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Two Allies from Inferno Attack Iran. Possible Consequences
By Peter Koenig
Global Research, March 03, 2026
Region: Middle East & North Africa, USA
Theme: Intelligence
In-depth Report: IRAN: THE NEXT WAR?
On Saturday, 28 February 2026, President Trump confirmed on his Truth Social platform that Washington has launched a “major combat operations in Iran” to eliminate “imminent threats” and “defend the American people.” It is called “Epic Fury”, and War Minister, Pete Hegseth, said it will last for a long time.
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President Trump added that Iran had previously rejected demands to curb its nuclear program, which Iran says only serves peaceful purposes. This was apparently the reason and justification for this devastating infernal criminal act.
In full tandem with Israel, coordinated to the last details, it is a new war in the Middle East, one that looks like open-ended and nobody really foresaw – or is even willing to analyze – its possible consequences.
Netanyahu happily announces that Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) precision hit on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei residency killed the Supreme Leader, as well as many members of his family. Predictively, this murderous act will not remain unpunished.
The assault on Iran is the second act of war, or war crime, in less than two months that President Trump committed – first Venezuela, now Iran – without the approval of Congress, which is in violation of the US Constitution. Mr. Trump is losing support even in his Republican ranks. The US Congress is split on Trump’s actions and may launch a resolution to stop him. Overall, his aggressions do not fly well with Congress, which is not coincidentally carrying out an investigation behind closed doors about Trump’s involvement with Epstein.
Apparently, evidence has surfaced from unredacted Epstein documents to which a special Congressional Commission and several judges have access, that Trump may have raped a 13-year-old girl. True or false? That is the question.
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Is it possible that the “Epic Fury” assault was timed to deviate media’s and people’s attention from the ongoing investigation into Trump’s links to Epstein? What if evidence were to emerge of Trump’s Epstein pedo-crimes? The repercussions are difficult to imagine, but they might not be pretty.
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On Saturday 28 February, in a brief video statement, Trump called
“the Iranian regime” as “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” adding that its “menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.”
RT – 1 March 2026: “As far as Washington is concerned, the threat emanating from Tehran is close to zero.”
President Trump’s statement is a composite of multiple lies. Iran has never been a threat to the United States nor to US “allies around the world”. Nuclear negotiations ended with a deadlock in Geneva on Friday 27 February. Iran has made several concessions but did not agree with the Trump Administration’s demand for zero enrichment for civilian purposes, and to dismantle all related infrastructure. See this.
Trump claimed the stalemate “negotiations” as a reason for finally getting to grips with Iran’s nuclear threat. The deadlock of the Geneva “indirect” nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran is understandable.
Most certainly such a coordinated Netanyahu-Trump attack on Iran’s strategic sites cannot be carried out overnight without months of prior preparation. In fact, negotiations were scheduled to continue this coming week in Vienna, Austria, where the UN-regulated International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is headquartered. Thus, it just shows how fake such US-led negotiations are. Not for the first time, they are planned as a deception – to disguise an attack on the negotiating partner. How do Americans react to the Zionist-US “tandem” assault on Iran? According to a March 1, 2026 Reuters poll, only one in four US Americans support the Trump-Netanyahu aggression; meaning that Trump’s popularity is taking another deep-dive. See this Reuter’s survey.
It must be asked why Israel is allowed to have hundreds of nuclear warheads, yet Israel has never been inspected by the IAEA and is indeed a threat to the entire world, if it – the world or members thereof – objects to the Zionist plan of establishing Greater Israel, or worse taking over the world. Greater Israel now includes Iran and Iraq, basically the entire Middle East – and counting, as time goes on, and no firm and enforced Red Line is drawn in the sand which, as of now, seems to be the case.
A related journalist’s question on how long Trump believes the bombing will last, he answered something to the effect, as long as it takes to bomb the Islamic country to peace.
No comment needed. It is an answer right out of Orwell’s “1984”
“War is Peace and Peace is War.”
Or did Donald Trump mean “bombing the country to pieces”?
The assault was of course carried out in full coordination with the Zionist State of Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the country had carried out a “preemptive strike” on Iran “to remove threats against the State of Israel.” President Trump later confirmed US participation in the attack, vowing to dismantle the Iranian nuclear program, “raze [Iranian] missile industry,” and “annihilate their navy.” With the Zionists having “martyred” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and many members of his family, the Trump-Netanyahu couple from hell may feel the first step towards regime change is made. Could it mean Jihad is coming?
