Time to Pay Attention: The US is Playing Right Into the Hands of Israel’s Plan for War With Iran

Monday, May 14, 2018
By Paul Martin

The United States’ withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal pushes the situation from a diplomatic solution to a posture of military brinksmanship.

By Jay Syrmopoulos
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
May 14, 2018

Washington, D.C. – While last week’s announcement that the United States was withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—commonly referred to as the Iran nuclear deal—made global headlines, it is important to understand that the withdrawal is one part of a larger strategy by Israel to use the United States as a form of military backing as they intensify their conflict with Iran.

To more clearly understand the situation, it is important to remember that Iran sent major military assistance to assist their Syrian allies in defeating a regime change operation carried out largely by jihadi groups and supported by western powers. For all intents and purposes, the Assad government has defeated the 7-year-old insurgency and with it brought Iranian forces closer to Israel’s border.

A report from the Chicago Tribune explains:

Israel has increasingly warned that it sees Iranian influence in Syria as a threat, pointing to Iran’s military presence inside the country as well as that of Iranian-backed militiamen. Israeli officials have said that 80,000 Shiite fighters in Syria are under Iranian control, including forces of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraqi and Afghan fighters.

Iranian officials and their allies have spoken of securing a corridor from Iran to Lebanon, through Syria and Iraq. Israel fears that will allow Iran to more easily transfer weapons to Hezbollah, Lebanon’s powerful Shiite guerrilla force, and reinforce the militant group’s influence over the region. During the civil war, Israel is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria, mainly hitting weapons shipments.

Evidencing that Israel would act on its warnings, on April 9 seven members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, who were reportedly establishing an airbase, complete with anti-aircraft batteries, were killed in an Israeli strike on the T-4 Syrian Air Force base near Homs.

The US withdrawal from the Iran deal looks to be part of a potentially larger strategy by Israel, meant to persuade the Trump administration to challenge an immediate conventional threat to Israel; and confront any potential long-term nuclear threat posed by Iran.

The New Yorker reported that during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprise presentation at the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, he attempted to demonize Iran by claiming that Iran had failed to “come clean” about its past nuclear program, and that Iran “intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files” after signing the J.C.P.O.A. Netanyahu claimed that he possessed documents that reveal that Iran had operated a secret nuclear-weapons program from 1999 to 2003, the so-called Project Amad.

“Iran lied, big time,” he said, claiming that the Iranian government hid its nuclear files—cataloging its nuclear knowledge—due to an intent “to use them at a later date.”

Ironically, Trump statement on Tuesday virtually mirrored Netanyahu’s claims.

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