With the failure (at least for the moment) of the US trying to get their "regime change" in place in nations such as Syria and Venezuela, it appears that the criminal Drumpf administration is once again zeroing in on the innocent nation of Iran as their next target for destruction....People have to be aware that the criminal and psychotic state of Israel has ALWAYS wanted to see Iran destroyed, and to use their slave nation of America as their weapon to bring about that destruction... The criminal Jews have had their sick dream of their "greater Israel" for well over 1/2 a century and the only major stumbling block that still exists in the Middle East today that could stymie the expansion of Israel is of course Iran....With the lifting of the so called "waivers" by the criminal US government the other day on nations that were still purchasing Iranian oil products, the countdown for the US attack on Iran appears to be on once again... The lifting of those waivers basically means that according to the US rules, NO nation will be allowed to buy or have Iranian oil shipped to them, and the US has been threatening to intercept any oil tankers that may be containing Iranian crude oil to prevent that oil from reaching its destinations world wide... This basically is an act of war against Iran, and I will bet that this has always been the diabolical plan all along by both the US and Israeli criminals to get the Iranians to react to this illegal attack on their tankers to get the nice little war against Iran going....I came across this very important article just the other day, and I definitely do want to share its information with my own readers here at this blog... This one comes courtesy of the Aletho News online service, at www.alethonews.com, and is originally written by Christopher Black from "New Eastern Outlook"... It is entitled: "Iran Is No One's Colony" and is a must read for everyone to get a better understanding as to the present situation in regards to this impending war against Iran, and how Iran definitely has the right to stand firm against that aggression as it is NOT to surrender its sovereignty and become a "colony" for criminal US interests... Here is that article, and I do have my own thoughts and comments to follow:
Iran Is No One’s Colony
By Christopher – New Eastern Outlook – Black 24.04.2019
The American aggression against Iran is escalating to a level that threatens world war. On Monday April 22, the USA declared that it has withdrawn “waivers” given to China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Italy and Greece, under the illegal US economic warfare campaign being conducted against Iran under the name of “sanctions.” The stated objective is to reduce Iranian oil exports to zero, crippling the Iranian economy, damaging the economies of countries that purchase Iranian oil and raising the price of oil for the rest of the world suppliers, including of course the US and Saudis, that have pledged to fill the gap, at a higher price of course.The American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo declared, with all the arrogance of Herr Garbage in Chaplin’s film The Great Dictator,
“The Trump Administration has taken Iran’s oil exports to historic lows, and we are dramatically accelerating our pressure campaign in a calibrated way that meets our national security objectives while maintaining well supplied global oil markets.”
In other words, “we are going to bring Iran to its knees while we make a pile of dough doing it.”Iran responded by stating that it will continue to ship oil and both Turkey and China quickly stated that they do not accept the US actions and will continue to buy Iranian oil. Italy and Greece have said nothing, but they kowtowed months ago and have not purchased Iranian oil despite being given the waivers by the US. It has to be assumed that they knew what was coming and so sought oil supplies elsewhere.The Iranians have threatened to close the Straight of Hormuz if the waivers are suspended and the Americans use force to block Iranian oil shipments which would mean the blocking of oil shipments from the Arabian peninsular, thereby threatening oil supplies to many nations in the world that depend on those supplies, including Europe and North America. An attempt to block the Straight of Hormuz would result in the Americans trying to eliminate the Iranian naval vessels closing the passage, major naval engagements and outright war. It may be that the US is hoping to provoke such a clash to give it the pretext for war against Iran. Everything points to that conclusion.Armed action to block Iranian exports of oil is the logical step the US will have to take if the illegal “sanctions” are ignored and the US maintains its threat to bring Iranian oil exports to zero. Any such action would not only be aggression against Iran, it would also be an act of aggression against China and the other nations relying on that oil. But armed conflict and the risk of a major war is a risk the US seems willing to take. Whether they are reckless or that is the American objective is difficult to say but if it comes to that it won’t much matter for the consequences will be terrible and world wide. But, looking at US actions, real war, not just economic, appears to be their objective.The US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal a few months ago and immediately reimposed its panoply of “sanctions” against Iran affecting Iranian trade, banking, shipping, transportation and communications. It has since declared a formation of the Iranian armed forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to be a “terrorist organisation” a bizarre action since the armed forces of any nation cannot be considered “terrorists” in any sense. Iran quickly retaliated by declaring American armed forces as “terrorists,” and so it goes.On April 3 the Pentagon repeated Wikileaks’ claims from 2010, which were also based on US Army sources, that Iran was responsible for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq when, in fact, it was the Iraqi Resistance forces, that fought the Americans so valiantly, who inflicted the casualties on the US forces in Iraq.On October 22, 2010, The Columbia Journalism Review commented on the Wikileaks release of documents and their use in the media on that date regarding Iraq that,
“Just as it focused on Pakistan’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan in its reporting on WikiLeaks’s July dump, The New York Times focuses heavily on the involvement of Iran in the Iraq War logs released today.”
