Dispatch #165 White Lesbian Age 73 Considers Two Rogue Nuclear-Armed Countries – US & Israel -- Launching Unprovoked Attacks on a Country without Nuclear Weapons -- Iran
- Kathleen A. Maloy
- Jun 30
- 5 min read
June 30th 2025 Day 160 White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime
1103 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights
632 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza
Western/European leaders silently stand by as Israel, the dangerous rogue nation created and armed by the US, rampages across the Middle East – Relentlessly conducting genocide in Gaza; Beginning brutal ethnic cleansing in the West Bank; Indiscriminately bombing Lebanon and Syria; Asserting Israel’s right to confiscate territory from Lebanon and Syria; Rewriting unilaterally the boundaries of countries in the Middle East.
On June 13th, unprovoked and confident in its US-protected ability to violate international law at will, Israel carried out widespread assassinations and indiscriminate bombing across Iran. Iran responded with missiles and the two countries traded attacks for 12 days. The Trump administration weighed in with one round of bunker busting bombs and then demanded a cease-fire. Zionist-propaganda-purveyor The New York Times has the gall to report on the “Israel-Iran War” thereby deliberately obfuscating Israel’s unprovoked, brutal and illegal attack on Iran.
European leaders gave approval to this obvious and egregious violation of international law -- France’s President Macron even proclaimed “Israel is doing dirty work for the rest of us.” Neither Israel nor the US could offer any evidence justifying their unprovoked attack on Iran. In fact, US and Iran were in diplomatic negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program when Israel attacked. Can European leaders be that unconcerned about such hypocrisy and double standards!? Knowledge about the history of US imperialism and adventurism in the Middle East reveals the foundation for such brazen hypocrisy.
The Iraq play book is back for Israel's attack on Iran. But it fools no one. We cannot let the world be dragged into another war, propped up by false pretenses and selective enforcement. | Middle East Eye 16 June 2025.
The world has seen this playbook before. A narrative of existential threat. A media chorus that refuses to question. Politicians beating the drums of war, invoking security to justify aggression. It was Iraq then. It’s Iran now. And yet, in the background, one glaring fact goes unspoken: Israel already has nuclear weapons, and no one is holding it accountable.
Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allows international inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It is under constant surveillance and has faced crushing sanctions for even the possibility of nuclear capability. Israel, on the other hand, is not a signatory to the NPT. It has never permitted IAEA inspections of its nuclear facilities. And yet, it is widely believed to possess approximately 90 nuclear warheads.
Why is a nuclear power that is actively on trial for genocide not the focus of urgent global concern? Why are we more afraid of a hypothetical Iranian bomb than an actual Israeli arsenal? The hypocrisy is staggering. And it is not lost on the rest of the world. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/iraq-war-playbook-back-israel-attack-iran-no-one-fooled
Just in case Middle East Eye might seem a questionable source: As Israel Targets Iran’s Nuclear Program, It Has a Secret One of Its Own. Since shortly after it was founded in 1948, Israel has been intent on building a nuclear program to ensure its survival. | The New York Times 17 June 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/middleeast/israel-nuclear-weapons.html
Fact Sheet: Israel's Nuclear Inventory | Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. June 2025. https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-israels-nuclear-arsenal/
Israel’s history of preemptive strikes. For decades, Israel has tested the limits of international law by bombing its enemies when it says it feels threatened.| Israel-Iran conflict | Al Jazeera 29 June 2025 www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/6/29/israels-history-of-preemptive-strikes
How Biden Is to Blame for Israel and the U.S.’s 12-Day War Against Iran. Biden’s failure to reenter Obama’s nuclear deal helped create the risk for a potentially catastrophic U.S. war against Iran. | The Intercept 29 June 2025. This article reports how Biden and his advisors squandered a certain opportunity at the start of his administration to reinstate Obama’s historic nuclear deal with Iran that Trump reneged on in 2018. https://theintercept.com/2025/06/29/biden-iran-nuclear-deal-israel/
History of US-Iran relations: From the 1953 regime change to Trump strikes | Al Jazeera 23 June 2025. REQUIRED READING!! This article reports the long history of US’s belligerent attacks on Iran that began with a 1953 coup overthrowing a democratically elected Prime Minister.
1951-1953 US-backed coup and reinstallation of the shah: Tensions initially began brewing in 1951 over the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh’s efforts to nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP) angering the British. The US’s Central Intelligence Agency supported the United Kingdom in engineering a coup and backing once-deposed monarch, Pahlavi, back into power as Shah.
1953-1979 The Shah’s regime was unpopular in Iran, especially due to SAVAK, Iran’s CIA-created and trained intelligence and security agency that repressed political opponents, dissidents and leftists with torture and violence. US remained staunch supporter of the Shah and supported the start of Iran’s nuclear program..
1979- 1988 After 1979 Islamic Revolution, US cut ties with Iran and sponsored Iraq’s war with Iran wherein Iraq used chemical weapons. This devastating war lasted almost 10 years resulting in massive casualties and severe economic damage for both countries.
1988-present US Presidents orchestrate increasingly severe international sanctions against Iran that degraded Iranian civil society and encouraged/enabled Islamic regime.
Between Bombs and the Regime, Iranians Face a Moral Paralysis | The New York Times 28 June 2025. This powerful essay about Iranian civil society movements working to change their government is revealing and moving. The author Morteza Dehghani begins with:
I, like so many other Iranians, am caught in the devastating paradox of this moment: witnessing a hated internal oppressor — a regime under which people can be killed because of what they wear or what they believe — being attacked by a reviled external aggressor, a state engaged in a campaign of devastating and indiscriminate violence against the population of Gaza.
Now, as the fragile cease-fire between Iran and Israel holds, Iranians are crushed by the emotional weight of pondering the future of their country. Many, like me, have been gripped by a moral paralysis: a schadenfreude at the death of a brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander curdling into grief for the innocent lives lost and rage that a hostile foreign power would terrorize millions and kill hundreds of people in Iran to achieve its aim. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/opinion/iran-israel-war-islamic-republic.html
How much have US wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan cost? More than 20 years of US wars have directly killed an estimated 940,000 people and cost the US $5.8 trillion. | Al Jazeera 24 June 2025. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/24/how-much-have-us-wars-in-the-middle-east-and-afghanistan-cost
Just in case Al Jazeera might seem an unreliable source, go to The Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Their Costs of War website is wide-ranging, comprehensive, mind-numbing, and truly heartbreaking. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/about
U.S. BUDGETARY COSTS The vast economic impact of the U.S. post-9/11 wars goes beyond the Pentagon's "Overseas Contingency Operations" (War) budget. This chart and the attached paper estimate the more comprehensive budgetary costs of the wars that equal at least $8 Trillion. Posted on September 1, 2021. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/BudgetaryCosts
How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health. In post-9/11 war zones, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, the total death toll in these war zones could be at least 4.5-4.7 million. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths
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