Tehran, June 13, 2025, 4:17 a.m. The first explosions light up the sky over Natanz. Israeli F-35s, invisible to radar, drop JDAMs on Iran’s largest uranium enrichment plant. Within minutes, no fewer than five car bombs detonate across Tehran, next to government buildings and the homes of nuclear scientists. The IDF, ever the courteous occupier, issues a warning to Iranian civilians: evacuate the areas around weapons factories and military bases in Shiraz. Or else.
By dawn, Israel has struck over 100 targets. Not just nuclear sites, but missile depots, air defences, and the homes of Iran’s top military brass. General Hossein Salami, commander of the Revolutionary Guards, is dead. So is Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri. So are nuclear scientists Fereydoon Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi.
The Mossad, meanwhile, has spent years smuggling precision weapons into Iran, setting up covert drone bases near Tehran, and recruiting Iranian dissidents to sabotage air defences from within. This is not a flare-up. This is not a crisis. This is war, waged by Israel, enabled by the US, and dressed up as something else entirely.
The US Joins the Party On June 22, the Americans arrive. Twelve B-2 stealth bombers, escorted by 125 aircraft, drop 30,000 pound “bunker buster” bombs on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The GBU-57s, each capable of burrowing 200 feet underground before detonating, are the only weapons on Earth that can destroy Iran’s fortified nuclear sites. Trump calls it “Operation Midnight Hammer.” The Pentagon calls it “degrading Iran’s nuclear capabilities.” The rest of the world calls it what it is: the US and Israel bombing a country that, by all independent accounts, is not building a nuclear weapon. Nor intends to.
The Body Count By June 28, the numbers are in. Iranian health officials report 1,190 dead, including 435 military personnel and 436 civilians. Another 4,000 are wounded. Israel loses 28. The US? Zero. Iran fires back with missiles at Tel Aviv, drones at Haifa, a barrage at a US base in Qatar, but the Iron Dome and Patriot batteries swat most of them away. The Iranian air force, such as it is, never gets off the ground. Its fleet of MiG-29s and F-14s, some half a century old, are no match for Israel’s F-35s and the US’s B-2s. Iran has no air force to speak of. It has missiles, proxies, and little else.
The Mossad’s Shadow War This is not just a war of bombs. It’s a war of knives in the dark. The Mossad doesn’t just strike from the air, it strikes from within. In the months leading up to June 2025, Mossad operatives and recruited Iranian dissidents disable air defences, plant explosives, and assassinate scientists. They infiltrate government databases, steal passport data, and turn Iranian software against itself. When the war “ends,” the Mossad stays.
“We will be there,” Mossad Director David Barnea promises, “like we have always been there.”
The Next Round And there will be a next round. The US and Israel have already authorised fresh strikes. The CIA and Mossad are busy preparing the ground with cyberattacks, sabotage, the occasional hanging of an accused spy in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Iran, for its part, threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, block oil shipments, and unleash its proxies across the region. But the pattern is set: Israel strikes, the US backs it up, and the world calls it anything but war.
The Language of Impunity Why does this matter? Because language is the first casualty. When Israel and the US bomb Iran, it’s a “campaign.” When Iran fires back, it’s “escalation.” When 1,190 Iranians die, it’s “collateral damage.” When the Mossad assassinates a scientist, it’s “targeted killing.” When the US drops bunker busters, it’s “degrading capabilities.” This is not neutral phrasing. It’s a lie by omission, a way to wage war without consequence, to turn atrocity into policy.
The Spectacle of Overkill Israel has 345 combat aircraft. Iran has 312, most of them museum pieces. Israel spends 5.6% of its GDP on defence. Iran spends 2.6%. Israel has the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and the full backing of the US military. Iran has the S-300, a system so outdated that Israeli drones fly right through it. This is not a war. It’s a slaughter, dressed up as self defence.
What Comes Next The ceasefire is a pause, not an end. The Mossad is still in Tehran. The CIA is still running ops. The US with Donald Trump’s “beautiful Armada” is still offshore, waiting for the next excuse. And Iran? Iran is still standing, still defiant, still a target. Because for Israel and its American backer, the war never ends. It just gets rebadged.
Name it now. Or live with it forever.
