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.
I strongly agree. Let's take Trump at his words, often stated, that he understands debt and finance better than anyone. It has been common knowledge for decades that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz in the event of a US attack, and it is inconceivable that Trump was not aware of this. The consequences of closing the Strait to US and allied interests caused predictable economic harm - the price of oil rising precipitously - and the destruction of oil production facilities in the ME will ensure that economic harm continues for decades, because it takes that long to rebuild all the destroyed production infrastructure. All of this was the known consequence of attacking Iran, and Trump claims he understands better than anyone the economic harms his attack on Iran caused.
Therefore Trump is deliberately destroying the Petrodollar, impoverishing the world, and plunging humanity into a recession that will permanently retard economic growth, innovation, and plunge billions of people into hardship and potential famine, because fertilizer is a petroleum product, which, of course, Trump knew better than anyone.
The principals responsible for authorizing the attack on Iran, particularly Trump and Netanyahu, have clearly deliberately committed a genocidal crime against humanity on a global scale, in addition to bearing responsibility for incinerating ~170 little girls at school hiding in a prayer room on Purim, which is a crime against humanity, and a war crime, committed against each one of those children, cruelly and tortuously murdered by the Commanders in Chief of the military forces that executed their orders.
These vile murderers have already caused millions of people globally to be sentenced to penury, famine, and death by their reckless and politically motivated crimes, and directly burned to death those little girls in Minab. Everyone that holds humanity dear, that respects our right to live without being burned to death, must condemn these atrocities, and work to immediately render these psychopaths to arrest, confinement during prosecution for these crimes, and hanging by the neck until they are dead when they are convicted of these unconsciounable acts.
All free men of sound mind and body must act, or their loved ones, their people and nations, and they themselves forfeit any right to defend themselves from that identical fate suffered by innocent little girls burned to death by madmen on Purim.
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".
Donald Trump has bombed Iran, Nigeria, Yemen, Venezuela, Iraq, Somalia, and Syria, killing women, children, innocent civilians and families.
Do you know what those countries all have in common?
They are remaining countries NOT on the Rottchild banking system.
All wars are Bankers' wars.
Contrary to the hype and careful media-imaging, Donald Trump is a lousy businessman. He lost those casinos and the investors' monies, and then he sold his soul to Rottchild. Which is why Trump is president now.
And why he and Bibi are stealing Iran's oil for City of London.
And the American taxpayers, and our soldiers, are paying for it.
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.
Well he is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams in Making America Grate its Teeth Again. The Where-the-Hell's-My-Prince-of-Peace-Prize-Winner's comments on this very day was the maraschino cherry on this fruitcake.
The contrast between the actual Prince of Peace, whom was tortured to death to protect mankind from hell, and Trump, whom on Easter promised to subject Iran, and the world, by extension, to hell, could not be more stark, total, and complete. Isaiah wrote the immortal words beseeching people to reason, stating God has on one hand offered death, evil, and suffering to mankind, and on the other offered life, peace, and prosperity.
Trump's hand is full of death, evil, and suffering for all mankind, and them that support Trump and his master, the Father of Lies, will get what Trump offers.
Choose life, and stand with the Prince of Peace whom offers it to you.
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.
You mean The Holy Land? As oxymorons go, that one tops "Friendly Fire, Affordable Health Care and Jumbo Shrimp put together. (Poor God must be having second thoughts, would you think?(well, now, third: he was kicking himself watching the Israelites, after barely making it across the Red Sea, banging out a Golden Calf. Apparently Moses had to beg him not to just wipe the slate clean.)
"...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."
When Zechariah wrote that event was in the future. Today, that event is in the past, because the Rothschild's imposition of the rogue polity (deceptively named Israel to steal the inheritance of the Israelite clan of the Hebrews) has laid siege to Jerusalem and it's people, literally raping it's children to death with the support of the UN and it's member states. It is the opposite role Netanyahu claims to seek that he has performed, being the very evil that God will miraculously defend mankind from.
This is the fact of history today, and all good people must stand against that evil with God to deliver that miracle of salvation He will.
I was curious about that 1941 British/Soviet invasion of Iran and looked up the history. This happened in August 1941, months before Pearl Harbor and America subsequently joining the Allies. That's not to say that the Americans might not have fully supported the invasion, but the original invasion was British and Soviet, not American. Our actions since then have been aggressive. In this context, you can hardly blame Iran for its antipathy toward the West.
I'm not normally an America-basher, but I'm sure not proud of this history.
Thanks. Now, Trump, as I mentioned, is saying he wants to do the same. I like Trump, only to the degree that he would be a speed bump to the other parties' craziness. But now, he's totally gone off the rails. He is surrounded by Neocons, especially Netenyaho.
Please read about Gertrude Bell, born in 1868 in England, educated at Oxford. Worked with the British Arab Bureau and later the civil administration in Mesopotamia, using her deep knowledge of the region’s people and politics. She gathered intelligence and contacts across tribes and communities, which made her valuable to British decision‑makers. After the war she played a significant part in British‑led arrangements for new states in the former Ottoman territories, particularly Iraq.
