that empowered Iran to cause the effects must be held accountable.
I just enjoy responses like this immensely.....MY BELLY LAUGH OF THE DAY.
Now sit down and actually watch the video so you can see how Iran has been becoming a bigger & bigger threat to the Global Economy FOR DECADES thru its SHADOW CONTROL of the Global Oil market thru the IRGC, BTW in case it escaped you, oil is the life blood of the Global Economy - then imagine Iran with that kind of control + nuclear weapons & delivery systems......
and don't concern yourself with how I use caps. The nonsense of equating of caps in a written piece with yelling is so worn & frankly dumb, I can't believe you actually wrote that.
Well you've given them control of the Strait of Hormuz so "Thank you for your support" LOL. The Iranians have said plainly what they planned to do if they were attacked again and now they've done it. At 100 tankers a day that's $36-$72 billion a year in revenue.
Iran spend 1% of what the USA does on weapons and yet they are still in control of the strait. Something tells me your military is bloated and corrupt. I don't think you are getting good value for you money.
No fan of the Mullah regime but they were right about going with missiles instead of nukes. Bringing 10,000 knives to a gun fight appears to work. Not a strategy I'd have come up with. I'm old school like general Zia "We will eat grass if we have to but we will have the bomb".
Or you could re-establish freedom of the seas and reopen the straight. Perhaps the EU would be happy to shutdown the Ukrainian fiasco and put their military efforts into something that actually effects them.
You're completely right and wrong. Iran is using religion as the springboard for its fight against the West. But, notice this from John:
In August 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Iran to secure its oil fields and railroads to supply the Soviet Red Army with fuel to fight the Germans during World War II.
Iran declared itself neutral at the start of WW2. It was a peaceful nation with assets it wanted to develop.
However, the Anglo-American world power did not let them develop or live in peace. You, for some reason, can not go beyond 1979. You're incapable of understanding that what created Iran today is British and American aggression. Iran calls the US the Great Satan, and they are correct.
You and others can only repeat Neocon rhetoric that has been manufactured to justify continued aggression. Even Trump, in his speech, stated he wanted to take over Iranian oil. Nothing has changed since WW2; the same aggressive stance by American politicians as did the British in WW2 continues.
Can you not see the facts that are right there in front of your nose? So, who made the Iran of today? Religion or Anglo-American aggression?
I subscribe to an Influential blog by a man who has tremendous contacts and an uncanny model that is 100% accurate. That's no hyperbole, it's a fact. Here's an excerpt from that blog.
"We have a very serious problem emerging that is beyond just fuel. I fear that Trump has been suckered into Israel's war, and Netanyahu does not care about the world in the least. Many are deeply concerned that Netanyahu is deliberately trying to be the Biblical Prophets to be fulfilled. He is reportedly also focused on Zechariah (12-13), which states that, in the future, all nations will gather against Jerusalem in a siege. In their moment of greatest peril, God will intervene to save them. Even if Trump tries to cut a deal and exist, Netanyahu may not comply, and if the entire world is against Israel, that will only fulfill his objective. This is what I am hearing from his intense Israeli critics. Anti-War protests are rising in Israel as anger explodes, accusing Netanyahu of waging 'political' war, demanding elections, which he would certainly lose."
Netenyaho is trying to begin the Hebrew Armageddon. Nukes and all. Israel has protests everywhere, but the press is not showing those. The public is screaming for new elections. The US, through a billionaire president's second term, is hooked up with a religious madman. He's worse than the Iranian religious madmen.
Have you seen this, from the Iranians? It seems to be addressed to Pete Hegseth, aka Kegsbreath. I can't understand why they have such litttle respect. The depictions of Pete as a drunkard, rapist and bisexual giving blow jobs and the Epstein references and depiction of POTUS Trump and his supporters as child molesters are appalling.
Lego video doesn't do anything for me--totally unconvincing. Hearing Hegseth sound like the crazed pantsuit jitterbug preacher Paula White, however, along his drinking, suggests he's not the right guy for the job. And yeah, I know what Lincoln supposedly said about Grant's drinking, but Grant had already proved himself as a commander, wasn't coming from a Fox weekend gig.
As I recall, didn't you write the other day that most Iranians don't want Islam? Yet when I checked with AI, the CIA Factbook estimate for Iran was 98.5%, very close to the Iranian government's claim of 99.3%, with some 5-10% of that being Sunni rather than Shia. The only lower number, 40-60%, was from a dedicated anti-Iran "nonprofit", GAMAAN, the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran, headquartered in the Netherlands. Wonder where the "nonprofit" funding comes from, and whether the CEO makes half a million or more?
