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The short sighted clowns in the West (and the East like Japan) thought that the US and Israel would bomb Iran and that the war would be over in short order, so they weren’t concerned about oil prices in the long term. As the war drug on countries like the US and Japan used their strategic reserves to keep oil prices artificially low, once again wrongly believing that the war would end soon.
Now California will hit tank bottoms for jet fuel and diesel by July 4th. Everything runs on diesel. Without it nothing gets to the stores. Food riots will begin within a few days of fuel running out. Everything including the sh*t is going to hit the fan very soon. Prayed up and prepped up, time is almost up!
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this. California will hit tank bottoms for jet and diesel by July 4th.
The Asian import arbitrage is dead, local refining is tapped, and none of this is reversible for 12-18 months.
Japanese stocks are up ~3% today celebrating a ~20bn$ eqv package of government stimmies that will flare inflation more while the same government just incinerated ~73bn$ in a futile attempt to strengthen the JPY at the same time is shorting oil during an energy crisis – Amazing pic.twitter.com/f3M7VVQUVC
Not surprisingly, Japan has been drawing down crude oil SPRs at a faster pace than the US is and than its own economy needs, why? To suppress oil prices.
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An excellent article by Patrick O’Carroll over at Henrymakow.com. This tells you who really runs Iran and how this “war” is being run behind the scenes by the Freemasons.
The “Hathor Pentalpha” lodge is the most ruthless among the neo-oligarchical Ur Lodges. This Ur Lodge actively supported the major actions of the so called modern “Islamic terror”, starting from 9/11 up to creation of ISIS/Daesh and its recent terrorist attacks in France and Belgium.
According to the same source, Hathor Pentalpha was officially created in the summer of 2000 after complicated conflicts between other neo-oligarchic Ur Lodges. The early members of this lodge include Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Bill Kristol, the Bushes and Tony Blair and other so called “neocons”. The document Project for the New American Century calling for a new Pearl Harbor was a creation of the Hathor Pentalpha. O’Carroll- “
How on Earth is it possible to be an “Islamic” “cleric” or an “Islamic” “jurist” if you are also a member of a Freemasonic super-lodge following the satanic Talmud and the black-magic Kabbalah? by Patrick O’Carroll (henrymakow.com)
In his 2014 book “Massoni; Società A Responsabilità Illimitata; la Scoperta Delle Ur-Lodges”, Italian Freemason Gioele Magaldi (founder and “venerable” master of Freemasonic lodge Grande Oriente d’Italia Democratico) gave the full membership list of the Talmudic super-lodge HATHOR PENTALPHA, and showed how it played SEVEN BIG JOKES on mankind. Magaldi listed the members of all the 36 super-lodges that rule the world. After it was published in 2014, Gioele Magaldi’s exposé “Massoni” was given a LOT of headlines in the alt-media, but it was of course suppressed, or buried, by the Zionist-controlled mainstream-media.
HATHOR PENTALPHA is a prime example of Freemasonry controlling both sides when planning wars, refugee “crises”, and other long-term projects, even as the mainstream-media presents all the events as taking place by “happenstance” or “coincidence”. Naturally, anyone who engages in pattern recognition, or spots planning, gets mocked with the 1960s term “Conspiracy Theorist” because “you must know that major events are not planned”.
Freemasonry always abuses religion. Positively, many “religious” Freemasons are just Satanists in fancy-dress.
