Trump Screws MAGA & Starts A New US Forever War - Part 3 of 5

The JCPOA, thereby, also, strengthened the position of the more liberal, reformists within Iran, at a time when the regime of the mullahs was facing increased internal opposition. Here, however, is where the extent to which the separate interests of Netanyahu, and of the Zionist regime, does play a part. Zionism has no interest in fostering the rise of more liberal, reformist elements in Iran, or anywhere else, in the region. It was an ardent supporter of the Shah's dictatorship in Iran, providing support and training for the Shah's SAVAK, secret police and torturers, for example. One of the greatest threats to the Zionist regime in Israel, would, indeed, be if it was surrounded by bourgeois-democratic republics, because its ideology of continual colonisation and expansionism, in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, would no longer be covered by the distraction of the nature of the political regimes of its neighbours compared to it own claims to being a bourgeois-democracy. Zionism like all ethnonationalisms depends on the presentation of an external threat. Hence, also, its equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

In the case of Zionism that is all the more ludicrous, because it is by far the greatest military power in the region as well as being backed by the even greater military power of the US and European imperialism. It is the Zionist state, in Israel, that has continually been the one engaging in expansionism and annexation of territory, from the first days of its creation in 1947. It is the Zionist state that already has one of the world's largest stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, which, unlike Iran, is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and so, also, does not allow any IAEA inspections.

The fact that it is the Zionist regime, which "does the dirty work" of US imperialism, in particular, in the Middle-East, or, as Joe Biden put it decades ago, “If Israel didn't exist, we would have to create it”, also, gives the Zionist state its own degree of leverage, a sort of wages of sin, for its efforts, alongside the huge financial and military support given to it. It depends, in the end, on US imperialism, but US imperialism requires it to act on its behalf, like a henchman employed by a super villain, and the henchman, decides how they will carry out those tasks, ensuring that, as far as possible, it does so, to, also, further its own particular interests. Its a bit like a corrupt, bureaucratic caste of CEO's, as with those at TYCO, or Enron, who are put in place, not to advance the interests of the company, but of the shareholders, and who, along the way, also line their own pockets. It is able to proceed on the basis that its easier to obtain forgiveness than permission, and, on every occasion, including in carrying out genocide in full public view, it has been given not only forgiveness, but, also, back dated permission.

On this occasion, its also, clear, as a result of Hegseth's penchant for making state secrets public, that the permission itself, was given, “months ago”, and not only given, but the detailed plans were also drawn up for the attack.

It again seems that Starmer, and the EU were used as dupes, and useful idiots, kept in the dark, until after the event, unable to present their own, independent position, or interests, as with their impotent offerings in trying to provide a coalition of the willing to support Ukraine, as the US increasingly detaches from it. They too can only limply bleat their support for the US action, and proclaim the irrelevant mantra that “Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon”, whilst of course, they are quite content for the blood and soil, ethnonationalists and religious zealots of the Zionist state to have one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, as well as of chemical and biological weapons, as it commits genocide, and other crimes against humanity on a daily basis, as it continues its relentless expansion and colonisation of the region – “doing the dirty work of imperialism”, as Merz put it.

The only difference in the approach of the Trump regime, and that of the Biden regime is one of intellectual capacity and subtlety. Trump in his first term, scrapped the JCPOA, but had nothing to put in its place. Typical of Trump, there was a lot of hot air, but a failure to follow through. Inevitably, the advances made by the JCPOA were immediately lost, and Iran, began to process uranium at higher levels of purity, ready to use it as a bargaining chip, when Trump left the White House. In the meantime, as China expanded on the world stage, itself partly a result of Trump's trade war, and the re-routing of global trade flows by China, and US imperialism began to levy sanctions on Russia, and China, Iran was able to develop its own relations with these other, large and powerful sanctioned countries, as witnessed by the expansion of BRICS+, largely by-passing their effects. As a consequence, when Trump was replaced by Biden, in 2020, Iran was in a stronger bargaining position than it was when Biden left office, in 2016. In the next four years, therefore, Biden failed to simply reinstate the JCPOA, driving it, also, closer into reliance on the Zionist state.

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