Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained

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The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary Iranian government, preserve the petrodollar system, prevent de-dollarization, divide BRICS, and break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership. How Israel's war on Iran was made in USA:    • Israel's war on Iran was made in USA: Trum...   US pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan:    • US pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in d...   Topics 0:00 US support for Israeli attacks 4:38 Goals of US-Israeli war on Iran 10:13 Israel: outpost of US empire 14:35 US imperial strategy 16:28 Geopolitics of West Asia (Middle East) 17:50 Oil and gas 21:11 Geostrategic chokepoints 24:53 Axis of Resistance 28:33 Syria: Fall of Assad government 31:44 US plan to overthrow 7 countries 33:54 Iranian Revolution 35:53 Anti-colonial movements 39:14 Dedollarization 41:49 Petrodollar and OPEC oil embargo 47:05 Super Imperialism 49:36 Petrodollar challenge 52:43 BRICS 55:55 Shanghai Cooperation Organization 58:53 Iran-Russia-China partnership 1:04:05 US divide-and-conquer strategy 1:06:03 Outro || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://GeopoliticalEconomy.com/Support 

 

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israel is at war with Iran israel started this war by launching a surprise
attack on Iran on the 13th of June and in the following days Iran hit back
israel attacked Iran again and it escalated into a larger conflict now the
US government is deeply involved in this war on Iran us President Donald Trump
knew about all of the operations because the US was helping Israel to plan and to
carry out this attack israeli officials were given a very clear green light from
the US government and Donald Trump personally gave his approval to Israel's
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the US government also provided Israel with very important intelligence that was
used to target Iranian officials and just 3 days before Israel started this
war the US delivered 300 Hellfire missiles to Israel knowing that Israel
would use these US missiles in order to attack Iran and after Israel started the
war the US military got directly involved this was admitted by the Wall
Street Journal the newspaper reported quote "The US military is operating in the air on land and at sea to shoot down
Iranian missiles fired at Israel." End quote it added that before Iran's
retaliatory strikes even began US fighter jets Navy destroyers and
groundbased air defense systems were already positioned in place to help
counter the attacks on Israel this is even more evidence that the US government planned this attack on Iran
with Israel because the US military was already in place 90% of the victims of
these USbacked Israeli attacks on Iran have been civilians 90% civilians donald
Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran and he ordered a complete evacuation of the
Iranian capital there were roughly 10 million people living in Tehran and yet
Trump ordered all of them to leave and why is that it's because the US and Israel planned to bomb Tehran into
rubble this was admitted by Israel's Channel 14 the media outlet admitted
that Israel's goal is to destabilize and eventually overthrow the Iranian
government so this is not about Iran's nuclear program this is about regime
change the US-Israeli strategy is to cause mass chaos and scare the civilian
population and force millions of people to be displaced which will destabilize
the government and then the US and Israel plan to bomb Tehran into smitherreens israel's defense minister
said quote "Tehran will be treated like Beirut." End quote referring to the 2006
Israeli war on Lebanon in which Israel devastated the Lebanese capital Beirut
and bombed civilian infrastructure causing mass chaos israeli military officials have admitted that they could
not wage war without support from the US government and that includes Israel's
war on Gaza Lebanon Syria and now Iran the US is providing Israel with the
missiles and the planes and the intelligence that it's using to attack Iran this war would be impossible
without US support and this is bipartisan US policy the Joe Biden
administration gave Israel more than $18 billions of dollars of weapons and
ammunition and the Trump administration is also sending billions of dollars of
military aid to Israel so the very important point that I wanted to establish at the beginning here is that
this is a joint USIsraeli war this is not a war that Israel launched without
the support of the US it's not Israel that's dragging the US into war the US government is deeply involved gave the
green light to Israel and is overseeing this war against Iran if you want more
information about that in the description below I will link to the other video and article that I did
explaining that point but today I want to answer another question which is why
the US and Israel are waging war on Iran what is the goal of this joint USIsraeli
war well the reality is there's not just one goal but rather multiple goals i
wrote out a list of the main things that the US Empire is trying to accomplish with this war on Iran the first and most
obvious is to maintain US agy in West Asia also known as the Middle East the
second is to destroy the anti-colonial axis of resistance i'll talk about that
later this is the alliance of revolutionary groups in the region that are allied with Iran and have been
fighting the US and Israel and by destroying the Axis of resistance this
would make it possible for the US and Israel to carry out the total colonization of Palestine which is
obviously one of their main goals i mean this strategy is not new at all but Donald Trump said the quiet part loud
and he admitted that the US wants to colonize Gaza and turn it into an
outpost for the US especially one where he could build luxury real estate and
profit the US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too
we'll own it you know Gaza is interesting it's a phenomenal location on the sea
best weather you know everything's good it's like some beautiful things could be done with it but the US Empire also has
several other goals in the joint US-Israeli war on Iran another is
obviously to prevent Iran from developing nuclear capabilities iran does not have nuclear weapons although
Israel does and moreover the US government has tried for decades to
overthrow or at least weaken the independent revolutionary government in
Iran that came to power in 1979 through a revolution this has been a
long-standing goal another major goal of this war is to scare other countries in
the region that may want to move away from the United States and in particular
the dollar and this especially is targeted at the Gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates because these countries export a lot of oil and gas which means they make a lot of foreign currency in
particular US dollars because the US imposed a petro dollar system on the
region in the 1970s forcing these countries to sell their oil and gas in