Most members of the PNAC Group were members of HATHOR PENTALPHA too, which was founded in 1993 after communist Russia faked its own death on 25 Dec 1991. The PNAC Group called for the Zionist US military to gain “full spectrum dominance” over all nations, especially Mid-East nations, and later over all the slaves (or Goyim “Livestock”) of the world via brainwashing. It also called for the development of race-specific bioweapons. The top actions of HATHOR PENTALPHA and the PNAC Group (members of both are in the same “Big Club.” 1. Grab as much territory as possible from the “fallen”, ex-communist Russia (by expanding NATO). 2. Grab resources in the Mid-East in the absence of opposition from the “fallen” Russia or “fledgling” China. 3. Plan Wars for Greater Israel to increase the death-toll of the Arab-Semitic Holocaust to over 10 million. 4. Plan Wars for Greater Israel to increase the number of Arab-Semitic “refugees” dumped into Europe. 5. Implement Freemasonry’s “Clash of Civilizations” credo as its paramount doctrine for the twenty-first century. Under this “Clash of Civilizations” doctrine (credited to political “scientist” & HATHOR PENTALPHA member Samuel Phillips Huntington), the Kalergi Plan must be expanded to increase the proportion of Muslims in Europe and North America, to in turn induce civil wars that will bring a “new” order from the ensuing chaos. But avoid the term “White Genocide”, by preferably calling it instead “Weaponized Replacement Migration”. 6. Develop race-specific bioweapons to kill political opponents, “nasty” racial groups, and other “undesirables”. 7. Ultimately, also acquire “full spectrum dominance” over the minds of the slaves through total brainwashing.
BIG JOKE #1: HATHOR PENTALPHA is running Iran pursuant to the “Albert Pike Plan”
HATHOR PENTALPHA is the super-lodge that is running the Freemasonic Republic of Iran. “Team Antichrist” plans to deploy Iran as controlled opposition in WW3. Iran is not an “Islamic” republic, but a Freemasonic one.
If you think Iran is “Islamic”, and not Freemasonic, then check out this image.
Yet more evidence that Iran is merely serving as controlled opposition for WW3 is the fact that several notable Iranians are members of the Talmudic super-lodge HATHOR PENTALPHA. Therefore, we really need to ask the question: How on Earth is it possible to be an “Islamic” “cleric” or an “Islamic” “jurist” if you are also a member of a Freemasonic super-lodge following the satanic Talmud and the black-magic Kabbalah? The following Iranian notables are all members of the Talmudic super-lodge HATHOR PENTALPHA: 1. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (IR), president of Iran in 1989-97, net worth 1.5 billion USD dollars; 2. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i (IR), “Islamic” jurist, conservative puppetician, and Chief Justice of Iran; 3. Heydar Moslehi (IR), “Islamic” “cleric”, puppetician, and Iranian minister of intelligence in 2009-13; 4. Mahmoud Alavi (IR), Iranian minister of intelligence in 2013-21, and member of Iran’s assembly of experts; 5. Mohammad Momen (IR), “Islamic” “cleric”, “Islamic” jurist, member of the guardian council which influences Iran’s “Islamic” “Revolutionary” Guard Corps (IRGC), and also a member of Iran’s assembly of experts; 6. Valiollah Seif (IR), governor of the Central Bank of Iran.
Note: The Jews living in the Iranian city Isfahan today are to play a leading role in Islamic end-times eschatology.
In its 1979 “revolution”, the Iranian state was handed over to the Khomeini Cult, which was essentially a “Muslim Brotherhood type group” with direct links to foreign “intelligence” agencies, especially MI6, CIA and Mossad. The true story is that MI6 instigated Khomeini’s “Islamic” “revolution”. The objective was to control Iran’s energy by weakening Iran, by reducing the Iranians to hunger, and also to destroy Iran’s religious or family-oriented society.
Other Iranian stooges of “Team Antichrist”, and of World Freemasonry, include: 1. Hassan Rouhani (IR), puppet, WEF member, seventh president of Iran in 2013-21, great friend of Jack Straw (former British foreign secretary) and hence a great friend of the Zionist House of Rothschild; 2. Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi (IR), leader of the powerful cult called the Haghani Circle; 3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (IR), crypto-Jewish puppet, sixth president of Iran in 2005-13, student of cult leader Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi; 4. Gholamhossein Mohammadi Golpayegani (IR), “Islamic” “cleric” who serves as the chief-of-staff of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; 5. The “Islamic” “Revolutionary” Guard Corps (IRGC) which is much like China’s CCP or communist Russia’s politburo. Multibillion-dollar enterprises that, still in 1970, were state-owned are now owned by the IRGC.
Iran is SUPPOSED to be the pinnacle of resistance against “Team Antichrist”, i.e. against the Antichrist State of Israel, against ZioFascism, and against the tyranny of the City of London, BIS, and the central-bankster cartel.