Duh. I know that. That does not mean they are not based in the OT. Labeling Jesus a prophet is part of pushing back into the OT paradigm. Mohammed drew upon Jewish history in forming his "religion." He was given sanctuary by a Jewish community when his tribe turned on him, and then later he murdered the people of the town that provided shelter. But he mimicked Judaism subsequently and Islam is strictly OT in its views.
"Mohammed drew upon Jewish history in forming his "religion." He was given sanctuary by a Jewish community when his tribe turned on him, and then later he murdered the people of the town that provided shelter. But he mimicked Judaism..."
That is exactly correct. That betrayal is typical of Rabbinic Judaism, which is reflected in the motto carved in stone 'By Deception Ye Shall Wage War' and exemplified by Mossad. The Talmud is the refinement of the embodiment of evil demonstrated by incessant deception of all it's adherents, whom notoriously endeavor to trick their claimed God by every sly side-stepping of His Law, employing others to fail to observe the Sabbath for them, hiring Shabbos Goy, even inventing light switches that do not directly turn lights on, but randomly do nothing or activate, because they think then flipping the switch doesn't constitute the direct act of breaking that prohibition of the Sabbath.
The only people deceived by such tricks are the evil children of the Father of Lies themselves, that fail to heartfully endeavor to perform on the Sabbath it's purpose: to spend a day meditating on the Good Creator and His purpose in gracing mankind with life. God is not mocked. No matter what label you slap on people that act in this way, deceiving, betraying, and murdering them that have given you hospitality, performing those acts make you a child of the Father of Lies, and that is what matters, not a false label that is just another attempt to deceive, betray, and murder.
Old Testament for its part drew on the pre-biblical traditions of the Middle East, especially Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Canaan. So parallels are not surprising. For example, the Genesis creation account echoes ideas found in the Enuma Elish. Also, many similarities exist between biblical laws and earlier codes such as the Code of Hammurabi. Actually, examples are far more numerous. Many a book has been written about this case.
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.
Iran has long been a civilized nation, and if you started stoning people you felt inclined to there, you'd be arrested and charged with attempted murder, and rightfully so.
". . . There are plenty of people who identify as Muslim to one degree or another who also want a secular, Westernized society. . . ."
Understood--it's much like that most places. All sorts of people would list themselves as Christian who have little or nothing to do with religion. Same with Judaism. Most of the Jews I've known, including family, are secular, as were the Zionist founders of Israel. I was reacting to the claim that most Iranians don't want some form of Islam, which seemed unlikely both to me and apparently to CIA.
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
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."
We are living through the fulfillment of the prophecy of Zechariah, as the siege of Jerusalem by the nations of world continues today, by the evil polity that has been imposed through machinations of the Rothschild family and that the UN - the nations of the world - have continually failed to rein in. That pretense of objection by the UN without consequence is actual support, covert support because all good people of the world hate the continual betrayal, rapine, and slaughter the native people of Jerusalem continue to suffer to this day.
This war in Iran is being won by Iran, against that horrific evil that is the tip of the spear in the heart of mankind, that is the miracle God is performing to defend humanity from that evil. That peace you lament the lack of will be the result of this ongoing miraculous defense of the indigenes of Palestine by God.
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.
"...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."
How remarkably that is mirrored today by ICE and many US police forces being similarly trained in Israel, and also recruiting IDF members to serve in those forces.
Just watched an interview with Bob Moriarty on Geopolitics and Empire's Substack. He sounds very sharp to me. His description of this winter is not something anyone living an urban lifestyle wants to hear. But I do highly recommend it. His analysis of the war is right on and his warnings about the end of the American empire is essential to hear. Might not agree with it but I think everyone should listen to him and take at least some of it seriously.
All your healthcare data goes to Israel via Larry Ellison--both UK and US. I believe this will go into creating DNA-related bioweapons. (Did I mention they are getting our DNA as well? I should have. This is why I no longer use the healthcare system, which I don't think much of anyway, or sadly do not feel safe enough to donate blood, despite being one of the very few in my area with healthy, clean blood.) The US needs to be removed from West Asia (and elsewhere) and the American public can do that by demanding Congress refuse to fund the military to the degree that it does. It used to use 60% of the federal budget to fund the military. Now I'm not sure what the percentage is. If all the private contracts were included it would probably be far higher than that. I didn't know they recruited IDF to serve in ICE. Everyone who has served in the IDF should be stripped of their US citizen for life. As should their children, though I guess that would be a harder sell, unless the children are born after they serve with the IDF. Colonialism/imperialism is a total mess.
"The US needs to be removed from West Asia (and elsewhere) and the American public can do that..."
We could have, until Iran did it. US bases in the ME are - at least in Bahrain - being abandoned, because they're uninhabitable.
I completely agree. Now, we had better make it happen, and not just the ME, but everywhere we have boots on foreign clay. I suspect the USA may need it's troops to defend America after this debacle, if there is an after. We need to see to America first, and get the hell out of the Horn of Africa, S. America, Central Asia, and Europe. It's like we forgot what England was when America kicked them out. What England was then, America has become now, and that needs to be over. Empires all fall in ~250 years, and the US will be 250 years old in a couple months. Sir John Bagot Glubb looked at 3k years of empires, in 'The Fate of Empires, and the Search for Survival', a couple dozen pages that shows what happens to empires. The full text here: https://archive.org/stream/the-fate-of-empires-sir-john-glubb/The%20Fate%20of%20Empires%20-%20Sir%20John%20Glubb_djvu.txt
I don't want to be an empire. I want to be free. Most of the people I know feel pretty much the same way.