There are other religions in Iran, besides Islam. Judaism, for one. Bahaism, for another Many, many, many branches of eastern Christianity you know absolutely nothing about. Zoroastrianism. Buddhism. On and on and on. It's an OLD country. Very old. The pro-Western propaganda is so obvious it's boring. There are plenty of people who identify as Muslim to one degree or another who also want a secular, Westernized society. That does not mean they reject everything Islamic. I found myself walking behind a young woman in a big box store today. I live in a "conservative" US state. She was wearing a black, backless bathing suit with a skirt that didn't cover anything. And I tried to imagine her in Iran. I could not. And I sighed and wished I was there. I'm not Muslim but some Islamic values I really, really miss.
That's hard to believe. American whack jobs are probably more numerous than Iranian whack jobs. There are probably more atheists and agnostics in Iran than in the U.S. The U.S. is nd always has been basically a nation of whack jobs.
Approximately 7% of American Christians would kill the unbeliever if they had a microseizure in the right hemisphere temporal-limbic regions of the brain accompanied by the delusion that God told them to do it.
"I would kill in God's name:" role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability - PubMed https://share.google/jgi2qxCGQUrNKdQ61
American whack jobs are probably more numerous than Iranian whack jobs. There are probably more atheists and agnostics in Iran than in the U.S. The U.S. is nd always has been basically a nation of whack jobs.
Approximately 7% of American Christians would kill the unbeliever if they had a microseizure in the right hemisphere temporal-limbic regions of the brain accompanied by the delusion that God told them to do it.
"I would kill in God's name:" role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability - PubMed https://share.google/jgi2qxCGQUrNKdQ61
Thank you John for being consistent. Evil is evil and you are spot on in your analysis today, just as you and Peter were on the Covid travesty six years ago
The Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 was a conspiracy cooked up by Israel between them and the US to keep the two rivals of Israel fighting as long as possible, weakening both, in conjunction with the Iran-Contra business. The effort was to de-stabilize and weaken both. If Iran started winning, the US would help out Iraq. When Iraq got the upper hand, Israel would help Iran. You can read about Mossad's involvement in Ari Ben-Menashi's "Profits of War", a new edition of which recently came out.
Not coincidentally, Kermit Roosevelt was making monthly trips to Tehran from January 1946 onward (and maybe before). Mossadegh was Iran's JFK--not some nutcase. The place was crawling with CIA in the 60's and 70's and not only did the US arrange the Shah's secret police, SAVAK, to be trained by Mossad IN Israel, I believe they paid for it as well. And Evin Prison where many pro-democracy Iranians were tortured and killed under the Shah was supported by American, CIA-related "lawyers". I knew some of them. SAVAK wasn't the Shah's baby. It was created under the auspices of the CIA and MI6.
During the 1980's war, Israel provided spare parts for the Shah's fast-degenerating Air Force, to keep the war going. It was after this that the Air Force was debilitated. So how Trump managed to obliterate a non-existence force is quite a miracle! He must have figured out how to time travel.
The Americans NEVER learn. April is sandstorm month in Iran and sending helicopters there in April is the height of stupidity. The Iranians will not torture any service people they detain. But they may be used as hostages, as they should be. Their diets will improve on Persian cuisine, however. Lucky beggars.
you could say it's colonialism implying that the British nation was the culprit, but no it was the wealthy combined with the government of the UK that was the culprit. Just as right now, the American people are against this war, and yet our government is acting AGAINST the will of the people. It's always the same: governments collude with the rich to get the citizens of the country to send their young men to die for rich men's profits. What a world!
More reasons for Iran to not like the West, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was 78 years old when he left France and returned to Iran on February 1, 1979. Why was it so easy?
In the early 1950s, Iran successfully nationalized its oil industry, which had been controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)—now known as BP. This move, led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, sparked a major international crisis that ultimately led to his overthrow in a 1953 CIAS/MI6 coup.
The Nationalization Law (1951): On March 15, 1951, the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) voted unanimously to nationalize the oil industry.
This created the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to take over AIOC assets, including the massive Abadan Refinery.
Rise of Mohammad Mosaddegh: Mosaddegh, a popular nationalist, was elected Prime Minister shortly after the law passed. He argued that Iran received only a fraction of its own oil wealth while its people lived in poverty.
British Blockade: In response, Britain imposed a worldwide naval blockade on Iranian oil and withdrew its technicians, effectively crippling Iran’s economy by stopping its primary source of revenue.
The 1953 Coup (Operation Ajax): Fearing that the resulting economic instability would lead to a communist takeover, the U.S. (CIA) and the U.K. (MI6) orchestrated a military coup in August 1953. Mosaddegh was overthrown and sentenced to house arrest for life.
There is a good reason why the Iranians dislike the USA.
