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Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s illegal war on Iran

(https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/understanding-the-u-s-and-israels-illegal-aggression-in-iran/)

The illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues a rampage that has devastated countries and international institutions to eliminate all obstacles to U.S. hegemony. The U.S.-Israel Axis has not succeeded yet, and it is up to the world to stop them.

By Craig Mokhiber March 1, 2026 32

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference, Monday, September 29, 2025, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the sovereign nation of Iran. 

But what is largely missing from Western corporate media coverage of the attack is that it is also an entirely unlawful, indeed criminal act. 

And that the armed Iranian response, as a matter of international law, is both justified and entirely lawful. 

Western media audiences are being spoon-fed the usual false narrative, framed as it is by the state perpetrators of the aggression, the war profiteers, and Zionist proxies. War is peace. Peace is a threat. Aggression is self-defense. Self-defense is aggression. The victim is the perpetrator. And the perpetrator is the victim. 

On Saturday morning, Axis bombs rained down on the capital Tehran and on cities across Iran, targeting civilian and military targets alike, and leaving a massive trail of blood and destruction. 

The Axis unleashed massive destruction on the country’s infrastructure, killed hundreds in the first attacks, wounded hundreds more, assassinated Iranian leaders, and killed some 150 civilians in a single strike on a school, many of them school girls aged 10-12. 

In the now-familiar pattern of perfidy for which the Axis has become infamous, the U.S. feigned participation in a diplomatic process of negotiations as a smokescreen for its war preparations, before launching a treacherous blitzkrieg attack alongside its Israeli regime ally. 

In fact, the attack was launched just hours after Omani mediators announced publicly that a major breakthrough had been reached whereby Iran had both affirmed that it would not pursue nuclear weapons, and, in surrender of its sovereign rights to develop peaceful nuclear energy,  it would also commit to not accumulate the nuclear material that could create a weapon. 

Nuclear hypocrisy

Indeed, Iran has long renounced the quest for nuclear weapons, has codified this into its national laws and directives, has ratified the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has opened itself to international inspections, and even entered into a formal agreement with the U.S. and others that would prevent them from developing nuclear weapons (the JCPOA) later abandoned not by Iran but by Donald Trump, at the insistence of his Israel proxy donors. 

But, of course, all who have been paying attention know all too well that Iran was not attacked because it has nuclear weapons. Rather, it was bombed because it does not have nuclear weapons and therefore is viewed by the Axis as a defeatable target (despite its size and conventional military capabilities), and the final major domino standing against Axis hegemony and Israeli dominance in the Western Asia region. 

What’s more, the hypocrisy of the Axis claims is stunning. The only party in the region that does have stockpiles of nuclear weapons (entirely undeclared and unsupervised) is the Israeli regime, which was joined in attacking Iran by another nuclear power, the U.S. (which, under Trump, has withdrawn from the INF Treaty, rejected extension of the New START Treaty, and, as noted, withdrawn from the JCPOA). 

In other words, two rogue nuclear powers have sought to justify their attacks on a third state that has no nuclear weapons by invoking nuclear control and non-proliferation. 

Add to this the fact that, while Iran has not initiated a war with any other country in some two centuries, the U.S. and the Israeli regime are together responsible for most of the military aggression in today’s world, with attacks in recent years on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, Venezuela, Qatar, and Iran, as well as boats in the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean. 

No other country on the planet even comes close to the violent record of the U.S. or of Israel. 

At the same time, both countries are headed by violent, far-right, racist governments with records of extreme lawlessness. Both have joined together to perpetrate a genocide in Palestine. And both are headed by serial war criminals. 

Indeed, Trump has attacked more countries (10) than any other President in U.S. history (not an easy record to break), demonstrating unprecedented recidivism for the crime of aggression, has murdered boat crews in the Caribbean, has attacked students and human rights defenders at home, and has unleashed violent, armed, xenophobic paramilitaries on people in U.S. cities.  

For his part, Netanyahu is literally an indicted fugitive from justice, charged with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, and he heads a regime that has been declared to be guilty of apartheid, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. 

Any fair assessment could only conclude that the focus on Iranian leadership and weaponry, in this context, is as absurd as it is dangerous. 

The prostitution of human rights 

The manifest weakness of the nuclear justification for Axis aggression against Iran has forced them to construct an alternative propaganda script to defend its aggression, one at least as absurd as the nuclear ruse. 

This claim, recycled from earlier U.S. aggressions in Iraq and Libya, is that the Axis is intervening to protect the human rights of the Iranian people. 

Let me say that again: The U.S. and the Israeli regime have attempted to justify their bloody attacks on the basis of human rights, a claim that would be comical if it were not so deadly. 

This is not to suggest that Iran does not have human rights problems. Every country does, and Iran is no exception. 

But the idea that these two rogue states, both of which have horrendous human rights records, and which have represented the principal sources of suffering across Western Asia for eight decades, are somehow motivated by concern for human rights, is preposterous. 

The claim that the same forces that have violated human rights in Iran for decades are now killing Iranians in order to restore their human rights is an affront to the Iranian people, to the many victims of the U.S.-Israel Axis around the world, and to the very notion of human rights.

