The United States and Israel are both revelling in inflicting the maximum possible death and suffering on Iran. After the genocide in Gaza, on a far larger field in Iran, those in power in Israel and the USA have a lust to kill and they revel in impunity.
The Epstein files reveal the same dynamic. We live in a society where those who obtain power wish to exercise it in the cruellest possible ways against the most defenceless. It appears to be a feature of late western capitalist society, where sociopathic tendencies are essential to obtaining power, in a society which rejects altrusim and cooperation as concepts and promotes competition, self-love and ruthlessness.
Iran is showing commendable fighting spirit, but as my last article stated, American military power should not be underestimated. They have the ability to destroy Iran from the air, to obliterate the institutions of the state and all of the key civilian infrastructure. Electricity, water, healthcare, education, administration, policing all can be knocked out just as they were systematically in Gaza and – on a scale insufficiently recalled – in Iraq.
Trump is already asking Congress for $50 billion to fund the operation and replenish stocks. The scale of destruction Netanyahu envisages will cost at least half a trillion dollars from the US Treasury. But there is nothing that can stop them.
I witnessed close up over 5 months the 80 to 100,000 homes destroyed in Lebanon by Israel in the last three years. We have all seen what they did to Gaza. The notion they cannot do this to Iran is simply wrong. It requires a colossal effort of will, a mania for killing, a vast amount of mney and the depletion of the US arsenal. But they can do it.
Only political action by the peoples of the West against their leaders can stop it.
Iran and its allies have been the only physical opposition to the creation of Greater Israel. If the physical destruction of Iran is achieved, Greater Israel will be established at pace. One of the world’s greatest civilisations will lie in ashes, covering millions of corpses, but none of that will prevent the extraction of oil.
Pete Hegseth, American Secretary for War, simply comes over as a Nazi thug. He plainly is enjoying this as much as Netanyahu, Ben Gvir or Smotrich. He has gloatingly promised “Death and destruction from the sky, all day long”. He repeatedly signals ever escalating bombing.
The Iranian Red Crescent has listed the bombing destruction so far. It includes:
5,535 civilian residential units
1,041 commercial units
65 schools
14 hospitals and medical centres
13 Red Crescent Society bases
By contrast, there has been no credible claim that Iran has inflicted widespread civilian damage. It has very tightly targeted specific facilities – collateral damage seems almost entirely confined to debris from intercepted drones and missiles.
But we know the US/Israel axis targets hospitals and medical facilities. It is proven beyond doubt in Gaza, and I witnessed it in Beirut.
In gloating about US military superiority, Trump advised Iranian civilians:
“Don’t leave your home. It’s very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere.”
Yet they are deliberately bombing residential buildings, exactly as in both Lebanon and Gaza. Trump is attempting to terrorise Iran into “unconditional surrender”.
At the Battle of Waterloo – an epic, large scale and unmissable event – approximately 15,000 people died on the field of battle (more died later of wounds in an age before antibiotics). You are supposed to believe that the Iranian government in January killed twice as many demonstrators as died at Waterloo. This using only small arms and despite the complete lack of visual evidence of killing on anything like that scale.
At the same time you are supposed to believe that tens of thousands of tonnes of the highest explosives have been dopped into the centre of cities all across Iran but that these are “precision attacks” killing very few civilians.
It is obvious nonsense.
AI targeting only adds a new layer of dystopia to an entirely vicious and unnecessary war. The indifference of the western media to the slaughter of 160 Iranian schoolgirls leads to really difficult questions about the type of society the West has become. Racist is just the beginning of the problems.
The effort to coerce the Kurds into yet again fighting for the USA, only to be abandoned when no longer deemed helpful, is reckless in the extreme. It is bound to lead to further war and fragmentation in Iraq. The repercussions in Turkey are potentially extreme – and possibly may jolt Erdogan from his complacent furthering of the US/Israeli agenda.
Civil war is close in Lebanon. The traitorous zionist regime of General Aoun has no forces capable of taking on Hezbollah, but the other zionist puppet al Jolani has concentrated forces on the border with the Bekaa Valley ready to attack Hezbollah from the East while they fight Israeli invading forces in the South. Macron has indicated he may send troops and armour to assist Aoun.
This entire conflict sounds like a dreadful regional disaster in which millions could die – and it is. But to the US and Israeli xionists, the prospect of a devastated region is precisely what they wish to achieve to facilitate Israeli expansion and American seizure of resources.
There is an urgent need for regime change – in the West. The only way for this carnage to stop is the people of the West to remove their zionist controlled ruling classes.
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“The only way for this carnage to stop is the people of the West to remove their zionist controlled ruling classes.”