1. The United States provided significant support to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). The major oil companies wanted the oil back under there control.
Official Iranian Figures: The Iranian government has officially acknowledged approximately 183,000 to 217,000 deaths. This includes both military personnel and civilians killed during the conflict.
Scholarly and International Estimates: Many historians and organizations, such as Encyclopedia Britannica, estimate the total Iranian death toll to be significantly higher, often placing it between 200,000 and 600,000.
1. The United States provided significant support to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). While the U.S. remained officially neutral, it "tilted" toward Iraq to prevent an Iranian victory and protect regional interests, such as oil supplies and the security of Gulf allies.
Key Forms of U.S. Support: The Reagan and Bush administrations aided Iraq through several diplomatic, economic, and military channels:
Intelligence Sharing:
The U.S. provided Iraq with critical battlefield intelligence, including satellite imagery of Iranian troop movements and communications intercepts.
This data was sometimes used by Iraqi forces to coordinate strategic strikes, including those involving chemical weapons.
Economic Aid: The U.S. provided several billion dollars in agricultural credits and loans. This allowed Iraq to import food on credit while using its own revenues to purchase weapons from other nations like the Soviet Union and France.Dual-Use Technology:
The U.S. approved the export of "dual-use" technologies—items with both civilian and military applications—including computers, communications equipment, and aircraft navigation systems.
Diplomatic Support: In 1982, the U.S. removed Iraq from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, which eased the flow of aid. The two nations officially restored full diplomatic relations in November 1984.
While the UK (and city of London) are always somewhere in the picture, it's the US, via the C_A + M0SSAD that are the actual culprits... in EVERYTHING the unsuspecting US citizens have had to endure (for generations) to please the cartel babylon DS billionaire/trillionaire/Epstein class.
All of those who advocate for war on Iran are vicious and deluded warmongers desiring death and destruction for people they don't know. We need the peacemakers in charge for a change.
War will always have an excuse. Always. When does peace get to have an excuse? When do we decide that we don't want the arms manufacturers and bankers running the world? When do we decide that we'll respect the life, liberty, and property of other nations, as we would want them to respect ours?
The world would be a much better place if the USA simply followed George Washington's sage wisdom: Befriend all nations, trade with all nations, eschew becoming entangled in foreign alliances and conflicts and do not seek monsters abroad to destroy.
"All we are saying is give minding your own bees wax a chance."
You show remarkable but life-preserving restraint in your message. Unfortunately, Americans are not well informed about their government. Perhaps they are too busy being entertained by sports, major media "news" or TV prophets who support IDF. I pray we will be delivered from all evil by faith in Jesus Christ.
What is ignored in all of your writings of which some I agree with, and some I don't. But what I feel is most important about Iran's leadership is something that probably most people don't bother to read about in this country. I'm FAR from an expert in knowing about Islam. I read in English the Koran...years ago. I must confess to being very skeptical of anything that I read in any news stories. But I believe that here are some basic facts of the country of Iran. They are overwhelmingly what are called: Twelver. They teach that history culminates in the return of the Hidden Imam to establish global justice through decisive intervention. Many analysts says that the leadership is not only waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear, but have been trying to force the Hidden Imam to appear. So, that belief in itself, which is part of the leadership's belief: surely gives credence that they will seek a nuclear bomb and use it to force the Hidden Imman to appear. I'm not saying that I believe the thoughts about the Hidden Imam. But to disregard it out of hand, can be dangerous it seems to me. Because the leadership may want the nuclear bomb to kill its enemies, but they want 'it' because of their beliefs. And dangerous thing is the great majority of Iranians are being taught those beliefs, which one won't find in the mainstream media.
Gee, they must've copied to a large extent from the demonic t@lmud... just like little z!os are taught to spit on Christians, who, according to them, are animals fit only to serve the whims of the j€w, who also has every right to k!ll them since "goys" aren't human.
This is a very naive view of how and why the Shah was removed and how and why khomeni was installed. It's very one-sided: the bad Shah and the good khomeni, really!!!
It is simply a fact that the Shah was installed by western intelligence agencies after the same agencies overthrew the Mossadegh government. Think how you would feel if some external power had overthrown the U.S. govt. and installed a dictator over us. Likely you would be ready to join a popular revolution to overthrow that dictator. Well, that is just what Iranians did, and the focus of that popular revolution was Ayatollah Khomeni.