BUT Iran has more Freemasonic lodges and Freemasonic symbolism than any country in the region. Iran has a giant pyramid as a parliament building sporting the “All-Seeing Eye of Ra”, which calls to mind Aleister Crowley’s name for the Great Satan, i.e. “the Eye”. All Iranian puppets are controlled by the Western secret services, which run all the drugs and sell all the weapons across the whole region of the Middle-East and Central Asia. One red flag is that the Antichrist State of Israel is always seen to “deal quickly” with all its enemies, but the ONE BIG EXCEPTION has often been Iran; because Iran is a controlled-opposition puppet of “Team Antichrist”.
Communist Russia was the first to recognize Iran’s “Islamic” “republic” in 1979. Russia maintains alliances with almost all of the “Islamic” “republics”. It is mere theater to suggest that Russia is a “friend” of Iran and the Arabs, and is opposing “Team Antichrist”. Also, behind the scenes, Israel is brokering deals with the BRICS Alliance, of which Iran is a major strategic partner.
BOTH narratives “Iran is fighting Team Antichrist” and “Russia is fighting the ‘new’ world order” are EQUALLY BOGUS. What we are actually watching is the “Albert Pike Plan” for WW3: Leaders who call themselves “Islamists” and “Zionists” are agents, or Punch & Judy puppets, of the “Illuminati”.
The “Albert Pike Plan” for WW3 reads: “WW3 must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the ‘agentur’ of the ‘Illuminati’ between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam [the Muslim-Arabic World] and political Zionism [the Antichrist State of Israel] mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile, the other nations, once more divided on this issue, will be constrained to fight to the point of complete PHYSICAL, MORAL, SPIRITUAL and ECONOMIC EXHAUSTION”.
Pike’s letter was on display in the British Museum Library till 1977. Today, “Team Antichrist” denies it ever existed. “Fact checkers” and Tell-Lie-Vision call it a “hoax”. But that is untrue since the letter was already transcribed and published before 1960, thus already verifying it independently as genuine.
The real PURPOSE of Iran’s “Islamic” “republic” is to aid “Team Antichrist” in the creation of Greater Israel by giving the Antichrist State of Israel the excuse it needs to expand its territory to the WEST bank of the Euphrates. Rumor has it that, in exchange, Iran’s “Islamic” “republic” has been promised a “Persian Empire 2.0” which will extend all the way to the EAST bank of the Euphrates and will control all the “Stan Nations” of Central Asia (including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, plus some others). It is also crucial to emphasize that Iran was NOT listed on PNAC’s hit-list of seven nations, as is often misstated.
Also, it is useful to bear in mind that “the Albert Pike Plan” of 1871 was a letter from the first leader of the world “revolutionary” movement (Pike) to the second leader of the world “revolutionary” movement (Giuseppe Mazzini), AND that the word “revolution” has always been a Freemasonic keyword signifying the overthrow of the Christian Order. We know that both sides of WW2 were controlled by Freemasonry, and by the “Illuminati”. We also know that the Zionists took central control of both sides of WW1 when the post-armistice “peace” conference began in Jan 1919. So, it would be naïve of us to believe that Freemasonry was not controlling both sides of WW3 too. Albert Pike promised control of all sides in all three world wars and there is no reason to doubt this will succeed.
ASIDE: The following Miules Mathis article is called “Iran’s Jewish Rulers”, and it is dated 2019: https://mileswmathis.com/iran.pdf Although he does not give exhaustive citations, its author Donny Ahzmond cites the following “cohen-cidences”: · Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei were Jewish Komens (Kohens), who originate from Khamaneh, a city near the Armenian border that was under Jewish control for many centuries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamaneh). · Persia’s Zand Dynasty was Jewish. · Persia’s Pahlavi Dynasty was of Jewish Levite origin. Note: The last Shah of Iran was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Iranian Freemasonry was revived in the 1950s with the creation of Iran’s Pahlavi Lodge. · Iranian executive Fuad Rouhani was first secretary-general of OPEC. Rohan is a common Jewish name. King Faisal ruled his kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1964-75 and he confirmed that the Saudi royals have Jewish ancestry. In an interview with the Zionist Washington Post (dubbed “the Langley Newsletter”) on 17 Sept 1969, King Faisal said: “We, the Saudi royal family, are cousins of the Jews. We entirely disagree with any Arab or Muslim authority which shows any antagonism to the Jews; but we must live together with them in peace. Our country is the fountainhead from where the first Jew sprang, and his descendants spread out all over the world”. In 2018, former Lebanese minister Wiam Wahab said the Jews are using the Saudi Regime to avenge the defeat of the Jewish Qaynuqa Tribe by the Prophet Mohammed: https://www.memri.org/tv/former-lebanese-minister-wiam-wahhab-saudi-regime-used-jews-avenge-defeat-qaynuqa-tribe-prophet. Another “cohen-cidence” is Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi calling himself “Iranian-American” when he is in fact a Jewish Pahlavi, and his wife is the Jewess Sydney Shapiro; a “cohen-cidence”!