dollars which maintains global demand for the US dollar however in recent
years the Persian Gulf countries have been moving closer and closer to China which is their largest trading partner
and even Saudi Arabia is now talking about selling its oil in China's
currency either in Mimi or Yuan which would be a major blow to the global
dominance of the US dollar again I'm going to go into greater detail about this issue later this is just a brief
summary so again one of the goals of this US sponsored war on Iran is to preserve the petro dollar system and
ensure continued global demand for the US dollar related to that is the US goal
of destabilizing bricks and the Shanghai cooperation organization brics is the
global south organization that originally consisted of Brazil Russia India China and South Africa but it has
expanded greatly and in 2024 Iran became a full member of bricks iran also
officially became a member of the Shanghai Cooperational Organization in 2023 again I'll talk more about that
later but the point is is that this US sponsored war against Iran aims at
dividing the global south and disrupting the multi-olar project in which global
south organizations like bricks and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization play a key role and the final goal related to
that is that the US wants to break up the partnership between Iran Russia and
China with the ultimate goal of isolating Beijing because the United
States is waging a new cold war on China this is cold war this is admitted openly
now in Washington it's no longer even controversial saying that so the US is trying to isolate China by dividing it
from some of its most important allies and some of the most powerful partners of China include Russia and Iran this is
why Donald Trump himself admitted that he wants to divide Russia and China
because this is the age-old strategy of divide and conquer you never want Russia
and China uniting we united them it's a
shame the stupidity of what they done well I'm gonna have to ununite them and I could think I can do that too i have
to ununite them if the US can destabilize the independent revolutionary government in Iran
potentially even overthrowing it and especially if the US can divide Russia
and China this is part of Washington's new cold war strategy to isolate Beijing
so you can see that this USbacked war against Iran is about much more than
just Israel Palestine and it's also about more than just West Asia just the
Middle East this is a conflict with major geopolitical and economic
implications spanning the entire world and in the rest of the analysis today I'm going to go through point by point
and explain the goals and the strategy of the US empire in this joint
US-Israeli war on Iran now I want to start by highlighting an excellent point
that was made by Brian Brletic who is the host of the independent news outlet
The New Atlas and he does great research and Brian Berletic pointed out I think
correctly that the US is using Israel as it uses Ukraine Taiwan and the
Philippines to advance its goal of confronting multipolarism or
multipolarity destroying Iran which is a major nation promoting this global
south-led multipolar project to challenge the unipolar order in the
world that was dominated by the US Empire in the 1990s and early 2000s it
was the only superpower in the world and the US could impose its hegemony on most other countries brian Brletic points out
correctly that the US is using Israel as a proxy specifically to redirect blame
and literal incoming missiles away from the US and toward its proxy Israel and
this isn't in any way to excuse Israel for the horrific crimes it's been carrying out in Gaza in Syria in Lebanon
and now in Iran of course Israel is directly responsible for these war crimes and crimes against humanity but
it's important to point out why Israel is carrying out all of these horrific crimes and it's on behalf of the US
Empire this was spelled out very clearly in a plan that was published by several US government officials for the
Washington DC based think tank the Brookings Institution which is very closely linked to the US government and
basically acts as a kind of outsourced arm of the US government in 2009 these
US government officials these US imperial planners published a strategy paper titled which path to Persia
options for a new American strategy toward Iran and chapter 5 is titled
Leave it to BB that is Benjamin Netanyahu so leave it to Netanyahu allowing or encouraging an Israeli
military strike on Iran in this paper these US government officials at a US
governmentbacked think tank wrote that the US should encourage Israel to attack
Iran and this is what they said quote "The United States would encourage and perhaps even assist the Israelis in
conducting the strikes themselves in the expectation that both international criticism and Iranian retaliation would
be deflected away from the United States and on to Israel." End quote this is
exactly what the US Empire is doing today i mean they spelled it out so clearly it's so obvious trump personally
gave Israel the green light he knew about the operation he helped to plan it trump delivered Israel hundreds of
missiles 3 days before Israel started the war and the US has been giving
Israel billions and billions of dollars of weapons and military assistance for
decades but especially since 2023 the Biden administration and the Trump
administration together have given well over 20 billion dollars of weapons and
ammunition missiles and other military equipment to carry out these proxy wars
on behalf of the US Empire and this is why the former US Secretary of State
Alexander Heg famously said quote "Israel is the largest American aircraft
carrier in the world that cannot be sunk it is located in a critical region for
American national security end quote so in other words Israel is an unsinkable
aircraft carrier for the US Empire this was even admitted by Israel's longest
ever serving prime minister basically the king of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu
netanyahu famously said that Israel is a quote mighty aircraft carrier end quote
of the United States and by the way Netanyahu is an American he was raised
and educated in the US he went to high school and college and got his first job in the US he had US citizenship twice
and he only gave up his US citizenship in order to be Israel's prime minister
but he is an American and what he's doing is serving the interests of the US empire so this brings me to the first
goal of the US-Israeli war on Iran which is to maintain US hijgemony in West Asia
also known as the Middle East this was clearly spelled out by the Pentagon the US Department of Defense back in 1992 in
the infamous Wolawitz doctrine this was a plan that was written by the under
secretary of defense Paul Wolawitz a notorious wararmonger and in the
Wolawitz doctrine he stated very clearly that the goal of the US empire was to
prevent the rise of any other superpower that could challenge the dominance of
the United States in the world at this time in the 1990s the Soviet Union had just been overthrown a year before in