With your understated passive manner, you have nailed it. Of course Iran should get the abomb...there is no other regional gov who could possibly thwart the horror the Zionists have perpetrated on the arabs since 1948. John, please next, ferrat out for what and how is it that Trump is attached at the sphinctor muscle to Israel's Zionist ambitions, so much so that he joyously allows the hell on earth of Gaza, the West Bank (and the murder of Americans there) , Lebanon any number of times inlficted by a diseased Zionist gov. I just dont get it. OF course, I dont get Trump's love of Glyphosate, the covid shot, Bayer, I just dont believe it is all money. txs
I really wish you would stop with the nonsense. The Iranians are no angels. We tried it your way and look where it got us. Barack Hussein Obama payed off like a slot machine for them. $150 billion, including $1.5B in cash, all for their regional proxies, missiles, and nuclear weapons development. What did strange and sinister Obama say he got in return -- "I asked Supreme leader to issue a fatwa ..."
So how does one make the assessment that the Iranian 'nuclear' program, 7 stories beneath a mountain, is purely for defensive MAD purposes? Are we to believe that a lot of the destabilizing terrorism proxies are not funded by Iran (ie Hamas, Hezzbollah, Houthis)? I'm just trying to wrap my head around John Leake making the Iranians out to be choirboys. I do accept that the neocon faction of the swamp are most definitely M'Effin' SOBs - but is this conflagration purely all about oil?
John gave examples of other countries developing nukes and not using them, and they haven't been invaded by US since. The argument that they would immediately use it against US is humbug as obviously the US and Isfake have a whole lot more to aim back at them. Hamas, Hezzbollah and Houthis were not set up for terrorism, they came about from illegal and immoral Israeli land grabbing and mass murdering. I'd join resistance to an invading pilaging group of bastards too.
Um, newsflash. Hamas, et al, are funded, orchestrated, run by !srael. Get your facts straight. This is no obscure secret or "out there" conspiracy. Do better.
I don't find it interesting and informative. I do find it curious Mr. Leake like so many other Trump haters refuse to acknowledge or provide a response to the Mullahs' daily insistence of Death to America.
Reeetard alert. Whenever faced with truth, the reeetard clutches his pearls and screams "TD" or "Trump hate", as if that has any validity or merit. It just proves another non-discerning, low IQer has popped his head out from under the rock of his matrix, to parrot what he knows from drinking the kool-aid out of the narrative toilet. Bravo. Tell everyone you know nothing (and have even less of a moral compass or any discernment), without saying you know nothing. Tell everyone you have an aversion to facts and prefer the comfort you derive in your Stockholm Syndrome matrix, cuz truth gives you a rash and deranges your mind.
Excellent exposition of the broader context. Keep it coming John.
Thanks to POTUS Trump and Hegseth the economies of many countries are never going to recover, even if the Strait of Hormuz is reopened tomorrow.
The pre-war world is just a dream.
POTUS Trump and Hegseth have engaged in an act of economic self-sabotage that will ultimately hurt the U.S. and the global economy. The problem is that the damage is already done. Regardless of what the U.S. does, a new multimillion dollar toll system imposed on the Strait of Hormuz by Iran will remain in place and countries will have to factor it into oil prices.
Quoting one accomplished banker and economist:
“Iran has discovered that they are actually the global oil hegemon overnight by accident."
“We haven’t even begun to see them leverage this as a weapon. Not only now, but in the years to come."
"If hostilities ceased tomorrow on terms Iran found favourable, it would take years for the global economy to stabilise to the new normal; whatever that new normal Iran decides it should be.”
"There is 'no going back' to the free navigation previously seen in the Strait of Hormuz — even if the US undertakes a ground invasion, which would almost certainly fail."
"[T]he world must learn to live with higher oil prices and their effect on inflation.
If the global oil price stays in its current price range ($US100 per barrel), the result will be a 'prolonged inflationary shock' [and] if it goes above $US150 a barrel businesses are going to be shuttering and there’s going to be a recession”.
"A major blow from the war will be long-term damage to the US dollar and the broader Western financial system.
'Overnight, Iran is basically trying to move the world from the petrodollar to a (Chinese) Yuan-backed oil' ... That’s an ominous sign, because it threatens the dollar’s status as the reserve currency of the world and ultimately, the ability of the US government to pay down its $39 trillion debt."
"[I]f global reliance on the dollar wanes, demand for US debt will drop, forcing the US government to offer much higher interest rates.
This chain reaction would ultimately make borrowing more expensive for American businesses and consumers and weaken the dollar’s purchasing power, leading to more expensive imports and higher inflation."
"Ultimately ... the pre-war global economy is fading into an unrecoverable memory, and the world could be paying the cost of the Iran war for years to come, whether it’s denominated in dollars or not."
"'Overnight, Iran is basically trying to move the world from the petrodollar to a (Chinese) Yuan-backed oil' ... That’s an ominous sign, because it threatens the dollar’s status as the reserve currency of the world and ultimately, the ability of the US government to pay down its $39 trillion debt."
