Following
John Bolton’s departure from the White House, Saudi Arabia’s oil facility was
attacked by drones operated by the Houthi rebels of Yemen. Trump and his
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo once again claimed that it was the Iranians who
committed the attack without any supporting evidence. Make no mistake, the neocons are
still in the White House and they want a war. The neocons or the
neoconservatives want the U.S. to promote its form of democracy throughout the
world and want to ensure its interests takes center stage in international
relations through its military power. The neocons made a comeback with the
George W. Bush Jr. administration and their allies in the Middle East including
Israel and Saudi Arabia who orchestrated the September 11th attacks. President
George W. Bush Jr. gave a speech while the U.S. population was still in shock
and named the Axis of
Evil which was North Korea, Iran and Iraq. According to Bush
Jr., Iran was a threat to the U.S. and the world when he said that “Some of these regimes have been pretty
quiet since September 11, but we know their true nature. North Korea is a
regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its
citizens. Iran
aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few
repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom.” The Bush administration was full of
neocons who wanted to launch a war against Iran, but settled with attacking
Iraq instead and we know what was the outcome. Bush’s neocons
included Vice President Dick Cheney, Undersecretary of State John Bolton,
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, former Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle
and several others who were determined to spread their vision of a new world
order. Now Trump has a few prominent neocons in his administration including
Vice President, Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and neocon relic
from the 1980′s during the Iran-Contra affair, Eliot Abrams. The Trump administration is
continuing the same neocon approach by blaming Iran for everything that happens
in the Middle East and threatening military action every chance they get.
Mainstream
media outlet ABC News reported
on September 14th that “Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday blamed Iran for a massive attack on a critical
Saudi oil facility that has put the region on high alert. Houthi rebels in
neighboring Yemen claimed responsibility for the assault, which was conducted
using drones and hit the world’s largest oil processing facility hundreds of
miles from the Saudi-Yemen border.” Without any evidence, Pompeo was quick to blame Iran. “A senior official told ABC News more
than 20 drones were used in the strike and that Iran definitely was behind it.
“It was Iran,” the senior official said. “Houthis are claiming credit for
something they did not do.” One day after, ABC News ran with the
story with the headline ‘Iran
fired cruise missiles in attack on Saudi oil facility: Senior US official’ and
said that “Iran
launched nearly a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory
in the attack on a key Saudi oil facility Saturday, a senior Trump
administration official told ABC News Sunday.” admitting that “It is an
extraordinary charge to make, that Iran used missiles and drones to attack its
neighbor and rival Saudi Arabia, as the region teeters on the edge of high
tensions.” The report mentioned U.S. President Trump who “warned the U.S. was “locked and
loaded” to respond to the attack on Sunday, waiting for verification of who was
responsible and for word from Saudi Arabia on how to proceed.” Washington
is seeking any excuse to launch an attack on Iran, but there is no proof. The
only evidence that Washington has is coming from the Saudis themselves. A
report by Reuters titled ‘Saudi-led coalition: Evidence
indicates Iranian arms used in Saudi attack’ said the
following:
The
Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Monday
that the attack on Saudi Arabian oil plants was carried out with Iranian
weapons and was not launched from Yemen according to preliminary findings.
Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said that an investigation into
Saturday’s strikes, which had been claimed by the Iran-aligned Houthi group,
was still going on to determine the launch location.
“The
preliminary results show that the weapons are Iranian and we are currently
working to determine the location … The terrorist attack did not originate from
Yemen as the Houthi militia claimed,” Malki told a press conference in Riyadh
Did Saudi Arabia give the “smoking gun” evidence
to Washington? What will the Trump and his neocon war mongers do now? Remember
when Iran was blamed for the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman?
The Trump regime was quick to point fingers at Iran. Even Japan and Germany
wanted clear evidence, but Washington was convinced that Iran was behind the
attacks on the Norwegian-owned Front Altar and the Japan’s Kokuka Courageous in
the Gulf of Oman. Pompeo was on ‘Fox
News Sunday’ during the crisis and claimed that there
was “no doubt” that
Iran was responsible for the attacks. Pompeo said that “The intelligence community has lots of
data, lots of evidence. The world will come to see much of it, but the American
people should rest assured we have high confidence with respect to who
conducted these attacks as well as half a dozen other attacks throughout the
world over the past 40 days. But the whole accusation was false. Plus, why would Iran
attack an oil tanker belonging to Japan whose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was
about to meet his Iranian counterparts in Tehran to establish greater economic
cooperation between Japan and Iran to bypass U.S. economic
sanctions? One question remains, how would have Iran benefited from such
an attack in the first place?
Washington’s inner circles which are full of
neocons on both sides of the aisle, both Democrats and Republicans want a war
with Iran regardless of how they get it. They want to make Israel and the Saudis the dominant power in
the Middle East, but a war with Iran means a war with Russia and China. One
other factor for those in Washington, Tel Aviv and Riyadh seem to forget is
what is in their way before they can launch a full scale attack on Iran, and
that is Hezbollah, Syria, the Houthis of Yemen and the Palestinians. As long as
Hezbollah, Syria and the axis of resistance remains strong enough to repel any
aggression by Israel or Washington’s “good” terrorists, no war on Iran would
take place anytime soon.
Washington’s aggressive behavior towards Iran is
about oil since Iran has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. But it
is not only about oil, it’s also about Iran’s reluctance to use the U.S.
dollar. Iran is de-dollarizing out of Washington’s economic deathtrap to end
their dependence on the petrodollar. Iran is also looking east and establishing
multilateral trading blocs with Russia, China and several other countries. The
bottom line is that the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East are losing
control, so war might be their last option to remain in control, if of course,
they come out of World War III victorious, but that will be a long shot.