The Israeli regime, widely recognized as one of the most brutal in modern history, has claimed that one of its motives for attacking Iran is the defense of human rights. 

The same Israeli regime with a record that includes eight decades of violent colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, ethno-supremacist governance, race-based mass incarceration, systematic torture and abuse,  summary executions, state-sponsored pogroms, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

The same Israeli regime that is on trial for genocide in the International Court of Justice, and the leaders of which are indicted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. 

The same Israeli regime that for decades has murdered countless Iranians in successive assassinations, military attacks, and acts of sabotage. 

The same Israeli regime that deployed spy agencies and armed groups just two months ago to hijack peaceful protests in order to carry out violent attacks and destabilize the country. 

The same Israeli regime that, with its U.S. ally, murdered over a thousand Iranians in unlawful attacks just eight months ago. 

And the same U.S. government that has terrorized the globe with repeated acts of violent aggression, attacked human rights defenders inside the U.S. and abroad, and sanctioned UN human rights officials and ICC judges, and prosecutors. 

The same U.S. government that has used its military and intelligence agencies to violate human rights all around the globe, murdered boat crews in the Caribbean, and kidnapped the president of Venezuela.

The same U.S. government that systematically opposes the UN human rights agenda, rejects international human rights treaties, and works to obstruct international human rights mechanisms. 

The same U.S. government that has persecuted minorities, migrants, dissidents, protesters, peace activists, and students at home, allied itself with the most oppressive forces in the Middle East and beyond, and has participated actively in genocide in Palestine. 

And the same U.S. government that has violated the human rights of the Iranian people for more than 70 years, overthrowing the democratically elected government and installing a brutal dictator before the revolution, and later imposing crippling sanctions, carrying out sabotage, launching military attacks, destabilizing the currency, and sowing violence against civilians in an effort to overthrow the government. 

The claim that the same forces that have violated human rights in Iran for decades are now killing Iranians in order to restore their human rights is an affront to the Iranian people, to the many victims of the U.S.-Israel Axis around the world, and to the very notion of human rights.  

Wagging the dog

The U.S. has carried out these criminal attacks despite the fact that they are manifestly contrary to U.S. obligations under international law, contrary to U.S. domestic law, contrary to the economic, national security, diplomatic, and reputational interests of the U.S., and contrary to the wishes of the majority of the people of the U.S. 

It has committed billions of dollars in military spending to carry out the aggression and has launched a war that will disrupt global energy markets in ways that will certainly negatively impact the U.S. (and global) economy. 

It has jeopardized its relations with key U.S. allies in the region, who had worked hard to prevent the Axis attacks on Iran. 

And it has put its soldiers at physical risk (with the first casualties of U.S. soldiers already announced), and its commanders and politicians in potential legal jeopardy for aggression and war crimes. 

What could possibly explain Trump’s decision to opt for such self-inflicted wounds to U.S. interests? The answer, in a word, is Israel.

What could possibly explain Trump’s decision to opt for such self-inflicted wounds to U.S. interests? 

The answer, in a word, is Israel. 

The Israeli regime and its proxies and lobbies in the U.S. have worked for decades to achieve precisely this outcome. 

The rise to power of Donald Trump, his appointment of a cadre of extreme Zionists, and his securing of hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from Israel proxies and lobbyists (and perhaps his exposure in the Epstein files) have provided the perfect opportunity for the Israeli regime to compel the U.S. to sacrifice its own interests on behalf of the regime. 

And, to the joy of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, it is doing precisely this. 

Whistling the old ‘regime change’ tune

The scenario that has emerged is eerily familiar, drawn as it is directly from the Iraq playbook: scream “WMDs,” shift to “human rights” when the WMD claim fails, and then, having launched your war of aggression, reveal your true hand and admit that it was all about “regime change.” 

And, indeed, once the aggression on Iran had been launched, both Trump and Netanyahu publicly announced the real motives for the attack – regime change, a revelation that surprised precisely no one. 

The ultimate goal of the U.S.-Israel Axis is to destroy the government of Iran and to either install a puppet regime loyal to and directed by U.S. imperialism and submissive to Israeli Zionism, or, failing that, to destabilize, crush, and balkanize Iran so that its natural resources can be commandeered by the West and it can never challenge the hegemony of the Axis.

Thus, the ultimate goal of the U.S.-Israel Axis is to destroy the government of Iran and to either install a puppet regime loyal to and directed by U.S. imperialism and submissive to Israeli Zionism, or, failing that, to destabilize, crush, and balkanize Iran so that its natural resources can be commandeered by the West, and it can never challenge the hegemony of the Axis. 

Their preferred candidate for puppet ruler appears to be Reza Pahlavi, the U.S.-resident son of the former, CIA-installed, Iranian dictator Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown in a popular revolution in 1979. 

Pahlavi has lived a privileged life in exile, supported by wealth channeled out of Iran before the revolution, by wealthy monarchists, and by U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. 

Having declared himself “Reza Shah II, the Shah of Iran” after his father’s death in 1980, Pahlavi has worked for decades, reportedly with the help of the CIA and the Mossad, to cultivate a constituency among Iranians in the diaspora, and to lobby for violent regime change in Iran. 

