The United States are preparing
to organise the « Greater Middle East » without their troops. They will
probably capitalise on the errors committed over the last five years by Iran in
order to create a Judeo-Sunni military alliance, dubbed the « Arab NATO » by
the Press, who will be sent to fight the Shiites.
While
the Pentagon is withdrawing from the « Greater Middle East » to invest in the «
Caribbean Basin », the White House is getting ready to reorganise its allies in
the region. To this aim, a « Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and
Security in the Middle East » will be held in Warsaw on the 14 and 15 February.
All the allies of the USA will be participating, but not their partners :
neither Russia, nor China.
On 10 January, during a
conference at the American University of Cairo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
set the aims of the Ministerial :
to oppose the « Iranian regime
» and its representatives » ;
to set up a strategic
Judeo-Sunni Alliance against Chiite Iran [1].
to oppose the « Iranian regime
» and its representatives » ; to set up a strategic
Judeo-Sunni Alliance against Chiite Iran [1].
The Return of Elliott Abrams
We can only be saddened at
the confessionalisation of US foreign policy. It must be connected with the
return of Elliott Abrams [2] to the State Department after 30 years of
absence. This Trotskyite, rallied in 1980 to Republican President Reagan, is
one of the founders of the neoconservative movement. He is also one of the
initiators of theopolitics, the school of thought which allies Zionist Jews and
Christians, according to which the Earth will know peace only when it has a
world government based in Jerusalem [3].
Contrary
to a popular idea, the neoconservatives are not the enemies of Iran, and not
the friends either. They have always considered that it was necessary to
maintain a balance between Arabs and Persians. This was why Elliott Abrams
participated in the « Iran-Contras operation », which notably consisted of
selling Israëli weapons via Cheik Hassan Rohani (currently the Iranian
President) to Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani (who consequently became the richest
man in his country) in order to resist the Iraqi attack (which was also
commanded by Washington). This operation was carried out without the knowledge
of Congress, then condemned, and later amnestied by President Bush Sr.
During
this period, Abrams was implicated in several massacres, in Guatemala, El
Salvador and Nicaragua.
The Trotskyites from the
magazine of the American Jewish Committee, Commentary, who
rallied, like him, to Reagan, intended both to combat the USSR in order to
pursue Leon Trotsky’s struggle against Joseph Stalin, and at the same time to
realise a world-wide coup d’état, if this idea even has any meaning. Elliott
Abrams thus participated in the creation of the US Institute of Peace (which
used the humanitarian platform to promote imperialism) and the National
Endowment for Democracy (which orchestrated the colour revolutions) of which he
is still one of the directors. This is how we should understand the politics,
as a religious justification of a world-wide power grab.
The founding Congress of the
politics was financed by the Izmaïlovskaya, a Russian criminal organisation of
which, according to the Spanish Judiciary, Michael Cherney, Oleg Deripaska and
Iskander Makhmudov were members at the time [4].
Under the presidency of Bush
Jr., Abrams discreetly returned to the White House with Liz Cheney (the
daughter of Vice-President Cheney). At the National Security Council, he
supervised the coup d’état against the President of Venezuela, Hugo
Chávez [5]. Acting a little late, he opposed the
imbalance created by Washington which, by eliminating both the Taliban and
President Saddam Hussein, enabled Teheran to impose itself regionally. He
worked for the « Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group », and was then tasked
with the « (Global Democracy Strategy » [6]. He was the main expert for National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice during the Israëli war against Lebanon in
2006.
The Warsaw Conference
The «
Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East » will
probably be co-presided by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and by the Vice-President
of the Polish government, Beata Szydło, who has no competence in the matter.
Already,
considering that the states implicated in the war against Syria will be awarded
a privileged status, Israël is claiming responsibility for a number of
anti-Syrian operations which it had so far refused to mention. Army Chief of
Staff General Gadi Eisenkot has declared that the Hebrew state supported the
jihadists from the beginning of the events, supplied them with a quantity of
weapons, and had supported them militarily by bombing Syrian forces. All sorts
of things that we have been revealing for the last eight years, and which are
now official.
Worried
about the outcome of the Warsaw meeting, Moscow has sent a high-level
delegation to Tel-Aviv in order to probe Israëli public opinion.
The Iranian errors
It is
important to keep in mind the fact that the United States has never fought Iran
in general, but has always chosen its governors. Thus, in 1941, the US helped
the British to overthrow Reza Shah in order to install Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
It was the US who, in 1953, forced the Shah to separate from nationalist
Mohammad Mossadegh in order to impose Nazi General Fazlollah Zahedi. It was the
US who, in 1979, forced the Shah to retire, and organised the return of Ayatollah
Rouhollah Khomeini. Etc.