Pay down? Or keep ringing up? [BRICS are onto ya.]
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The fiat US$, conjured out of a Rothschild's butt, is bankrupt. It has been looted clean since Nixon dropping "as good as gold" in 1971. Backed by the Kissinger petrodollar deal with the Saudis in 1974-75. Pumped and dumped.
Those days are indeed now over as we exit the free-ride corportocracy and enter the chaos that will precede their planned technocracy.
"Hang onto your head, hang onto your hat!"
Listen, learn and fill in YOUR HUGE GAPS IN UNDERSTANDING & KNOWLEDGE....then you can re-write you post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NylwnKcwAr4
You need to calm down. Shouting hysterically in all caps and failing to articulate your key premises doesn't aid your case. Your video has the tone of a propaganda piece and that can be good for entertainment but it's entirely irrelevant to the argument that the actions of the current U.S. regime (and the Israeli regime) have irreversibly damaged the global and U.S. economies.
If the economic effects are as predicted then those who supported the actions that empowered Iran to cause the effects must be held accountable.
I just enjoy responses like this immensely.....MY BELLY LAUGH OF THE DAY.
Now sit down and actually watch the video so you can see how Iran has been becoming a bigger & bigger threat to the Global Economy FOR DECADES thru its SHADOW CONTROL of the Global Oil market thru the IRGC, BTW in case it escaped you, oil is the life blood of the Global Economy - then imagine Iran with that kind of control + nuclear weapons & delivery systems......
and don't concern yourself with how I use caps. The nonsense of equating of caps in a written piece with yelling is so worn & frankly dumb, I can't believe you actually wrote that.
Well you've given them control of the Strait of Hormuz so "Thank you for your support" LOL. The Iranians have said plainly what they planned to do if they were attacked again and now they've done it. At 100 tankers a day that's $36-$72 billion a year in revenue.
Iran spend 1% of what the USA does on weapons and yet they are still in control of the strait. Something tells me your military is bloated and corrupt. I don't think you are getting good value for you money.
No fan of the Mullah regime but they were right about going with missiles instead of nukes. Bringing 10,000 knives to a gun fight appears to work. Not a strategy I'd have come up with. I'm old school like general Zia "We will eat grass if we have to but we will have the bomb".
"Iran has been becoming a bigger & bigger threat to the Global Economy FOR DECADES thru its SHADOW CONTROL of the Global Oil market ..."
FYI - The global economy is corrupt. The USA conjuring bank digits out of a Rothschild's butt and calling it "money" is the real problem here.
Did you miss the part at the beginning of the video where it said "because of sanctions..."?
Or you could re-establish freedom of the seas and reopen the straight. Perhaps the EU would be happy to shutdown the Ukrainian fiasco and put their military efforts into something that actually effects them.
Excellent report, appreciate it.
The foreign aggression in Iran is ISLAM, an Arab occupation religion and regime.
You're completely right and wrong. Iran is using religion as the springboard for its fight against the West. But, notice this from John:
In August 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Iran to secure its oil fields and railroads to supply the Soviet Red Army with fuel to fight the Germans during World War II.
Iran declared itself neutral at the start of WW2. It was a peaceful nation with assets it wanted to develop.
However, the Anglo-American world power did not let them develop or live in peace. You, for some reason, can not go beyond 1979. You're incapable of understanding that what created Iran today is British and American aggression. Iran calls the US the Great Satan, and they are correct.
You and others can only repeat Neocon rhetoric that has been manufactured to justify continued aggression. Even Trump, in his speech, stated he wanted to take over Iranian oil. Nothing has changed since WW2; the same aggressive stance by American politicians as did the British in WW2 continues.
Can you not see the facts that are right there in front of your nose? So, who made the Iran of today? Religion or Anglo-American aggression?
Americans aggression and the aggression of the tail that waves the American dog.
I subscribe to an Influential blog by a man who has tremendous contacts and an uncanny model that is 100% accurate. That's no hyperbole, it's a fact. Here's an excerpt from that blog.
"We have a very serious problem emerging that is beyond just fuel. I fear that Trump has been suckered into Israel's war, and Netanyahu does not care about the world in the least. Many are deeply concerned that Netanyahu is deliberately trying to be the Biblical Prophets to be fulfilled. He is reportedly also focused on Zechariah (12-13), which states that, in the future, all nations will gather against Jerusalem in a siege. In their moment of greatest peril, God will intervene to save them. Even if Trump tries to cut a deal and exist, Netanyahu may not comply, and if the entire world is against Israel, that will only fulfill his objective. This is what I am hearing from his intense Israeli critics. Anti-War protests are rising in Israel as anger explodes, accusing Netanyahu of waging 'political' war, demanding elections, which he would certainly lose."