1991 the US was the only major power in the world it was a unipolar world
dominated by the US Empire and they wrote very clearly in this Pentagon
document that that the quote goal is to prelude any hostile power from
dominating a region critical to our interests end quote and they named several regions among them were the
Middle East/Persian Gulf and also East Asia and those are the main two areas
today that the US military is targeting especially under Trump in East Asia the
US is militarizing the region to try to encircle China as part of the new cold war and now of course the US is using
Israel to wage war all across the Middle East West Asia to try to recreate the
region overthrowing all of the independent governments and propping up pro- US regimes and as they stated very
clearly in the Wolowitz doctrine the goal is also to maintain US quote
control of the resources of such a critical region end quote so if you
think about the geography of this region if you look at a map it becomes pretty clear why the US empire has been so
dedicated to propping up this colonial regime in Israel and why this has been bipartisan because it is perfectly
located geostrategically geographically as a launchpad for the US to wage war on
all of the other countries in the region to maintain control over West Asia over the Middle East i mean Israel Palestine
is this crucial point that links West Asia to the Mediterranean going into
Europe it also links West Asia to northern Africa to Egypt so the US
Empire has used this unsinkable aircraft carrier in Israel to attack Iran to
attack Iraq let's not forget the US invaded Iraq two times to attack Syria after over a decade of war on Syria that
started in 2011 and ultimately succeeded in the overthrow of the Syrian government in late 2024 the US has also
been attacking Yemen the Donald Trump administration waged war on Yemen continuing the war that was also waged
by Obama and Biden so the US is constantly using Israel to destabilize
all of the independent governments in the region and maintain hegemony over West Asia now obviously it goes without
saying that West Asia has the largest reserves of oil and natural gas on Earth
nine of the world's top 20 largest oil producers are located in this region
however I should point out the United States is the world's number one producer of oil similarly seven of the
top 20 largest producers of natural gas are located in this region although once
again the United States is the number one producer of natural gas on Earth as
well so it's not that the United States needs this oil and gas the US has tons
of oil and gas of course US corporations for-profit fossil fuel companies would
love to exploit the oil and gas of this region which is largely controlled by
state-owned companies saudi Arabia for instance has the massive state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco and the other
Persian Gulf countries also have state-owned oil and gas companies of course the US would love to privatize
all of this and sell it off to US corporations but it's not like the US needs access to more oil and gas what
the US is more concerned about is maintaining control over the global price of oil and natural gas this is why
the US government for many years was waging a kind of political war against OPEC the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries this organization was famously used in 1973 to declare an
oil embargo of the US and other western countries as part of a protest against
Israel's war so again we see historical parallels of how Israel is acting as a
vicious attack dog for the US empire in this very strategic region and today the
US has largely succeeded in weakening OPEC because the US has become the
number one producer of oil but the point is is that the US is very concerned about the possibility of oil production
and prices of oil in the global market being used as a geopolitical weapon
given that the global south and also Russia and China are leading producers
of oil and natural gas in the world so if they were to unite and use a cartel
like OPEC to control the price of oil or gas it could cause significant economic
damage and would lead to very high rates of inflation because when the price of
energy goes up it is an input in basically all other parts of the economy
so when the price of oil and gas goes up the price of everything else goes up and this obviously has led to a lot of
political instability in the US so the US is very concerned about the stability
of the price of oil and natural gas in global markets but what the US is also
very concerned about visav oil is the petro dollar system i'm going to talk
about this more in detail a bit later because I'm going to go point by point through the different goals of the US in
this war but this is a very important point that's related to oil and gas
production in the region but let's go back to this list of goals here and I know I'm spending a lot of time on point
one but this is the most important point of all the US strategy to maintain US hijgemony in West Asia it also makes
perfect sense at least from the perspective of imperial strategists if you look at a map of the world and the
role of this region in geostrategic choke points in the trade of oil and
other goods three of the most important choke points on earth are located in
this region including the straight of Hormuz the Babal Mandab and the Suez
Canal the US government's energy information administration the EIA has
written clearly that quote the straight of Hormuz is the world's most important
oil choke point end quote in fact 21% of all of the barrels of oil used on Earth
every single day pass through the straight of Hormuz as of 2022 that is
1if of the entire supply of oil on Earth and yet the straight of Hormuz is tiny
if Iran wanted to this would be a kind of nuclear scenario politically speaking
but Iran could close the straight of Hormuz which would grind a lot of the
global economy to a halt or at the very least it would cause very significant inflation because there would be a
shortage of 21% of the world's oil supply basically overnight but again
this is only one of the three critical choke points located in this region
another geopolitical choke point is the Bab al-Mandabub Strait which connects
the Arabian Sea into the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea and then into the
Mediterranean this passes by Yemen and this has become a major geopolitical
choke point in recent years because the Yemeni resistance group Ansarah popularly known as the Houthis
restricted access to the Red Sea by Israeli ships and Western ships of
countries that are allied with Israel in protest of their war on Gaza so we've
seen a clear example of how these choke points can be used as geopolitical
leverage to push for particular political goals and the Babal Mandab is not quite as strategic as the straight
of Hormuz but it's still very important the US EIA estimated that 9% of seaborn
traded petroleum travels through the Babal Mandab and what's also important
is that this connects to another very important choke point which is the Suez