According to Bob Moriarty, it's too late. Watch his interview, please. Put in a garden and start saving food and fuel. Figure out a way to filter rainwater. He thinks when people no longer have cash or SNAP all hell is going to break out. The US economy is based on the military-industrial complex according to him. His analysis of the fiasco in Iran two days ago is pretty different from what the media is saying--even alt. media. I think he's right. He thinks there are thousands of GIs dead--and that our economy is going to crash because it's held up only by the military complex which is useless. His analysis of the planes, etc. that went down is convincing. He thinks everyone needs firearms and ammo in addition to food and water and fuel. I don't know that I care to go that far. But hungry people will do just about anything. Or many of them will. His description of what happened on the Gerald Ford is wild. I have never been in the military but I believe Moriarty. Listen to that interview.
"Put in a garden and start saving food and fuel. Figure out a way to filter rainwater."
Already on it. Moriarty sounds like me, TBH.
"He thinks everyone needs firearms and ammo in addition to food and water and fuel."
He's right. I started training my kids on firearms safety when they were three, and advocate for firearms training from first grade. If the schools won't do it, homeschool like I did.
Read his bio. I'm checking out his books now. I'm not into investing (his second or third career). I'm into working the land. People tell me I should sell my land so I have money. Money isn't going to be worth shit. I've got clean water, lots of woods, rich top soil, lots of hand tools. Only a tiny bit of solar, unfortunately. Horse, goats, sheep, chickens and large dogs. Also homeschooled my kid. But it didn't really take. I did teach him how to garden, milk a goat, cook, heat, think outside the box, etc. Took him to India to live for awhile. Can live without a car though I would rather not, especially in the winter. February was a killer. Focusing on using Amish ideas for passive solar wall heating for next winter and wool-insulated shutters. Need a gun, I suppose. Everyone around here thinks I do something shifty to get the deer to hang out on my land (it's called forbidding hunting). Stock up on colloidal silver, Vitamin C, and kyolic garlic. Billionaire bros are going to crash and burn. Anything with a chip will be useless.
Worth mentioning: Gertrude Bell, born in 1868 in England, educated at Oxford. Worked with the British Arab Bureau and later the civil administration in Mesopotamia, using her deep knowledge of the region’s people and politics. She gathered intelligence and contacts across tribes and communities, which made her valuable to British decision‑makers. After the war she played a significant part in British‑led arrangements for new states in the former Ottoman territories, particularly Iraq.
Yes. And respected by some. But fundamentally part of the British ruling class. Her trust fund paid her way (and probably much of that respect, if the truth be told, which is true of most Westerners there). And she was also part of the colonialism by the Brits. Unusual for a British woman of her class to break away from the normal role for wealthy women. Iraq is a country made up by the Europeans, as were Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. Iran is different from them all as it existed (long) before the European countries. This is what the Westerners do not understand. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states were also made up for the benefit of the oil companies.
There were a significant number of independent (aka not married by choice) European (especially British) and American educated women in Iran, mostly involved in education or healthcare, treated as equals by their Western male counterparts. Many of them created institutions that served orphans and female students. Although she was there primarily as the wife of an Iranian professional (former student of my father's) and mother to their children, Margaret Mead's daughter, Catherine Bateson, was there. Her professional options were seriously limited. I watched her with great curiosity. She left--not sure when. I'm sure she could write a fascinating book, if she wanted. Her mother came and spoke on the women's movement (at a CIA cover institution, the Iran-America Society--the two female hostages ran it): Margaret Mead was no feminist. Like Reagan, she thought she pulled herself up by her bootstraps. A huge disappointment to me.
Not sure what you´re trying to say in the second paragraph of your comment, it seems to be quite all over the map. I understand you´re talking there about the Pahlavi period of Iran´s history.
In reference to Gertrude Bell. Of course she was from the ruling class with her own trust fund to pay for a lot of travel that initially was just out of curiosity and not as a representative of the Crown or MI6. She was not singular. There have always been single Western women working in the Middle East and enjoying a life that quite frankly was not possible for them in the West. Bell was both a positive and negative influence. The movie about her was more fantasy than truth.
If you think women do not enjoy a quality of life now, under the Islamic government, you would be wrong. Their rates of education at every level equals those in the West (60% versus 40% males) and goes all the way through terminal degrees. Women could own land in the Middle East before they could in the West. Their representation in the government is better in Iran than it is in the U.S. And actually, if you are a Western female you can go into the female quarters of any home and learn so much more about the culture and politics than you can if you are limited to hanging out with the men. They also laugh much more than the men.
During the Pahlavi era, both the Shah and his father Reza Shah, the country was a police state. Which is where we are heading in the West. As Westerners can learn a lot from people who wrote about the fall of the Soviet Union, we can also learn a lot about how to survive in a police state. Our economies are going to collapse soon. And the result with be a police state. So there is much to learn from Iranians who lived in the Shah/CIA/MI6 police state, especially for Americans.
