Bombs away: explode a nuke in Israel then blame it on the Iranians?
By Richard Cottrell
Contributing writer for End the Lie
If an attack on Iran is to carry traction with world public opinion, there must be definite proof that she plans to wipe Israel from the face of the earth.
A nuclear weapon exploding somewhere inside Israel in the next few months, allegedly fired by the Iranians, would seem to provide all the necessary grounds for massive retaliation.
The US/Israeli problem rests on the plain fact that not everybody is convinced that Iran seeks nuclear weapons. Or, even allowing this, she would then undertake an insane mission to use them on Israel, thus ensuring a massive counter strike.
We are back to the weapons of mass destruction fable which led to the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
In any event, is the regime in Iran actually that stupid? Israel has at least fifty warheads capable of hitting Iran, her cities and oilfields. A first strike by Iran would simply ensure that Iran herself was wiped off the map.
The logic is so obvious, why does anyone believe the war talk coming out of Washington and Israel, not to mention a score of Western capitals?
American spinners are careful to concentrate on bunker-busting bombs to wreck underground facilities associated with the nuclear program. This would avoid civilian casualties, or at least largely so. Job done then?
Not quite. In fact, not at all. As with the last western-inspired overthrow of an Iranian regime back in 1953, the real issue is the country’s huge oil reserves.
Sixty years ago the government of the aristocratic, deeply conservative Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh was taken out because he picked a fight with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. The dispute was rooted in the Iranian conviction they were being ruthlessly cheated on fair distribution of revenues.
Mosaddegh nationalized the company, Britain’s most precious overseas asset. The US and the UK then spread the false alarm that the Soviets would be invited take over its activities.
The CIA-inspired Operation Ajax then sprang into action. The Iranian government was wrecked by a huge urban guerilla campaign costing millions of dollars even in those times.
Much of the money went on recruiting and arming violent mobs of demonstrators. The weak constitutional monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pevlavi, was then levered into power as a puppet of western interests.
The Anglo Iranian Oil Company became British Petroleum. Game, set and match.
Iran’s passion to acquire nuclear weapons is the cover story that conceals the west’s real interests in Iran. As before, this scrap is all about oil.
Blowing up Iran’s nuclear facilities will leave large holes in the ground but the government intact. Indeed, such attacks would almost certainly harden public support for the west’s great boogeyman President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the conservative clerics who are the real power in the land.
If US policy is to stir internal rebellion to permit an Ajax-style coup, they will be sorely disappointed.
It is correct that many Iranians would indeed prefer a more western, relaxed liberal style of government. Sanctions are having a serious impact on the wealthier, mainly secular classes. The restless young envy the freedoms of their western counterparts. Restrictions on foreign travel are more than just irritating. They are bad for trade and business in an ancient trading nation.
But an apparently popular revolt, even with all the means at the disposal of western intelligence, will not be quite so easily accomplished this time around.
Nobody in Iran wants another colonial imposed Shah.
I am quite sure that the increasing internal disturbances inside Iran are part and parcel of a grand destabilization exercise, the opening stages of Operation Ajax Mark Two. But in themselves they are very little more than pinpricks.
There is no obvious indication that they are having any impact on public opinion. Anyway, all Iranians suspect that the real game is oil grabbing. History is their guide after all.
They are not sure that finding themselves in another dystopian American colony, like Iraq and Afghanistan, is such an appealing prospect. American soldiers and lawless “contractors” are their own ambassadors.
In any event, to secure control of the Iranian oil fields, the west must either install a pliant government or invade. An invasion is always far easier if the country’s national infrastructure is first obliterated.
The perfect excuse might be a nuclear detonation on Israeli soil. There are portents of this grim possibility.
Recent mysterious explosions in sites reputed to house finished nuclear warheads are blamed by western and especially Israeli intelligence on failed attempts to cap missiles with nuclear warheads.
Storyline: Iran is already preparing to arm missiles and then use them against Israel.
This incredible nonsense duly made its unquestioned way to all the corporate headline spinners.
If the intention is to let off an Israeli nuclear weapon, say somewhere in the remote Sinai Desert and then blame it on Iran, then this would be no more than a modern variation on the ancient history of war.
The Israelis would posture in the classic position of the injured party that struck back with a massive conventional response, aided by the US, instead of revealing the existence of her own ultra-secret nuclear armoury.
With Iran suitably smashed up, the conditions are ripe for ground occupation of key points – such as the oil fields.
The new IAEA report that Iran will soon be a nuclear state has raised the alarm, although it is such a remarkable reversal of previous agency statements it seems to rank as propaganda produced by long distance arm-twisting from Washington.