Canal which is one of the most important trade choke points on Earth and in order
to go through the Suez Canal you have to first go through the Babal Mandab so
from a very basic geopolitical or even geographical perspective if you just look at a map of West Asia it becomes
very clear why the imperial strategists in Washington who are trying to maximize the power of the US empire around the
world it's very obvious why they are so desperate to maintain control over this
region especially at a time like now when China has become the largest trading partner of the countries in the
region and the US is less and less important economically so this is why the US is doubling down on its support
for Israel and using Israel as a vicious attack dog to destabilize and wage war
on all of the independent countries in the region to threaten them and scare them and say if you move away from the
US dominated imperial order you will face serious consequences like the
people of Palestine and now the people of Iran so this brings us to the second
major goal of the USIsraeli war on Iran which is to destroy the axis of
resistance and carry out the total colonization of Palestine so what is the
axis of resistance this is the term that is used to refer to the alliance of anti-colonialist groups armed groups
across West Asia the so-called Middle East and Iran is the largest and most
powerful of course Iran is an actual government not just a small armed group
but it is allied with the armed group Hezbollah in Lebanon which has its
origins in the 1980s fighting against Israel's illegal military occupation of
South Lebanon and of course in Palestine you have armed groups that have been fighting against Israel's illegal
occupation and blockade and in Gaza this most famously includes Hamas which is
the political party and the armed group that governs Gaza but there are also other Palestinian factions like the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine which is a socialist group with an armed wing that's the PFLP and
in Yemen you have the so-called Houthis which are officially known as Ansar
Allah and Ansarah governs northern Yemen where the majority of the Yemeni
population lives and yes they are allied with Iran but they're not so-called Iranian proxies they have their origins
in the Yemeni indigenous struggle against the extremist Wahhabi form of
Islam that was exported by Saudi Arabia to Yemen and other countries and also
Ansalah has its origins in groups that supported Palestine and also opposed the
illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and over a decade Ansar grew in influence
and became more and more popular also especially fighting corruption in Yemen and in 2014 on the 21st of September
they carried out a revolution and they now govern the northern part of Yemen
and the US and its allies including Saudi Arabia and Israel and the UAE have
been fighting against the so-called Houthies against Ansarah for a decade now starting in 2015 and have been
unable to defeat them but they're another very important part of the resistance axis and then finally in Iraq
you have the Islamic resistance of Iraq and other armed groups many of which
were formed because they were fighting extremist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS
and by the way the main victims of these extremist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS
were Shia Muslims because you you know obviously the vast majority of Sunnis in
the world are not extremists but these very extremist violent fascist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS they distort
Sunni Islam they preach a very extreme form of Sunni Islam and they see Shia
Muslims as their main enemy and they largely have killed a lot of Shia
Muslims in countries like Iraq where the Shia are the majority and also in Syria
where the Shia are a minority and also in Yemen where the main base of Ansarah
are Shia Muslims the Zides which is a a sect that is related to Shia Islam
although they're actual Islamic juristprudence is more similar to mainstream Sunnis but the point is is that many of these groups have their
origins in Shia Islam and of course Iran is the largest Shia majority country the
vast majority of Muslims in Iran are Shia but this brings me to the final country that was previously part of the
Axis of resistance which was Syria when it was governed by the longtime leader
Bashar al-Assad and his father Haes al-Assad they were Arab nationalists
syria was one of the countries in the region that always supported the Palestinian struggle and refused to
normalize relations with Israeli colonialism however starting in 2011 the
US started a war in Syria trying to overthrow the Syrian government the CIA
spent billions of dollars arming and training so-called rebels many of whom
later joined al-Qaeda and ISIS many of whom were extremists Islamists and they
eventually succeeded with the support of Israel and the Gulf monarchies in Turkey
which is a member of NATO altogether these countries supported the so-called rebels in Syria and they succeeded in
2024 in overthrowing the Syrian government and now Syria is governed by
the former leader of al-Qaeda i'm not exaggerating in any way the unelected
so-called president of Syria since the previous government was overthrown is the former leader of Syria's al-Qaeda
affiliate the world's largest al-Qaeda affiliate which was called Jabat An-Nusra which later rebranded with US
support as Hayat Tahia Sham Hts and the former leader of Syrian al-Qaeda is he
previously used the name Abu Muhammad al- Julani and now he uses the name his birth name Ahmed Ashara and he declared
himself the so-called president of Syria he was not elected so I mean people love to criticize the former ba'ist
government of the Assad family in Syria they love to criticize it for being authoritarian but Syria today is just as
authoritarian if not even more authoritarian and I mean it's ruled by the former leader of al-Qaeda and the US
government has been working very closely to normalize relations and has been
supporting the new al-Qaeda Syrian government because Syria is now working
with the US against Iran in and in alliance with Israel so now the
rebranded al-Qaeda leader who is the unelected president of Syria Ashara he
said openly that he wants to normalize relations with Israel which the previous Assad government had always refused to
do so he's obediently following US orders and I have to stress that this
US-Israeli attack on Iran was only made possible because of the overthrow of the
Syrian government and now Israel has colonized more and more Syrian land
they've destroyed Syria's military so it can't defend itself and Israel used
Syrian territory in order to launch these attacks on Iran and keep in mind
that the major British newspaper The Telegraph published a report with interviews with Syrian rebels who
admitted that the US military backed their operation to overthrow the Assad
government in Syria so again this makes it very clear why the US and Israel are waging war on Iran because they already
succeeded in overthrowing Syria and removing Syria from the resistance axis
