You want Iran to go nuclear? Just carry on as you are.
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“This is the way you behave if you are in charge of a drug cartel, not a global power,” says David Hearst in a blistering analaysis of Donald Trump’s decision to greenlight Israel’s attacks on Iran.
As with Saddam in the 1980s, Netanyahu is backed by the west, believing they can destroy the regime in Tehran.
“Like Saddam in 1980 or Bush in 2003, Netanyahu is placing all his bets on a short war and an early capitulation by Iran,” says Hearst. “But unlike any war Israel has fought since 1973, Israeli warplanes are attacking a real army and a real state.”
“If Trump and Netanyahu think they are dissuading Iran from getting a bomb by dismantling their conventional means of self-defence, they are sorely mistaken.”
The original story in Middle East Eye includes a useful map and video.
See also Peter Beinart on the folly of pushing Iran to go nuclear.
NWI
This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Sat 14 Jun 2025. Read the original here.
By allowing Israel to bomb Iran, Trump is pushing Tehran to go nuclear
Netanyahu and Trump’s unilateral attack, if successful, will provide the biggest incentive Iran can possibly have to get a viable bomb as quickly as possible
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The BBC coverage of Israel’s attack on Iran is predictably uninformed, superficial and partisan …
I’d recommend Al Jazeera’s coverage to anyone trying to find out what’s happening.
Pretty much all the Western media is acting as a mouthpiece for US and Israeli propaganda, and I heard that Israel’s apparently heavily censored all media and social media, including not allowing footage of the skys. Apparently the Iranians hit the mossad hq in Tel Aviv, and allegedly, their going to soon release footage or pictures of captured f35 pilots, which Israel is of course denying.
Will the media in the imperial core, which has been complicit in these crimes against Palestine and Iran, get their comeuppance ?
Sid, apparently, allegedly etc
Stop swallowing your own propaganda, no Israeli pilot has been captured since Ron Arad who apparently, allegedly, certainly! was murdered by the Iranian Islamists.
Ok Jaye, but none of that negates the fact that the Western media, including Israeli, are using propaganda. Palestinians, in their thousands, have certainly been getting murdered by Zionists, and way before October 7th.
The vilification of Israel serves a subversive progressivist agenda, aiming to undermine the legitimacy of a nation defending itself, in order to discourage other Western countries from adopting a similar stance when confronted with internal or external threats to their survival.