Lee Heidhues 10.27.2023
It’s a dangerous game America is playing.
The American military is using the Hamas terror attack on Israel and the cataclysmic response by the Jewish State against the people of occupied Palestine as a casus belli to wage war against Iran.
It is all smoke and mirrors pushed by American media cheerleaders like the New York Post and Wall Street Journal linking Iran to the Hamas terror attacks which killed 1400 Israelis in early October. This is historical American media behavior which has beaten the drums of war to justify action.
The latest action is the military action against Iranians and their proxies based in Syria.
Excerpted from Aljazeera 10.26.2023
On Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said at the United Nations that the US would “not be spared from this fire” if Israel’s bombardment of Gaza did not end.
“I say frankly to the American statesmen, who are now managing the genocide in Palestine, that we do not welcome [an] expansion of the war in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian said. “But if the genocide in Gaza continues, they will not be spared from this fire.”
The United States has attacked two facilities in Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed groups, the Pentagon has said, following a series of attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria.
The strikes came after President Joe Biden’s administration pledged to respond to attacks on US personnel that Washington has blamed on armed groups backed by Iran.
“The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian-backed attacks against US forces are unacceptable and must stop,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement on Thursday.
“Iran wants to hide its hand and deny its role in these attacks against our forces. We will not let them. If attacks by Iran’s proxies against US forces continue, we will not hesitate to take further necessary measures to protect our people.”
Austin said the “narrowly-tailored strikes” were in self-defense and were not connected to the Israel-Hamas war.
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