7 Reasons To Be Highly
Skeptical Of The Gulf Of Oman Incident
In
a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
has wasted no time scrambling
to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the
Gulf of Oman on Thursday, citing exactly zero evidence.
“This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons
used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar
Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the
area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high-degree of
sophistication,” Pompeo told the press in a statement.
“The United States will defend its forces, interests,
and stand with our partners and allies to safeguard global commerce and
regional stability. And we call upon all nations threatened by Iran’s
provocative acts to join us in that endeavor,” Pompeo concluded before hastily
shambling off, taking exactly zero questions.
"It is the assessment of the
U.S. government that Iran is responsible for today's attacks in the Gulf of
Oman...."@StateDept @SecPompeo
Here are seven reasons to be extremely skeptical of
everything Pompeo said:
1. Pompeo is a known liar, especially when it comes
to Iran.
Pompeo has a well-established history of circulating
blatant lies about Iran and the behavior of the Iranian government, and he
recently told an audience at
Texas A&M University that when he was leading the CIA, “We lied, we
cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses.”
2. The US empire is known to use lies and false flags
to start wars.
The US-centralized power alliance has an extensive and well-documented history of
advancing preexisting military agendas using lies, false flags and psyops to
make targeted governments appear to be the aggressors. This is such a
well-established pattern that “Gulf of Tonkin” briefly trended on Twitter after
the Gulf of Oman incident. Any number of government agencies could have been
involved from any number of the nations in this alliance, including the US, the
UK, the KSA, the UAE, or Israel.
3. John Bolton has openly endorsed lying to advance
military agendas.
I wrote an article about this last
month because the Trump administration had already begun
rapidly escalating against Iran in ways that happen to align perfectly with the
longtime agendas of Trump’s psychopathic Iran hawk National Security Advisor.
At that time people were so aware of the possibility that Bolton might involve
himself in staging yet another Middle Eastern war based on lies that The
Onion was already spoofing it.
On a December 2010 episode of Fox News’ Freedom
Watch, Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were debating about recent WikiLeaks
publications, and naturally the subject of government secrecy came
up.
“Now I want to make the case for secrecy in government
when it comes to the conduct of national security affairs, and possibly for
deception where that’s appropriate,” Bolton said. “You know Winston Churchill said
during World War Two that in wartime truth is so important it should be
surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.”
“Do you really believe that?” asked an incredulous
Napolitano.
“Absolutely,” Bolton replied.
“You would lie in order to preserve the truth?”
“If I had to say something I knew was false to protect
American national security, I would do it,” Bolton answered.
This would be the same John Bolton who has been
paid exorbitant speaking fees by
the pro-regime change MEK terror cult,
promising the cult in a 2017 speech that
they’d be celebrating regime change in Tehran together before 2019. This would
also be the same John Bolton who once threatened to murder an OPCW
official’s children if he didn’t stop getting in the way of his
Iraq war agenda.
4. Using false flags to start a war with Iran is
already an established idea in the DC swamp.
Back in 2012 at a forum for the Washington Institute
Of Near East Policy think tank, the group’s Director of Research Patrick
Clawson openly talked about the possibility
of using a false flag to provoke a war with Iran, citing the
various ways the US has done exactly that with its previous wars.
“I frankly think that crisis initiation is really
tough, and it’s very hard for me to see how the United States president can get
us to war with Iran,” Clawson began.
“Which leads me to conclude that if in fact compromise
is not coming, that the traditional way that America gets to war is what would
be best for US interests,” Clawson added. “Some people might think that Mr.
Roosevelt wanted to get us into the war… you may recall we had to wait for
Pearl Harbor. Some people might think that Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into
World War One; you may recall we had to wait for the Lusitania episode. Some
people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to get us into Vietnam; you may
recall we had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode. We didn’t go to war with
Spain until the USS Maine exploded. And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did
not feel that he could call out the Army until Fort Sumter was attacked, which
is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing which
the South Carolinians said would cause an attack.”
