WORLD WAR III
Israel-U.S. To Attack
Iran When Ready
“Final touches” put on new plan of
attack against the Axis of Evil.

By Thom White
Researched by universalbeat.com

LOS ANGELES March 15, 2005 -- U.S. and Israeli officials have stepped up PR-pressure against Iran this year, claiming Iran may be secretly developing nuclear weapons. In his recent State of the Union address, U.S. High Leader George W. Bush called Iran “the world’s primary state sponsor of terror,” while Vice-Leader Richard Cheney admitted the U.S. would not prevent Israel from striking Iran.

The Independent (UK) reported on January 26, 2005, that Israeli War Minister Shaul Mofaz said that Iran “was close to a point of no return” and he would not rule out an Israeli assault.

According to unnamed European Commission “experts” consulted in a February 6, 2005, article on Al-Jazeera (Qatar), “The U.S. Defense Department, the Pentagon, and Israel have put the final touches” on plans of attack on Iran that will target in part that country’s nuclear facilities.

UPI reported in January that the U.S. is already daring Iran to defend herself by flying military aircraft over the country, officially, “to lure Tehran into turning on air defense systems … to grid the system for future targeting data” for the coming strikes.

Former CIA Middle East “expert” Ellen Laipson said the U.S. flights “are not necessarily an act of war in themselves, unless they are perceived as being so by the country overflown.” Laipson was concerned that Iran “will not only turn on its air defense radars [as the U.S. wishes] but use them to fire missiles at U.S. aircraft.”

These flyovers may however be a veiled attempt by the U.S. to provoke an “incident” whereby Iran defends against the aggression, giving the U.S. and Israel a casus belli. The fireworks will start popping again on American T.V. and the Iranians, after 25 years of disobediance, will learn the terror of American arms.

Since the televised destruction of September 11, 2001, U.S. armed forces have occupied Iran’s neighbors to the east and west, Afghanistan and Iraq, providing good positions for attack. The U.S. can also launch aerial bombardments and missile assaults from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf.

The U.S. military has bases as well in another neighbor of Iran, nuclear-armed ally Pakistan. According to exclusive information from an Asia Times story (January 19, 2005), the Musharraf dictatorship is cooperating with the U.S. to make Pakistan itself a staging area for the assault on Iran. “Pakistan has provided extensive facilities to special U.K. and U.S. units to train them in commando operations in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, which in many ways resembles the Iranian towns of Tehran, Shiraz, Isphan, and other urban centers … Special forces have staged unannounced exercises in Karachi.” Seymour Hersh revealed in the New Yorker recently that U.S.-payrolled teams have penetrated eastern Iran on the ground since at least the summer 2004, reportedly with Pakistan’s help. These expeditions are apparently part of the U.S. “hunt for secret nuclear and chemical weapons” as well as for reconnaissance to aid in Iran’s coming liberation from nuclear arms. Part of the reason for Pakistan’s willingness to assist the U.S. and Israel in this aggression against Iran, is that Pakistan is permitted by the U.S. to have nuclear bombs (the only majority Muslim country allowed to do so in 2005), and would prefer Iran remain disarmed.

The U.S. military also has a substantial “secret” military presence in Israel, according to the new book “Code Names” by journalist and former U.S. intelligence official William Arkin. Although Israel has already served as a forward base for U.S. expansion in the Middle East since the 1960s, the revelation of secret U.S. bases in the state is a new one. According to Ha’aretz, Arkin asserts that since September 2001, the U.S. has set up five secret bases in Israel. The American military is present at “Ben-Gurion International Airport, in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya Pituach and in three other sites … The book also offers a detailed description of U.S. military ties and secret presence in countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa following the 2001 attacks.”

Israel does not border Iran, but presently has the supreme position in the Middle East as one of the only states permitted by the U.S. to threaten nuclear horror on her neighbors. If Iran gains the right to possess atomic bombs and the ability to bully others as well, Israel might be forced to diplomacy with the Arab nations of the region. Diplomacy is clearly not in the cards for (nor the strong suit of) the present Israeli government under the leadership of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, career soldier, former terrorist, present-day ruler and Likud statesman.