While he has won the support of some conservative monarchists and Zionists, he is rejected by more progressive Iranian exiles, has often been referred to derisively as “the Clown Prince,” and has very little support of any kind within Iran itself. 

Of course, even if the Axis were to succeed in its nefarious regime change goals, there is no guarantee that Pahlavi would actually be installed as the puppet of the Axis. 

What is important to them is not who dances on the strings, but rather who pulls them. And empires and colonizers never have much difficulty in finding amoral quislings and pliant vassals to front for their projects of subjugation. 

The crime of crimes

Thus, the attack on Iran by the U.S.-Israel Axis is self-evidently immoral, unwise, and indefensible. But it is also blatantly illegal. 

The Axis has paraded out the usual mouthpieces of U.S. imperialism, Israeli Zionism, predatory neoconservatism, and Iranian monarchism to dust off old, discredited arguments about “preemptive war” and “anticipatory self-defense.” 

This, as any international lawyer can tell you, and as I have written before, is utter nonsense. 

Simply put, the unprovoked attack on Iran by the U.S.-Israel Axis is a crime under international law. 

Article 51 of the UN Charter recognizes the right of self-defense only in response to an “armed attack,” or when specifically authorized by the Security Council. 

Any other armed attack constitutes the crime of aggression, which was deemed “the supreme international crime,” and “the crime of crimes” by participants in the Nuremburg Tribunal. 

That means that the Axis is using force against Iran unlawfully, in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, prohibiting the threat or use of force, and, as such, is committing the crime of aggression. 

In this case, as a matter of law, the right to use force (in self-defense) belongs to Iran, and decidedly not to Israel or the U.S. 

Furthermore, contrary to Axis claims, international law does not allow for so-called “anticipatory self-defense” or so-called “pre-emptive strikes.” These are simply acts of aggression, as a matter of law. 

The attack on Iran is a quintessential case of unlawful aggression, the supreme crime in international law, and, to make matters worse,  is being perpetrated by the same Axis of countries that is currently perpetrating the other crime of crimes, genocide.

Indeed, the intent of the UN Charter (a binding treaty) was to prohibit claims of self-defense unless and until an armed attack has occurred, or military force is authorized by the Security Council, neither of which applies in this case.

Even the now-defunct 19th-century customary international law idea of anticipatory self-defense, argued by some before the adoption of the UN Charter, did not go as far as the distortions asserted by the Axis and its proxies. 

Before the Charter was adopted in 1945, the Caroline Test allowed anticipatory self-defense only if the threat was “instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation,” clearly not the case in the Axis attacks on Iran. 

As I have written before, others have tried to carve out a middle ground, claiming anticipatory action may be permissible whenever an attack is deemed “imminent.” 

But this, too, is a dubious argument, since there is no hint of such an exception in modern international law. And, in any event, in the current case, no such attack was imminent, and the Axis does not even claim that it was.  

And as we have seen in previous U.S. and Israeli acts of aggression against Iran, the Axis often tries to distort the idea of anticipatory self-defense even further by claiming the right to attack anybody who might someday in the future decide to attack Israel or the U.S. 

Their argument, absurd on its face, is that Iran may one day develop nuclear weapons, that it may use them on Israel or the U.S. if it develops them, and that therefore the Axis has no choice but to attack Iran now. 

As a matter of international law, this argument is entirely without merit. 

Clearly, if that were the rule, any state could lawfully attack any other state at any time, just by claiming a potential future threat. And that would effectively annul the UN Charter and plunge the world into a state of permanent, unrelenting violence. 

But even under the broadest possible arguments of anticipatory self-defense (which, again, is rejected by almost the entire discipline of public international law), the attacks on Iran would still be illegal. 

This is not a hard case. (1) Iran does not have nuclear weapons, (2) there is no evidence that it is developing nuclear weapons, (3) there is no evidence that it would use those weapons against the Israeli regime even if it obtained them, (4) there was no imminent threat, and (5) the Axis powers have not exhausted peaceful means, as required by international law. 

And to close the case definitively, even the actual possession of nuclear weapons by a state is not a lawful justification for an armed attack on the state. If it were, any state could lawfully launch an attack on the U.S. or the Israeli regime at any time, as both are nuclear-armed states.

In sum, the attack on Iran is a quintessential case of unlawful aggression, the supreme crime in international law, and, to make matters worse,  is being perpetrated by the same Axis of countries that is currently perpetrating the other crime of crimes, genocide. 

There is, however, one party to this conflict that does have a legal right to use armed force in this situation. That is Iran.

And, indeed, Iran, having been subjected to an unlawful armed attack by the U.S. and Israel,  has responded in self-defense, as is its lawful right under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and has duly notified the UN Security Council accordingly. 

War crimes

Beyond the crime of aggression, the Axis attacks on Iran have included a number of other grave breaches of international humanitarian law – in other words, war crimes. 

As of the drafting of this article, the attacks have already killed hundreds of Iranians, many of them civilians. 

Alongside military targets, the Axis has attacked civilian neighborhoods, apartment buildings, civilian infrastructure, and at least one high school and one primary school for girls. 

Such acts, on their face, violate the principle of distinction and the prohibition of targeting protected persons and protected civilian infrastructure. 