Netenyaho is trying to begin the Hebrew Armageddon. Nukes and all. Israel has protests everywhere, but the press is not showing those. The public is screaming for new elections. The US, through a billionaire president's second term, is hooked up with a religious madman. He's worse than the Iranian religious madmen.
Methinks you are confusing Islam with Zionist Judaism.
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How about both? Old Testament thunder and destruction abound on both sides.
FYI, Islam is POST-Christianity.
Including “Christian”Zionism…
Have you seen this, from the Iranians? It seems to be addressed to Pete Hegseth, aka Kegsbreath. I can't understand why they have such litttle respect. The depictions of Pete as a drunkard, rapist and bisexual giving blow jobs and the Epstein references and depiction of POTUS Trump and his supporters as child molesters are appalling.
Iran has released another Lego video.... - Truth Against Hate | Facebook https://share.google/EvQ53ZmQEKWdLRZIf
"I can't understand why they have such little respect." 🤣
Lego video doesn't do anything for me--totally unconvincing. Hearing Hegseth sound like the crazed pantsuit jitterbug preacher Paula White, however, along his drinking, suggests he's not the right guy for the job. And yeah, I know what Lincoln supposedly said about Grant's drinking, but Grant had already proved himself as a commander, wasn't coming from a Fox weekend gig.
Perhaps they have watched the vitriol online in the West.
As I recall, didn't you write the other day that most Iranians don't want Islam? Yet when I checked with AI, the CIA Factbook estimate for Iran was 98.5%, very close to the Iranian government's claim of 99.3%, with some 5-10% of that being Sunni rather than Shia. The only lower number, 40-60%, was from a dedicated anti-Iran "nonprofit", GAMAAN, the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran, headquartered in the Netherlands. Wonder where the "nonprofit" funding comes from, and whether the CEO makes half a million or more?
There are other religions in Iran, besides Islam. Judaism, for one. Bahaism, for another Many, many, many branches of eastern Christianity you know absolutely nothing about. Zoroastrianism. Buddhism. On and on and on. It's an OLD country. Very old. The pro-Western propaganda is so obvious it's boring. There are plenty of people who identify as Muslim to one degree or another who also want a secular, Westernized society. That does not mean they reject everything Islamic. I found myself walking behind a young woman in a big box store today. I live in a "conservative" US state. She was wearing a black, backless bathing suit with a skirt that didn't cover anything. And I tried to imagine her in Iran. I could not. And I sighed and wished I was there. I'm not Muslim but some Islamic values I really, really miss.
That's hard to believe. American whack jobs are probably more numerous than Iranian whack jobs. There are probably more atheists and agnostics in Iran than in the U.S. The U.S. is nd always has been basically a nation of whack jobs.
Approximately 7% of American Christians would kill the unbeliever if they had a microseizure in the right hemisphere temporal-limbic regions of the brain accompanied by the delusion that God told them to do it.
"I would kill in God's name:" role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability - PubMed https://share.google/jgi2qxCGQUrNKdQ61
American whack jobs are probably more numerous than Iranian whack jobs. There are probably more atheists and agnostics in Iran than in the U.S. The U.S. is nd always has been basically a nation of whack jobs.
Approximately 7% of American Christians would kill the unbeliever if they had a microseizure in the right hemisphere temporal-limbic regions of the brain accompanied by the delusion that God told them to do it.
"I would kill in God's name:" role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability - PubMed https://share.google/jgi2qxCGQUrNKdQ61
Wonderful article,.straight from my heart! Happy Easter, John, and to all your supporters, too.
Thank you John for being consistent. Evil is evil and you are spot on in your analysis today, just as you and Peter were on the Covid travesty six years ago
The Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 was a conspiracy cooked up by Israel between them and the US to keep the two rivals of Israel fighting as long as possible, weakening both, in conjunction with the Iran-Contra business. The effort was to de-stabilize and weaken both. If Iran started winning, the US would help out Iraq. When Iraq got the upper hand, Israel would help Iran. You can read about Mossad's involvement in Ari Ben-Menashi's "Profits of War", a new edition of which recently came out.
Not coincidentally, Kermit Roosevelt was making monthly trips to Tehran from January 1946 onward (and maybe before). Mossadegh was Iran's JFK--not some nutcase. The place was crawling with CIA in the 60's and 70's and not only did the US arrange the Shah's secret police, SAVAK, to be trained by Mossad IN Israel, I believe they paid for it as well. And Evin Prison where many pro-democracy Iranians were tortured and killed under the Shah was supported by American, CIA-related "lawyers". I knew some of them. SAVAK wasn't the Shah's baby. It was created under the auspices of the CIA and MI6.
