The Trump Administration Barrels on a Warpath Towards Iran!
(2020-12-04 at 19:15:55 )

The Trump Administration Barrels on a Warpath Towards Iran!

The assassination of Irans preeminent nuclear scientist is a shocking act of terrorism. And there is strong suspicion that Israeli agents were involved in this murderous act with top-level United States approval. The world is thus staring into the abyss of war.

This year has been bracketed with two audacious assassinations against the Iranian leadership. Earlier in January saw the murder of Major General Qassem Soleimani, Irans most senior military commander, by an United States of American drone while he was traveling in an armed convoy from Iraqs international airport on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Now the year ends with a second assassination after nuclear scientist Mohsen Fahkrizadeh was killed last week when his armed escort was attacked in a ferocious bomb and gun ambush near the Iranian capital, Tehran. Fahkrizadeh, like Soleimani, was a national hero. He was eulogized as the "father of Irans nuclear project".

American President Donald Trump crowed about personally ordering the killing of General Soleimani. While Donald Trump and his administration have been reticent about the murder of Mr. Fahkrizadeh, there are strong reasons to conclude Washington,D.C.s complicity.

Irans President Hassan Rouhani stated this week that Iranian authorities believe Israel was the perpetrator along with agents working on its behalf on the ground. The Israelis have not commented. For such an attack to be mounted against a senior Iranian figure the breach of security would have required sophisticated intelligence conducted at state level.

United States media reports cite anonymous senior Donald Trump administration officials confirming that Israel carried out the assassination of Mr. Fakhrizadeh. It can be further surmised that Israel would have had at least United States approval if not more direct complicity such as from providing the necessary intelligence for executing the hit. Such collusion between the United States and Israel is a routine matter. Nearly a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated over the past decade involving the same modus operandi: United States-Israeli intelligence coordinating with Iran-based triggermen supplied by the American-backed terrorist group known as Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).

This year has also seen a series of sabotage bombings at Irans nuclear industry sites. Again, for such operations to be conducted, and conducted successfully, would require state-level intelligence and resources.

All this is in the context of Donald Trump ratcheting up his "maximum pressure" campaign which has comprised a hybrid of verbal threats of military assault against Iran, a tightening of already-crippling economic sanctions imposed on a nation badly afflicted with the coronavirus pandemic, as well as a United States military force build-up in the Persian Gulf.

Recently, a fleet of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers flew over Israel on the way to Qatar where the biggest United States of American airbase in the Gulf is located, just south of Iran. This week the USS Nimitz, one of the United States of Americas lead strike-force supercarriers, entered the Gulf waters.

Only two weeks ago, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on a more-than-usual jingoistic tour of the Middle East visiting Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Top of his agenda was "deterring" Iran. Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu had previously publicly named Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist, as enemy number one.

Mr. Netanyahu has long been itching for a military offensive against Iran, one involving surgical air strikes on its nuclear sites. There is now the very real danger that Donald Trump in his final fraught weeks in office may oblige the Israelis. The United States of American president has reportedly given Mike Pompeo carte blanche to aid and abet Israeli aggression towards Iran "as long as it does not start World War III". Trouble is, there is no way of containing such an escalation.

What the Donald Trump administration is doing is criminal and insane.

This week saw a particularly incendiary speech by Donald Trump from the White House in which he again reiterated outlandish conspiracy theories whereby he lost the recent presidential election due to alleged "massive fraud" and cheating by Democrat rivals.

Some of Donald Trumps aides are even urging him publicly to suspend the constitution, declare a state of martial law and re-run the election under military supervision. That is tantamount to Donald Trump staging a coup d etat.

There is thus no telling what this megalomaniac president is willing to do in order to thwart the scheduled event of his leaving the White House next month in the expected transition to a new administration under Joe Biden.

At the very least, it seems, Donald Trump is hellbent on damaging relations with Iran so badly as to make it impossible for a Joe Biden administration to return to diplomatic negotiations with Iran and possibly, as Joe Biden as suggested, the United States returning to the international nuclear accord, which Donald Trump abandoned in 2018.

Previously, Donald Trump has threatened Iran with annihilation.

We are dealing with an United States of American president who has no scruples or moral compass.

In his outrageously offended ego over electoral loss and perceived foul play by his domestic enemies, Donald Trump is liable to go ballistic with recrimination.

In the next four weeks, starting a war with Iran is therefore a most dangerous prospect. Criminal and insane bracket this year, along with assassinations.

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