Dispatch #150 White Lesbian Age 72 Considers How 70+ Years of US Foreign Policy Adventurism in Iran Poisoned US-Iran Relations and Now Provides Warmongering Stratagem for Netanyahu
- Kathleen A. Maloy
- Sep 6, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 23
September 7th 2024 1325 Days Since Inauguration of First Woman Vice-President
59 Days Until 2024 Presidential Elections 11/5/2024
806 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights
337 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Assault on Palestinians in Gaza
Israel and Iran are long-standing hostile rivals in the Middle East. Since Israel began its campaign of genocide in Gaza (now being extended to the West Bank), Netanyahu’s armed belligerence toward Iran has intentionally created the catalytic conditions for war between Israel/US and Iran.
Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S. Into War With Iran. Netanyahu’s recklessness was fostered by blind U.S. support, but Israel is the one pushing its war with Iran out of the shadows. https://theintercept.com/2024/04/14/israel-iran-drag-us-war-netanyahu-biden/
Butcher of Gaza Netanyahu Repeatedly Lied to Congress about Iraqi “Nukes,” and now Wants US War on Iran https://www.juancole.com/2024/07/netanyahu-repeatedly-congress.html
Why Israel-Iran War Is a Lifeline for Netanyahu. An isolated leader who faced widespread criticism a week ago now has the backing of the West and has deflected global attention from Gaza. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/15/israel-iran-war-netanyahu-gaza-lifeline-isolation/
Netanyahu now demands, as a new condition for a ceasefire agreement, that Israel keep military control of the 8.5 mile border between Gaza and Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor. Israel and Egypt established a peace treaty with 1979 Camp David Accords that included a stipulation that the Philadelphi Corridor be a demilitarized zone under the control of Egypt. Despite Egypt’s position that this new demand threatens the peace treaty, Netanyahu declares that the axis-of-evil Iran needs the Corridor to funnel arms to Hamas.
What is the Philadelphi corridor, and why is it so important to Israel? Netanyahu has made control of the strip between Gaza and Egypt a condition in ceasefire negotiations. www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/03/what-is-the-philadelphi-corridor-israel-gaza-egypt-netanyahu
Why’s Netanyahu so insistent that Israel control the Gaza-Egypt crossing? |Al Jazeera | 5 September 2024 On Monday, Netanyahu doubled down: “The axis of evil needs the Philadelphi Corridor, and for that reason, we must control it. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/why-is-netanyahu-so-insistent-on-israel-staying-in-philadelphi-corridor
In apparent swipe at hostage deal protests, PM says Hamas aiming to sow discord | Lazar Berman |Times of Israel | 8 September 2024
“We are surrounded by a murderous ideology led by Iran’s axis of evil,” says Netanyahu as he sent his condolences to the families of the three Israelis killed in a shooting terror attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan.
Defeating Hamas is ‘prerequisite to defeat the axis of evil’: Netanyahu | Al Jazeera | 8 August 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_C-inBSz0
Netanyahu knows very well that calling out the so-called axis-of-evil-member Iran preserves and gains iron-clad support from hawkish members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. In his January 2002 State of the Union address, President George W Bush described Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an axis of evil and wielded this phrase to declare the US war on terror. Twenty-two years later this trope remains a cornerstone of US foreign policy. The pivotal historical context for Netanyahu’s axis-of-evil stratagem involves the more than 70 years of US foreign policy adventurism in Iran.
How the CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy in Four Days | NPR | January 31, 2019
On August 19th 1953, the CIA and MI6 successfully engineered a coup overthrowing the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mossadegh. Mohammad Mossadegh was a beloved figure in Iran. Elected in 1951, Mossadegh introduced a range of social and economic policies beneficial to Iranians, including the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry that had been controlled by Great Britain for decades. The US responded to Britain’s request to overthrow Mossadegh and forever changed its relationship with Iran. www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
“It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran. Ervand Abrahamian, Iranian historian and author of Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat and The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. (July 2021 Cambridge University Press) www.democracynow.org/2023/8/23/ervand_abrahamian_iran_coup_1953_anniversary
The history of US-Iran relations: A timeline |The World |January 3, 2020 | Indra Ekmanis and The World staff. https://theworld.org/stories/2020/01/03/history-us-and-iran-relations-timeline
Notable highlights from this document include these actions by US:
1953 coup of democratically elected PM
1954 Installation of Shah of Iran
1954-1979 25 years of economic and military support to the Shah’s regime; helped establish Iran’s brutal secret police SAVAK that killed, tortured, and imprisoned thousands of dissidents; US CIA and Israel Mossad trained SAVAK; US ignored domestic unrest in Iran in favor of keeping Shah’s Iran as stalwart ally
1979 Imposition of crushing sanctions after Iranian revolution overthrew the Shah are still in place 45 years later
1980 Prompted Iran/Iraq War by giving green light to Iraq’s Sadam Hussein so that two countries would cancel out each other’s power in the Middle East
1980-1988 During Iran-Iraq War overlooked Iraq’s widespread use of chemical weapons against Iran; this war was catastrophic for both countries
July 1988 US mistakenly shoots down Iranian domestic flight killing 290
Stephen Kinzer on US-Iranian Relations, the 1953 CIA Coup in Iran and the Roots of Middle East Terror www.democracynow.org/2008/3/3/stephen_kinzer_on_the_us_iranian
U.S. Involvement In The 1980s Iran-Iraq War: America’s Haphazard Extension Of Gulf Insecurity - The Yale Review Of International Studie https://yris.yira.org/column/u-s-involvement-in-the-1980s-iran-iraq-war-americas-haphazard-extension-of-gulf-insecurity/
Iran and Iraq Fought a War for 8 Years, Killed Millions and Achieved Nothing.
The scale of the Iran–Iraq War was dizzying: eight years of World War II–style armor, artillery, and infantry battles accentuated by chemical weapons attacks, burning cities, and blazing oil tankers. The casualties from this war are estimated at anywhere between one million and two million. https://www.historynet.com/the-iran-iraq-war-a-bloody-stalemate/
Currently, the US has at least 30 military facilities and at least 30,000 military personnel in the Middle East.
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