During the 1980's war, Israel provided spare parts for the Shah's fast-degenerating Air Force, to keep the war going. It was after this that the Air Force was debilitated. So how Trump managed to obliterate a non-existence force is quite a miracle! He must have figured out how to time travel.
The Americans NEVER learn. April is sandstorm month in Iran and sending helicopters there in April is the height of stupidity. The Iranians will not torture any service people they detain. But they may be used as hostages, as they should be. Their diets will improve on Persian cuisine, however. Lucky beggars.
“Their diets will improve on Persian cuisine, however. Lucky beggars.” 555 (ha ha ha in Thai)
you could say it's colonialism implying that the British nation was the culprit, but no it was the wealthy combined with the government of the UK that was the culprit. Just as right now, the American people are against this war, and yet our government is acting AGAINST the will of the people. It's always the same: governments collude with the rich to get the citizens of the country to send their young men to die for rich men's profits. What a world!
More reasons for Iran to not like the West, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was 78 years old when he left France and returned to Iran on February 1, 1979. Why was it so easy?
In the early 1950s, Iran successfully nationalized its oil industry, which had been controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)—now known as BP. This move, led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, sparked a major international crisis that ultimately led to his overthrow in a 1953 CIAS/MI6 coup.
The Nationalization Law (1951): On March 15, 1951, the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) voted unanimously to nationalize the oil industry.
This created the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to take over AIOC assets, including the massive Abadan Refinery.
Rise of Mohammad Mosaddegh: Mosaddegh, a popular nationalist, was elected Prime Minister shortly after the law passed. He argued that Iran received only a fraction of its own oil wealth while its people lived in poverty.
British Blockade: In response, Britain imposed a worldwide naval blockade on Iranian oil and withdrew its technicians, effectively crippling Iran’s economy by stopping its primary source of revenue.
The 1953 Coup (Operation Ajax): Fearing that the resulting economic instability would lead to a communist takeover, the U.S. (CIA) and the U.K. (MI6) orchestrated a military coup in August 1953. Mosaddegh was overthrown and sentenced to house arrest for life.
There is a good reason why the Iranians dislike the USA.
1. The United States provided significant support to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). The major oil companies wanted the oil back under there control.
Official Iranian Figures: The Iranian government has officially acknowledged approximately 183,000 to 217,000 deaths. This includes both military personnel and civilians killed during the conflict.
Scholarly and International Estimates: Many historians and organizations, such as Encyclopedia Britannica, estimate the total Iranian death toll to be significantly higher, often placing it between 200,000 and 600,000.
1. The United States provided significant support to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). While the U.S. remained officially neutral, it "tilted" toward Iraq to prevent an Iranian victory and protect regional interests, such as oil supplies and the security of Gulf allies.
Key Forms of U.S. Support: The Reagan and Bush administrations aided Iraq through several diplomatic, economic, and military channels:
Intelligence Sharing:
The U.S. provided Iraq with critical battlefield intelligence, including satellite imagery of Iranian troop movements and communications intercepts.
This data was sometimes used by Iraqi forces to coordinate strategic strikes, including those involving chemical weapons.
Economic Aid: The U.S. provided several billion dollars in agricultural credits and loans. This allowed Iraq to import food on credit while using its own revenues to purchase weapons from other nations like the Soviet Union and France.Dual-Use Technology:
The U.S. approved the export of "dual-use" technologies—items with both civilian and military applications—including computers, communications equipment, and aircraft navigation systems.
Diplomatic Support: In 1982, the U.S. removed Iraq from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, which eased the flow of aid. The two nations officially restored full diplomatic relations in November 1984.
While the UK (and city of London) are always somewhere in the picture, it's the US, via the C_A + M0SSAD that are the actual culprits... in EVERYTHING the unsuspecting US citizens have had to endure (for generations) to please the cartel babylon DS billionaire/trillionaire/Epstein class.
All of those who advocate for war on Iran are vicious and deluded warmongers desiring death and destruction for people they don't know. We need the peacemakers in charge for a change.
War will always have an excuse. Always. When does peace get to have an excuse? When do we decide that we don't want the arms manufacturers and bankers running the world? When do we decide that we'll respect the life, liberty, and property of other nations, as we would want them to respect ours?
The world would be a much better place if the USA simply followed George Washington's sage wisdom: Befriend all nations, trade with all nations, eschew becoming entangled in foreign alliances and conflicts and do not seek monsters abroad to destroy.
"All we are saying is give minding your own bees wax a chance."
You show remarkable but life-preserving restraint in your message. Unfortunately, Americans are not well informed about their government. Perhaps they are too busy being entertained by sports, major media "news" or TV prophets who support IDF. I pray we will be delivered from all evil by faith in Jesus Christ.