Suggestions on a postcard as to how this can be achieved.
‘They’ control the government, the military, the Judiciary, the media, all political parties. What’s a decent person to do ?
Exactly. If only those levers of society were rather all controlled by a wise and gentle, avuncular and magnanimous supreme spiritual leader, then the people might be really empowered as a force to reckon with.
Make Britain Iran Again!
The only way to do this is to switch to direct democracy, Swiss style. Otherwise, money talk, not people.
Look at the graph here https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/03/most-people-across-24-surveyed-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-netanyahu/
The only countries with positive views of Israel are India, Kenya and Nigeria. So let them support the Jewish state if they wish so.
Agreed, but how does one enact such a change when the government itself is corrupt.
Just heard that my future in-laws city of Sanandaj was severely bombed overnight and they have taken refuge in the countryside. I wonder if I will ever get to meet them. How absolutely sick these Americans and Israelis are. Monster all of them.
Maybe there will be another perceived global ‘split’ to come, in addition to;
The West v. rest of the world
Developed countries v. The Global South.
…The civilized world v. USA & israel…?
With the greatest respect Craig, I believe that your last post on Iran and this one demonstrate a certain ignorance of Iran, and a misplaced pessimism in Iran’s defensive capabilities and resolve. I look forward to awaiting the answer as to whether your or the more optimistic crowd’s predictions shall prove correct, and of course pray, as I’m sure you do, that it is those of the latter that receive vindication.
Most frightening of all is the reformist clown of a President in this regard.
Oddly, this is juxtaposed against a contrarian, minority-held optimism that you hold with respect to Venezuela. You have made compelling arguments on behalf of your hope in Venezuela’s continuing revolutionary integrity.
Occasionally I see images on social media of reports of large sums of Venezuelan gold being transferred to the U.S., admittedly without credible citations, and I wonder to myself if these reports are true, and if so, then what possible explanation they could have and how they are to be reconciled with the strong insights of your analysis.
On the other hand, the American pro-Russian expert geopolitical analyst Andrew Korybko, while sharing your pessimism as to Lebanon and Gaza, is also adamant that Trump has been successful in Venezuela, and that it has been effectively undermined through what he has termed “regime tweaking”.
In any event, I don’t appreciate your patronising and condescending denigration of Iran’s political system and highly competent and noble religious leadership.
I would tend to view their facilitation of sex change surgeries as an unfortunate error, and prop-sexual-deviancy figures would meanwhile view it not as a feature of liberalism or tolerance but rather of religious theocratic anti gay rigidity, as it is due to a fatwa by Khomeini against homosexuality and as a form of “conversion therapy”. In my view it is not an effective therapy and in sterilising the patient cannot achieve the goals or principles of any religious tradition’s sanctioning of homosexuality.
That you view it as a good thing betrays to me a lack of perspective (concerning theocracy in Iran).
In general, it is presumptuous and paternalistic to reflexively remark as though secular socialist democracy is necessarily superior and more desirable than the ostensibly comparably lamentable Islamic system which the Iranian Pele have freely chosen. If the sanctions have the effect of strengthening the Islamic republic’s grip on power then this, even if not the associated economic deprivation of the people, is in my view hardly a sad thing.
The Iranian people could have just as easily chosen a secular system of government in 1979, but they did not: instead they freely chose what seems to me to be one of the best and noblest systems of society that has ever existed, rivalling perhaps only the DPRK. As time goes on, it has made me drift to be more and more sceptical of secular Marxism including the historic Soviet Union and Marxist People’s Republics.
The Iranian people did not need (ideologically speaking) western establishment liberals’ permission to choose the system of government that reflects their own values, and they do not need your approval to continue standing by and supporting their government, as they still overwhelmingly do, now.
Pointing out that for around 2 years there was Mossadegh as if to imply that he was somehow legitimate, while the people’s subsequent choice of the past nearly half century is, for whatever unexplained reason, not, is to reveal your foundational, yet un-deprogrammed ideological conditioning as a western paternalistic liberal.
I say this with the greatest respect and in the spirit of comradely criticism: the path of de programming is inevitably a lifelong journey, and you have needless to say travelled courageous and formidable distances in it.
There is invariably always more for every one of us to unlearn. I just hope to be of some assistance in asking you to think about some of these points as potential next candidates.
Hope everything is going great for you in Venezuela.
Iran hasn’t even got started yet. They’ve knocked out the West’s eyes and ears in the region and are systematically using old munitions to deplete Israel’s interceptor systems. Within the next two or three weeks many analysts are saying Iran could start using its modern weapons to fully penetrate Israel while their defences are down. I wouldn’t underestimate them. I wish them all the luck in the world – for humanity’s sake.