On March 4, Agence France-Presse reported that, “The Israeli air force is training its crews for long-range bombing missions, the wing commander of an F-16I fighter-bomber group said Feb. 28.

“‘Israel and the air force have understood for a fairly long time now that the threats that surround us are constantly growing and that’s why steps have been taken to extend our range of action,’ the officer, identified only as Wing Commander D., told Israel’s privately run second television channel ... Israeli warplanes destroyed Iraq’s French-built Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981.”

THE REAL THREAT FROM IRAN?

Certain journals have pointed to ulterior reasons for the impending Israeli-U.S. assault on Iran, besides the U.S. government’s fear of Iran’s weapons of mass destruction. In June 2004, the Guardian (UK)’s Terry Macallister reported that “Iran is to launch an oil-trading market in 2005-2006 for Middle East and OPEC producers that could threaten the supremacy of London’s International Petroleum Exchange [and the NYMEX in New York] … The Tehran oil bourse is scheduled to open in 2005, according to its architect Javad Asemipour, who is a personal adviser to the Iranian energy minister.”

Global Research’s William Clark published an extensive report in October 2004, “The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target: The Emerging Euro-denominated International Oil Marker” in which he contends that Saddam’s move in 2000 to have all Iraqi oil sales tendered in euros, threatened the stability and supremacy of the U.S. dollar, and that Iran’s proposed euro-based oil market could be even more disastrous to the dollar’s value. Quoting at length from William Clark’s informative commentary:

The Iranians are about to commit an offense far greater than Saddam Hussein’s conversion to the euro of Iraq’s exports in the fall of 2000 …

There are unspoken macroeconomic drivers explaining the real reasons regarding the second stage of “petrodollar warfare” -- Iran’s upcoming euro-based oil bourse … Current geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran extend beyond the publicly stated concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear intentions, and likely include a proposed Iranian “petroeuro system” for oil trade. Similar to the Iraq war, upcoming operations against Iran relate to the macroeconomics of the “petrodollar recycling” and the unpublicized but real challenge to U.S. dollar supremacy from the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency.

In 2005-06, the Tehran government has developed a plan to begin competing with New York’s NYMEX and London’s IPE with respect to international oil trades -- using a euro-denominated international oil-trading mechanism. This means that without some form of U.S. intervention, the euro is going to establish a firm foothold in the international oil trade. Given U.S. debt levels and the stated neoconservative project for U.S. global domination, Tehran’s objective constitutes an obvious encroachment on U.S. dollar supremacy in the international oil market.

Candidly stated, ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ was a war designed to install a pro-U.S. puppet in Iraq, establish multiple U.S. military bases before the onset of Peak Oil, and to reconvert Iraq back to petrodollars while hoping to thwart further OPEC momentum towards the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency … Indeed, the author’s original pre-war hypothesis was validated shortly after the war in a Financial Times article dated June 5, 2003, which confirmed Iraqi oil sales returning to the international markets were once again denominated in U.S. dollars, not euros. Not surprisingly, this detail was never mentioned by the five US major media conglomerates who appear to censor this type of information, but confirmation of this vital fact provides insight into one of the crucial -- yet overlooked -- rationales for the 2003 Iraq war.

From the Financial Times: “The tender, for which bids are due by June 10, switches the transaction back to dollars -- the international currency of oil sales -- despite the greenback’s recent fall in value. Saddam Hussein in 2000 insisted Iraq’s oil be sold for euros, a political move, but one that improved Iraq’s recent earnings thanks to the rise in the value of the euro against the dollar.”

Could it be that an Israeli-American bombing assault to disrupt Iran is the only way to counter this Iranian economic assault on the U.S. dollar? The clock is ticking.

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