I´m perfectly aware of everything you say with respect to the quality of life if Iranian women and totally agree with your opinion. By mentioning Gertrude Bell I was referring that both she and "Lawrence of Arabia", and many others, were working against the best interests of the inhabitants of the Middle East
Thanks. Agree and I'd say that's an understatement. I was just adding to Western understanding that single Western women often enjoy freedoms and professional opportunities in the M.E. that they do not at home.
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.
I do not disagree that Americans have suffered for generations such machinations, but you wrongly absolve England, Britain, and the UK for the machinations of MI6, that are right in the heart of every evil geopolitical crime to this day.
I don't discount or absolve the UK or MI6 as being at the heart (or at least a part) of every geopolitical crime. Not at all. I'm saying that the taking down of the City of London is NOT happening and will not happen with what's going on, because much of what is happening, and "the plan", was never intended to take them down. In the case of Iran (and EVERY OTHER M E WAR where a country was attacked, like Syria, Iraq, etc under false pretenses and for !srael's gain) the main PURPOSE was to INCREASE the control of the Epstein-class globalists by making sure the central bank, Rothschilds, and City of London INCREASED their control over/in the region. The promethean BS that globalist oligarchs currently control Iran is nonsense, or suspect at best; because IF the Epstein-class globalists WERE in control, there would be little reason to unconstitutionally, and for no reason, to attack Iran (other than for the expansion of the Rothschilds' State of !srael's greater !srael project to GET control of Iran, which the globalists need for their agenda). So, no. Trump's "purpose" of stupidly provoking a war with Iran had NOTHING to do with "taking down" the cartel-babylon globalist oligarchs and City of London -- it was to hand Iran over to them. And this was never about freeing Iran from their evil g0vt, a g0vt which, by the way, the US installed. Go back to 1953 and understand what happened to Persia, then look into who installed this evil Iranian regime (it was the U S) in the 1970's and why. The big mistake being made here is that somehow people think Trump is on the side of humanity and "freedom", when he's not. Trump's not working against the globalist oligarchy, central bankers, R0thschilds, etc. He is working WITH and FOR them, and the promethean crowd is spinning the opposite of what's actually going on.
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.
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 note they have not used nukes to date in defeating the USraeli criminal attacks on them. I don't think they need nukes. Their geographical position and control of the Strait of Hormuz has caused far more military success against their enemies than a mere nuclear weapon could have.
"I just dont believe it is all money."
Your gut and heart tell you truly. There is a fundamental philosophical and spiritual divide between good people that desire the truth, facts, and benevolent commerce, congress, and communications with all, and evil people that seek to deceive, dehumanize, and destroy mankind to benefit themselves. It is the difference between civil society and psychopathic Machiavellian treachery. Money is just another deception and weapon for the evil grasping for control of the world today, incidental to that fundamental evil that inspires their crimes against humanity.
Thank you for the dose of reality. The US is great at instigating wars to change any regimes it doesn’t like while ignoring its own problems at home. It thinks the way to deal with its debt is to ignore it and to steal the resources of the rest of the world to make up for its lack of adding anything beyond chaos.
When your populace is “educated” by Hollywood propaganda and pumped up on an unwarranted belief in its own superiority, any ability to understand the points of view of other nations bites the dust. And we wonder why other countries hate us- clue: it’s not “for our freedoms.”
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 ..."
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.
You think the young people of Iran who wanted a democracy were calling for an ayatollah? I know a lot more about this period through my in laws who lived through these events. Ask yourself who installed Komeni. He was living in France house and all expense paid...
1---The modern oil industry in Iran was discovered by British entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy, who secured a concession in 1901, and was pioneered by geologist George Bernard Reynolds, who discovered commercial oil at Masjed Soleyman in May 1908. The industry was developed by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later BP).
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2--- The physical existence confirmed by the treaty overseers of 900 POUNDS of WMD this time and your idiot claim that such cost and effort involved to reach that level and still refining more IN THE HANDS --along with obvious delivery options-- of a SUiCIDAL CULT relentlessly ranting DEATH TO AMERICA is proof of your TWISTED LYING DEMENTED mental state ........
Get help for your TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME .... ttyl
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!"
I strongly agree. Let's take Trump at his words, often stated, that he understands debt and finance better than anyone. It has been common knowledge for decades that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz in the event of a US attack, and it is inconceivable that Trump was not aware of this. The consequences of closing the Strait to US and allied interests caused predictable economic harm - the price of oil rising precipitously - and the destruction of oil production facilities in the ME will ensure that economic harm continues for decades, because it takes that long to rebuild all the destroyed production infrastructure. All of this was the known consequence of attacking Iran, and Trump claims he understands better than anyone the economic harms his attack on Iran caused.
Therefore Trump is deliberately destroying the Petrodollar, impoverishing the world, and plunging humanity into a recession that will permanently retard economic growth, innovation, and plunge billions of people into hardship and potential famine, because fertilizer is a petroleum product, which, of course, Trump knew better than anyone.