Aware you have spent time in these places. No doubt America and Israel will bomb Iran and kill many people. Iranian military are fighting back, taking out radar across West Asia. Closing of the Straight of Hormuz will have global repercussions for all of humanity. It appears to me at least the Iranian military (as opposed to the civilian population ) are fighting back and with devastating effect.
One of the reasons I obtain information from here is because the MSM are promoting a narrative that suits as you admirably showed with your recent trip to Venezuela. This is not a one sided conflict and the consequences if the energy disruption continues will be global in nature. Time will tell…….
You say that “Only political action by the peoples of the West against their leaders can stop it.”
Eveni if it was possible for wars to be stopped by jobless westerners spending their weekends shouting themselves hoarse at empty buildings, do you envision this having the same efficacy as for the last 8 decades it has on the genocide in Palestine?
Sadly, the westerners (jobless and otherwise alike) are too obedient and afraid, of being arrested or breaking the saw so as to receive criminal records (though this has recently with the rise of the bratty teenager Greta Thunberg and the naan of Palestine Action become somewhat of a fad as the symbolic zenith of martyrdom), let alone of being actually martyred, to undertake any actual armed struggle.
Unfortunately they are spiritually starving for want of quality ideological and spiritual upbringing, education and guidance. If only they had a grand ayatollah or other patriarch or figure head who (wasn’t a paedophile and) exuded moral enlightenment to look up to, but alas they are drowning in a semi deliberate sea of temptation, debauchery and vice. If only their women were not permitted to dress as prostitutes as the ostensible epitome of freedom and a substitute for cultivating moral and political development and personal depth, but alas…
So no, even if it was possible in theory for mere shouting at empty buildings and writing polite letters to MPs, if only enough people did it, to stop the destruction of Iran, the western people are far too indulged and deficient in spiritual and ideological development to mobilise in remotely sufficient numbers, if there were any, as the last decades of inability to stop the destruction of Gaza has shown.
And no, I say that rather only military action by the people of Iran can stop the destruction of their great country. This confrontation, in contrast, has actually never played out before, and so we have no past yardstick against which to measure its prospects.
However, while they may have endless money and political capital for approving budgets, weaponry and replacement production capacity requires more than this, it requires expertise and manufacturing infrastructure, as well as time, logistical factors which your analysis seems not to have accounted for.
Many military and strategic watcher-analysts have assessed severe, specific bottlenecks and constraints of the U.S. military capacity.
Even American military establishment functionaries have sounded the alarm on dwindling munition stocks and other capacities.
Everyone but (I admit, curiously) you appears to think that trump has not thought this stunt through, and that it will most likely fail disastrously.
Unlike on Venezuela, I don’t think that you’ve actually given any compelling reasoning to support your analysis.
However, regarding Venezuela, I would really like to see you and Andrew Korybko engage directly with some of each other’s arguments.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-us-is-moving-to-regime-tweaking
Best wishes
4 fully armed Stealth bombers have arrived at RAF Fairford, each carrying 24 cruise missiles.
Now would be a good time for Irans defence capabilities to be ramped up a notch to use the supersonic variety and ensure that they engage when overflying Usraels occupied territories.
How dare Starmer allows the use of this country for the chaotic/psychotic murderers and their christian indoctrinated forces in a blood rush.
Westminster is now a legitimate target, I for one would lose no sleep if it was reduced to a smouldering hole in the ground. The biggest enemy of this country is its government, and all its supporters.
The US is firing missiles (CENTCOM) from missile launchers (M142 – ATACM’s) in Bahrain into Iran.
Also.
” Israeli media: Netanyahu is in a state of immense shock following the reports of the capture of Israeli commandos being taken hostage by Hezbollah in Bekka valley.”
Plus a third US aircraft carrier (G W.Bush ) and strike group is on its way to Red sea.
Meanwhile, Halliburton’s offices and warehouses in Basra Iraq – have been blown up.
The plan, do a Dresden on Tehran, then send this lot in.
“Washingron Post reports, The Pentagon maybe preparing for a ground operation in Iran, after the sudden cancellation of exercises by the elite 82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
The brigade combat group has around 4-5 thousand soldiers, ready for deployment within 18 hours.”
More dead Yankees, that’s really going to improve Trump’s popularity.
Stevie Boy
When you think about it – 5,000 US troops in a city of Tehran with a population of around 9 million is nothing, in hindsight I’d imagine the US forces (the 5,000) job would be to secure the oil production facilities – afterall I presume that’s the main goal.
Didn’t they do that in Iraq, when they sent in boot on the ground.?