Jonah Shepp, NYMag: Are We Going to War With Iran?
When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday presented what she claimed was irrefutable evidence that Iran had supplied a missile launched at the Saudi Arabian capital by Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, it was hard not to recall the last time an American diplomat stood before the U.N. with evidence that a rogue Middle Eastern state was engaged in proliferation of dangerous weapons.
As it turned out, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s 2003 speech explaining the Bush administration’s rationale for going to war with Iraq was based on lies and fabrications, and of course, Iran says Haley’s evidence is fabricated as well. Iran’s proxy relationship with the Houthis is well-known, but the U.N. itself is not as sure as the U.S. seems to be that the two short-range ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis were Iranian-made, while some experts suspect Saudi Arabia of overstating Iran’s meddling in Yemen, the better to justify its own.
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Update #1: Iranian missiles fired at Saudi Arabia: how US can respond (Stephen Bryen, Asia Times)
Update #2: Why Saudi Arabia cannot go to war with Iran (Maysam Behravesh, Middle East Eye).
WNU Editor: The question on "are we going to war with Iran?" is moot .... Iran is already involved in a number of wars in the Middle East either directly or through proxies. Its support for extremist groups that have attacked U.S. targets has been extensively documented, and its rhetoric makes it very clear that from the Iranian point of view (a view that has been persistent since the revolution) they are in a life and death struggle with the U.S.
As for the U.S. .... its support for those who are fighting against Iran has also been well documented. The questions that remain unanswered are the following .... with the war against the Islamic State now dying down, will the U.S. now focus on Iran and stopping its goal of establishing a "Shiite crescent" from Iran to the Mediterranean Sea, and if so .... how will they do it and with whom. And if this does happen .... what will be the Iranian response?
4 comments:
Together with saudi Arabia and the rest of their gang..
Russia hopefully stays out of this or comes to our side, I really do not wish to be engaged with Russians in a proxy fight ..not just for respect for them but because I'd wish them no harm. Feels like because of the middle east projects we're all getting proxy war'ed against each other - by them! We, the Russians, the US and the west do a lot of heavy lifting, bombing, special ops etc. ...It must be worth it, for this very grave danger of escalation and rupture of old rifts
"Michael Flynn’s role in Mideast nuclear project could compound legal issues" - WaPo
Cooperating with the Russians is a prison sentence, unless the right people "get the idea first", get credit for it, & profit from it.
Why is that journalist questioning the fact that Iran is helping the houtis with everything? No Wonder the world is going down the drainer...
"Haley simply lied about the UN findings. They do not say what she claims. Indeed the UN panel acknowledged that the similarities found do not prove the origin:
[T]he panel said it “as yet has no evidence as to the identity of the broker or supplier” of the missiles, ..
Haley pointed to one alleged part of the missile debris that bore a logo of an Iranian company. She neglected to point out that the UN panel also found U.S. made hardware as part of the missiles. Neither proves where the missile came from."
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