"War is how Americans learn geography" (and sometimes history).
;-(
What is ignored in all of your writings of which some I agree with, and some I don't. But what I feel is most important about Iran's leadership is something that probably most people don't bother to read about in this country. I'm FAR from an expert in knowing about Islam. I read in English the Koran...years ago. I must confess to being very skeptical of anything that I read in any news stories. But I believe that here are some basic facts of the country of Iran. They are overwhelmingly what are called: Twelver. They teach that history culminates in the return of the Hidden Imam to establish global justice through decisive intervention. Many analysts says that the leadership is not only waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear, but have been trying to force the Hidden Imam to appear. So, that belief in itself, which is part of the leadership's belief: surely gives credence that they will seek a nuclear bomb and use it to force the Hidden Imman to appear. I'm not saying that I believe the thoughts about the Hidden Imam. But to disregard it out of hand, can be dangerous it seems to me. Because the leadership may want the nuclear bomb to kill its enemies, but they want 'it' because of their beliefs. And dangerous thing is the great majority of Iranians are being taught those beliefs, which one won't find in the mainstream media.
Gee, they must've copied to a large extent from the demonic t@lmud... just like little z!os are taught to spit on Christians, who, according to them, are animals fit only to serve the whims of the j€w, who also has every right to k!ll them since "goys" aren't human.
This is a very naive view of how and why the Shah was removed and how and why khomeni was installed. It's very one-sided: the bad Shah and the good khomeni, really!!!
It is simply a fact that the Shah was installed by western intelligence agencies after the same agencies overthrew the Mossadegh government. Think how you would feel if some external power had overthrown the U.S. govt. and installed a dictator over us. Likely you would be ready to join a popular revolution to overthrow that dictator. Well, that is just what Iranians did, and the focus of that popular revolution was Ayatollah Khomeni.
With your understated passive manner, you have nailed it. Of course Iran should get the abomb...there is no other regional gov who could possibly thwart the horror the Zionists have perpetrated on the arabs since 1948. John, please next, ferrat out for what and how is it that Trump is attached at the sphinctor muscle to Israel's Zionist ambitions, so much so that he joyously allows the hell on earth of Gaza, the West Bank (and the murder of Americans there) , Lebanon any number of times inlficted by a diseased Zionist gov. I just dont get it. OF course, I dont get Trump's love of Glyphosate, the covid shot, Bayer, I just dont believe it is all money. txs
I really wish you would stop with the nonsense. The Iranians are no angels. We tried it your way and look where it got us. Barack Hussein Obama payed off like a slot machine for them. $150 billion, including $1.5B in cash, all for their regional proxies, missiles, and nuclear weapons development. What did strange and sinister Obama say he got in return -- "I asked Supreme leader to issue a fatwa ..."
So how does one make the assessment that the Iranian 'nuclear' program, 7 stories beneath a mountain, is purely for defensive MAD purposes? Are we to believe that a lot of the destabilizing terrorism proxies are not funded by Iran (ie Hamas, Hezzbollah, Houthis)? I'm just trying to wrap my head around John Leake making the Iranians out to be choirboys. I do accept that the neocon faction of the swamp are most definitely M'Effin' SOBs - but is this conflagration purely all about oil?
John gave examples of other countries developing nukes and not using them, and they haven't been invaded by US since. The argument that they would immediately use it against US is humbug as obviously the US and Isfake have a whole lot more to aim back at them. Hamas, Hezzbollah and Houthis were not set up for terrorism, they came about from illegal and immoral Israeli land grabbing and mass murdering. I'd join resistance to an invading pilaging group of bastards too.
Um, newsflash. Hamas, et al, are funded, orchestrated, run by !srael. Get your facts straight. This is no obscure secret or "out there" conspiracy. Do better.
I don't find it interesting and informative. I do find it curious Mr. Leake like so many other Trump haters refuse to acknowledge or provide a response to the Mullahs' daily insistence of Death to America.
They mean death to you fu(king their country since WWII, Einstein. If you ceased fu(king them, maybe they wouldn't hate you so much. Right? D'uh.
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Is it even possible, in your little brain, to oppose Trump's foreign policy without hating him?
Reeetard alert. Whenever faced with truth, the reeetard clutches his pearls and screams "TD" or "Trump hate", as if that has any validity or merit. It just proves another non-discerning, low IQer has popped his head out from under the rock of his matrix, to parrot what he knows from drinking the kool-aid out of the narrative toilet. Bravo. Tell everyone you know nothing (and have even less of a moral compass or any discernment), without saying you know nothing. Tell everyone you have an aversion to facts and prefer the comfort you derive in your Stockholm Syndrome matrix, cuz truth gives you a rash and deranges your mind.