Former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof has said that the US and Israeli strikes on Iran are unlikely to topple Teheran’s Government. Iran is not Iraq.
Even if it does not immediately achieve its goal, lots of intermediate “benefits” may accrue for the aggressors: Petrol prices may rise, increasing oil companies’ profits. The potentially temporary oil / gas shortages may negatively impact the economies of China and Europe, and the US and Israel may control a huge junk more of Middle Eastern energy resources, let alone, the trillion dollars-worth of hydrocarbons off-shore of Gaza.
What if the attack succeeds somehow, getting rid of the current Iranian government, though not being able to replace it with a US and / or western friendly leadership, a scenario of a chaotic “Libya 2.0” could emerge, an endless, civil war-type fight between different factions could bring unrest not only to Iran – a country of 90 million people — but might also engender social and institutional instability in the entire Middle East. This might risk sectarian and ethnic violence, resulting in disruption of supply chains and a slow-down of global economies, including the US’.
It could have been planned, without the real vision of possible fallouts, as is often the case with western “instant profit” / “instant results” thinking.
Would such a scenario be of any benefit to the United States? Unlikely. Just look at Libya and Afghanistan which have dangerously deteriorated in the second decade of the 21st century. Worldwide repercussions might be disastrous.
The aggression on Iran looks like a classic case of prioritizing short-term tactical and domestic political gains at the expense of long-term strategic stability — a situation that could inflict lasting damage on the Western civilization.
Alternatively, the Middle East could slide into a regional war on a scale not previously witnessed – with unpredictable outcomes and the potential for a massive ecological, humanitarian, and economic crisis. The repercussions may be way beyond the Persian Gulf States.
This is why desperation – not strategy – is driving the US-Zionist strikes in Iran. The Trump-Epstein investigation comes to mind – again. In addition to Tel Aviv and Haifa, Teheran rockets hit primarily Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. All Arab states. You may argue that they are all dotted with US military bases. Yes. But they also were among the first ones to commit funding for Trump’s “Board of Peace” (BoP), supposedly to rebuild Gaza according to the Trump-Netanyahu’s criminal plan to “destroy and rebuild”, while annihilating the Gaza population. For more details, see this.
The BoP was proposed by Trump in September 2025 and formally established on the sidelines of the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) Conference in Davos in January 2026. To become a member, Trump, the self-nominated permanent chairman of the BoP, requires an arbitrary membership fee of a billon US dollars. Of the 62 countries invited, as of January 2025, 25 nodded yes to participate. So far, they include from the Middle East: Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The US-Western-controlled and -manipulated United Nations approved the BoP through Security Council Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025.
In other words, these Arab countries agree tacitly or directly with the Zionist-US destruction and elimination of their Palestinian brothers. Iran has always supported and defended Gaza and Palestine as whole. Thus, membership in Trump’s BoP is equal to being an enemy of Palestine. Targeting these Arab BoP members with missiles would appear a logical reaction.
Iranian authorities prepared for this aggression. Apparently, Teheran arranged for deliveries of long-range air defense systems, missiles, and fighter jets from China and Russia. They also set up a system to rapidly replace top military commanders in case they are eliminated. But is Iran’s military capacity sufficient for an on-scale counter-offensive? Maybe that is what Pete Hegseth referred to when he said operation “Epic Fury” may be a long-lasting one.
Moscow condemned the Trump-Netanyahu operation. The Russian Foreign Ministry described it as a “premeditated and unprovoked act of aggression” aimed at toppling a government “they deem undesirable because it has refused to yield to the dictates of force and hegemonic pressure.”
On a more philosophical note, and specifically referring to Trump’s campaign promises as a “Peace President”, President Vladimir Putin had the following comment:
“I have already spoken to three US Presidents…when a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, wearing dark glasses and dark suits. These people start explaining how things are done and instantly everything changes.’
The permanent imperial state and the corporate and foreign lobbyists that pull their strings are the ones who make the major political decisions no matter who the President is or which party is in power.
The United States is ruled by a corporate oligarchy that seeks to profit and enrich themselves through a permanent war economy based on debt, slavery, resource plunder, and arms contracts.”
This hits the nail on the head, and may be true for most statesmen around the world. But Trump, having been US President before (2017-2021), would he not have known in advance what these men in dark suits wanted him to do?
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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