Coda: Greg Moriarty, Australia’s Spy Network, and the Billions That Fuel the Shadow War
The Australian Connection: Greg Moriarty and the Mossad’s Reach
While Israel’s F-35s and America’s B-2s do the bombing, the real work of war happens in the shadows, and Australia is in the room. Greg Moriarty, former Director General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) and now a senior figure in Australia’s defence and intelligence establishment, knows this game well. ASIS doesn’t just watch, it participates. Australian signals intelligence, shared through the Five Eyes network, helps the Mossad and CIA map Iran’s defences, track its scientists, and time their strikes. When Israeli commandos need real time intel on Iranian air defences, they don’t just rely on satellites, they rely on allies like Australia, whose Pine Gap facility and cyber capabilities are plugged directly into the US-Israel axis.
Moriarty’s career spans the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now the quiet war on Iran. He understands that modern warfare isn’t just about bombs, it’s about data, deception, and deniability. Australia doesn’t drop the bombs, but it helps pick the targets. When the Mossad needs to smuggle weapons into Iran or exfiltrate an asset, it leans on Five Eyes partners for logistics, cover, and plausible denial. Moriarty’s ASIS isn’t just a bystander, it’s a node in the network, feeding intelligence to Tel Aviv and Langley, ensuring that when Israel strikes, it strikes with precision. And when the operation is over, Australia’s role vanishes into the classified archives, mentioned only in the fine print of defence budgets and the occasional leaked cable.
This isn’t conspiracy theory, it’s how empire works in the 21st century. The Mossad doesn’t act alone. It acts with the tacit approval of Washington, the logistical support of London, and the silent complicity of Canberra. When Iran accuses foreign intelligence of stoking unrest, it isn’t just pointing at Israel. It’s pointing at the whole machine.
The Billions: America’s Endless Armoury for Israel
The US doesn’t just back Israel. It arms it. Since 1948, America has funnelled over $300 billion in military aid to Israel, more than to any other country on Earth. That’s not just F-35s and Iron Dome batteries. It’s bunker busting bombs, cyberweapons, and the diplomatic cover to use them. In 2025 alone, the US approved an additional $14.3 billion in emergency military funding for Israel, including the GBU-57 “Massive Ordnance Penetrators” used to obliterate Iran’s Fordow nuclear site. These aren’t defensive weapons. They’re tools of annihilation, designed to erase targets buried deep underground, targets that Israel, on its own, couldn’t touch.
But the cheques don’t stop there. The US also funds Israel’s covert wars. The Mossad’s operations in Iran (assassinations, sabotage, cyberattacks) are bankrolled by a slush fund of black budgets, funnelled through the Pentagon and the CIA. When Israeli commandos need a drone base near Tehran, the US helps set it up. When the Mossad needs to recruit Iranian dissidents, the CIA provides the training and the cash. This isn’t alliance. It’s fusion. Israel’s war is America’s war, fought with American money, American weapons, and American intelligence, all while the White House insists it’s just “supporting a partner.”
And what does Australia do? It pays its dues. Through the Defence Strategic Review, Canberra commits billions to “long range strike capabilities” and “undersea warfare”, code for missiles and submarines that, in a real shooting war, would be plugged into the US-Israel axis. When the US asks for more intelligence sharing, more bases, more access, Australia says yes. When Israel needs another vote at the UN or another voice to echo its talking points, Australia delivers. It’s not just about Iran. It’s about maintaining the machine.
The Catalogue of Complicity: A Sampling of the Arsenal
The F-35 Lightning II Stealth Fighters number 50 delivered to Israel by 2025, each capable of evading Iranian radar and dropping JDAMs on Tehran. Cost to US taxpayers: $110 million per plane. The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators are the 30,000 pound “bunker busters” used to destroy Fordow. Only the US has them. Only Israel gets to borrow them. The Iron Dome and David’s Sling systems received $1.6 billion in US funding since 2011 to build Israel’s missile shield, now expanded to intercept Iranian drones and ballistic missiles. Then there are the cyberweapons. Stuxnet was just the beginning. The NSA and Unit 8200 (Israel’s cyber intel branch) collaborate on malware, hacking tools, and digital sabotage, all tested on Iran’s nuclear programme. Finally, Pine Gap and Five Eyes: Australia’s signals intelligence hub feeds real time data to the US and Israel, helping them track, target, and assassinate Iranian officials. The budget? Classified, but estimates put it in the hundreds of millions annually.