Thus, one big joke on mankind is for the Zionist-controlled mainstream-media to call Iran (and Saudi Arabia) “Islamic”, when they are in fact Jewish-controlled. The terms Iran uses to describe itself and its narrative are Freemasonic, such as the keyword “revolution”, which only applies to coups d’état launched by Freemasonry, and of course the Freemasonic keyword “republic”, which only applies to countries formed by Freemasonry.
HATHOR PENTALFA one of the 36 superlatives that rule the world where we find PUTIN, ERDOGAN, BIN LADEN, SARKOZY, FLYNN, BOLTON (Trump’s boss) FINK (boss of Black Rock) and how many others. This super lodge has been financing Daesh Isis for years and is notably responsible for the Paris attacks. Muslims are their broom, the executors of the dirty work, just like now with Syria. These super lodges worship Lucifer and the members are united by a pact with this demonic entity. There are 18 democratic super lodges (Obama, Clinton etc.) and 18 oligarchic lodges (Trump Putin etc.). Some are members of several lodges, either democratic or oligarchic. Only the Rockefellers are part of the lodges of both camps. The goal of these lodges is the creation of Greater Israel and the expectation of the coming of the Antichrist, each camp of 18 lodges being convinced that it is in their country that the Antichrist will manifest himself.
PUTIN WANTS TO LOSE THE WAR, OR HE IS SUGGESTED TO DO SO. HATHOR PENTALFA IS PUTIN’S SUPER LODGE. BUT NOT ONLY THAT, IS IN IRAN IN THE FALSE OPPOSITION, INCLUDING WITH THE USA AND FRANCE, AND THE MULHAS, TO MAKE A FACTORY WAR ON ISRAEL, WHICH IS IN THIS LODGE AND WHO CREATED HAMAS.
Why can’t we liberate the Kursk region? Why can’t we drive the enemy out of our territory for six months?
The answer is simple. God is on the side of the big battalions. In order to guarantee a rapid and successful offensive, it is necessary to ensure at least four times the superiority of firearms (including drones) and at least three times the superiority of infantry and armored vehicles. This is where it will happen.
So far, judging by the vicious fighting, mutual attacks and counterattacks, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the VFU in the Kursk region have relative parity, both in strength and in technology. So, this corps can last not only for months. For years.
We cannot provide decisive superiority even in this direction. Because we do not have sufficient strategic reserves. Taking the belligerent units from other sections of the thousand-kilometer front means exposing the front there. Which will not fail to use the VFU, striking at a bare area.
It is necessary to form new parts and connections. We still need 10 new divisions. But even if we had enough men, there is nothing to arm them with. We need not only assault rifles, but also armored vehicles, tanks, artillery, MLRS and drones, in sufficient quantities. We do not have this.
Our opponent has a clear advantage. The military-industrial complex of 54 countries is working on its armament. Therefore, no matter how much we do not destroy enemy tanks, armored vehicles, artillery systems and others – they do not hurt. They will put more. They will put as much as necessary. Unlimited. 54 countries against one Russia.
We have only our own military-industrial complex, which does not have time to produce weapons and equipment, and limited deliveries of drones from Iran and artillery from Korea. And that’s all. And Ukraine receives weapons from half the world. Another news: France sends 30,000 drones to kyiv. And such deliveries arrive every day.
It is not surprising that we have not yet repulsed the Kursk region. What is surprising is that we remain in confrontation with the military industry of 54 countries. And even, slowly, but we are moving forward.