Axis targeting of civilian infrastructure (e.g., apartment buildings) could not pass the international humanitarian law tests of precaution, distinction, or proportionality, and is thus unlawful. 

Particularly serious, as a matter of both law and humanity, is the Axis attacks (for the second time in months) on Iran’s nuclear facilities. 

Attacks on dangerous facilities, such as nuclear power plants and other facilities containing what the law calls “dangerous forces,” are generally prohibited in international humanitarian law. The International Atomic Energy Agency itself has affirmed that such attacks are prohibited in international law and are a violation of the UN Charter. 

These facilities are protected under international law due to the potential for severe harm to the civilian population in the event of an attack. And while, in theory, there may be circumstances in which such attacks are allowed, in practice, it would be almost impossible for a warring party to meet the conditions for lawfully attacking such facilities. 

The only circumstances in which it may be permitted are when (1) these facilities are directly used for military purposes (like launching attacks), and (2) there is a legitimate military objective, and (3) the attack is necessary for that objective, and (4) an effective warning is given, and (5) the military action meets the legal tests of precaution, distinction, and proportionality. 

Such a standard is almost impossible to satisfy with regard to a nuclear facility, because of the risk of radiation leaks and dissemination and the potential for widespread civilian harm. 

And, in the Iranian case, none of the necessary conditions exist. 

International humanitarian law also prohibits any means of warfare that are intended or may be expected to cause widespread, long-term, and severe damage to the natural environment. 

And the law of neutrality requires that parties to the conflict must not cause transborder damage to a neutral state due to the use of a weapon in a belligerent state, which would be inevitable with the release of nuclear emissions. 

As such, the U.S.-Israel Axis attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities are unlawful. 

An unholy alliance

The U.S.-Israel Axis has been on a violent rampage for more than two years now, leaving a trail of blood and destruction everywhere in its wake. Iran is but the latest target in what has been an orgy of aggression and genocide all too familiar in centuries past, but unprecedented in modern, post-World War II history. 

Indeed, driven by the same kind of imperial, far-right, supremacist, colonial, and militarist ideology that cursed the planet with the Second World War, the Axis is determined to impose its brutal form of domination across Western Asia and beyond, and to turn back the clock to a darker chapter in our collective history. 

The U.S.-Israel Axis has been on a violent rampage for more than two years now, leaving a trail of blood and destruction everywhere in its wake. Iran is but the latest target.

Central to this villainous project has been the systematic dismantling of any post-war guardrails, with assaults on the United Nations, international tribunals like the ICC and ICJ, independent human rights mechanisms like the Special Rapporteur on Palestine, and on international law itself, all to ensure the absolute impunity of the Israeli regime and the U.S. empire. 

They are betting that nations of the world and international institutions can either be cowed or corrupted into servile acquiescence or crushed into the dust of history. That even the brightest red lines of the modern legal order – the prohibition of aggression and of genocide – can be erased at the will of the perpetrators. 

And, indeed, thus far, the leaders of far too many states and international institutions have proven them right. Free nations have fallen like dominoes. Rules of international law have crumbled. Institutions cower at the fascistic roar of the Axis. Victims and the vulnerable are left to bleed and die alone without succor or solidarity, as trepidatious leaders hide in the shadows, too terrified to challenge the onslaught. 

Defeating the two-headed Orthus

But the two-headed Orthus of U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism has not won yet. 

The Iranian people are fighting back. Resistance groups across the region are preparing to stand in solidarity. The Palestinian people are teaching the world the meaning of sumud and steadfastness. Perpetrators are being called to account in courts of law. Unions and dockworkers, and social movements across the West are standing to fight back from within the belly of the beast. 

Students, human rights defenders, peace activists, and ordinary people everywhere are rising up in record numbers to resist the darkness and to stand in solidarity with those in the crosshairs of fascism and empire, even in the face of unprecedented repression. 

In their millions, they are resisting, and protesting, and demonstrating, and striking, and boycotting, and divesting, and taking direct action and civil disobedience, and exposing and prosecuting perpetrators, and voting against the corrupt and complicit, and blowing away the fog of propaganda to educate their neighbors in the truth.  

Their message is a lighted path out of this darkness: No to impunity. No to imperialism. No to Zionism. No to fascism. No to militarism. No to Aggression. And no to genocide.  

A world without moral or legal red lines is not a livable world. But this is our fate if we do not rise to meet the moment. And the moment is now. 

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Craig Mokhiber
Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law.

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My Interview With Scott Ritter | Who is coming out on top in the American-Israeli war on IRAN?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXmC_-q-Ne8)

I sat down with Scott Ritter, a former U.S. intelligence analyst, to discuss the American-Israeli war on Iran, which has now spiraled into a full-blown regional conflict.

The former Marine intelligence officer believes the recent strikes on Iran go far beyond military objectives. In his view, they are part of a broader effort to break the will of the Iranian people and sow chaos aimed at regime change, an effort that has not only failed but backfired, strengthening national cohesion and multiplying support for the Islamic Republic.

