After decades of US-backed regime-change wars across the Middle East, Iran now stands alone. A new conflict would deepen regional instability and test Australia’s willingness to say no.

Iran is the last standing of the nations in seven middle eastern states listed by the Pentagon in 1997 for destabilisation or overthrow. Having devastated Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, and Syria, only Iran eludes the United States militarists.

A US/Israeli aggressive war against Iran could begin this month. If Israel has its way, the Ayatollah’s government will be over within days.

For decades, Benjamin Netanyahu pressed successive US presidents to eliminate Iran, Israel’s last rival for power in the region. George W Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ gave expression, in effect, to the Zionist plan for Greater Israel. President Biden’s promise in October 2023 that the US would “stand with Israel” was nothing new: the special US/Israel relationship began in 1948, when President Truman became the first world leader to recognise the Jewish state, moments after its creation.

With Netanyahu as Prime Minister, Israel consistently gets its way with the US Congress and with presidents, sooner or later. Netanyahu has had seven meetings in Washington with President Trump since his second inauguration. The result has been one short war on Iran, and anther to come, which will likely be longer. The chance of war against Iran is 90 per cent, unnamed US military now tell the media.

The accumulation of US military force in the region is the largest since the US – with its coalition partners Australia and Poland –........

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