He
campaigned on promises to ‘drain the swamp’ and radically alter
the United States’ course in the world, but not even a week has
passed and President Donald Trump has already made it clear that
he’ll be following a very familiar agenda.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
4 - ‘Inevitable’ war with Iran & North Korea
Trump, who
on the campaign trail painted himself as an anti-interventionist, has
recently emerged as strongly hostile toward Iran, continuing the
decades-long U.S. policy of isolating the Islamic Republic. Just
minutes after his inauguration, the Trump administration announced
that it would be developing a state-of-the-art missile defense system
to protect Americans from Iran and North Korea.
Leaders of
the Gulf monarchies are also “optimistic” that Trump will
confront Iran, with some even going as far as to hail Trump as
“another Ronald Reagan.” During his first weekend as president,
Netanyahu spoke with Trump, focusing mainly on Iran — likely to
gauge Trump’s commitment to Israel’s “supreme goal” of
stopping the Iranian “threat” despite Israel having an untold
number of nuclear warheads at its disposal.
For much of
the past few decades, U.S. antagonism against Iran has been a driving
force in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Since Iran’s 1979
revolution which ousted the U.S.-installed dictator the Shah of Iran,
Iranian politics has been bolstered by the belief that third-world
dependence on the West was an intrinsic result of neocolonialism and
monopoly capitalism, with the only remedy being “working class
internationalism.”
In the
process, Iran staunchly spoke out against the new colonialist project
in the Middle East: the creation of Israel, its military occupation
of historic Palestine, and Western meddling in Iranian politics and
industry.
Despite
these historical tensions, U.S. and Israeli politicians alike have
often expressed their disdain for Iran as born out of concern for the
threat of nuclear disaster that presents to Israel, despite the fact
that the CIA and Israel’s Mossad have stated that Iran doesn’t
have a nuclear weapons program nor has it ever been interested in
one.
Though it
often goes overlooked, one of the main reasons behind the hostility
toward Iran is the independence of Iran’s central bank. Iran is one
of the few nations that are not totally beholden to the global
oligarchical interests tied to the global banking establishment which
constitutes the U.S. empire.
Even more
telling is Trump’s stated belief that “we’ll end up going to
war with Iran.” In a 2013 interview with Fox Business, Trump
said the inevitability of an armed conflict was due to the weak
negotiation skills of the Obama administration — the administration
which would go on to seal the controversial Iran nuclear deal in
2015.
Although
Trump’s presidency remains in its infancy, his posturing thus far
reveals the significant oligarchical influence on his developing
stance on Iran, a nation that doesn’t have nuclear weapons and has
never threatened to attack the United States or Israel.
Source
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http://www.mintpressnews.com/maverick-lapdog-trump-already-serving-agenda-americas-oligarchs/224413/
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