War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us

[robertpaulsen]

War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us

They don't give up. After a decade of blood-drenched failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, violent destabilisation of Pakistan and Yemen, the devastation of Lebanon and slaughter in Libya, you might hope the US and its friends had had their fill of invasion and intervention in the Muslim world.

It seems not. For months the evidence has been growing that a US-Israeli stealth war against Iran has already begun, backed by Britain and France. Covert support for armed opposition groups has spread into a campaign of assassinations of Iranian scientists, cyber warfare, attacks on military and missile installations, and the killing of an Iranian general, among others.

The attacks are not directly acknowledged, but accompanied by intelligence-steered nods and winks as the media are fed a stream of hostile tales – the most outlandish so far being an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US – and the western powers ratchet up pressure for yet more sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme.

The British government's decision to take the lead in imposing sanctions on all Iranian banks and pressing for an EU boycott of Iranian oil triggered the trashing of its embassy in Tehran by demonstrators last week and subsequent expulsion of Iranian diplomats from London.

more...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/07/iran-war-already-begun

[DJ13]

1. K, R no work

I guess some here love war?

[DemReadingDU]

2. So would the failure of the Eurozone and TBTF banks lead to war?

Or would an escalation with Iran lead to the failure of the Eurozone and TBTF banks

It feels to me that something is about to burst, and the politicians need a handy excuse to blame for whatever happens.

[robertpaulsen]

3. My thoughts exactly!

The Gordian knot is about to be cut.

[DemReadingDU]

4. and people are merrily Christmas shopping

As my sig line says...
Many people are still living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cuckoo_land