and Israel has also been waging war in South Lebanon against Hezbollah the
Lebanese resistance group that has its origins in the 1980s in the fight against Israel's illegal occupation of
South Lebanon so Israel weakened Hezbollah and killed its leadership israel has been taking control over Gaza
colonizing Gaza colonizing the West Bank which according to international law is
occupied Palestinian territory the US under Trump and also under Obama and
Biden were waging war on Ansar law in Yemen weakening them and of course the
US government invaded Iraq two times in the Gulf War and then again in 2003 in
the Iraq war and now the final target is Iran which the US and Israel are now
attacking this was famously admitted by Wesley Clark the former US general and
commander of NATO back in 2007 in an interview he admitted that the US
military had made plans to overthrow the governments of seven countries in 5
years what were those seven countries iraq Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan
and Iran iran was the final country on the list and of those seven the US
succeeded in toppling or destabilizing the governments in six of those
countries iraq Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia and Sudan iran is the final
country remaining and now the US and Israel are openly directly attacking
Iran this is what they've been planning for for decades he said "I just got this down from upstairs," meaning the
Secretary of Defense's office today and he said "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven
countries in 5 years starting with Iraq and then Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia
Sudan and finishing off Iran." So now this brings me to another major
goal of the USIsraeli war on Iran which is to overturn the Iranian revolution
going back to 1979 this is the uprising that founded the
Islamic Republic of Iran that ever since has been a target of the US now it's
very important to understand the role that Iran played before the 1979 revolution in the 1950s,60s and 70s Iran
was ruled by a king a monarch known as the Shaw he was installed in power in
1953 by the western colonial nations after the CIA and British intelligence
MI6 organized a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected prime minister
Muhammad Mosedc who was a left-leaning nationalist who had nationalized the oil
of Iran kicking out the Western oil corporations and the US was also very
concerned that he would lean toward the Soviet Union in the original cold war
the first cold war that the US was waging at the time so the US put in power the sha the king of Iran and he
was a loyal US ally throughout this period and at that time Iran was a key
part of what was known as the twin pillars policy the US empire tried to
maintain control over West Asia saudi Arabia another loyal US ally was the
western pillar and Iran was the eastern pillar in this twin pillars policy
however that changed in 1979 with the Iranian revolution and the newly founded
Islamic Republic was very influenced by global south anti-colonial struggles the
national liberation struggles of what at that time was called the third world now it's important to understand that in the
region in the 1960s and 70s there were many different revolutionary movements
there were many different Marxist and socialist groups there were communists there were left-wing Arab nationalists
who were also socialists but who were against the communists there was a lot of infighting and many different
factions but the point is is that during the cold war the first cold war the US
was waging a brutal war against the socialist and communist groups in the
region and the US used Israel and Saudi Arabia and its other allies to violently
repress these revolutionary groups and then when the US defeated many of the
communist groups the US started targeting the secular Arab nationalist
groups and the US Israel and Saudi Arabia waged a war against Arab
nationalist leaders the most famous Arab nationalist leader was Gamal Abdaser in
Egypt he led a revolution in 1952 against a western sponsored monarchy and
he created a new Arab nationalist republic and Nasser inspired a movement
of Arab nationalism all across the region so then later you had the rise to power of Arab nationalists in Iraq and
then in Syria you had the formation of the Bath party which was a party that combined socialism with Arab nationalism
and then you had a split in the Bath party between Syria and Iraq but both Syria under Assad and Iraq under Saddam
Hussein had Arab nationalist governments and then in Libya you had the revolutionary anti-colonialist leader
Muhammar Gaddafi who was also an Arab nationalist and a socialist and after
the first cold war ended the Soviet Union was overthrown and then the US government waged a series of regime
change wars overthrowing Saddam Hussein in Iraq who was from another faction of
the Bath party overthrowing Muhammad Gaddafi in Libya in 2011 and then
finally overthrowing Assad and the Bath Partyled government in Syria in 2024 so
the US empire and its allies Israel and Saudi Arabia basically succeeded in
defeating Arab nationalism today there are no more Arab nationalist governments
in West Asia during the first cold war there were many Arab nationalist governments in Egypt Syria Iraq Yemen
but all of those movements were destroyed so the communists and the socialists were destroyed then the Arab
nationalists were destroyed and then what happened is you had the rise of Islamic nationalist groups islamist
groups but not the kinds of extremist Islamist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS
you had a kind of revolutionary thirdw world nationalist global south nationalist movement in countries like
Lebanon with Hezbollah in Yemen with Ansarah and of course in Iran with the
Iranian revolution so Iran is one of the last bastions of anti-colonial
resistance that the US empire and its regional proxies have been trying to destroy to maintain US hijgemony over
this region so again getting back to the list of goals in this USIsraeli war on
Iran obviously the US has tried for decades to overthrow or at least to
weaken Iran's revolutionary government but another goal of this war is to scare
other countries in the region that may want to move away from the US and the
dollar and especially the Persian Gulf monarchies because Iran has been a major
country pushing for ddollarization challenging the role of the US dollar as
the global reserve currency in fact in recent years Iran has been selling more
and more oil and gas in other currencies for instance Iran has been exporting a
lot of oil to China which is the world's largest importer of oil and China has
been paying for that oil not with US dollars but with China's own currency
the renmi also known as the yuan this has allowed Iran and China to circumvent
unilateral Western sanctions the US has imposed very aggressive sanctions on
Iran and also some on China these sanctions violate international law because they don't have the endorsement
of the UN Security Council but it has devastated Iran's economy so Iran is