True, Ukraine has more and more problems with manpower. People are lacking. Aviation engineers are sent to the infantry. Recruits are caught on the streets like dogs. Apparently, they will soon reduce the age of mobilization.
But the human potential of Ukraine is still there. Therefore, you should not expect an easy and quick victory. Perhaps we will liberate the Kursk region by the summer.
Trump said that he wants the entire Middle East to sign onto the Abraham accords including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and even Iran! Below is what he said.
“I stated that, after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote Monday, referencing a Saturday phone call with Arab leaders.
He went onto say Those Countries discussed are Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates (already a Member!), Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain (already a Member!). It may be possible that one or two have a reason for not doing so, and that will be accepted, but most should be ready, willing, and able to make this Settlement with Iran a far more Historic Event than it would, otherwise, be. The Abraham Accords have proven to be, for the Countries involved (The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kazakhstan), a Financial, Economic, and Social BOOM, even during this time of Conflict and War, with the current Members never even suggesting leaving, or taking so much as even a pause.
The above was coupled with the following ultimatum: “It should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit. If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention.”
And then he dropped the significant twist related to Tehran, in claiming that several of the regional leaders he spoke with “would be honored, as soon as our Document is signed, to have the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Abraham Accords. Wow, now that would be something special!”
Unreal. Bible prophecy continues to unfold as we get closer and closer to the return of Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords!
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I posted the video below and within 5 minutes the whole war with Iran and the USA changed again. I’m done reporting on this ridiculous war. If and when it expands we won’t be told ahead of time, it will just happen so stay ready.
First the video I posted 30 minutes ago.
Now the video Steve from INL just released.
No, I don’t trust Steve 100% but I’ve been seeing rumors elsewhere about this ceasefire but nobody knows for certain if it will happen or not. When the war does resume I doubt they will tell us ahead of time, it will just happen so stay ready, prayed up and prepped up at all times. Jesus told us these things would happen, including the RUMORS of war so stay focused on Him, not the world.
I’m going to take time away from the screens and go outside and enjoy myself this weekend. Blessings to you all!
Johnny
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There is a lot going on in today’s video news update including that Iran allegedly has 3 uranium nuclear bombs, AIPAC bragged about stealing elections in GA and KY, and how the technocrats are afraid that Americans are going to start destroying their AI data centers!
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Former Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeff Currie says markets are treating a deepening global oil deficit like a routine price fluctuation, even as inventories rapidly drain toward crisis levels.
“You’re borrowing oil from the future” and Wall Street isn’t forecasting anything:
U.S. distillate inventories have collapsed from 120 days of supply to 102 in just weeks. “You’re going to be out” in days, he says.
Currie mocked banks for simply chasing spot prices higher rather than modeling the implications of shrinking inventories: “That’s a mark to market. They’re not actually forecasting anything.”
He added: “Either they’re being censored or they have no concept of the magnitude of this.”
Trump watches bond yields:
“Notice he always cuts a deal every single time the 10-year hits 4.4%.” Currie argues Trump’s real fear is oil driving inflation and interest rates higher, threatening the U.S. debt market.
The AI Complacency Trap
Some argue oil doesn’t matter because the energy intensity of GDP is falling and hyperscalers are spending toward $1 trillion in AI capex. Currie’s response: “What is the biggest input into AI compute? It’s called oil, energy, diesel, gas. They don’t even ask what the price of AI compute is. They assume it’s zero.”
🎥 “Wall Street Has No Concept of the Magnitude of This” — Markets Are Sleepwalking Into an Oil Shock
Former Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeff Currie says markets are treating a deepening global oil deficit like a routine price fluctuation, even as inventories rapidly drain… https://t.co/SEojtkzpBrpic.twitter.com/8mgBXlzpIF
The US will run out of oil and fuel within 2 months unless something changes. Prayed up and prepped up!
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n yet another of his ramblingTruth Social posts, Donald Trump entertains a number of fantasies about Iran and two former presidents. The post is so inaccurate and misleading that it deserves to be corrected, not that facts and reality will sway loyal MAGA followers.
Trump begins:
Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President.