The principals responsible for authorizing the attack on Iran, particularly Trump and Netanyahu, have clearly deliberately committed a genocidal crime against humanity on a global scale, in addition to bearing responsibility for incinerating ~170 little girls at school hiding in a prayer room on Purim, which is a crime against humanity, and a war crime, committed against each one of those children, cruelly and tortuously murdered by the Commanders in Chief of the military forces that executed their orders.
These vile murderers have already caused millions of people globally to be sentenced to penury, famine, and death by their reckless and politically motivated crimes, and directly burned to death those little girls in Minab. Everyone that holds humanity dear, that respects our right to live without being burned to death, must condemn these atrocities, and work to immediately render these psychopaths to arrest, confinement during prosecution for these crimes, and hanging by the neck until they are dead when they are convicted of these unconsciounable acts.
All free men of sound mind and body must act, or their loved ones, their people and nations, and they themselves forfeit any right to defend themselves from that identical fate suffered by innocent little girls burned to death by madmen on Purim.
Excellent report, appreciate it.
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..."?
Did you completely MISS THE REASONS FOR SANCTIONS.....Clearly Yes
Donald Trump has bombed Iran, Nigeria, Yemen, Venezuela, Iraq, Somalia, and Syria, killing women, children, innocent civilians and families.
Do you know what those countries all have in common?
They are remaining countries NOT on the Rottchild banking system.
All wars are Bankers' wars.
Contrary to the hype and careful media-imaging, Donald Trump is a lousy businessman. He lost those casinos and the investors' monies, and then he sold his soul to Rottchild. Which is why Trump is president now.
And why he and Bibi are stealing Iran's oil for City of London.
And the American taxpayers, and our soldiers, are paying for it.
ALL WARS are Bankers' wars.
And who profits?
Rottchild.
Regardless of the PRETEXTS for sanctions, it places the U.S. as the key contributory cause.
Interesting. Thank you, JoAnn, for the info!
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.
So much for "Make America Great Again!"
Well he is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams in Making America Grate its Teeth Again. The Where-the-Hell's-My-Prince-of-Peace-Prize-Winner's comments on this very day was the maraschino cherry on this fruitcake.
The contrast between the actual Prince of Peace, whom was tortured to death to protect mankind from hell, and Trump, whom on Easter promised to subject Iran, and the world, by extension, to hell, could not be more stark, total, and complete. Isaiah wrote the immortal words beseeching people to reason, stating God has on one hand offered death, evil, and suffering to mankind, and on the other offered life, peace, and prosperity.
Trump's hand is full of death, evil, and suffering for all mankind, and them that support Trump and his master, the Father of Lies, will get what Trump offers.
Choose life, and stand with the Prince of Peace whom offers it to you.
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.
I've always felt that religion will be the death of humanity.
You mean The Holy Land? As oxymorons go, that one tops "Friendly Fire, Affordable Health Care and Jumbo Shrimp put together. (Poor God must be having second thoughts, would you think?(well, now, third: he was kicking himself watching the Israelites, after barely making it across the Red Sea, banging out a Golden Calf. Apparently Moses had to beg him not to just wipe the slate clean.)
"...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."
When Zechariah wrote that event was in the future. Today, that event is in the past, because the Rothschild's imposition of the rogue polity (deceptively named Israel to steal the inheritance of the Israelite clan of the Hebrews) has laid siege to Jerusalem and it's people, literally raping it's children to death with the support of the UN and it's member states. It is the opposite role Netanyahu claims to seek that he has performed, being the very evil that God will miraculously defend mankind from.
This is the fact of history today, and all good people must stand against that evil with God to deliver that miracle of salvation He will.
Surely, you mean "wags" . . .
Yes I do. That was an autoincorrect error, unfortunately.
'Wag The Dog'.
Yes AWN!!!
One of THE BEST red pills ever!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
Brilliant, Proberta. Thank you!
I was curious about that 1941 British/Soviet invasion of Iran and looked up the history. This happened in August 1941, months before Pearl Harbor and America subsequently joining the Allies. That's not to say that the Americans might not have fully supported the invasion, but the original invasion was British and Soviet, not American. Our actions since then have been aggressive. In this context, you can hardly blame Iran for its antipathy toward the West.
I'm not normally an America-basher, but I'm sure not proud of this history.
Thanks. Now, Trump, as I mentioned, is saying he wants to do the same. I like Trump, only to the degree that he would be a speed bump to the other parties' craziness. But now, he's totally gone off the rails. He is surrounded by Neocons, especially Netenyaho.
Please read about Gertrude Bell, born in 1868 in England, educated at Oxford. Worked with the British Arab Bureau and later the civil administration in Mesopotamia, using her deep knowledge of the region’s people and politics. She gathered intelligence and contacts across tribes and communities, which made her valuable to British decision‑makers. After the war she played a significant part in British‑led arrangements for new states in the former Ottoman territories, particularly Iraq.
And the above is just the tip of the iceberg.
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.
Duh. I know that. That does not mean they are not based in the OT. Labeling Jesus a prophet is part of pushing back into the OT paradigm. Mohammed drew upon Jewish history in forming his "religion." He was given sanctuary by a Jewish community when his tribe turned on him, and then later he murdered the people of the town that provided shelter. But he mimicked Judaism subsequently and Islam is strictly OT in its views.