Ritter points to deep coordination between the U.S. and the Israeli regime, describing the attacks as the result of deliberate planning, with Persian Gulf Arab states also complicit. He also calls out the hypocrisy and dysfunction of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that Washington can no longer credibly pose as a defender of human rights and democracy.

Trankripzioa:

0:00

In the name of God, the compassion and

0:01

the merciful. Hello everybody. Hope you

0:03

are doing great. You’re watching for a

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debate.

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[music]

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Today I’m once again honored to have a

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Scott Reer, security efforts analyst and

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former US intelligence officer as my

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guest to discuss the regional war

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planned and executed by the United

0:24

States and the Israeli regime and to

0:27

uncover as much as possible the hidden

0:30

dimensions of this conflict. Scott,

0:32

thank you so much for being with us

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today and welcome back.

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Thank you much very much for having me.

0:38

I wish it was under different

0:39

circumstances.

0:40

Sure. Uh the recent strike on Iran were

0:44

carried out under the claim of targeting

0:46

military and nuclear facilities. But as

0:49

we have seen since the war began,

0:51

medical centers, hospitals, schools,

0:54

relief centers, and civilian residential

0:56

areas have also been hit and the attacks

1:00

continue. How do you analyze uh this

1:03

brutal and aggressive approach?

1:07

Well, it’s being conducted by the same

1:08

people who carried out the genocide of

1:10

Gaza and who subjected the citizens of

1:12

Beirut to uh criminal levels of uh

1:19

aerial bomb delivered aggression. So,

1:20

what do you expect? Um, you know, this

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is carried out by people who claim

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they’re doing this for the benefit of

1:26

the Iranian people, of course, to

1:27

trigger a regime change that would make

1:30

life better for the people of Iran, but

1:31

they don’t care about the people of Iran

1:33

because they’re murdering the people of

1:34

Iran as we speak. Um it’s just part of

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the overall, you know, package of lies

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that have been told uh about this. Um

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it’s going to get worse for Iran uh

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because Iran has been targeted for

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elimination. Um and so there are no

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holds barred. Um all targets will be

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struck in an effort to break the will of

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the Iranian people uh to continue to

1:59

resist to uh collapse the authority of

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the Iranian government. Uh the belief is

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that by attacking um these

2:09

facilities, these buildings, these empty

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buildings, um they are exposing the

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weakness of the regime, but they’re only

2:16

exposing their own weakness, the lack of

2:18

moral compass, the lack of anything

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remotely resembling adherence to the

2:22

rules of law. It’s uh it’s the United

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States and uh Israel that have been

2:27

exposed as the true rogue nations. But

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tragically,

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um, you’re going to see more destruction

2:33

of Iranian society. Um, even if Iran

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emerges victorious from this war, and

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there’s no reason to believe that they

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won’t, um, the price that Iran is going

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to pay is going to be, um, un

2:44

unbearable.

2:47

Yeah, even the police stations and

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internal security forces are now primary

2:53

targets of the strike. It’s easy to see

2:56

that the next operational phase involves

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orchestrating a coup and activating

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urban warfare. How viable do you see

3:05

this project being? And u if it

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materializes,

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what future do you uh invasion for it?

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Well, as Ma Seong once famously noted,

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the gorilla is a fish that swims among

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the ocean. Um,

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in order for this plan to succeed, you

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need a host. You need a compliant and um

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obedient um Iranian population willing

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to play host to these anti-regime

3:38

uh components. Um

3:41

you know the the hope was that by

3:43

assassinating Ali Kaman the supreme

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leader that um the streets of Iran would

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be filled with people um who would be

3:50

proclaiming his death. And this is

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actually what has happened. But they

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aren’t proclaiming his death in a manner

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which is to the negative or to the

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detriment of the Islamic Republic.

3:59

Instead they are embracing the death of

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Ali Kame as uh martyrdom. um they are uh

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doubling down on their support for the

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Islamic Republic of Iran uh for the

4:12

principles that uh that underpin the

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Islamic Republic and um they are

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viciferously against uh the very people

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who are trying to rally them to their

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cause. So it is backfired. There’s no

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chance whatsoever, zero chance for any

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um meaningful uh opposition to arise.

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Therefore, there’s no chance for um you

4:35

know, armed opposition to take root uh

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in the the notion of urban warfare is uh

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is pure fiction at this point in time.

4:44

Iran has just made itself immune to the

4:47

u the plans. Look, if

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if you wanted to uh to destroy the

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supreme leader, then you keep him alive

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and you create the conditions where he’s

5:01

hiding in a bunker. Um you then

5:04

manipulate data and you [clears throat]

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create fictions about this man, about

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his uh moral lack of moral compass. You

5:12

can say and invent anything you want to

5:14

about him. And as the bombs rain down,

5:16

people begin to second guessess

5:18

themselves. That would have been the

5:20

strategy I would have taken if I were

5:21

advising the CIA. Not that I want it to

5:24

happen, but I mean there’s a way to

5:26

manipulate uh people killing the Supreme

5:31

Leader at a time when he had said that

5:34

he was ready for martyrdom.