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Screenshot from Trump’s Truth Social
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Trump and MAGA often claim Iran has attacked the United States for nearly five decades. It is using this claim as a predicate for the latest military strikes on Iran. From the occupation of the US embassy in Tehran to Iranian involvement in the Iraq war and occupation, the Trump administration alleges Iran has been at war with the US for decades.
Image: Portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1973 (Public Domain)
The November 4, 1979 “Iran hostage crisis.” Initially, the storming and occupation of the embassy was a response to the US allowing Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to enter the United States to receive treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Prior to the occupation, the Tehran embassy had CIA officers working under diplomatic cover. The embassy files seized by the students include CIA cables and other classified materials, including information on covert contacts, exfiltration-related activity, operational intelligence reporting on military and political matters.
“One of the most important of these is the sensitive relationship between our regular diplomats—career officers of the Foreign Service—and the intelligence bureaucracies, primarily the CIA,” notes the Alicia Patterson Foundation. The “Captured Documents,” tediously reassembled after paper shredding, reveal how the CIA was anxious to rebuild its network of local agents, many of which had been destroyed during the Islamic revolution.
For obvious reasons, the Iranian people were opposed to the presence of the CIA in the country.
In 1953, the CIA and British intelligence initiated the Operation Ajax coup after democratically elected Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil in response to foreign exploitation and control over its oil resources.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was installed as dictator. His government employed oppressive measures against political dissent. In 1957, the SAVAK secret police (Sâzemân-e Ettelâ’ât va Amniyat-e Kešvar, Organization of Intelligence and Security of the Nation), trained by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, was organized under the Pahlavi dynasty. It conducted widespread surveillance, media censorship, and interrogations. SAVAK’s torture methods included “electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails.”
Following the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Iran took steps to ensure Iraq would never invade Iran again. Hussein, fearing the Shia (the majority of the Iraqi population) would follow the lead of Iran’s Islamic revolution and overthrow his government, initiated the war on September 22, 1980.
After the US invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iran sought to ensure that Iraq remained neutral and did not align with the US, thereby becoming a base for anti-Iranian activities. Iran fostered Shia political parties and militias that were either based in or closely linked to Iran, such as the Badr Organization, Islamic Dawa, and various other groups. Led by figures like Muqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army, many Shia strongly resisted the occupation. During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), the Badr Organization was trained, armed, and funded by Iran.
The Mahdi Army (Jaish al‑Mahdi) received financial, logistical, and sometimes weapons support from Iran, particularly during the Iraqi resistance against the illegal US occupation. Iraqi so-called “special groups”—sa’ib Ahl al‑Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and Kata’ib al‑Imam Ali—splintered from the Mahdi Army and focused exclusively on asymmetric attacks against US occupation forces. The “special groups” would later become foundational within the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF/Hashd al‑Shabi).
For Trump, this self-preservation effort by Iran, and its desire to aid and support brother Shia under a occupation, is nothing short of terrorism. The claim of “mullah terrorists” aiding and abetting Iraqi terrorists, thus killing American occupation soldiers, is one of the cornerstones in the argument for attacking Iran, along with Iran’s phantom nuclear program and, until recently, the demand that it not only dismantle its self-defense posture (eliminating ballistic missiles), but also disassociate from Shia “proxies” in Iraq and Lebanon.
Trump’s remarks about Obama and Iran are characteristically hyperbolic. In the latter half of his administration, Obama tightened sanctions on Iran while also concluding a nuclear deal. Unlike Trump, Obama used traditional diplomacy to finalize the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Trump would later trash. The Obama administration maintained sanctions on issues such as ballistic missiles, terrorism, human rights abuses, while criticizing Iran’s role in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.
Image: David Petraeus (Public Domain)
It should be noted that there were anti-Iran officials in the Obama administration, including former CIA Director David Petraeus, the State Department’s Vali Nasr, Dennis Ross, the former Special Assistant to President Obama, and Thomas Donilon, a national security advisor.
Sanctions imposed by the Obama administration seriously impaired Iran’s economy. The sanctions reduced oil exports and effectuated a contraction of the nation’s economy (growing at 3.8% in 2011, contracted by 6.6% in 2012, and 1.9% in 2013). A revenue loss, estimated at $100 billion, prevented development of the Iranian energy industry.