"Mohammed drew upon Jewish history in forming his "religion." He was given sanctuary by a Jewish community when his tribe turned on him, and then later he murdered the people of the town that provided shelter. But he mimicked Judaism..."
That is exactly correct. That betrayal is typical of Rabbinic Judaism, which is reflected in the motto carved in stone 'By Deception Ye Shall Wage War' and exemplified by Mossad. The Talmud is the refinement of the embodiment of evil demonstrated by incessant deception of all it's adherents, whom notoriously endeavor to trick their claimed God by every sly side-stepping of His Law, employing others to fail to observe the Sabbath for them, hiring Shabbos Goy, even inventing light switches that do not directly turn lights on, but randomly do nothing or activate, because they think then flipping the switch doesn't constitute the direct act of breaking that prohibition of the Sabbath.
The only people deceived by such tricks are the evil children of the Father of Lies themselves, that fail to heartfully endeavor to perform on the Sabbath it's purpose: to spend a day meditating on the Good Creator and His purpose in gracing mankind with life. God is not mocked. No matter what label you slap on people that act in this way, deceiving, betraying, and murdering them that have given you hospitality, performing those acts make you a child of the Father of Lies, and that is what matters, not a false label that is just another attempt to deceive, betray, and murder.
The last thing any Jewish "community" would have done is give him "sanctuary".
Old Testament for its part drew on the pre-biblical traditions of the Middle East, especially Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Canaan. So parallels are not surprising. For example, the Genesis creation account echoes ideas found in the Enuma Elish. Also, many similarities exist between biblical laws and earlier codes such as the Code of Hammurabi. Actually, examples are far more numerous. Many a book has been written about this case.
"... the Genesis creation account echoes ideas found in the Enuma Elish."
I think the word 'plagiarizes' fits better here, because it captures the intent of the work.
By the way, what was the name of the Jewish "community" which "gave Muhammad sanctuary"? No other source or biography provides such information.
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.
You could have stoned her if you were in Iran. How's that for a basic value?
Try to be less rabid. Your metabolism will thank you.
Iran has long been a civilized nation, and if you started stoning people you felt inclined to there, you'd be arrested and charged with attempted murder, and rightfully so.
". . . There are plenty of people who identify as Muslim to one degree or another who also want a secular, Westernized society. . . ."
Understood--it's much like that most places. All sorts of people would list themselves as Christian who have little or nothing to do with religion. Same with Judaism. Most of the Jews I've known, including family, are secular, as were the Zionist founders of Israel. I was reacting to the claim that most Iranians don't want some form of Islam, which seemed unlikely both to me and apparently to CIA.
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
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."
We are living through the fulfillment of the prophecy of Zechariah, as the siege of Jerusalem by the nations of world continues today, by the evil polity that has been imposed through machinations of the Rothschild family and that the UN - the nations of the world - have continually failed to rein in. That pretense of objection by the UN without consequence is actual support, covert support because all good people of the world hate the continual betrayal, rapine, and slaughter the native people of Jerusalem continue to suffer to this day.
This war in Iran is being won by Iran, against that horrific evil that is the tip of the spear in the heart of mankind, that is the miracle God is performing to defend humanity from that evil. That peace you lament the lack of will be the result of this ongoing miraculous defense of the indigenes of Palestine by God.
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.
"...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."
How remarkably that is mirrored today by ICE and many US police forces being similarly trained in Israel, and also recruiting IDF members to serve in those forces.
Just watched an interview with Bob Moriarty on Geopolitics and Empire's Substack. He sounds very sharp to me. His description of this winter is not something anyone living an urban lifestyle wants to hear. But I do highly recommend it. His analysis of the war is right on and his warnings about the end of the American empire is essential to hear. Might not agree with it but I think everyone should listen to him and take at least some of it seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcT08D-SY7M
All your healthcare data goes to Israel via Larry Ellison--both UK and US. I believe this will go into creating DNA-related bioweapons. (Did I mention they are getting our DNA as well? I should have. This is why I no longer use the healthcare system, which I don't think much of anyway, or sadly do not feel safe enough to donate blood, despite being one of the very few in my area with healthy, clean blood.) The US needs to be removed from West Asia (and elsewhere) and the American public can do that by demanding Congress refuse to fund the military to the degree that it does. It used to use 60% of the federal budget to fund the military. Now I'm not sure what the percentage is. If all the private contracts were included it would probably be far higher than that. I didn't know they recruited IDF to serve in ICE. Everyone who has served in the IDF should be stripped of their US citizen for life. As should their children, though I guess that would be a harder sell, unless the children are born after they serve with the IDF. Colonialism/imperialism is a total mess.
"The US needs to be removed from West Asia (and elsewhere) and the American public can do that..."
We could have, until Iran did it. US bases in the ME are - at least in Bahrain - being abandoned, because they're uninhabitable.