5:36

At a time when he said, “My body is

5:38

broken.” Um at a time when he said, “I I

5:41

want to die with dignity.” Um and we

5:44

allowed him to die with the greatest

5:46

dignity possible. We have elevated his

5:48

status to shahid. He is a martyr. Um

5:53

we have done the Iranian government the

5:56

greatest favor in the world because we

5:58

have ensured that there is no distance

6:00

between the Iranian government and the

6:01

people of Iran when it comes to

6:03

resisting the um the actions of the

6:05

United States and Israel.

6:08

Exactly.

6:09

Uh the next point is the timing of these

6:12

strikes is highly debatable. Uh why was

6:15

this particular moment chosen for

6:17

escalation? Can it be linked to domestic

6:20

developments in the US shifts in the

6:22

regional balance of power or temporal

6:24

weakness of on uh one side or should we

6:29

uh view it as the result of a strategic

6:32

accident?

6:35

I don’t think there’s anything

6:36

accidental about the timing of this

6:37

strike. But we know the 12-day war

6:39

didn’t go the way its uh its planners

6:43

envisioned Israel and the United States.

6:45

We know that Israel and the United

6:46

States coordinated extensively before

6:48

the 12-day war in June. We know that

6:49

President Trump played an important role

6:51

in legitimizing the Israeli efforts at

6:53

decapitation, the original strike

6:55

against Ali Kame, the Iranian president,

6:57

the Iranian government. Uh but that

6:59

gambit failed. Um there was a ceasefire

7:03

that was arranged. But since that time,

7:04

Israel and the United States have been

7:06

preparing not for making peace with

7:08

Iran, but finding conditions conducive

7:10

to resuming the regime change operation

7:12

that they had started in June. Uh there

7:15

have been close and continuous

7:16

coordination between the United States

7:17

military and the Israeli military. You

7:19

don’t get a campaign of this scope and

7:21

scale by accident. You get it only

7:22

because people have planned out every

7:24

detail of it. Um, what drove this is

7:27

that eventually, you know, you need to

7:30

pull the trigger on a plan and the

7:31

longer you wait, the stronger Iran gets.

7:34

So,

7:35

we we being the United States and

7:37

Israel, you know, we had to test out a

7:40

theory whether or not we could get

7:41

people into the streets. That was proven

7:43

with Scott Besson triggering the

7:44

collapse of the Rio. Um, and then we had

7:48

to position the resources. You only get

7:50

one shot at this. You don’t get to

7:52

position resources and hit delay. Once

7:54

we begin moving military resources into

7:56

the region, the timing of the war

7:58

becomes um carved in stone. And so when

8:03

Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump

8:05

met, uh you know, there’s a lot of talk

8:07

about that time about a distance between

8:09

Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. There was

8:11

no distance. There was a lot of talk

8:12

about Israel pressuring the United

8:14

States. There was no pressure. They both

8:16

knew what they needed to do. They

8:17

created the fiction of a split um

8:20

because they needed to, you know,

8:22

perpetuate the notion of the viability

8:24

of a diplomatic off-ramp. Uh because the

8:26

United States and R uh and and Israel

8:28

aren’t seen eye to eye, there’s the need

8:30

for a diplomatic offramp. And then they

8:31

begin to engage Iran diplomatically. But

8:34

that was always a subtrauge. The

8:35

decision on the timing of the attack was

8:37

made when Benjamin Netanyahu visited

8:39

Donald Trump. They picked a day on the

8:40

calendar and diplomacy was purely a a

8:43

means of [cough]

8:46

lulling the Iranians into a false sense

8:48

of complacency. Why? Because we were

8:50

very vulnerable. Uh we needed to deploy

8:53

air defense uh systems uh there. That

8:56

took time. While we’re deploying the air

8:57

defense systems, if Iran had launched a

8:59

preemptive strike under the belief that

9:00

the United States and Israel were

9:02

preparing to attack Iran, then there

9:04

would be very little we could do. We

9:06

needed to get our defenses in place. Now

9:08

once we have the defensive shield gets

9:09

in place, we begin surging our um our

9:12

aircraft, our bombs, our support

9:14

infrastructure into the region. Um again

9:17

though, very vulnerable at this point in

9:19

time. If Iran had decided to carry out

9:20

preemptive strikes, they could have

9:22

nullified the American effort. Hence the

9:24

diplomacy engaging the Iranians, the

9:26

pretense of a breakthrough, the pretense

9:28

that uh there was a possibility of

9:30

peace. Um and then when we had our

9:33

resources in play, we pulled the

9:34

trigger. uh this was a war that was

9:37

carved in stone was going to happen.

9:39

It’s not accidental uh and it’s the

9:41

byproduct of very close close collusion

9:44

between the United States and Israel and

9:46

frankly speaking between several of the

9:47

Gulf Arab countries who were um

9:49

cognizant of what was happening and

9:51

supportive of uh of the goals and

9:53

intents of this campaign.

9:55

Right. Uh and let’s turn to the

9:58

positions of Iran’s neighbors and Gulf

10:00

States. These countries have adopted

10:02

varied and complex stances in the

10:05

conflict. Some host US military bases

10:09

while some others have tried to maintain

10:11

distance uh from both sides. In your

10:15

view, what does this diversity of

10:17

behavior signal about the future of

10:19

regional alliances?