constantly trying to find ways around the US dominated financial system which has only further incentivized it to seek
alternatives to the US dollar and to support a global movement that is growing of ddollarization and Iran is a
significant player in global energy markets iran is tied with Iraq and China
as the fifth largest producer of oil on Earth and Iran is the world's number
three producer of natural gas and what the US is really concerned about is that
other countries in the Persian Gulf may start doing exactly what Iran is doing
and sell their oil and gas in other currencies not in the US dollar in fact
this is already happening the United Arab Emirates has been selling liqufied natural gas LNG to China in yuan not in
dollars and Saudi Arabia which has historically been one of the most important oil producers on Earth even
Saudi Arabia is also in talks with China about selling its oil in China's
currency the yuan which would be a massive blow to the US petrod dollar
system what is the petro dollar system well in order to understand this we have to go back to August 1971
when US President Richard Nixon ended the convertability of the dollar to gold
because before that going to the Breton Woods conference of 1944 at the end of
World War II the US dollar had been pegged to gold at a fixed exchange rate
of $35 for one ounce of gold nixon ended that and since 1971 the US dollar has
been a freely floating fiat currency this means that the value of the US dollar in relation to other currencies
is constantly fluctuating up and down in the foreign exchange market and in the
1970s there was a lot of inflation in the United States and the US was trying to find a way to stabilize the value of
the dollar to bring down inflation this is especially after the OPEC oil embargo
in 1973 which caused oil prices to skyrocket and in 1974
inflation in the US hit 11% which was record-breaking at the time in 1973 the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC launched an oil embargo
on the US and its Western Allies because of their support for Israel which was
illegally occupying Palestinian Egyptian Syrian and Jordanian territory let's not
forget this was a very revolutionary period in the 70s and there were anti-colonial national liberation
struggles happening around the world so the global south came together and used its power in the global oil market to
use oil as a geopolitical weapon against the western colonial powers and this
embargo immediately caused the price of oil to more than double and then in the
subsequent years throughout all of the geopolitical turbulence between 1973 and
1981 the price of oil increased by five times this was a massive crisis and this
was a very significant reason for the sky-high rates of inflation in the US
and in many other countries around the world in the 1970s and by the way a year
and a half after the OPEC oil embargo the leader of that embargo was
assassinated he was king fisel of Saudi Arabia and he had been very pro
Palestine and was very angry at Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and
also occupation of the territory of other neighboring Arab countries so he is the one who as the king of Saudi
Arabia which at the time was the de facto leader of OPEC he oversaw the OPEC
oil embargo and a year and a half later he was assassinated but regardless the point is is that the OPEC oil embargo
was a major wakeup call to the Western imperialist countries that colonize most
of the world it showed them that the global south which produced the majority of the oil in the world could unite and
through OPEC they could use their influence in the global oil industry to do significant damage to the economies
of the West so in 1974 a year after the OPEC oil embargo the Richard Nixon
administration made a plan to create the petro dollar system and what happened in
1974 Nixon sent the US Treasury Secretary William Simon Bill Simon to
Saudi Arabia to make a deal this is how Bloomberg described their goal quote
"Neutralize crude oil as an economic weapon and find a way to persuade a hostile kingdom that is Saudi Arabia to
finance America's widening deficit with its newfound petro dollar wealth." End
quote and Nixon made it clear there was no coming back empty-handed now the
strategy was not only crafted by Nixon but also by Nixon's all powerful
secretary of state and national security adviser Henry Kissinger so Kissinger and
Nixon sent the Treasury Secretary Bill Simon to Saudi Arabia who was William
Simon he was a Wall Street veteran who had served as the head of the treasuries
desk bond trading for the major Wall Street investment bank Solomon Brothers
and in Jedda Saudi Arabia in 1974 this is the deal he made with the Saudis
i'm reading here from Bloomberg quote "Simon better than anyone else understood the appeal of US government
debt and how to sell the Saudis on the idea that America was the safest place to park their petro dollars." End quote
and then later on quote "The basic framework was strikingly simple the US
would buy oil from Saudi Arabia and provide the kingdom military aid and equipment in return the Saudis would
plow billions of their petro dollar revenue back into treasuries and finance
America's spending end quote this was famously spelled out by the economist Michael Hudson a good friend of the show
back in his book Superimperialism the economic strategy of American Empire
he explained how with the war in Korea and then the US war on Vietnam the US
began running a larger and larger current account deficit that is a balance of payments deficit the US was
importing more and more and exporting less and less and Michael Hudson explained with all of the data proving
that the reason for that was because of the US empire the wars it was waging
around the world the balance of payments deficit was due to the US military's
global spending to maintain this empire with foreign military bases all around
the world so after Nixon ended the link of the US dollar to gold the way that he
maintained global demand for the US dollar was to force the Persian Gulf
monarchies especially Saudi Arabia but then later the UAE and Qatar and others
to sell their oil and gas in US dollars which means that countries all around
the world that need to import oil and gas have to get access to dollars this
maintains global demand for the US dollar and it has allowed the US to run
larger and larger current account deficits trade deficits with the rest of the world over decades and yet most
countries would face a severe currency crisis if this happened their currency would fall significantly against the
dollar and they would have hyperinflation the reason it doesn't happen in the US is because there's
global demand for the US dollar because countries need the dollar in order to
pay for imports not only of oil and gas but many other commodities and other imports because the dollar is the global
reserve currency and also because other countries that have current account surpluses trade surpluses with the rest
of the world they recycle the excess dollars they get from trade into US
government debt us Treasury securities and other US assets so at the heart of