I completely agree. Now, we had better make it happen, and not just the ME, but everywhere we have boots on foreign clay. I suspect the USA may need it's troops to defend America after this debacle, if there is an after. We need to see to America first, and get the hell out of the Horn of Africa, S. America, Central Asia, and Europe. It's like we forgot what England was when America kicked them out. What England was then, America has become now, and that needs to be over. Empires all fall in ~250 years, and the US will be 250 years old in a couple months. Sir John Bagot Glubb looked at 3k years of empires, in 'The Fate of Empires, and the Search for Survival', a couple dozen pages that shows what happens to empires. The full text here: https://archive.org/stream/the-fate-of-empires-sir-john-glubb/The%20Fate%20of%20Empires%20-%20Sir%20John%20Glubb_djvu.txt
I don't want to be an empire. I want to be free. Most of the people I know feel pretty much the same way.
According to Bob Moriarty, it's too late. Watch his interview, please. Put in a garden and start saving food and fuel. Figure out a way to filter rainwater. He thinks when people no longer have cash or SNAP all hell is going to break out. The US economy is based on the military-industrial complex according to him. His analysis of the fiasco in Iran two days ago is pretty different from what the media is saying--even alt. media. I think he's right. He thinks there are thousands of GIs dead--and that our economy is going to crash because it's held up only by the military complex which is useless. His analysis of the planes, etc. that went down is convincing. He thinks everyone needs firearms and ammo in addition to food and water and fuel. I don't know that I care to go that far. But hungry people will do just about anything. Or many of them will. His description of what happened on the Gerald Ford is wild. I have never been in the military but I believe Moriarty. Listen to that interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcT08D-SY7M
"Put in a garden and start saving food and fuel. Figure out a way to filter rainwater."
Already on it. Moriarty sounds like me, TBH.
"He thinks everyone needs firearms and ammo in addition to food and water and fuel."
He's right. I started training my kids on firearms safety when they were three, and advocate for firearms training from first grade. If the schools won't do it, homeschool like I did.
Thanks for the link!
Read his bio. I'm checking out his books now. I'm not into investing (his second or third career). I'm into working the land. People tell me I should sell my land so I have money. Money isn't going to be worth shit. I've got clean water, lots of woods, rich top soil, lots of hand tools. Only a tiny bit of solar, unfortunately. Horse, goats, sheep, chickens and large dogs. Also homeschooled my kid. But it didn't really take. I did teach him how to garden, milk a goat, cook, heat, think outside the box, etc. Took him to India to live for awhile. Can live without a car though I would rather not, especially in the winter. February was a killer. Focusing on using Amish ideas for passive solar wall heating for next winter and wool-insulated shutters. Need a gun, I suppose. Everyone around here thinks I do something shifty to get the deer to hang out on my land (it's called forbidding hunting). Stock up on colloidal silver, Vitamin C, and kyolic garlic. Billionaire bros are going to crash and burn. Anything with a chip will be useless.
Worth mentioning: Gertrude Bell, born in 1868 in England, educated at Oxford. Worked with the British Arab Bureau and later the civil administration in Mesopotamia, using her deep knowledge of the region’s people and politics. She gathered intelligence and contacts across tribes and communities, which made her valuable to British decision‑makers. After the war she played a significant part in British‑led arrangements for new states in the former Ottoman territories, particularly Iraq.
Yes. And respected by some. But fundamentally part of the British ruling class. Her trust fund paid her way (and probably much of that respect, if the truth be told, which is true of most Westerners there). And she was also part of the colonialism by the Brits. Unusual for a British woman of her class to break away from the normal role for wealthy women. Iraq is a country made up by the Europeans, as were Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. Iran is different from them all as it existed (long) before the European countries. This is what the Westerners do not understand. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states were also made up for the benefit of the oil companies.
There were a significant number of independent (aka not married by choice) European (especially British) and American educated women in Iran, mostly involved in education or healthcare, treated as equals by their Western male counterparts. Many of them created institutions that served orphans and female students. Although she was there primarily as the wife of an Iranian professional (former student of my father's) and mother to their children, Margaret Mead's daughter, Catherine Bateson, was there. Her professional options were seriously limited. I watched her with great curiosity. She left--not sure when. I'm sure she could write a fascinating book, if she wanted. Her mother came and spoke on the women's movement (at a CIA cover institution, the Iran-America Society--the two female hostages ran it): Margaret Mead was no feminist. Like Reagan, she thought she pulled herself up by her bootstraps. A huge disappointment to me.
Not sure what you´re trying to say in the second paragraph of your comment, it seems to be quite all over the map. I understand you´re talking there about the Pahlavi period of Iran´s history.
In reference to Gertrude Bell. Of course she was from the ruling class with her own trust fund to pay for a lot of travel that initially was just out of curiosity and not as a representative of the Crown or MI6. She was not singular. There have always been single Western women working in the Middle East and enjoying a life that quite frankly was not possible for them in the West. Bell was both a positive and negative influence. The movie about her was more fantasy than truth.
If you think women do not enjoy a quality of life now, under the Islamic government, you would be wrong. Their rates of education at every level equals those in the West (60% versus 40% males) and goes all the way through terminal degrees. Women could own land in the Middle East before they could in the West. Their representation in the government is better in Iran than it is in the U.S. And actually, if you are a Western female you can go into the female quarters of any home and learn so much more about the culture and politics than you can if you are limited to hanging out with the men. They also laugh much more than the men.