However, there are interesting clues of internal friction. Elements of the intelligence services, Mossad and Shin Bet, are demonstrably nervous.
Meir Dagan and Ephraim Halevy, both former heads of Mossad, have spoken out openly against attacking Iran. They question why a country that gets billions from the US taxpayer every year to defend itself is at any serious risk from Iran.
Why should attacking Iran provoke such uncertainties in unlikely quarters? Could it be the prospect of the mother and father of all 9/11′s? The military are also disturbed about something, when normally they would go after Iran like greyhounds on steroids.
Netanyahu has problems concerning Iran within his own cabinet. Thousands have protested outside the Likud party’s headquarters at slippage into a protofascist state which proposes draconian clamping down on free speech. Israel is disturbed and unsettled. Iran hangs over everything, like a bleak thundercloud.
Israel has a long history of blaming responsibility for incoming missiles on the Hamas authorities in Gaza, or Hezbollah when they come from the direction of Lebanon.
This is simply a matter of record. Israel has attacked her own citizens, like NATO’s secret Gladio armies attacked European citizens during the “years of lead” of the 70s and 80s in order to scare voters away from Left wing parties. Gangs of urban Marxist guerillas, surreptitiously steered by intelligence interlopers, duly got the blame.
The claim that Iran is arming missiles to attack Israel now should be judged in the same light. Yet once the idea is successfully planted, opportunity beckons. I sincerely hope that I am wrong.
Richard Cottrell is a writer, journalist and former European MP (Conservative). His new book Gladio: NATO’s Dagger At The Heart Of Europe is coming in January of 2012 from Progressive Press.
Edited by Madison Ruppert
Richard Cottrell is a writer, journalist and former European MP (Conservative). His new book
False flag nuke in a country the size of an average US city, orchestrated by said country ? This is one of the most laughable ideas we’ve heard in a long time.
Israeli politicians may be dumb, but not dumb enough to nuke themselves for the sake of Wallstreet oil politics. If this is the line of thought in “conservative” European MP’s , the conservative movement is in a very bad shape.
As for the Soros funded anarchist “protests” against the elected Israeli government (i.e., the globalist destabilization campaign against Israel), see our analysis here :
essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2011/10/from-serbia-to-israel-behind-scenes-of.html
If Cottrell insists on deluding himself in this manner, that’s his problem of course, However, if you’re interested in a real in-depth analysis of actual reality, rather than Israelophobic demagogy, you will find it only in our blog (just click our name to see for yourself. we’re not selling anything, just offering some insights you won’t find anywhere else)
Essential intelligence? More like essential stupidity. Take your hasbara nonsense elsewhere. How much is the ADL paying you to post all of your blatant disinformation?
What Richard Cottrell says here is really very sensible. Why indeed would Iran dare to launch a nuclear warhead against Israel when Israel’s air-defence system would intercept it and Israel would no doubt instantly use the act of aggression against itself as grounds for launching a devastating attack on Iran.
So, yes, it’s not fear of Iran having nuclear weapons that worries the USA and Israel, but not having Iran’s oil.
Well, Iran could theoretically launch a tactical nuke from Lebanon using its Hezbollah proxy. The Israeli interception systems cannot stop a massive salvo of rockets from Lebanon, while Iran could wash its hands clean from the attack and claim it had nothing to do with her, but was a “local initiative of rouge factions”.
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November 26, 2011 at 4:38 AM
I think I finally understand where you are coming from. It is pretty clear what your motivation is when I actually looked up your IPs that you are posting from.
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So, how much are you getting paid to propagandize?
OOH, you’ve managed to “expose our IP’s”, how sophisticated you must be.
Unfortunately for your little “discovery” , nobody is smart enough top pay us a dime, so we just use the freeware blogspot infrastructure.
Than again, it’s quite obvious which governments pay YOU to propagandize for them: Iran, Syria and maybe also Russia , or perhaps one of those Soros network of NGO’s ?
You are , of course entitled to propagandize for whoever you may wish, but whining about “propaganda” when someone presents a different view than yours ? get real, Mr. Ruppert.
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November 26, 2011 at 7:56 AM
I enjoy watching your tactics, if nothing else it is entertaining. You could use a few classes on logic and debate, though.
Are you seriously saying I’m paid by Iran, Syria and maybe Russia to propagandize for them? And Soros? Really? Would Soros fund a website that openly shows him for what he is? Would Soros fund a website that decries the other websites that he funds? Come on, at least try to be remotely realistic.
Why would Syria, Iran or maybe Russia fund a website that is based in America, written by an American and takes a pro-American stance? Maybe you could help me out on that one.
