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Why is the US targeting Iran? An abundance of reasons

by Jim Fetzer - Open-Publishing - Thursday 21 February 2013
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Why is the US targeting Iran? An abundance of reasons

by Jim Fetzer

The situation with Iran is completely absurd–unless there is a hidden motive. Iran poses no military threat to the United States. Iran has not attacked any other country for more than 300 years. It has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. It allows inspectors. In 2007, 16 US intel agencies converged in the opinion that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons–an opinion they reaffirmed in 2011. The Supreme Leader of Iran has declared, “Nuclear energy for all; nuclear weapons for none”, which is the policy of the nation. Whatever the motive for targeting Iran, it is not the development of nukes.

If the issue were the possession of nuclear weapons, then we should be looking in another direction. Israel has 200-600 or more of these little beauties. Israel has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel will not allow inspectors. Israel runs the largest concentration camp in the world in Palestine–and is known for the brutality of its treatment of the Palestinian people, where Israel Defense Forces are known for their practice of randomly shooting young Palestinian children. If there is a nuclear threat in the Middle East, that threat comes from Israel, not Iran.

Moreover, one country appears to be using nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which is not Iran but the United States. Dr. Christopher Busby, an expert on connections between cancer and birth-defects in relation to the use of nuclear weapons, has concluded, based upon his study of anomalies in Fallujah, that the US has deployed a new type of nuclear weapon, probably a neutron bomb, in Iraq. While he came to the region in the expectation that he would discover the birth defects that have become so prevalent there–where 75% of live births suffer from serious genetic abnormalities–was from the use of depleted uranium weapons, what he found was far more alarming: they were caused, not by DU, but by enriched uranium from the use of a new class of weapons.

US USED SOME NEW TYPE OF NUCLEAR WEAPON IN FALLUJAH: IRAN IS NOT THE NUCLEAR THREAT

Since Israel has a vast stockpile and Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, any concerns about them ought to be directed at Israel, not Iran. A more likely explanation, therefore, is that the peaceful development of nuclear energy is the real problem, where Iran has the potential to produce nuclear fuel rods at a fraction of the cost of those produced by the US nuclear energy industry. This consideration is not even mentioned much less discussed in the mass media in the United States, even though, upon reflection, the US industry must be panic-stricken over the prospect that Iran is virtually certain to dominate the global marked for nuclear fuel rods and drive the US industry to bankruptcy. But there may be yet another consideration that makes an even greater difference, which also related to energy and has nothing to do with oil.

The Stirling Engine

A friend of mine wrote me today telling me that, “about 50 years ago, I knew an Iranian student in college and he told me this big ‘secret’ his country was working on, he said it was a stirling engine, no intake and no exhaust, would run from any heat source, he said it would run if you just pissed on it—point is, Iran is so far ahead in development of this engine technology that no one can compete with them, so, I guess their economy has to be destroyed, otherwise they would be the leading energy provider for the world.”

The suggestion sounds a bit far-fetched until you appreciate that, as he explained, gasoline engines are 30% efficient, at best, meaning 70% of heat is lost. Stirling engines are 90% plus efficient from any fuel and can use solar, gasoline, diesel, coal, LP gas, steam or thermal water deposits and even cooling towers from nuclear plants. Iran’s focus on this technology caught the west flatfooted and not energy competitive, a very big no, no. . . . In brief, the stirling engine concept would free the world from ‘oil’ dependence and make Iran the major player in the world’s energy market–a big, big problem for the west.

Indeed, what he has told me is borne out even by entries in commonplace sources such as Wikipedia:

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  • two words: GREATER ISRAEL

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    Israel wants complete control of all the middle east and Iran stand in their way.

  • Iranian scientists and engineers have indeed developed new methods of enriching uranium as well as manufacturing nuclear fuel rods for a fraction of their present cost. No doubt about it, this explains why so many, at least a dozen in the last 8 years, Iranian physicists have been assassinated.

    Yet Iran’s formidable progress in nuclear energy cannot be the primary reason behind US foreign policy makers aggressive isolation of Iran. No nation state is going to spend over $3.5 trillion in a 10 year span attacking and invading nations (the US military invaded Iraq in March of 2003) simply for taking away new kinds of technology that might topple their fossil fuel paradigm.