During the Pahlavi era, both the Shah and his father Reza Shah, the country was a police state. Which is where we are heading in the West. As Westerners can learn a lot from people who wrote about the fall of the Soviet Union, we can also learn a lot about how to survive in a police state. Our economies are going to collapse soon. And the result with be a police state. So there is much to learn from Iranians who lived in the Shah/CIA/MI6 police state, especially for Americans.
I´m perfectly aware of everything you say with respect to the quality of life if Iranian women and totally agree with your opinion. By mentioning Gertrude Bell I was referring that both she and "Lawrence of Arabia", and many others, were working against the best interests of the inhabitants of the Middle East
Thanks. Agree and I'd say that's an understatement. I was just adding to Western understanding that single Western women often enjoy freedoms and professional opportunities in the M.E. that they do not at home.
“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.
"...including those involving chemical weapons."
Those chemical weapons were provided by the USA, as well.
Correct, that should have been mention. Thanks.
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.
I do not disagree that Americans have suffered for generations such machinations, but you wrongly absolve England, Britain, and the UK for the machinations of MI6, that are right in the heart of every evil geopolitical crime to this day.
I don't discount or absolve the UK or MI6 as being at the heart (or at least a part) of every geopolitical crime. Not at all. I'm saying that the taking down of the City of London is NOT happening and will not happen with what's going on, because much of what is happening, and "the plan", was never intended to take them down. In the case of Iran (and EVERY OTHER M E WAR where a country was attacked, like Syria, Iraq, etc under false pretenses and for !srael's gain) the main PURPOSE was to INCREASE the control of the Epstein-class globalists by making sure the central bank, Rothschilds, and City of London INCREASED their control over/in the region. The promethean BS that globalist oligarchs currently control Iran is nonsense, or suspect at best; because IF the Epstein-class globalists WERE in control, there would be little reason to unconstitutionally, and for no reason, to attack Iran (other than for the expansion of the Rothschilds' State of !srael's greater !srael project to GET control of Iran, which the globalists need for their agenda). So, no. Trump's "purpose" of stupidly provoking a war with Iran had NOTHING to do with "taking down" the cartel-babylon globalist oligarchs and City of London -- it was to hand Iran over to them. And this was never about freeing Iran from their evil g0vt, a g0vt which, by the way, the US installed. Go back to 1953 and understand what happened to Persia, then look into who installed this evil Iranian regime (it was the U S) in the 1970's and why. The big mistake being made here is that somehow people think Trump is on the side of humanity and "freedom", when he's not. Trump's not working against the globalist oligarchy, central bankers, R0thschilds, etc. He is working WITH and FOR them, and the promethean crowd is spinning the opposite of what's actually going on.
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).
;-(
An informed electorate is required. But as George Washington once said, "How many goddamn countries are we supposed to keep track of anyway?"
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
"Of course Iran should get the abomb..."
I note they have not used nukes to date in defeating the USraeli criminal attacks on them. I don't think they need nukes. Their geographical position and control of the Strait of Hormuz has caused far more military success against their enemies than a mere nuclear weapon could have.
"I just dont believe it is all money."
Your gut and heart tell you truly. There is a fundamental philosophical and spiritual divide between good people that desire the truth, facts, and benevolent commerce, congress, and communications with all, and evil people that seek to deceive, dehumanize, and destroy mankind to benefit themselves. It is the difference between civil society and psychopathic Machiavellian treachery. Money is just another deception and weapon for the evil grasping for control of the world today, incidental to that fundamental evil that inspires their crimes against humanity.
Thank you for the dose of reality. The US is great at instigating wars to change any regimes it doesn’t like while ignoring its own problems at home. It thinks the way to deal with its debt is to ignore it and to steal the resources of the rest of the world to make up for its lack of adding anything beyond chaos.
When your populace is “educated” by Hollywood propaganda and pumped up on an unwarranted belief in its own superiority, any ability to understand the points of view of other nations bites the dust. And we wonder why other countries hate us- clue: it’s not “for our freedoms.”
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 ..."
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.
Liberty,
I’m not well educated on the Talmud, but from what I’ve heard, you seem be spot on. Can you recommend any readings on this?
Highly recommended by Ron Unz of the Unz Review. https://www.unz.com/book/gerard_menuhin__tell-the-truth-and-shame-the-devil/
Thank you! I’ll read it.
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.
You think the young people of Iran who wanted a democracy were calling for an ayatollah? I know a lot more about this period through my in laws who lived through these events. Ask yourself who installed Komeni. He was living in France house and all expense paid...
Your ''history'' amazingly omits the FACTS that..
1---The modern oil industry in Iran was discovered by British entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy, who secured a concession in 1901, and was pioneered by geologist George Bernard Reynolds, who discovered commercial oil at Masjed Soleyman in May 1908. The industry was developed by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later BP).
AND
2--- The physical existence confirmed by the treaty overseers of 900 POUNDS of WMD this time and your idiot claim that such cost and effort involved to reach that level and still refining more IN THE HANDS --along with obvious delivery options-- of a SUiCIDAL CULT relentlessly ranting DEATH TO AMERICA is proof of your TWISTED LYING DEMENTED mental state ........
Get help for your TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME .... ttyl