Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran
Part I: Global Warfare
by Michel Chossudovsky ------------ http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20403 ----------- Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed.
This military adventure has been on the Pentagon's drawing board since the mid-1990s. First Iraq, then Iran according to a declassified 1995 US Central Command document.
Escalation is part of the military agenda. While Iran, is the next target together with Syria and Lebanon, this strategic military deployment also threatens North Korea, China and Russia.
Since 2005, the US and its allies, including America's NATO partners and Israel, have been involved in the extensive deployment and stockpiling of advanced weapons systems. The air defense systems of the US, NATO member countries and Israel are fully integrated.
This is a coordinated endeavor of the Pentagon, NATO, Israel's Defense Force (IDF), with the active military involvement of several non-NATO partner countries including the frontline Arab states (members of NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative), Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, among others. (NATO consists of 28 NATO member states Another 21 countries are members of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), The Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative include ten Arab countries plus Israel.)
The roles of Egypt, the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia (within the extended military alliance) is of particular relevance. Egypt controls the transit of war ships and oil tankers through the Suez Canal. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States occupy the South Western coastlines of the Persian Gulf, the Straits of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. In early June, "Egypt reportedly allowed one Israeli and eleven U.S. ships to pass through the Suez Canal in ....an apparent signal to Iran. ... On June 12, regional press outlets reported that the Saudis had granted Israel the right to fly over its airspace..." (Muriel Mirak Weissbach, Israel's Insane War on Iran Must Be Prevented., Global Research, July 31, 2010)
In post 9/11 military doctrine, this massive deployment of military hardware has been defined as part of the so-called "Global War on Terrorism", targeting "non-State" terrorist organizations including al Qaeda and so-called "State sponsors of terrorism",. including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan.
The setting up of new US military bases, the stockpiling of advanced weapons systems including tactical nuclear weapons, etc. were implemented as part of the pre-emptive defensive military doctrine under the umbrella of the "Global War on Terrorism".
War and the Economic Crisis
The broader implications of a US-NATO Israel attack on Iran are far-reaching. The war and the economic crisis are intimately related. The war economy is financed by Wall Street, which stands as the creditor of the US administration. The US weapons producers are the recipients of the US Department of Defense multibillion dollar procurement contracts for advanced weapons systems. In turn, "the battle for oil" in the Middle East and Central Asia directly serves the interests of the Anglo-American oil giants.
The US and its allies are "beating the drums of war" at the height of a Worldwide economic depression, not to mention the most serious environmental catastrophe in World history. In a bitter twist, one of the major players (BP) on the Middle East Central Asia geopolitical chessboard, formerly known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, is the instigator of the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Media Disinformation
Public opinion, swayed by media hype is tacitly supportive, indifferent or ignorant as to the likely impacts of what is upheld as an ad hoc "punitive" operation directed against Iran's nuclear facilities rather than an all out war. War preparations include the deployment of US and Israeli produced nuclear weapons. In this context, the devastating consequences of a nuclear war are either trivialised or simply not mentioned.
The "real crisis" threatening humanity, according to the media and the governments, is not war but global warming. The media will fabricate a crisis where there is no crisis: "a global scare" -- the H1N1 global pandemic-- but nobody seems to fear a US sponsored nuclear war.
The war on Iran is presented to public opinion as an issue among others. It is not viewed as a threat to "Mother Earth" as in the case of global warming. It is not front-page news. The fact that an attack on Iran could lead to escalation and potentially unleash a "global war" is not a matter of concern.
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IRAN MILITARY WILL FIRE 150000 BALLISTIC MISSILES TO ALL ENEMIESby IRANSTRIKEWORLDWAR362,700 views
Did you see that guy waterskiing behind that one boat? wtf?!
mechiefslapahobitch 1 month ago
@MrBat000 yeah shit in one hand wish in the other, see which fills up first...We are talking about a third world country with 30 year old soviet technology vs. the most powerful military on the planet. Iranian missile sites would be bombed into a thin layer of glass in the first hour of war!
durhamdf 1 month ago
@durhamdf Sorry but the entire u.s navy will be sunk. it's not about the crappy speed boats that the iranians have. It's the current technology thats available. u can distroy a navy from land today, and from submarines. there is confirmed technologies about these. but in the end i'm sure u.s will win! but there is going to be a large casualties on both sides. cheers.
MrBat000 1 month ago
@Theologist, Iran may put up a fight at the begining but it will be a VERY temporary fight. U.S will win. remember u.s also never fights alone! , even though it's a super power.
MrBat000 1 month ago
@Theologist You think one of those pathetic missiles would take down an aircraft carrier?! HAHAH, And even with the USS cole, the ship didn't sink buddy, and that was a shit ton of explosives. Besides kid, we aren't taking about a terrorist attack. We are talking about the Iranian navy against the undisputed military hegemon in direct conflict. Every single one of those crappy speedboats would be blown to splinters in about ten minutes of bombing
durhamdf 1 month ago
@MrBat000 If you read reports, Iran has a russian-designed supertorpedo that they produce, that can one-shot-kill an aircraft carrier. In every wargame simulation done in the states, the US navy has been destroyed within 30 minutes of any conflict.
At the end of the day, US missiles can flatten Iran. But in exchange for the loss of the entire regional navy, and destruction of all US bases in the region. War is Hell. Vote Ron Paul and keep us out of getting into another war!
Theologist 1 month ago
@durhamdf Not sure what the problem is. This strategy allowed Britain to defeat the far superior/larger Spanish Armada. And remember that a paddle boat took an aircraft carrier out of commission before because it was packed full of explosives.
All it takes is a missile or two, and thousands of people on board an aircraft carrier die.
Theologist 1 month ago
lol wow they strapped 30year old soviet rockets to a 30 thousand dollar boat! What amazing achievments willwe see out of Iran next? How about phone that doesn't need a cord and can be carried around with you everywhere you go! LOL
durhamdf 1 month ago
Zionist Israel can save humanity? What a filthy joke!
68noraa 1 month ago
from this video, i can see the iranians are going to get there ass kicked regrattebly. sorry!
MrBat000 1 month ago