"Which
road to Persia”: a 2009 blueprint for regime change in Iran
This is my video on this subject
Background
This is Gen. Wesley Clark talking about the neo-con plans - 7 countries in 7 years.
And Bibi Netanyahu lying to Congress about IRAQ in 2003
And Israel lobbyist, Patrick Clawson being super-honest about the plans for Iran a few years ago (2012?)
This was an excellent interpretation of the Brooking Institute's "the Path to Persia"
You can read the report HERE
Crafting
a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous
challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque
political system, it is no wonder that the United States has not yet
figured out the puzzle that is Iran. With the clock ticking on Iran’s
pursuit of nuclear capabilities, solving this puzzle is more urgent
than ever.
In
Which Path to Persia? a group of experts with the Saban Center
for Middle East Policy at Brookings lays out the courses of action
available to the United States. What are the benefits and drawbacks
of airstrikes? Can engagement be successful? Is regime change
possible? In answering such questions, the authors do not argue for
one approach over another. Instead, they present the details of the
policies so that readers can understand the complexity of the
challenge and decide for themselves which course the United States
should take.
This is the article that explains this in detail.
Brookings' "Which Path to Persia?"
Part I: The war has already begun, total war is a possibility.
Part one is HERE
Part two is HERE
"For
those who favor regime change or a military attack on Iran (either by
the United States or Israel), there is a strong argument to be made
for trying this option first. inciting regime change in Iran would be
greatly assisted by convincing the Iranian people that their
government is so ideologically blinkered that it refuses to do what
is best for the people and instead clings to a policy that could only
bring ruin on the country. The ideal scenario in this case would be
that the United States and the international community present a
package of positive inducements so enticing that the Iranian
citizenry would support the deal, only to have the regime reject it.
In
a similar vein, any military operation against Iran will likely be
very unpopular around the world and require the proper international
context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would
require and to minimize the blowback from it. The best way to
minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however,
grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread
conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb
offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear
weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down.
Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could
portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least
some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians
“brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal."
Manufacturing
Provocations
"...it
would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an
Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before
launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and
the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United
States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United
States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the
world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One
method that would have some possibility of success would be to
ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would
retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be
portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.)
This
suggests that this option might benefit from being held in abeyance
until such time as the Iranians made an appropriately provocative
move, as they do from time to time. In that case, it would be less a
determined policy to employ airstrikes and instead more of an
opportunistic hope that Iran would provide the United States with the
kind of provocation that would justify airstrikes. However, that
would mean that the use of airstrikes could not be the primary U.S.
policy toward Iran (even if it were Washington’s fervent
preference), but merely an ancillary contingency to another option
that would be the primary policy unless and until Iran provided the
necessary pretext."
The following is an excellent summation by Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/14/seven-reasons-to-be-highly-skeptical-of-the-gulf-of-oman-incident/
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/06/convenient-tanker-attacks-as-us-seeks.html
The following is an excellent summation by Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/14/seven-reasons-to-be-highly-skeptical-of-the-gulf-of-oman-incident/
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/06/convenient-tanker-attacks-as-us-seeks.html
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