One hears talk amongst various people on the Right in the US that there is a sort of ‘awakening’ going on, that people’s eyes are opening to the fraud of the Deep State. We may soon get a chance to test that hypothesis vis-à-vis Iran.
An article making the rounds that ran in the New York Post and elsewhere claims that Iran’s government is targeting Donald Trump for assassination (we saw it referenced at Newsmax and just recently here at The Hayride; its content also got a mention on American Ground Radio on 27 Aug.). This sort of inflammatory claim is exactly what the States were force-fed for months leading up to the Iraq War in 2003. 20+ years ago it was a Pakistani venture-capitalist gadfly named Mansoor Ijaz who was spewing the pro-war propaganda. He made himself a permanent fixture on nightly cable news shows like Greta Van Susteren’s on Fox News, dressed in a hooded cloak while standing against a building on a dark, deserted street so none of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen would know where to find him (so we were made to believe, anyway), the better to convince us what a brave, intrepid fellow he was (supposedly he was in some Middle Eastern city or another, but just as likely on a Hollywood soundstage; US military psy-ops via TV/film are nothing new).
While LARPing as a cloak-and-dagger spy, he was gravely assuring everyone that Saddam was a threat to the region and the world because of his WMD, etc. Mr Ijaz’s interviews and essays were long on ‘facts’ like this one:
Biological weapons. Fox News’ embedded reporter, Rick Leventhal, downloaded incredible video of what may be the first of Saddam’s bioweapons labs on wheels. He reported that in a U-Haul-sized truck disguised as a radar facility for mobile surface-to-air missiles, a false panel revealed electronic pulleys, winches, storage bins, and refrigerators which could easily be used to store biological-weapons stashes (refrigeration being the key identifier because you certainly don’t need refrigerators to freeze the rocket launcher). Tests will determine definitively whether there are any biological residues or not.
The tests didn’t pan out. Saddam wasn’t nearly the threat he was built up to be by Mr Ijaz and other mouthpieces of the military-industrial complex (MIC). In spite of that, neither he nor anyone else involved in the Iraq disaster (in which the US are still involved 21 years later) was held accountable in any meaningful way. Mr Ijaz in fact went on to embarrass himself even further by meddling in Pakistan’s internal politics several years after helping launch the Iraq War.
In 2024 Iran has replaced Iraq as the country in the War Party’s crosshairs, and Mr Ijaz has been replaced by another wealthy analyst, the Lebanese Dr Walid Phares, the author of the article mentioned at the outset who is painting lurid word-pictures about Iranian assassination plots and WMD plans. The latter has connections that should make us question his reliability. The first is his open admission to ties to the MIC. From his own web site:
Dr Phares was an advisory board member of the Task Force on Future Terrorism of the US Department of Homeland Security (2005-2007) and a member of the NSC advisory task force on Nuclear Terrorism (2006-2007) Dr Phares has also lectured to and advised the US Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security, as well as regional commands such as CENTCOM, SOUTHCOM, AFRICOM, on academic research on Terrorism. He has served as an expert on Terrorism with the US and European Governments and briefed law enforcement agencies, including INTERPOL since 2003.
The second is similar: his decade-long work for a think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (also openly listed on the same page linked just above), which is very vocal in its support of an interventionist US foreign policy. The Foundation also has a strong pro-Israeli, anti-Iranian stance, which likewise calls into question the objectivity of Dr Phares’s reporting.
It is necessary to place all of this in its proper context: the long-term plans of the DC Elite to maintain the US as the world’s unquestioned imperialistic hegemon at any cost, including war. General Wesley Clark brought their plans out into the open shortly after the Iraq War began in 2003:
A former commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, Clark claims he met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who told him the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq first before taking action against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. The general’s allegations surface in a new book, The Clark Critique, excerpts from which appear in the latest edition of the US magazine Newsweek. Clark says after the 11 September 2001 attacks, many Bush administration officials seemed determined to move against Iraq, invoking the idea of state sponsorship of terrorism, “even though there was no evidence of Iraqi sponsorship of 9/11 whatsoever”. Ousting Saddam Hussein promised concrete, visible action, the general writes, dismissing it as a “Cold War approach”. Clark criticises the plan to attack the seven states, saying it targeted the wrong countries, ignored the “real sources of terrorists”, and failed to achieve “the greater force of international law” that would bring wider global support.
The preoccupation with Iran, the attempt to build her up as a great threat to and adversary of the States, as a problem that can only be resolved by war, appears to be a continuation of the MIC’s and other Deep State Elites’ plan to keep the Middle East and other regions of the world firmly under US control. Similar projects are underway elsewhere, such as southeast Asia.
Will the citizens of the States shamelessly fall for this charade once again? We hope they will not. Their response to warmongering in Iran will be a test of whether there is a true awakening happening or not. If they are serious about deprogramming themselves, they should seek out views of Iran that are not mediated through biased/controlled media sources and personalities. The European Conservative just published an interview with the exiled Queen of Iran that is worth a look. The Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery in California also has a calendar full of information about the Christian history and saints of Persia/Iran.
Interestingly, a saint celebrated on 27 August is also perfect for this situation – St Phanourius. He was a martyr who was rediscovered many years after the time of his death. His relevance lies in these lines: ‘The saint’s name sounds similar to the Greek verb “phanerono,” which means “to reveal” or “to disclose.” For this reason, people pray to Saint Phanourius to help them find lost objects.’ Many people in the States have indeed lost something essential, their discernment, their ability to differentiate between what is true and what is false. St Phanourius will help them to recover that virtue if they ask him.
Is Iran full of nonviolent choirboys these days? Probably not. But that is no excuse for the US to allow themselves to be hornswoggled by the Elite into supporting another disastrous war in the Middle East that will needlessly shatter the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Lots of other countries in the world are finding ways to peacefully cooperate with one another in mutually beneficial ways. The US need to give it a try in Iraq, Iran, and in many other places around the world before resorting to (or continuing with) destructive hot wars.