Contemporary Iran is
imprisoned in its own contradictions, first of all the discrepancies between
its public declarations and reality. The Islamic Republic unceasingly presents
Israël and Saudi Arabia as its absolute enemies. However, the facts contradict
the rhetoric from Teheran as much as that from Tel-Aviv and Riyadh. For
example, the three countries fought together, in 1992-1995, alongside NATO and
the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Or again, the company EAPC, which currently
manages the Eliat-Ashkelon pipe-line, is the joint property of Iran and
Israël [7].
Secondly, even though they
stand together against foreigners, the governors of Iran are extremely divided
between the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), the President of the
Republic (Cheikh Hassan Rohani), and the chief of the opposition (ex-President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has been under house arrest for a year, and whose main
collaborators were imprisoned after a series of secret trials [8].
At the end of Ahmadinejad’s
second mandate, President Barack Obama attended secret negotiations in Oman
with the Rafsanjani-Rohani team. The principle for the nuclear agreement was
then approved. Ayatollah Khamenei side-lined the candidature of Ahmadinejad for
the Presidential election by using Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, and favoured the
election of Cheikh Rohani, probably ignoring certain aspects of the agreement
he had concluded with Obama. Cheikh Rohani was betting on his secret agreement
with the US Democrats. He anticipated the cancellation of US sanctions, and
promised a better life for his electors. Once he was elected, he dismantled the
system that had enabled Iran to avoid the sanctions, then pretended to
negotiate in Switzerland with the major powers the agreement which already been
recorded with the USA alone. However, the signature of the 5+1 agreement was
not followed by the lifting of sanctions. Since the Iranian economy could no
longer avoid them, it collapsed. When Donald Trump entered the White House, he
scrapped the agreement with Iran, plunging the Rohani team into panic. Rohani
had committed the error of believing that the President would quickly be
removed and that the Democrats would shortly be back in power. Iran rejected
Donald Trump’s offer of negotiation and is today economically strangled.
Cheikh
Hassan Rohani, who campaigned in 2013 by repeating ceaselessly that his country
should no longer spend one rial to liberate Palestine and support Hezbollah and
Syria, has undertaken nothing with his allies since his election.
Progressively, the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution have stopped defending
Syria and have only offered their support to Damascus in order to come to the
help of the Chiite minority. For almost two years, Teheran has sent no
ambassador to Damascus. It was only in 2018 that Iran sent senior civil
servants of its government to Syria. They signed economic agreements which had
been drawn up five years ago and which no longer correspond to the needs of the
Syrian people.
Seeking
to convince Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to withdraw the Guardians of the Islamic
Revolution from Syria, President Cheikh Hassan Rohani reached out to Turkey
(with whom his friends maintained excellent relations) and to Russia. And yet
Cheikh Rohani had already negotiated with the United States and Austria for the
delivery of Iranian oil instead of Russian hydrocarbons to the Europeans. In
any case, the three countries have effectively expressed their points of view.
However, the last meeting in Teheran with Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan was a failure. It was immediately followed by a meeting between
Russia and Turkey where their differences were settled without the Iranians.
Simultaneously,
the economic and financial collapse of Iran does not allow the Supreme Leader
to support Iran’s militia in Iraq and Hezbollah, which is no longer able to pay
wages to its combatants. Only 60 % of their salaries were paid in January.
For
several months, Israël has been bombing Iranian targets in Syria without the
protection of the Russian defence. Over the last few weeks, Moscow has offered
Damascus S-300 missiles which will enable Syria to handle its own anti-air
defence. However, the Israëli bombing of the Iranians has continued. At the end
of January, according to the Turkish Press agency Anadolu, two units of the
Syrian Army were fighting one another. The first was supervised by Russian
officers, the second by Iranians.
The Warsaw conference arrives at a time
when US Democrats have regained the majority in the House of Representatives,
but nonetheless, they will not save Cheikh Rohani. It is probable that his
country will pay a hard price for its political incoherence.
—
[1] “Mike
Pompeo’s Remarks at the American University in Cairo”, by Mike
Pompeo, Voltaire Network, 10 January 2019.
[2] « Elliott
Abrams, le “gladiateur” converti à la “théopolitique” », par
Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 14 février 2005.
[3] « Sommet
historique pour sceller l’Alliance des guerriers de Dieu », Réseau Voltaire, 17 octobre 2003.
[4] A Commission from the French Senate is
currently working to determine whether the representative for the Elysée,
Alexandre Benalla, was or was not being paid by Iskander Makhmudov while he was
working alongside President Emmanuel Macron. At this point, only Makhmudov’s
payments to Vincent Crasse have been verified.
[5] « Opération
manquée au Venezuela », par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 18 mai 2002.
[6] Coming soon : Before Our Very Eyes, Fake Wars and Big Lies,
Thierry Meyssan, Progressive Press, 2019.
[7] “Israel
and Iran collaborate to exploit the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline”,
Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 9
January 2018.
[8] “Former
President Ahmadinejad’s vice president: Sentenced to 15 years in jail following
a secret trial”, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 30 March 2018.
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