The Bottom Line: War Without End, Paid For by Someone Else
This is how empire sustains itself: Australia provides the intelligence, America provides the bombs, Israel provides the trigger finger, and Iran provides the target. The bill is footed by taxpayers in Canberra, Washington, and Tel Aviv, while the profits flow to defence contractors, oil companies, and the politicians who shuffle between government and corporate boards.
Greg Moriarty knows this. The Mossad knows this. The only people who don’t are the ones reading the headlines about “tensions” and “flare ups,” as if war were a weather event, not a choice.
The next round is coming. The spies are already in place. The bombs are already paid for. The only question is whether the public will keep pretending it isn’t happening, or finally call it what it is.
This article was originally published on URBAN WRONSKI WRITES
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An excellent article confirming the predictions of Gary Allen (1971) “None Dare Call it Conspiracy” that the USA would engage in warfare wherever it chose to take over natural resources for the benefit of US international corporations, and have somebody else pay for the pleasure.
Thom Hartmann has independently mapped the progress of this movement.
The two TACO Trumpery PPOTUS (Pederast Protector of the United States) terms are the ultimate conclusion of the 1971 prognostications.
New England Cocky. Thank you. And Thank you for sharing those insights. You’ve highlighted a fascinating line of political thought that has persisted for over half a century.
The connection you’ve drawn between Gary Allen’s ‘None Dare Call it Conspiracy’ and the modern analysis of Thom Hartmann is striking. While Allen wrote from a John Birch Society perspective and Hartmann approaches history from a progressive ‘People’s History’ lens, both converge on the idea of ‘corporate statecraft.’ They both argue that U.S. foreign policy often functions as a tool for private interests, disguised as national security or democratic promotion.
Hartmann’s work on the ‘neoliberal turn’, particularly the transition from the New Deal era to the ‘Great Transition’ of the early 70s, parallels Allen’s 1971 warnings about the centralisation of power, even if their proposed solutions differ wildly.
Your point regarding the ‘outsourcing’ of the costs of war captures what many critics call ‘The Military-Industrial Complex 2.0,’ where the taxpayer bears the burden of risk while international entities reap the resource-based rewards. It’s a perspective that views recent decades not as a series of disconnected conflicts, but as the logical conclusion of a strategy set in motion decades ago.
It is certainly a provocative and productive framework for viewing the current political landscape.
…or finally call it what it is.
Continuity of Agenda.
A David Tyler: RE “Corporate statecraft”. There is an Australian link here ….. The US CIA overthrew the Allende Sandanista (socialist) democratically elected Chilean government and replaced it with the Pinochet dictatorship that was also supported by the Thatcher English government providing armaments.
Hal Geneen CEO of ITT donated six million dollars ($US 6 MILLION) directly to the CIA to fund the purchase of weapons for the the opposition forces, including a plane used in the final (fatal) attack on the Chilean Presidential Palace. (A late former colleague signed that cheque, which he stated was the largest cheque he had ever signed).
Subsequently, the Chilean Telegraph Corporation was acquired by ITT and sold on to ”Australian” billionaire Alan Bond for about $US 28 MILLION.
Bond eventually crashed out after purchasing Channel 9 from Kerry Packer for about $A 30 MILLION only to sell it back to Packer for about $A 9 MILLION. Somehow Bond was a pauper supported by his friends while finance authorities were unable to locate several tens of millions of ”missing” funds.
New England Cocky:
A rich vein you tap. And a fascinating observation from your late friend. I did read Paul Barry’s book 1990, on the rise and fall of Alan Bond. It remains a leading authority.
Just a couple of fact-checks. Allende was not “Sandanista” – that refers to Nicaragua’s Sandinista movement. Allende led a socialist coalition called “Unidad Popular” (Popular Unity)
The US$6 million figure is mentioned in some sources, though the exact amount ITT offered to the CIA is disputed in historical records. ITT definitely offered substantial funds to support anti-Allende activities.
Bond paid approximately $1 billion (not $30 million) for Channel 9 in 1987.
He did sell it back to Packer for far less; around $200 million in 1990 (not $9 million), representing a massive loss. True. Bond did declare bankruptcy despite widely-held suspicions about hidden assets.