“So if, in fact, the Iranians aren’t going to
compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war,” Clawson
continued. “One can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. I mentioned
that explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean look
people, Iranian submarines periodically go down. Some day, one of them might
not come up. Who would know why? [Smattering of sociopathic laughter from the
crowd.] We can do a variety of things, if we wish to increase the pressure (I’m
not advocating that) but I’m just suggesting that this is not an either/or
proposition — just sanctions have to succeed or other things. We are in the game
of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier at that.”
5. The US State Department has already been running
psyops to manipulate the public Iran narrative.
Outrage on Capitol Hill over
completely unacceptable US-funded scheme to shape Iran debate. The @IranDisinfo troll campaign targeted
American citizens critical of Trump’s Iran policy and accused them of being
loyal to Tehran regime.
Me and @borzou https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-iran-congress-meeting-money-trump-conflict-a8954191.html …
Me and @borzou https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-iran-congress-meeting-money-trump-conflict-a8954191.html …
State Department officials admitted to Congressional
staff at a closed-door meeting on Monday that a $1.5 million troll farm had
gone “beyond the scope of its mandate” by aggressively smearing American
critics of the Trump administration’s Iran policy as propagandists for the
Iranian government, according to a new report from The
Independent. That “mandate” had reportedly consisted of “countering
propaganda from Iran”, also known as conducting anti-Iran propaganda.
“Critics in Washington have gone further, saying that
the programme resembled the type of troll farms used by autocratic regimes
abroad,” says The Independent.
“One woman behind the harassment campaign, a longtime
Iranian-American activist, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from
the State Department over the years to promote ‘freedom of expression and free
access to information,’” the report reads.
6. The Gulf of Oman narrative makes no sense.
Here we go again. US Empire
creating a pretext to go to war with Iran. It makes no sense that Iran would
provoke a war with US Empire while Iran tries to salvage the nuclear deal with
Europe. This situation looks manufactured as hell. The pro-war US media can’t
wait to sell this.
One of the ships damaged in the attacks was Japanese-owned, and the other was bound for Japan.
This happened just as Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran attempting to negotiate a de-escalation
between the US and Iran with Trump’s blessing , and just after Iran
had released a prisoner accused
of conducting espionage for the US in what many took to be a gesture of good
faith.
Iran has been conducting itself with remarkable restraint in the face of
relentless sanctions and provocations from the US and its allies; it wouldn’t
make much sense for it to suddenly abandon that restraint with attacks on sea
vessels, then rescue their crew,
then deny perpetrating the attacks,
during a time of diplomatic exchanges and while trying to preserve the nuclear dealwith
Europe. If Tehran did perpetrate the attacks in order to send a strong message
to the Americans, it would have been a very mixed message sent in a very weird
way with very odd timing.
7. Even if Iran did perpetrate the attack, Pompeo
would still be lying.
Pompeo’s statement uses the
words “unprovoked” twice and “Iran’s provocative acts” once, explicitly
claiming that the US empire was just minding its own business leaving Iran
alone when it was attacked out of the blue by a violent aggressor. Sometimes
the things put out by the US State Department feel like they’re conducting
experiments on us, just to test the limits of our stupidity.
As noted in this article by Moon of Alabama and this
discussion on the Ron Paul Liberty Report, the US has
been provoking Iran with extremely aggressive and steadily tightening
sanctions, which means that even if Tehran is behind the attacks, it would not
be the aggressor and the attacks would most certainly not have been
“unprovoked”. Economic sanctions are an act of war; if China were to do to
America’s economy what America is doing to Iran’s, the US would be in a hot war
with China immediately. It could technically be possible that Iran is pushing
back on US aggressions and provocations, albeit in a strange and neoconservatively
convenient fashion.
Either way, we have seen exactly zero evidence
supporting Pompeo’s claims, so anyone you see hastening to blame Iran for the
Gulf of Oman incident is either a war whore or a slobbering moron, or both.
Knowing what we know about the US-centralized empire and its pre-existing regime change agenda against Iran,
there is no reason to believe Pompeo and many reasons not to.
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