    Yes, they will assassinate as many of the bright bulbs they can find; yes, they will virally spread all the disinformation they can in order to demonize an enemy who really has no fight with them. But you don’t send a multi-billion dollar fleet to do it, you don’t send over 140,000 troops do it, not at over a million dollar per individual soldier per year, which is the amount the US military spends for Middle Eastern deployment.

    Besides, after Japan’s disastrous tsunami of 2011, I doubt if the nuclear energy industry will be a good sale for anyone in the near future.

    The real reason for US aggression in the region is the control of oil. The same reason it’s always been. Here’s some facts to savor: even though worldwide oil demand has plummeted over 10% from its peak in 2008, the oil industry still raked in over $4.6 TRILLION in gross profits at the end of 2011. It’ll be a long time before the nuclear or the fledgling solar industries can compete with those figures, even if there weren’t so many powerful, murderous US elitists in control of US foreign policy.

    Iran is being attacked for the same reason the US attacked Iraq: it delivered on a threat that US policy makers have dreaded for over 40 years when Nixon, through a presidential executive order, closed the gold window on the national economy.

    Iran stopped using the US dollar for 80% of its oil transactions over five years ago.

    Petroleum was picked by US policy makers in the early 70s as the best successor to gold, but the Nixon-Kissinger scheme wouldn’t have worked without the backing of the world’s richest, and most oppressive, oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. The Saudis, as the leader of OPEC, would guarantee to do ALL of their oil transactions using only one currency, the US dollar.

    The Saudis’ agreed to the deal, with an added bonus of an average yearly stipend of $12 billion in military aid to seal it. All other OPEC nations followed suit soon after in 1973. This arrangement allowed the Federal Reserve Board of the US to expand credit, i.e. increasing money supply, without overly affecting inflation, since most of the newly printed money was siphoned away for use in petro-dollar transactions and did not actually increase the domestic money supply. This new scheme also propelled the world bond market to obscene heights as well, which only made the people who own the Federal Reserve even happier.

    This unholy arrangement (it’s a con artist’s dream scheme, when you really think about it; a whole lot of something valuable for a whole lot of nothing) miraculously lasted nearly three decades. I call it miraculous, since the deal had many holes in it, first and foremost a belief in "Peak Oil Theory" which was probably the strongest factor in executing it.

    Peak Oil adherents believed that Earth’s supply of fossil fuels had already peaked, but their theory has been discounted by many since the discovery of vast deposits of oil in other nations throughout the world most of which aren’t members of OPEC. Many of these new oil exporting nations may not be inclined to sell their oil exports in US denominations. As more oil exporting nations enter the business, their lack of adhering to the US dollar model could easily topple the petro -dollar arrangement.

    Which indeed happened in the 90’s after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the discovery of huge deposits in the Caspian Sea, South America and Africa, regions of the planet that do not owe anything to the US, either monetarily or morally.

    AS more and more oil exporting nations stop using the US dollar, the weaker the dollar becomes, since the money supply upholding the oil transactions eventually returns back to its land of origin, increasing inflation. Eventually hyper inflation would ensue, and so would social chaos. This was and continues be the weakest point in the petro-dollar scheme.

    Many non-US economists believe that the Federal Reserve has pumped nearly $15 trillion into both the US and world economy in the last two decades. That’s equivalent to the current annual US gross domestic product.

    Imagine if even a fifth of that money supply were to return to the US. For those who don’t follow this argument please take the time to understand real economic theory. So much of what I’ve explained here can be easily understood just by studying economic theory on the world wide web. Open your minds, people. This is the time to get smarter, while you still have an internet.

    The vipers in control do indeed understand how tenuously weak their ’new global order’ economy has become, an economy propped by the Federal Reserve board that can only sustain growth through its manipulation of the ’petro-dollar’, the bond market it help create and through it world economic hegemony. To their minds they have no choice but use military force to keep their scheme alive.