the exorbitant privilege the US has by printing the global reserve currency the
heart of that exorbitant privilege is the petrod dollar system and especially
the Persian Gulf monarchies selling their oil and gas in dollars so the fact
that Iran and the UAE are already selling oil and gas to China in yuan is
very concerning from the perspective of the US empire and Washington is especially afraid of the possibility of
Saudi Arabia doing the same now Saudi Arabia still plays a very influential
role in the global oil market as a swing producer because Saudi Arabia's
state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco is known to be used as a political tool
when Riyad wants to accomplish a certain goal it can increase or reduce its oil
production in order to influence the price of oil on the global market and Saudi Arabia is still a major player in
OPEC so the US is very concerned about the possibility of Saudi Arabia moving
away from the pro dollar and potentially toward a pro- yuan or at the very least
selling its oil in different currencies with different trading partners in fact back in 2023 the Wall Street Journal
published an article that outlined the demands that the Biden administration
had imposed on Saudi Arabia as part of a plan to broker Ra Promont with Israel
the US was pressuring Saudi Arabia to officially recognize Israel and to abandon the Palestinians and according
to this report the US government had two main demands one Saudi Arabia had to cut
its close ties with China and two Saudi Arabia had to give assurances that it
will sell its oil in dollars not the Chinese currency the yuan the Wall
Street Journal wrote that quote "The Biden administration is seeking assurances from Saudi Arabia that it
will distance itself economically and militarily from China officials said the
US could seek assurances from Saudi Arabia that it won't allow China to build military bases in the kingdom
negotiators could also seek limitations on Saudi Arabia using technology developed by China's Huawei and
assurances that Riad will use US dollars not Chinese currency to price oil sales
end quote if you want more information about this I have another video and an article specifically about this topic
which I will link to in the description below but the point to take away is that the US is waging war on Iran as a threat
to other countries in the region telling them that if you act too independently
like Iran if you get too close to China and Russia if you sell your oil and gas
in other currencies and challenge the petro dollar you will face consequences
the US is punishing Iran waging war on Iran and saying to Saudi Arabia and the UAE and Qatar which have historically
been US client regimes like Iran was before the revolution in 1979 under the
Sha the US is telling them do not try to copy what Iran is doing or you will be
the next Iran so finally this brings us to the last two goals of the USIsraeli
war on Iran which are deeply related which is the attempt to destabilize
bricks and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization divide the global south and disrupt the multi-polar project and also
to break apart the partnership between Iran Russia and China with the goal of
isolating Beijing in the new cold war now I already talked about how the Iranian revolution was a kind of Islamic
oriented third world nationalist movement inspired by other global south struggles and Iran has always been an
ally of other anti-colonial movements iran is a close ally of Cuba and
Venezuela and Nicaragua in Latin America which have revolutionary anti-imperialist governments iran has
good relations with many countries in Africa and Iran has become very close to
China and Russia and in 2023 the brick summit was held in South
Africa and Iran was invited to become a full member and of course it accepted
this invitation and as of the 1st of January 2024 Iran has been a full member
of bricks along with the original five members Brazil Russia India China and South Africa as well as Egypt the UAE
Ethiopia and Indonesia and again keep in mind I was talking about the US attempt
to impose hijgemony on West Asia and North Africa well now you have Iran the
UAE and Egypt which are all members of BRICS and they're all in the region and
Saudi Arabia has been invited to join BRICS although it has not officially given an answer it's likely that Riad is
using that as a bargaining chip with Washington and saying to Washington well if you put too much pressure on us we'll
join BRICS so it's a card they can always play but getting back to Iran so Iran is now a full member of BRICS and
when Iran officially joined the global south organization the Iranian state media outlet Norse published an article
explaining its goals it noted that Iran is seeking to quote lessen the influence
of imposed sanctions over its economy end quote they also said that bricks
will help to challenge the quote current unilateral world order end quote so
they're talking about the US dominated unipolar order creating a more multi-olar world and then finally this
is a very important quote iran's state media outlet said that by joining bricks
this will quote deepen the current existing relations between Beijing
Moscow and Thran as the three main architects of the new world order end
quote so Iran is saying "We have an alliance with China and Russia to
challenge the US Empire." So it's obvious why the US Empire is so
concerned about this and is trying to do everything it can to divide this alliance i'm going to talk more about
that in a moment here but I also want to briefly talk about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization or the SEO iran
officially became a member of the SEO in 2023 and whereas BRICS is more of an economic
and political organization the SEO is more of a security organization
originally founded to fight against extremist groups in Eurasia and members
of the SEO include China Russia Iran and also India and Pakistan and Kazakhstan
and several other Central Asian republics this is a very important
organization for Eurasian integration and the SEO has been speaking out
against the US war on Iran in a statement on the 14th of June the day
after Israel started the war on Iran the SEO stated that it quote strongly
condemns the military strikes carried out by Israel end quote it condemned these as quote aggressive actions
against civilian targets including energy and transport infrastructure which have resulted in civilian
casualties end quote and it denounced these as quote a gross violation of
international law and the United Nations charter they constitute an infringement
on Iran's sovereignty end quote so from that statement it looked like Eurasia
was speaking with a very clear voice in denouncing this USIsraeli war however
for years now the US has been trying to divide the SEO just like how the US has
been trying to divide bricks and after the SEO released this statement the
Ministry of External Affairs of India published a statement that distanced
itself from the joint statement published by the SEO now India currently
has a very right-wing government led by the BJP which is a Hindu nationalist party and its prime minister Narendra
