IRAN 6-16-2019

16, June 2019                                   IRAN

The US has an abysmal record in foreign policy decisions often manufacturing crisis’s to fulfill political agendas. Remember the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which precipitated the Vietnam War causing the death of 58,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese. President Nixon and Henry Kissinger decided to bomb Cambodia and Laos without informing Congress causing the additional death of millions of Cambodians and Laotians. When Pompeo was head of the CIA he boasted the training manual includes lying, cheating and stealing. The US targets foreign governments and creates false narratives to justify regime change. Readers may recall the CIA/MI6 coup which deposed democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran in 1953, in a blatant effort to steal their oil The Iranian Oil Company was subsequently re-branded BP.

They replaced Mosaddegh with the Shah who used his secret police to imprison and torture tens of thousands of Iranians. In a further effort to inflict more mayhem, the US sent weapons to arch enemy Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran.

President Trump dishonored the 2015 nuclear deal and sent an unmistakable message that a US signature on an international agreement is worthless. Iran, suffering from the crushing blow of economic sanctions, has every right to cease to honor the agreement. Let us hope the P5 + 1 -1 (US) nations do not succumb to US economic blackmail.  Finally, the US should immediately halt its “dirty money” trade deals and free itself from the choke-hold of Saudi and Israeli interests.