The late, great John Pilger on @GUnderground_TV , discussing the US’🇺🇸 obsession with Iran🇮🇷:
https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/2013669042800992663
The late, great John Pilger on , discussing the US’
obsession with Iran
:
‘The US obsession with Iran goes back to the fall of the Shah of Persia, who was one of the main pillars of US so-called foreign policy in the Middle East.
And when that came down in 1979, the US has never really recovered its sense, its equilibrium, if you like, its power in the Middle East.
It wants Iran back. If not back, it wants to deny Iran the independence of the Iranian state.
Now, why Trump in particular is obsessed with this, I don’t know. But why shouldn’t he be?
He’s an American president. He’s doing what American presidents always do.
The fact that he’s Trump then causes apoplexy in the media and the intelligence agencies and so on, for the very good reason that he’s exposed America without a mask.
America and the presidency without a mask is Trump. He’s a caricature, and he does what he wants to do.’
obsession with Iran:
‘The US obsession with Iran goes back to the fall of the Shah of Persia, who was one of the main pillars of US so-called foreign policy in the Middle East.
And when that came down in 1979, the US has never really recovered its sense, its equilibrium, if you like, its power in the Middle East.
It wants Iran back. If not back, it wants to deny Iran the independence of the Iranian state.
Now, why Trump in particular is obsessed with this, I don’t know. But why shouldn’t he be?
He’s an American president. He’s doing what American presidents always do.
The fact that he’s Trump then causes apoplexy in the media and the intelligence agencies and so on, for the very good reason that he’s exposed America without a mask.
America and the presidency without a mask is Trump. He’s a caricature, and he does what he wants to do.’
posted by Satish Sharma at
03:36
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