10:22

Well, first of all, when we speak of

10:23

regional alliances, uh let’s be clear

10:25

what we’re speaking about. We’re

10:26

speaking about Gulf Arab states who have

10:28

subordinate subordinated themselves

10:30

completely to the will of the United

10:31

States of America and therefore to the

10:33

will of Israel. Um and we need to be

10:36

upfront about that because any citizen

10:38

of these Gulf Arab states that thinks

10:40

for a second that they are dealing, you

10:42

know, that their government is somehow

10:44

um an independent representative of a

10:46

sovereign people, they’re not. They’re

10:48

simply a tool of a greater US-Israeli

10:51

plan that seeks to impose uh Israeli

10:55

hegemony on the region. Um that can only

10:58

happen if the various monarchies of the

11:00

region have sold out to the United

11:02

States and Israel. And this is what has

11:03

happened. Um

11:06

you know there’s nothing complex here.

11:08

There’s no there’s no nuance. These are

11:10

nations that have allowed the United

11:11

States to build military infrastructure

11:13

in the region. Um and that

11:15

infrastructure has for the past several

11:17

decades been solely and singularly

11:19

focused on containing Iran u with the

11:22

goal of eventually removing the

11:23

theocracy from power. Uh these these

11:25

Gulf Arab states are part and parcel of

11:27

that. Um they get paid off by security

11:30

which enables them to guarantee the flow

11:32

of uh energy which enriches them and

11:35

keeps them uh in power through the

11:37

facade of uh you know of a uh of a

11:40

society that is uh you know thriving. Um

11:43

but it’s all fake. Um it’s all a house

11:48

of cards and Iran has exposed that

11:50

because now Iran is holding to account

11:53

these governments, these nations that

11:55

have supported America’s military

11:57

posture in the region. Uh there is no

11:59

nuance here. Iran says if you have an

12:01

American base on your soil, that base

12:03

will be destroyed and the government

12:05

that allowed this base to be hosted uh

12:08

will be punished. And the Iranians have

12:10

also recognized the fundamental weakness

12:12

of the Gulf Arab states. Um the flaw is

12:15

the notion of um of uh energy security,

12:19

financial security, and phys physical

12:21

security. Uh Iran is in the process of

12:24

strangling the entire Middle East energy

12:26

production realm. They’re shutting down

12:28

the street of Hormuz. They’re beginning

12:30

to attack critical Saudi energy

12:32

production facilities. uh their threat

12:34

to Qatar has prompted the Qatari

12:37

government to declare force majour for

12:39

the first time in the history of uh the

12:42

production of liquid natural gas

12:43

therefore blocking that production.

12:45

They’re starting to attack pipelines

12:47

that would allow the United Arab

12:48

Emirates to bypass the straight or

12:50

moves. Um and they’re they’re

12:52

guaranteeing that the uh financial

12:55

security uh of the um political and

12:57

economic elites of the u Persian Gulf,

13:00

the Gulf Arab states, that financial

13:02

security no longer exists. They’re also

13:04

exposing the lie of an American

13:07

alliance. Um an American alliance, an

13:09

alliance is supposed to be a mutually

13:10

beneficial relationship. But the United

13:13

States only uses Gulf Arab states. We

13:14

don’t benefit them. And the the truth

13:17

has come out now where we compelled

13:19

these people to buy weaponry from us.

13:20

They spend billions and billions of

13:22

dollars on the promise that we would be

13:24

there for them in their time of need.

13:27

But they are being abandoned by the

13:28

United States as we speak. They are

13:30

being subjected to attacks, punishing

13:32

attacks from the Iranians. Uh they’re

13:34

expending their munitions. They’re

13:35

asking the United States to um you know

13:38

resupply them. But the United States

13:40

isn’t answering that call. Instead,

13:41

we’re resupplying ourselves and

13:43

resupplying our number one client, which

13:45

is the state of Israel. And by this

13:47

time, it should be apparent to every

13:48

Gulf Arab state that they simply don’t

13:50

matter. They exist to serve Israel. And

13:52

Israel comes first and foremost. There

13:54

is no alliance to the United States. And

13:56

these governments are starting to wake

13:57

up to that reality. And at some point in

13:58

time, um, the people are going to wake

14:01

up to that reality. And when that

14:02

happens, these governments may be in

14:04

risk of collapsing themselves. the irony

14:07

of them supporting a regime change

14:09

operation against Iran that sets in

14:11

motion events that results in their

14:14

regimes being removed from power.

14:17

Yes. And how influential have extra

14:20

regional powers like China and Russia

14:22

been or will they be in this crisis?

14:26

Well, there’s actually very little that

14:27

Russia and China could do on a

14:29

meaningful fashion when we’re talking

14:30

about wars of existential survival. Um

14:33

what they have done Russia and China is

14:35

enable Iran to defend itself to the best

14:38

degree possible in the uh period of time

14:41

leading up to the initiation of this

14:43

conflict. But now the responsibility is

14:45

Iran. Iran must uh carry out the actions

14:48

necessary for its defense. Russia and

14:50

China are not going to be riding to

14:52

their rescue. What Russia and China are

14:54

going to be doing, however, is working

14:56

to create um the opportunity for

15:00

conflict resolution on terms favorable

15:02

to Iran. Uh they’re playing the

15:04

diplomatic card. They’re also ensuring

15:07

as Iran seeks to evict the United States

15:09

from the region.