Modi and Modi and BJP are very pro-Israel and in fact the main
opposition party in India the left-leaning Congress party which originally by the way when India
co-founded bricks it was under the left-leaning Congress party not under Modi and the BJP well Congress publicly
condemned Modi for allying with Israel so strongly as Israel is attacking Iran
which historically has had good relations with India so India is sacrificing its relations with much of
the global south in order to maintain good relations with Israel so what this shows is that inside bricks and the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization there sometimes are some political divisions they still do agree on many things you
could say maybe 80% of things but on 20% of things they have some severe disagreements and this is why the core
of this new multi-olar world the core of bricks and the SEO is the alliance
between China Russia and Iran and this is why the US has been so desperate to
break up this alliance this is why NATO which is led by the US has been waging a
proxy war against Russia in Ukraine for years and this is why Donald Trump has
made it very clear that he's trying to divide Russia and China he wants the US
to improve relations with Russia in order to isolate China as part of the US
empire's divide and conquer strategy listen to Trump admit it openly here you
never want Russia and China uniting we
united them it's a shame the stupidity of what they done i'm going to have to
ununite them and I can think I can do that too i have to ununite them and it's
not just Iran that's the target iran is the medium-term goal the long-term goal
of the US empire the target is China the US goal is to isolate China by
overthrowing all of its major allies and this was admitted basically by the CEO
of Palunteer which is one of the most powerful contractors of the US military
and the CIA the CEO of Palunteer is Alex Karp and he's a close ally of Donald
Trump and he admitted in an interview in 2024 that the US is quote very likely
end quote to fight a three-front war against China Russia and Iran that was
stated clearly by the CEO of Palunteer and he has a lot of insider knowledge because again Palunteer is one of the
most powerful US government contractors and by the way the New York Times reported in May that Donald Trump is
using Palunteer to carry out mass surveillance of Americans to compile
data to create big files on all Americans so Palunteer is directly
complicit in mass surveillance big brother style mass surveillance of all
Americans on behalf of the US government palanteer is basically an outsourced arm
of the CIA and the Pentagon in fact Palunteer originally received seed money
from the CIA it was partially a CIA creation and one of the co-founders of
Palunteer is the far-right billionaire oligarch Peter Teal who also funded the
political campaign of JD Vance the US vice president jd Vance worked for Peter
Teal at his venture capital firm in Silicon Valley so all of these US
corporations are invested in a war on Iran and China china is their main goal
because China is the only country powerful enough to challenge the dominance of the US Empire not only
militarily but more so economically and politically and this was all spelled out
clearly by the late US imperial strategist Ziggnv Bjinski who formerly
served as the US national security adviser under US President Jimmy Carter in 1997 Brjinsky published a very
influential book titled The Grand Chess Board: American Primacy and Its
Geostrategic Imperatives this was published a few years after the overthrow of the Soviet Union and in
this book Bjinsky discussed ways in which the US Empire could maintain its
unipolar dominance of the entire planet he was very concerned about the
possibility of alliances of countries that could challenge the global dictatorship of the US empire which is
what it is i mean in the 1990s the US empire controlled basically everything in the world and the US Empire imposed
its policies on everyone at the barrel of a gun it was a global US-dinated dictatorship and in this book Bjinsky
warned that quote "The most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of
China Russia and perhaps Iran an anti-hgemonic coalition united not by
ideology but by complimentary grievances." End quote and that essentially is what we see today is a
kind of loose coalition between China Russia and Iran this is why the CEO of
the CIA backed Trump linked company Palunteer is saying very clearly that
the US empire is preparing for a war against Russia China and Iran the US has
already been waging a proxy war against Russia for a few years in Ukraine now
the US and Israel are waging war against Iran the US Empire is using Israel as
its vicious attack dog to wage war on Iran and China is the main target so the
USIsraeli war on Iran is not just about West Asia but the Middle East it's not
just about Palestine this is about the strategy of US empire to try to maintain
global domination and to divide and conquer it's an age-old strategy divide
and conquer this is a truly global conflict and it is a perfect symbol of
what we see today in the 21st century with the emerging multi-olar world order
the US empire is doing everything it can to try to strangle the multi-olar baby
in its crib to prevent the world from becoming more multipolar to prevent the
global south from truly decolonizing not only politically like it did in the '
50s60s and 70s but also economically by challenging neoc colonialism the US
empire is desperate to try to save the decline of its hegemony and go back to
the unipolar world that we had in the 1990s and early 2000s when there were no
other superpowers that could challenge the global dictatorship of the US empire
which is what it was it was a global political and economic dictatorship controlled by the US and any country
that resisted the US like Cuba and Venezuela and Iran was punished with
sanctions with blockades with regime change attempts with color revolution
attempts and with war that's why we see this war today that the US is using
Israel to wage against Iran that's why the US is waging a proxy war against
Russia in Ukraine and that's why the US is preparing for war on China which is
the ultimate goal of the new cold war being waged by the US because China is
the only country powerful enough to challenge the global dictatorship of the
US Empire so now with all of that said I'm going to conclude i know this was a
very long analysis today but I wanted to spend time thoroughly explaining why the
US and Israel are waging war against Iran providing all of this background
information that is almost never mentioned in the Western corporate media or if it is mentioned it's all isolated
and it's very important to bring these facts all together to have a comprehensive understanding of this
crisis i hope you learned something from this analysis today i hope you enjoyed it i am Ben Norton i am the
editor-inchief of Geopolitical Economy Report i want to thank everyone for joining me today please like and
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