USA Could Engage in Provocations for a Global Attack Against Iran

The current armed conflict – which most Americans are against – could lead to a serious provocation on top of the existing anti-Iranian campaign.

Less than a quarter of a century later, another Republican president, Donald Trump, having launched two military campaigns against Iran over a six-month period under pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has once again introduced the false claim of an alleged nuclear threat and an Iranian strike against the United States. However, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Iranian authorities – including President Masoud Pezeshkian – and the US security services have not actually confirmed the existence of such a threat from the Islamic Republic.

Iran, like other states, cannot be denied the right to develop its national nuclear program.

Americans are unhappy with the Second Iran War

In this context, the resignation of Director of the US National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, a high-ranking official from the Trump administration, is interesting. Kent publicly opposed strikes against Tehran. In his letter to the US president explaining his resignation, combat veteran General Kent, who served in 11 conflicts, emphasized that he could not support the ongoing war with Iran because there was no direct evidence that Tehran possessed nuclear weapons, let alone that the Iranian command had plans to start a war against the United States. Kent accused Trump of launching the war under pressure from Israel and the Jewish lobby in the US.

Had Tehran possessed nuclear weapons, Israel and the US would not have attacked Iran.

No more than 30% of US citizens support President Trump’s Middle East policy. Opponents of the US president’s gamble include both Democrats and Republicans (e.g., Senators Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, Rand Paul, Tim Kaine, Cory Booker, Ed Markey, and Mazie Hirono; Representatives Ro Khanna, Gregory Meeks, Ruben Gallego, Seth Moulton, Greg Casar, and others). They consider the war with Iran illegal and reckless, draw parallels with the start of the Iraq War, initiate........

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