Additionally, the US blocked assets of the Iranian government and financial institutions within US jurisdiction. This effectively cut Iran off from the international financial market, making legal trade for humanitarian goods such as medicine difficult. This effectively severed Iran’s ties with the international financial market, rendering legal trade for humanitarian goods like medicine a challenge. Between 2011 and 2012, the Iranian Rial experienced a significant decline in value, losing nearly 38% of its worth. Weaponized inflation further exacerbated the situation, leading to a surge in the cost of essential goods, including food and medical supplies.
He was not only good to [Iran], he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life.
This statement is clearly incorrect. As previously mentioned, the Obama administration imposed significant sanctions on Iran, which led to a decline in its economy and living standards of it people, before the JCPOA was signed. In contrast, Trump’s sanctions, enacted through the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), are described as “maximum pressure.” The president’s first term strategy aimed to exert even greater economic pressure on Iran, sanctioning over 115 linked entities by 2023 and warning third parties against engaging in business with Tehran. This approach differs from Obama’s more targeted and deal-oriented strategy.
Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out – It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck.
Trump attempts to portray this as a handout, when it was nothing of the sort. In 1979, when Trump said Iran began its war against America following the Islamic Revolution, President Jimmy Carter froze $1.7 billion in Iranian assets. $400 million of this sum was military equipment purchased under the Shah and not delivered after the Iranian revolution. The money was “placed in an escrow account” where it accrued interest. The hardware was resold.
In January 2016, the $1.7 billion settlement was reached. The settlement involved a cash payment of $400 million—in euros or Swiss francs, delivered via airlift—and an interest amount of $1.3 billion, marking a pivotal moment during JCPOA Implementation Day.
They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our “Leader,” but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden!
Once again, Trump mischaracterizes reality. The Biden administration continued and added to the sanctions placed on Iran, specifically targeting its missile programs, oil exports, its alleged human rights abuses, and support to Hezbollah and Hamas. Trump, always the maximalist, views the Biden administration’s attempts at confidence building, while maintaining sanctions, as weakness. Trump also resents Biden for his attempts to revive the 2016 JCPOA.
For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!
As noted, the deaths in Iraq during the height of the occupation were the work of Shia resistance groups supported by Iran, in much the same way the US armed and supported a number of armed groups, most notably the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989) and also the Contras (1987) against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
It is nothing short of rank hypocrisy to argue that Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism when the United States has a far more extensive record of supporting terror. Iran’s support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ansar Allah is directed against Israel in response to decades of threats from the Zionist state—primarily about a nuclear weapon it does not possess—backed up by the United States. Israel has attempted since its inception in 1948 to subvert, sabotage, and undermine its Arab neighbors, and since the Islamic Revolution, it has dedicated significant resources to destroying the Persian nation of Iran.
Kurt Nimmo is a journalist, author, and geopolitical analyst, New Mexico, United States. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Visit the author’s blog.
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This happened right after Trump said Iran’s latest peace proposal was completely unacceptable. Here’s the reason why it was unacceptable. Israel won’t allow the war to end.
🚨 BREAKING
🇮🇱🇮🇷 ISRAEL IS PUSHING FOR STRIKES ON ALL OF IRAN’S ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
🇸🇦🇦🇪🇧🇭 SEVERAL ARAB COUNTRIES ARE ALSO REPORTEDLY BACKING THE STRIKES.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 ACCORDING TO ISRAELI SOURCES, NO US IRAN PEACE DEAL IS EXPECTED.
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Hantavirus is the new scourge that the WHO must “track and trace” and just like COVID it’s complete bunk. They’re already telling people to “mask up”, and they already have vaccines in place based on US Army documents. Of course they’re MRNA based.
As for the war between the US and Iran it feels scripted and fake at this point. Oh I’m sure it will flare up again with greater intensity but lately the US has been using it to manipulate the markets and make obscene profits based on insider information. Now there are reports that the US has bombed Iranian facilities off of their southern coast but the US says they’re not restarting the war. So they just bombed another country but that’s not an act of war? It’s moron central in the Pentagon at this point.
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