Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
“…it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an
Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching
them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more
unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would
be.
Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad
Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing
this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have
some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change
efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even
semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of
Iranian aggression.) ”
-US foreign policy makers in the Fortune 500 funded Brookings Institution’s “Which Path to Persia?” report, pages 84-85.
Considering that the Gulf of Token incident was a deliberate fabrication to escalate the Vietnam War, one many members in Congress are shown to have acknowledged and debated even at the time,
or the more recent Iraqi WMD hoax, there is certainly a historical
precedence to create such provocations when targeted nations refuse to
provide them.
With this in mind, and noting an overt, ongoing series of bold acts of war carried out by the US and Israel inside of Iran,
along with sanctions and planned blockades, also acts of war, the
corporate-financier oligarchs have been confounded by what seems to be
infinite Iranian patience to endure such provocations. US foreign policy
makers have noted for years now that Iran in actuality poses no threat
to US or Israeli national security and their acquiring of nuclear
weapons serves more of a deterrence against future military incursions
against the Islamic Republic by the West, than a means to launch
unprovoked attacks against nations that each possess nuclear deterrents
of apocalyptic scale. (CONTINUE READING)