In brief, the gravamen of your charges is accurate and insightful. Just a bit off the mark with a few figures. Kind regards, David.
I do not understand how Mossad can setup clandestine drone facilities within Iran. Even with support from dissidents surely Iran’s secret police, internal security, spy networks would know? How are they smuggled in, they are not small? The extent of your apparent knowledge of Israel’s and the US’s actions within and against Iran astounds me. The apparent extent of our involvement is also disturbing and now we have one of the architects of our role in an influential position in Washington where, presumably, he will continue to ensure our compliance with the US/Israel warmongering. Frightening.
RC, Mossad is, like the CIA, a government funded intelligence organisation with a generous budget, thousands of operatives, and a long history of successful operations. They are also masters of the art of compromat, employing whatever it takes to turn citizens who would nominally be opposed to Israeli activities into operatives on their behalf. Sex, money, blackmail, revenge, promise of freedom via relocation to other countries… whatever it takes.
The drones would not have been smuggled in fully assembled. Also, Iran is a large country with many points of entry that would not be monitored, along with having a large section of the population that are opposed to the theocratic regime. Mossad’s expertise in finding and utilising these people is likely first class best practice spook behaviour when ranked globally.
re. David Tyler’s knowledge,
I have it on good authority that he is an Israeli insider who worked for Mossad for many yearsit’s likely to all be on the public record.“Enabled by the US?”
There is a US policy analysis document that you can download as a pdf by googling “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy.Towards Iran” published in 2009.
This remarkable document describes pretty much what happened during the 12 day war against Iran last year. That strike against Iran was planned by the US well before this risk and benefit analysis report was published 17 years ago.
This was not a war by Israel enabled by the US. It was a war that has long been planned by the US. The report advises seeking the cooperation of Israel to facilitate the success of the strike.
Israel has up until now done what it has been asked to do by the US. They see common interests. But Israel took a battering from Iran in retaliation for the strike. Iran’s drone and missiles are technologically superior and vastly cheaper than the American weaponry providing Israel’s defensive Iron Dome. They diverted $20million interceptor missiles with $20thousand drones in mass attacks allowing hypersonic missiles to wreak havoc on Tel Aviv. So now Bibi isn’t so eager and has actually asked Trump to hold off until Israel can replace its depleted defensive missile stocks which came from the US’s depleted missile arsenal.
The US is determined to keep battering away at Iran but Israel is not so keen to be involved since it, like that other US proxy Ukraine will suffer much more than the US which prefers to fight from a safe distance.
There is so much evidence for US responsibility for criminally creating wars, yet there is such a reluctance to call them out for it. Instead blame is mainly attributed either to the US’s targets like Russia or to their proxies like Ukraine or to their accomplices like the EU or Israel.
It’s like saying Australia’s war against Vietnam was enabled by the US.
@ David Tyler: Thank you for the edits. Somehow my reading from 35+ years ago has dimmed in memory.
Anthony Sampson is another well informed objective author on US corporations commencing in the 70s. His book, Anthony Sampson (1973) “The Sovereign State of ITT” was my initial source. Note the date immediately preceding the CIA Chile invasion.
There is also evidence that ITT CEO Hal Geneen ”purchased” President Richard Nixon for a mere one million ($US1 MILLION)dollars paid as twenty political donations of $50,000 from different ITT owned corporations to the Republican Party of that day.
From memory only, there were about six excellent books from Sampson on corporate activities of his period. All worth reading …..
Al Jazeera, 11th Feb 2026
Iranians have commemorated the 47th anniversary of the Islamic revolution with mass rallies nationwide.
Crowds flooded Tehran and other cities on Wednesday to celebrate the Islamic Republic’s establishment and show solidarity with the government during one of the most tumultuous periods in Iran’s recent history.
It was reported elsewhere that “23 to 26 million people participated in today’s Islamic Revolution rallies across Iran – Every city is involved and all of the Iranian leadership take part in the marches. You won’t see any of this in western media as they cannot afford to. Speaking to Press TV, Patrick Henningen said if the huge turnout of Iranians supporting their government were covered by Western media, their leaders would have to reevaluate their stereotypes of Iran.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/2/11/iranians-mark-47th-islamic-revolution-anniversary-with-nationwide-rallies