I’d also like to know where the funding is going? You must realize that I update the donation tally whenever someone donates and literally every single person who has donated to me has been from the United States or Europe.
Furthermore, if I was being funded, don’t you think I’d have some nice professional graphics, not a logo I made in 15 minutes in Photoshop? Wouldn’t I have an advertising budget? Would I need to run advertisements on here and beg for donations to even try to break even? Would I need to run the distracting InfoLinks ads in order to attempt to break even?
Your statements are so absurd that I’m amazed someone would actually make them.
I’m not “whining,” I’m pointing out a fact, you minimize your own nation’s role in the evils of the world in a systematic manner. You are indeed propagandizing and I am doing the exact opposite. Since when have I claimed that Iran, Syria and Russia are bastions of freedom and exemplary governments?
Just a note, if you want to be taken seriously, don’t start out your reply with, “OOH,” it is hardly an effective debate tactic.
Mr. Ruppert, you’ve just literally took the words out of my mouth, I could easily say about you everything you’ve said about us.
While everything you’ve written so far about Israel consists of pure propaganda, we,on the other hand, offer the readers in-depth objective analysis that acknowledges both the Muslims and the Israelis as victims of the globalists.
That you would claim we publish “propaganda” is laughable at best. Naming this website “end the lie” makes an Orwellian oxymoron in that context.
Anyway, since this tiresome trollish-level of “fire exchanges” is beneath us altogether, you need not worry- we won’t bother you anymore with our “propaganda”, we don’t need to waste more of our time here since our blog is rapidly approaching a level of tens of thousands page views, despite zero support we got from our “colleagues” in the alternative media, so we’ll just keep waiting for the “false flag nuke” to blow up over our heads while laughing at your gullibility.
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November 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM
Please direct me to a single thing I have said about Israel that consists of “pure propaganda” if you would. In reality, everything I say is backed up by facts which I source. Please do point out something I’ve said that is “pure propaganda” if you can.
I wouldn’t say that anything I’ve said could be considered a “trollish-level of ‘fire exchanges’” but when you continue to resort to childish tactics like you have time and time again I agree, it is getting tiresome.
We’re going in circles here since you can’t back up any of the claims you make against me or my website.
Good on you for getting “tens of thousands of page views” it must have to do with spamming the living crap out of every alternative news blog in sight.
Once again, you make absurd claims, fail to back any of them up, and then utilize juvenile argumentative tactics. Thank you for continuing to delegitimize yourself better than I could ever hope to.
Yes, I suppose Cortell is an excellent “source” that has all the “facts” .
He even knows in advance about Israel’s plan to nuke itself out of existence.
“Spamming the living crap” out of every website could work once or twice, but repeating readers in such numbers indicate wide spread demand for what we have to offer. Sorry, we’re not part of the circular reference that exists in the self proclaimed “alternative media” where everyone is quoting everyone else, so we’ve been limited to this method of promotion so far.
You can ignore us or try to ridicule us (in vain, I believe) but you can’t stop us.
Bottom line: the readers will decide for themselves (I think you can agree at least with that) , and we’re out of here, like I said earlier.
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November 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Ah, I see you can’t cite a single time I said anything that amounts to “pure propaganda”?
I wish you would actually make claims you can substantiate. It would make readers more in pursuing your information given that it would mean you actually do research and say things you can back up.
Since that’s not the case, I’m not sure how readers would decide that you’re a reliable source. Please also point me to where I use circular references. Oh wait, you will not because you cannot substantiate a single thing that you say.
At least you’re hilariously inutile, otherwise you’d just be plain sad.
Take care and please come back when you can back up all of your defaming allegations.
Until then, I wish you the best of luck in your enterprise.
Good job of turning over their rock and exposing these cockroaches Mr.Ruppert.
You’d think they’d be smart enough to have at least gone through a proxy to spread their lies and disinfo.
But then, they were stupid enough to be dancing on top of their van on 9/11/01?
Seems to me that Anonymous here is the real cockroach , since he actually believes that “they” would be “dancing on their van” in 9/11.
Is this the level of the average reader here ? “dancing Mossad agents” and Israelis nuking themselves ?
You (trolls and article writers alike) may think you’re “exposing” something about the Israelis, but if this is what you’re capable of, you’re just serving their interest of making their critics look like complete buffoons.
You are right. The idea that there were
just5 dancing Israelis here prior to 911 is completely absurd.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1387069/US-arrests-200-young-Israelis-in-spying-investigation.html
There’s nothing absurd about “dancing” idiots in the streets.
