Article Israel maneuvering to involve US in wider conflict

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https://en.mehrnews.com/news/210744/Isra...r-conflict

RELEASE: "The actions by the United States and the UK in attacking Yemen constitute a flagrant violation of national sovereignty, a breach of international law, and a transgression of the United Nations Charter," Amir Saeed Iravani said in an exclusive interview with Newsweek published on Saturday.

"Compelling evidence suggests that the Tel Aviv regime has effectively maneuvered to involve the US in these conflicts, aligning with its own interests," he said, referring to the circumstances in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria as well as Iraq and Yemen.

Iravani added that the joint military aggression exposed the so-called success of the Israeli regime's lobbying in Washington to draw the US into "a direct war" and exacerbate the spillover of hostilities to other parts of the region.

On Friday, the US and British warplanes targeted five regions of Yemen with 73 missiles, including the capital Sana'a, killing at least five people and wounding six others. The US military claimed on Saturday that it conducted a new attack against a radar site that belonged to the Ansarullah Resistance movement in Yemen’s capital.

President Joe Biden of the United States said he ordered the strikes in response to "unprecedented” attacks against vessels heading to ports in occupied Palestine.

Iravani emphasized that Israel has fallen short of achieving most of its stated objectives in the war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. However, the regime seeks a more extensive crisis than the ongoing Gaza conflict to "facilitate a so-called face-saving exit from the current quagmire," the Iranian diplomat said.

"The Israeli regime's requests from the United States extend beyond a mere solicitation for weapons, intelligence, financial, and political support; instead, it encompasses a desire for direct participation in the war," Iravani stated.

The Iranian ambassador warned that a "severe humanitarian crisis" unfolds when the international mechanisms display a lack of both the will and capability to put an end to Israel's crimes in Gaza while the region is under a stringent siege, with essential supplies such as fuel and food being denied to the people of the Strip.

In response to this dire circumstance, Iravani said, Yemen's Ansarullah Movement, driven by a sense of human duty, has assumed the role of defending the oppressed Palestinian nation. He said Ansarullah has declared that all shipping lines in the Red Sea waterway are secure, except for vessels associated with the Tel Aviv regime or engaged in the transportation of goods to or from occupied Palestine. This, he said, portrays Ansarullah as a proponent of humanitarian principles.

Pointing to an all-out siege, encompassing land, air, and sea, on Ansarullah for the past eight years, the Iranian diplomat said Yemen has demonstrated resilience by relying on its internal capacities despite facing protracted embargo and blockade.

Iravani said the Resistance groups in Iraq and Lebanon are integral to their respective governments, with decisions subject to governmental considerations, but Ansarullah stands apart as an independent government possessing national sovereignty. "Ansarullah operates with a distinctive status, enjoying the highest level of support from its people."

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Why are you citing Iranian state media?

Belonging to the Islamic Development Organization, Mehr Media group has access to first handed and trustworthy news within the Iranian Government.
- https://en.mehrnews.com/news/159449

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_De...ganization

If you believe a State Sponsor of Terrorism since 1984, you're either a moron or evil.

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Why are you citing Iranian state media?

Never hurts to know (or store for reference) where something originally came from, before humanities culture and its media outlets process and package it into something either academically edible or a meme with bright wrappings.

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I tend to think the chain of events has started far further back.

For instance the blast in the port of Beruit, Lebannon in 2021 which was put down to an accident and had conspiracies circling Israel as being involved. however it was more likely that a volume of Ammonia Nitrates was stolen and used in setting up the demolition of the Gaza strip by Hamas and other groups so as to dirty/hamper Israel response (The blast was just to cover up exactly how much had been stolen). I'm not saying Israel hasn't been destroying things in Gaza, but I'm pretty sure what they have been uses versus the explosions that occurred implies explosives either being stockpiled or made to "martyr" civilians by Hamas/Iran etc.

Further to that... Russias push into Ukraine (2022) and alliance with Iran for munitions further embolded Iran who likely saw the responses from the west as being weak (considering they were economic sanctions for the most part) Russia has been rattling a lot of different countries to cause problems economically in response (such as in Africa and South America). Consider Russia is apart of the Cabal involved in Oil (setting global production and pricing), all these problems in the delivery of such things plays into their favour (at least in their opinion).

The Ukrainian war is therefore as much connected to how the attack on Israel came about than anything else.

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Even further back (1953) - Iran had a democratically elected government - overthrown by some axis of evil.

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état .. was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .. It was aided by the United States .. (Operation Ajax) .. and the United Kingdom .. (Operation Boot) .. The Shi'a clergy also played a considerable role.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Irani...7%C3%A9tat

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That 1953 coup was to stop the Tudeh Iranian communist party. Winston Churchill was instrumental in initiating that coup, and it kept Iran from allying with Russia and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.

And it's a stretch to say that 1953 coup was in any way causative of the 1979 Iranian Revolution that installed an Islamic theocracy. If anything, the coup kept Iran a modern Western-like country longer than if it had been communist since 1953.

And remember, we had not too long before that coup fought WWII, which was started by the "democratically elected" Nazi Party in Germany. "Democratically elected" doesn't not equate to "good" or "free."

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STEPHEN KINZER:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as a result of a corrupt deal with the old dying monarchy, one British company, owned mainly by the British government, had taken control of the entire Iranian oil industry.
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Bear in mind that the oil that fueled England all during the 1920s and '30s and ’40s all came from Iran. The standard of living that people in England enjoyed all during that period was due exclusively to Iranian oil. Britain has no oil. Britain has no colonies that have oil. Every factory in England, every car, every truck, every taxi was running on oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which was projecting British power all over the world, was fueled a hundred percent by oil from Iran.
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Anyway, what happened was that Prime Minister Mosaddegh, who really was an extraordinary figure in his time, although he’s been somewhat forgotten by history, came to power in 1951 on a wave of nationalism aimed at this one great obsession: we’ve got to take back control of our oil and use the profits for the development of one of the most wretchedly impoverished nations on earth at that time. So the Iranian parliament voted unanimously for a bill to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company, and Mosaddegh signed it, and he devoted himself, during his term of office, to carrying out that plan, to nationalize what was then Britain’s largest and most profitable holding anywhere in the world.

So we restored the monarchy. If Americans see it as part of a virtuous fight against communism - that works too.

https://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/6/hi...es_role_in

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Of course leftists would call a communist an "extraordinary figure." But just look at what happened in the Iran of the 60s & 70s... under the Shah:

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When Westerners think of Iran today, images of women wearing chadors, American flags burning, and militant crowds shouting nationalistic slogans often come to mind. But those who have memories of Tehran in the 1960s and 1970s paint a very different portrait of Iranian life.

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the country's capital was a cultural vanguard. The New York Times notes, "Until the revolution, Iran was among the most cultured, cosmopolitan countries in the region. It had a progressive movement in art and literature and a sophisticated film and television industry." Its education system welcomed both women and men, and jet-setting Tehrani urbanites headed to midcentury modern ski chalets in the Alborz Mountains.
- https://www.npr.org/2012/02/16/146977562...-in-tehran

So far from being impoverished by being spared from communism, Iran flourished.

And some people are apparently completely ignorant of this fact.

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It may be that each nation moves into future at their own pace. Big Oil may not be the best arbiter of the way forward.

In June 1913, Mosaddegh received his doctorate and in doing so became the first Iranian to receive a PhD in Law from a European university.

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That's some serious communist ass kissing going on there.