We've touched on the multiple ways that neo-fascist demagogue and bitter election loser Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump is tacitly acknowledging his decisive defeat by fouling up everything he can on the way out the White (Supremacist) House door. From court appointments, to reckless troop withdrawals, to degrading the environment and more, he's creating messes for his successor to clean up, and he's apparently gotten help now from abroad.
Friday's assassination of Iran's leading nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh east of Tehran was a blow to Iran's nuclear weapons program, which was given a new lease on life when Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement. Although Israel has not claimed responsibility, they are the prime suspect, given the reach and skill of their intelligence agency Mossad and their fierce opposition to Iran. The action will set back any attempts by President-elect Joe Biden and our European allies to calm tensions and perhaps restart negotiations over Iran's nuclear weapons program. Many see Israel's far-right Prime Minister and Trumpist Bibi "Bomb Bomb" Netanyahu's likely motives at play in the attack:
"More recently, speculation has risen that Netanyahu has pushed the Trump administration to strike against Iran’s nuclear assets before Biden’s inauguration.
In a column posted early Saturday, [Israeli journalist Yossi] Melman said the loss of Fakhrizadeh is unlikely to derail Iran’s progress in producing enriched uranium, while at the same time ramping up tensions and making Biden’s diplomatic hurdles more difficult to overcome.
'The messages from Netanyahu and Trump could be interpreted as warmongering against the backdrop of Trump losing the presidential election this month,' Melman wrote in the Israeli daily Haaratz.
If Israel’s involvement in the killing should be confirmed, the action could seen as a 'deliberate attempt to exacerbate the situation, which is already extremely tense amid reports that Trump has considered bombing Iran as a parting gesture before he leaves the White House.'” (our emphasis)
Last weekend's meeting between Netanyahu, Saudi despot Mohammed bin "Bone Saw" Salman, and the corrupt and incompetent Secretary of State Mike "Pom Pom" Pompeo adds more intrigue to the plot. The timing of the strike, in the context of Bomb Bomb's closeness to Trump, gives the President-elect a major national security crisis right out of the gate. "Allies" are not supposed to salt the earth for their friends.
(photo: Fars News Agency via AP)
2 comments:
Netanyahu was reelected despite serious corruption charges by running on fearmongering, so natural best bud for Trump. Those "ground breaking" Trump Mideast treaties are Sunni states aligning with Israel against Shia Iran. Even Dick Cheney knew this was messing with dynamite in 1991. Killing a General does not minimize an Army's capability, and as long as you have the raw material and centrifuges does not matter who is running the nuke program. Just throwing punches daring Iran to do something about it. Soviets and China have their own vested interests. Pompeo' s dreams may just come true and we will arma-get-it-on. The death cult keeps me terrified.
Mart -- Well put. Trump's regime has deepened the divide in the Middle East and increased political and sectarian tensions, as his style demands. He has a partner in that in right-winger Netanyahu.
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