One should
have not been surprised the way US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed
Iran for the damage done to two vessels in the Gulf of Oman recently,
without offering any credible evidence.
Pompeo told
the press in a statement, “This assessment is based on intelligence, the
weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent
similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating
in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high-degree of
sophistication,”.
Pompeo
concluded, “The US will defend its forces, interests, and stand with our
partners and allies to safeguard global commerce and regional stability. And we
call upon all nations threatened by Iran’s provocative acts to join us in that
endeavor.” Following are the seven reasons to reject whatever Secretary has
said:
1) Pompeo is a known liar, especially
when it comes to Iran.
The entire
world knows that Pompeo has a well-established history of circulating
blatant lies about Iran. He recently told an audience at Texas
A&M University that when he was leading the CIA, “We lied, we cheated and we
stole. We had entire training courses.”
2) The US administration is known to
use lies and false flags to start wars.
The US centralized
power alliance has an extensive and well-documented history of
advancing preexisting military agendas using lies, false flags and psyops to
make targeted governments appear to be the aggressors. This is such a
well-established pattern that “Gulf of Tonkin” briefly trended on
Twitter after the Gulf of Oman incident. Any number of government agencies
could have been involved from any number of the nations in this alliance,
including the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE or Israel.
3) John Bolton has openly endorsed
lying to advance military agendas.
The Trump
administration had already begun rapidly escalating against Iran in ways that
happen to align perfectly with the longtime agendas of Trump’s psychopathic
Iran hawk National security adviser. At that time people were so aware of the
possibility that Bolton might involve himself in staging yet another Middle
Eastern war based on lies.
4) Using false flags to start a war
with Iran is already an established idea in the DC swamp.
Back in 2012
at a forum for the Washington Institute of Near East Policy think tank, the
group’s Director of Research Patrick Clawson openly talked about the
possibility of using a false flag to provoke a war with Iran, citing the
various ways the US has done exactly that with its previous wars.
5) The US State Department has
already been running psyops to manipulate the public Iran narrative.
Lately, State
Department officials admitted to congressional staff at a closed-door meeting that
a US$1.5 million troll farm had gone “beyond the scope of its mandate” by
aggressively smearing American critics of the Trump administration’s Iran
policy as propagandists for the Iranian government, according to a new
report from The Independent. That “mandate” had reportedly consisted
of “countering propaganda from Iran,” also known as conducting anti-Iran
propaganda.
6) The Gulf of Oman narrative makes
no sense.
One of the
ships damaged in the attacks was Japanese-owned, and the other was bound for
Japan. This happened just as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was
in Tehran attempting to negotiate de-escalation between the US and Iran with
Trump’s blessing, and just after Iran had released a prisoner accused
of conducting espionage for the US in what many took to be a gesture of good
faith.
Iran has
been conducting itself with remarkable restraint in the face of
relentless sanctions and provocations from the US and its allies. It wouldn’t
make much sense for it to suddenly abandon that restraint with attacks on sea
vessels, then rescue their crew, then deny perpetrating the attacks,
during a time of diplomatic exchanges and while trying to preserve the
nuclear deal with Europe. If Tehran did perpetrate the attacks in order to
send a strong message to the Americans, it would have been a very mixed message
sent in a very weird way with very odd timing.
7) Even if Iran did perpetrate the
attack, Pompeo would still be lying.
Pompeo’s statement uses
the words “unprovoked” twice and “Iran’s provocative acts” once, explicitly
claiming that the US empire was just minding its own business leaving Iran
alone when it was attacked out of the blue by a violent aggressor. Sometimes
the things put out by the US. State Department feel like they’re conducting
experiments on us, just to test the limits of our stupidity
The US has
been provoking Iran with extremely aggressive and steadily tightening
sanctions, which means that even if Tehran is behind the attacks, it would not
be the aggressor and the attacks would most certainly not have been
“unprovoked.” Economic sanctions are an act of war; if China were to do to
America’s economy what America is doing to Iran’s, the US would be in a hot war
with China immediately. It could technically be possible that Iran is pushing
back on US aggressions and provocations, albeit in a strange and neo-conservatively
convenient fashion.
Either way,
we have seen no evidence supporting Pompeo’s claims, so anyone hastening to
blame Iran for the Gulf of Oman incident is either a war whore or a slobbering
moron, or both. Knowing what we know about the US-centralized empire and
its pre-existing regime change agenda against Iran, there is no reason to
believe Pompeo and many reasons not to.
