By Walt Zlotow
President Trump and his Secretary of Criminal War, Pete Hegseth, are completely flummoxed by Iran’s robust defense against Trump’s deranged attack. It’s so robust it has turned Trump’s planned three day victory into endless defeat. US bases in the Gulf States are being decimated. Israel is taking a ferocious pummeling night and day. The US, Israel, and the Gulf States are running out of interceptors to stop Iran’s seemingly endless stockpile of offensive missiles. Iran has choked off Middle East oil and other critical resources which will crash the world economy, all due to Trump’s failed folly.
Trump has no path to victory and no face saving exit from his inevitable defeat.
To understand Iran’s strategy and determination, one must go back 73 years to Operation Ajax, America’s first regime change operation, which toppled the legitimate Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 to retain British, US control of Iranian oil. Once deposed, the US installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to serve US interests in perpetuity. For the Iranian people it meant the Shah’s brutal rule enabled by the US military and CIA which killed upwards of 10,000 anti Shah dissidents.
After twenty-six years of brutal rule the Iranian people forced the Shah to flee in February 1979, allowing the transition from monarchy to an Islamic Republic.
Had President Carter not allowed America’s three decade puppet ruler to seek refuge in the US, there would likely never been the November 4, 1979 takeover of the US embassy by 500 students resulting in taking 66 US hostages for 444 days.
Shortly thereafter the new government made 3 reasonable demands of the US, that if granted, would likely have promptly returned the hostages.
Most important was return of the Shah to face justice in Iran. Second, a US apology for the ’53 US coup that overturned Mosaddegh and installed the Shah’s brutal rule. Third, return of the $20 billion the Shah stole and the US seized after the revolution.
Besides quick return of the 66 hostages, there would have been no failed April 1980 rescue mission that killed 8 service members.
But the hard liners in the Carter administration led by National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski would have none of that, setting off 46 years of endless US machinations in behest of every US administration and Israel to complete the second Iranian regime change in 73 years.
But this time Iran was ready for America, the most duplicitous, violent nation on earth that could never be negotiated with or appeased. They have prepared for decades and responded to the Trump, Netanyahu criminal invasion with astonishing effectiveness totally upending regime change 2.0, shredding US military bases in the region, bringing unimagined devastation to Israel, and likely pushing the world into economic decline.
Everything coming from the deceiving, lying; indeed, delusional mouths of Trump and Hegseth must be ignored to understand the unfolding catastrophe they have marched us into. Anyone interested in where we are today need go back to Operation Ajax in 1953 to see how this 73-year-long nightmare began. It may be 73 days, 73 weeks, even 73 months till the horrendous aftereffects of their criminality will be consigned to history along with Trump and Hegseth’s ignominy.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn
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Reports are circulating that Netanyahu may have been killed in an Iranian attack.
Nothing is confirmed by official sources.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
But the jokes have already started — “Netanyahu being killed would leave a significant power vacuum in the US.”
Rofl, Steve…
But what becomes of us, now that we dont have foreigners doing OUR thinking for us??
paul, Albo could do worse than ask Xi.
I’ll pay that one, Steve.
Not in cash though. In applause.
Roswell, how about a beer next time I’m in Albury?
🙂
Thanks Steve, that’s a gem.
Can any one tell me where the USA’s foreign policy has succeeded and improved the world?
Not having a shot at you, jonangel, but presumably you’re using a computer or a smartphone to post to The AIMN, thus, you have access to the internet, ergo, to Google, ergo, to ask that very question and get multiple examples of successful USA foreign initiatives in milliseconds.
DYOR is a good starting point for most things these days for anyone with access to the web.
Nice one, Steve.
Jonangel, I’m thinking, thinking….. mmmmmmmmm, oh dear, my brain is not working to well.
And yes, Canguro, I did ask Google that sort of question a while back and my computer just shut down for a while.
I know the answer to my question. I just wished to see whether there were alternate views.
You fellas are being a little quaint ….. the USA (Undemocratic States of Apartheid)have been involved in 80+ regime changes since 1945, including the Dismissal of the democratically elected Australian Whitlam LABOR government for talking about seeking Australian control of the Pine Gap spy station et al.
Never let it be said that ”America is a faithful ally”.
I think this is disgusting. What do you think?
https://youtu.be/KcXYpGhg-aQ?si=P9kVRwIs4pOkoriQ
@ Denis
I agree with you, whether you mean Albanese’s shocking act, or what NewsCorp is able to get away with, or both.
Labor under Albanese
Hello, darkness, my old friend
We’ve come to hide the truth again
Because a waste softly creeping
Left its seeds while you were sleeping
And the auditor doesn’t need to see
Still remains
Within Labor’s sound of silence
Those specious claims we stonewalled
Narrow feats of truth forestalled
‘Neath the halo of a desklamp
We turned the audit to the cold and damp
When our eyes were stabbed by the light of inquiry
That split the night
And touched Labor’s sound of silence
And in the naked light we saw
Hundreds of thousands, maybe more
People killing without reasoning
People dying without speaking
People making losses that defence never shares
No one cares
So don’t disturb Labor’s sound of silence
“Fools” said we, “You do not know
Our defence like a cancer grows
Hear our words that we might fleece you
Take our arms and our wedgetail too
But your words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people soured and frayed
To the neon plods they’d made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words it was forming
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets
Are written in a crossbench caucus
And the crowd’s raucus
Not whispered in Labor’s sound of silence
Thommo, it seems that cultural references are all the rage lately.
I like it.
A lot.
Steve, thanks.
Originally, I used it to comment on Labor going quiet on gambling. It turned out to be easy to transform it to fit going quiet on defence spending.
What foreign policy, when they have no stratgey? According to good US analysis this is a symptom of fossil fueled white Christian Evangelical nationalism using Israel & Judaism (End Times & The Rapture), with Netanyahu’s complicty, as an excuse to bomb Iran.
Similar to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that resonates ie. fossil fuels and white Christian nationalism vs the EU, regulatory constraints, rule,of law and liberal democracy; three day/week special operation now four years…..
These geo-strategic geniuses have now p*ssed off Gulf States and some Saudi elites predict September, at earliest to get out this quagmire…..
Would be interesting to see Saudi go the amateur envoy, investor and grifter linked to all three amigos Netanyahu, Trump and Putin i.e. divest their $2 billion from Kushner’s fund….
73 years old US perfidy on Iran? Yes, definitely. How many for Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Chile, …. how many more? Australia?
jonangel: alternate views might involve “alternate facts”. 🙂
I’d suggest the world lives on “alternate facts”, the truth often hurts.