    Thus they created the ’War on Terror’, an old propaganda ploy straight out of Orwell, Heinlein or Terry Gilliam, a manufactured ’War on Terror’ full of terrorists recruited, funded and trained by the US’s very own security agencies, all in a desperate attempt to keep the tumbling petro-dollar intact.

    But even the mighty US military isn’t as mighty as it thinks. It cannot possibly contain the whole world, but it can try, to the tune of nearly $1.3 trillion a year.
    Observe how they have failed to contain Venezuela for example.

    Believe me, if the US security agencies had thought that Iran was easy to invade and occupy as Iraq, they would have done it. However, every war simulation game the Pentagon has run since 2002 has shown a catastrophic result when running a virtual air assault on Iran. The Iranians are well equipped with cheap but very reliable Russian cruise missiles, with an average range of 250 km, and carrying over 200 kilos of explosives, more than enough to sink several air craft carriers. They also have a highly trained militia with over 800,000 men. Mind you these cruise missiles average about 6 meters in length and can easily be deployed with a pick up truck. Drones would have a hard time finding them.

    If either the US or Israel were to attack Iran, the repercussions would be terrible for both countries strictly on the military end. So much of this ’attack Iran now’ blustering is simply that, bravado, and very weak bravado at that, and the rest is oil speculation made to drive up the price of oil. But as world wide demand for oil lessens, this kind of speculation becomes more untenable.

    If the US or Israel were ever to attack Iran you will see the US Navy’s 7th Fleet in flames, several thousand US sailors killed and several thousand Israelis killed as well. CNN and Fox would have a terrible time making excuses for that kind of military catastrophe, that is if they cover it at all.

    And of course the price of a barrel of oil will more than double overnight. That would bring the entire world economy to its knees. Including their own.

    Since these vipers have very limited imaginations and none of their very predictable maneuvers have worked AT ALL (its either expand more credit, or we’ll attack you if you don’t like it) they are indeed getting very desperate. So instead of attacking Iran, they attack other Middle Eastern countries, heavy oil exporters all, that have threatened or already have dumped the US petro-dollar. Libya, done deal and now we go after Syria. But there is an upside to all of this aggression.

    Notice that these attacks are now mostly done through NATO, so as to cut down internal US dissent. Besides, the US military knows it can’t afford to keep sending soldiers to fight these bogus wars, their medical costs alone have been a headache for the VA for the last 10 years. Thus their outrageous spending on the latest ’gee-wiz, aren’t we geniuses’ toys, the drones. Drones won’t cost a million dollars a year in upkeep fighting under impossible circumstances half a world away, nor do you have to write so many letters of condolences to widows and grieving family members. So what if they make terrible ground troops? Their whole point is to drive ’terror’ into every heart and mind on the planet.

    Side note: what a poor chump Gaddaffi turned out to be. In February of 2009 Obama and Hillary sold him over $9 billion of the latest high falutin’ US weapons systems only to be attacked and killed by them in less time (2 years) than it took to do Saddam. Yet another reason why I call the entire US political class psychopathic.

    Pointing at Iran as the bogey man in all this is as ridiculous as blaming China or Russia. Most if not all of the national economic distress the US is suffering right now stems from this con artist dream scheme and other ’dream schemes’ such as ’securitized debt’ which this professional class of parasites have concocted. A dwindling manufacturing sector is another, but that also stems from a nation that cannot let go of a controlled economy, an economy run by the world’s largest privately held central bank

    Note:China and Russia no longer use the US dollar for ANY of their transactions, oil or otherwise as of September of 2012. That means that’s over $400 billion of oil
    transactions all done through their own currencies or gold. That means there will be over $400 billion of US currency that no one will want. Where is it go?

    Gold is the real reason Iran is surviving US imposed sanctions. All of their neighboring countries need oil, most impressively Turkey, a US ally, which buys Iranian oil strictly with gold. This has been going on since sanctions were in place.

    Gold, and all other commodities together are the real ’anti-US dollar’ and its world hegemony. Who do you think will win this war? The commodities that actually help the world produce wealth through industry or the fiat currencies who ultimately derive all of their strength through a belief system whose logical structure is filled with more holes than a medieval fantasy?