There’s no shortage of idiots in Israel and elsewhere.
What’s absurd here is the notion that the Mossad will train his operatives to joyfully dance out in the open once the mission is accomplished.
If you really believe in that you should have your head examined.
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November 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM
Surprise surprise! You’re posting from Israel! Couldn’t you at least try masking your IP? This is just way too obvious.
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Your attempts to “prove” something by “exposing” people’s IP’s are becoming increasingly pathetic. What makes you think I have something to hide or mask ? last time I checked it wasn’t a crime to post comments from Israel. Seems like you have a habit of reacting to every sign of criticism in this infantile manner, which may tell us something about your credibility as a self proclaimed “alternative reporter” .
Just for fun, I’ll refer your link to the Mossad’s media applications department. I’m sure they’ll have a good laugh at the office, and once they’re done laughing they may actually find a way to incorporate your website into their Psyops section (that’s probably what they’ve done with Richard Silverstein’s pathetic little blog that you’ve cited in the past).
Some idiots can be very Useful , as the old saying goes.
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November 28, 2011 at 1:12 AM
I might be wrong but I’m going to take a guess and say you’re the same person posting as essential-intelligence due to your egregious usage of quotes which I never said.
When did I say I was trying to “‘prove’ something by ‘exposing’ people’s IP’s”?
Indeed it is not a crime in any way, but I think it is important to be transparent and clearly you have no interest in doing so yourself. Trying to understand someone’s motivation can be quite useful.
How exactly am I reacting to criticism in an infantile manner? I haven’t seen any real criticism from you or essential-intelligence at all. Criticism is not leveling wild accusations with no substance or proof. In fact, I encourage criticism and thrive on readers pointing out when I have facts wrong or when sources are dubious.
I believe that life is a constant learning process and I know for a fact that I am ignorant on far too many subjects and thus I encourage readers to enlighten me, provide me with sources and articles that would help flesh out my work, etc.
Sounds good, have fun with that. I truly hope you actually do that, it would be quite fun to verbally spar with some Mossad psychological operations operatives, although if you’re implying that Silverstein is a Mossad PSYOP agent then Mossad is even worse off than I thought. Or are you saying that they troll his blog and you will encourage them to do the same on mine? Either way, sounds like fun.
Your guess is way off the mark, sorry. I’ve never heard of that blog before I came upon this article, but I’ll certainly check them out sooner or later.
My sarcasm appears to be too difficult for you, so I’ll be more specific :
Indeed , you did not say you were trying to prove something, you just show ip addresses of certain commentators , accusing them of having a hidden motive or even defaming them as payed government agents, simply because they were posting from Israel. You did not do the same with any other comment . Correct me if I’m wrong, but there has not been an “open ip policy” in the comment board of this website so far, so your demands for ‘transparency” are somewhat strange, to say the least. Do you expect anyone who posts comments to mention his ip address and country of origin ? If you do, just say so, I have no problem with that at all. You can’t just wave an ip address as if you’ve won some argument by doing so.
You keep leveling wild accusations with no substance or proof while claiming that others (including me) are doing the same to you.
Sorry, I’m not convinced.
As for Silverstein, I did not imply that he was an operative or that they actually have the extra time and resources to waste on trolling obscure websites. He’s just an idiot, and idiots can be very useful to anyone who knows how to use them (say, by “leaking” carefully timed pieces from “inside sources” ), so, no, don’t expect any verbal spar with a bored Mossad operative or any trolls creeping all over the place. Than again, someone who believes in dancing Mossad agents and false flag Israeli nukes will believe just about anything.
Once this is understood, the sky is the limit with the above mentioned technique of “exclusive leaks from inside sources”.
So, till next time, have fun.
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November 28, 2011 at 11:30 PM
cockroach_exterminator,
When did I make such accusations? When did I defame anyone as a “payed” (by the way, its paid) government agent?
I can see the IPs of every poster. It is built in to WordPress. Every blogger who runs wordpress can see the IP and some basic info about the commenter.
It’s interesting because the only comments like this that I get are from Israel. How does that not seem like something worth pointing out? If I was getting all pro-Iranian comments from IPs in Iran I’d point that out as well.
What wild accusations have I made? You and essential-intelligence are the only ones making wild accusations time and time again without providing so much as a shred of anything that resembles evidence.
Are you saying the Israelis detained on 9/11 were not Mossad agents? I’d like to see you back up that claim, please.
Clearly you haven’t read my work. I question anonymous sources every time they are cited. Then again, you seem incapable of basing any of your statements in reality so I shouldn’t be too surprised.
Should that be Palestine