15:12

Russia and China are prepared to step in

15:14

diplomatically and try to heal the rift

15:16

between Iran and the Gulf Arab states.

15:19

remember China’s success in bringing

15:21

about reproach bomb between Saudi Arabia

15:23

and Iran. It’s not an inconceivable

15:26

thought. Um but more over Russia and

15:29

China are going to be there for Iran

15:30

because when this war ends Iran is going

15:32

to need to rebuild its economy and you

15:35

know in order to do that they have to

15:36

have effective trade partners and this

15:39

is where Russia and China will shine.

15:40

They will uh continue to trade with

15:43

Iran. They will help bring Iran not only

15:45

further into the bricks forum but also

15:47

into the Eur Asian Europe economic union

15:50

um and give the Iranian economy a chance

15:52

to live up to its full potential.

15:55

Yes. Um another question is uh actually

15:59

as you know one of the most striking

16:00

contradictions in US foreign policy is

16:03

the simultaneous promotion of democracy

16:06

while aligning with non-democratic

16:09

powers in the region. How has this

16:12

contradiction manifested itself in the

16:14

current crisis?

16:15

America has no legitimacy anymore. I

16:18

mean, uh, the sins, the crimes were

16:19

committed against Iran are just the

16:21

latest in a long list of crimes that

16:23

we’ve committed against the people of

16:24

the world. Anybody in the world today

16:26

that could buy into the notion that

16:27

America stands for law, order,

16:30

international law, legitimacy, decency,

16:33

democracy is absurd. We don’t even

16:35

respect American democracy. American

16:36

democracy, of course, is premised on the

16:38

notion of a constitutional republic. and

16:40

we have ceased functioning as a

16:41

constitutional republic a long time ago.

16:44

We now have a cult of personality in

16:46

charge. There’s no checks and balances

16:48

from Congress or the judiciary. Um, and

16:50

this is supposed to be the model of what

16:52

for the world. I mean, if you wanted to

16:54

put forward a model of tyrannical rule,

16:56

uh, the United States is the is the

16:58

epitome because today we are ruled by a

17:00

tyrant. Um, so I I have to laugh because

17:04

I don’t believe there’s anybody that

17:05

buys into lie anymore. I mean, this is

17:07

American propaganda that we sell to

17:09

ourselves. But, uh, is there truly

17:11

anybody in the world today that believes

17:13

the United States is the, uh, is the

17:16

apex of virtue? That we, uh, are the

17:18

defenders of human rights? We’re in the

17:20

process of literally wiping Iranian

17:23

culture off the face of the map. We’re

17:24

destroying uh, buildings uh, that date

17:27

back, you know, centuries, beautiful

17:30

works of art, etc., because we’re

17:32

eradicating Iran. Is that a nation that

17:34

respects culture? No. uh were murdering

17:37

Iranian civilians to include uh school

17:40

children, girls. Um is this the uh the

17:44

apex of virtue? No. America is a

17:46

criminal regime and we are supporting

17:47

the greatest criminal regime in modern

17:49

history. That is the state of Israel, a

17:51

genocidal state that murdered tens of

17:53

thousands of Palestinians. So let’s just

17:56

stop pretending that there’s any notion

17:58

of America as a defender of human

18:00

rights, etc. That that ship has sailed.

18:02

It doesn’t. No one believes that. Not

18:04

even the Americans that settled among

18:06

themselves.

18:08

Thank you very much for your time. I’d

18:10

like to hear your closing thoughts.

18:13

Well, as an American, this is very

18:15

difficult time for me because um I want

18:17

my country to succeed. Uh I have

18:19

children that I have raised. My wife and

18:21

I have raised them and I want the world

18:22

to be a better place for them. One of my

18:24

daughters is pregnant. She’s getting

18:25

ready to bring a baby into this world. I

18:27

want the world to be a safe, secure

18:29

place for this baby to be raised. And

18:31

yet when we take a look at the situation

18:32

we’re in right now, just the opposite is

18:34

happening. And the reason for this isn’t

18:36

Iran or the nations that we have put out

18:39

there as uh our adversaries or our

18:41

enemies. It’s because of our behavior,

18:43

the behavior of the American government

18:45

backed by the um complacency of the

18:47

American people. Um sometimes nations

18:51

and people need a wakeup call. And I’m

18:53

hoping that the tragedy that is taking

18:55

place in the Middle East today will

18:57

serve as that wakeup call to the

18:58

American people. That um on the backs of

19:01

the death and destruction that we are

19:03

causing will come a recognition, a

19:05

period of self-reflection where we

19:07

realize we have to do better because

19:09

what we’re doing right now isn’t the

19:11

height of civilization. It’s the

19:12

representation of a civilization in

19:15

catastrophic decline. And I don’t enjoy

19:18

living in a nation that’s in literal

19:21

moral freefall. We will have the

19:23

opportunity again to discuss other

19:24

dimensions of this war with you. Until

19:27

then, take care and have a great day.

19:29

Okay. Thank you. You too. Bye-bye.

19:33

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