And,“The Times’s current online lead WikiLeaks story is “Leaked Reports Detail Iran’s Aid for Iraqi Militias” which details the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ backing of Iraqi militias.
“The piece draws on specific incidents from the logs to demonstrate that Iran’s Quds Forces mostly maintained a low-profile, arranging for Hezbollah to train Iraqi militias in Iran, and financing and providing weaponry to insurgents. Other times the Iranian forces sponsored assassinations; at others, they sought to influence politics, and otherwise coordinated attacks on US forces in Iraq.”
All these claims, based on US Army sources, were accepted without question by Wikileaks and the major newspapers that published them such as the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and are now resurrected by the Pentagon and the media to fan the flames of hostility towards Iran in a more visceral way. Syria stated the claims were suspicious. Russia Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharaova stated that Russia was surprised by the allegations, that Washington had some explaining to do and that the US better not use the claims as a pretext for conflict.The objective of declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as terrorists and resurrecting the dubious US Army-Wikileaks claims that Iran is responsible for American deaths in Iraq is of course to criminalise the Iranian government in the eyes of the western, particularly American public. Criminalisation of the enemy is always a sign that an attack is coming. They painted Manuel Noriega as a criminal. They did the same with Slobodan Milosevic, with Saddam Hussein, with Muammar Ghaddafi. Negotiations, diplomacy are not possible with “criminals” is the US refrain and their targets end up dead or in an American prison.The same logic applies to Iran. They are portraying the Iranian government as criminals and no matter how much Iran bends its principles in order to avoid war it will never be enough so long as Iran tries to act as an independent country. The economic warfare will continue for as long as the Americans have the power to wage it.The excuse will vary with the time and circumstance but the strategy will remain. This is war, illegal and immoral, against an entire people, for the private gains of the elites in the west whose only concern is to make profit at the expense of everyone else.I have said this before but it needs repeating that I have used the word “sanction” in parentheses because the word, “sanction,” means the provision of rewards for obedience, along with punishment for disobedience, to a law. There are other meanings for the word but they all define the same condition; obedience to a master by his vassal, to a monarch by his subject, to a warden by his prisoner. The condition necessarily implies that the person applying the sanction is legally in a superior position to the person being sanctioned, that he has the right to apply the sanction and that there exists a system of laws in which the use of sanctions is permitted and agreed upon.This is the definition yet every day we hear of the “sanctions” imposed on Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea for reasons that everyone knows are false, based on authority that does not exist, based on laws that have never been created, and by national governments that have only arrogance to support their grand presumption; that their nations are superior to others, that there is no equality or sovereignty of peoples, that their diktats are orders that must be obeyed by those who inferior to them.Since the economic restrictions on banking, finance and trade set up against Iran by the United States and its subject states in the NATO alliance do not comply with the definition of sanctions, we have to use the correct term in describing these restrictions. There is only one word, and that word is, war and, since this form of warfare is not permitted by international law as found in the United Nations Charter they are economic war crimes, economic aggression for which a reckoning will one day have to be paid, one way or another.It is in Chapter VII, Article 41 of the Charter that the power to completely or partially interrupt economic relations exists and only the Security Council can use that power. Nowhere else does this power exist.Once again the issue comes back to the word war. It is clear that the attempted economic strangulation of Iran is an attempt to “punish” Iran for defending its strategic position, independence and sovereignty. Once a war has started it can only proceed to its logical end. Iran has the legitimate right to defend itself against the economic warfare and threat of war presented by the United States for Iran is no one’s colony, and never will be.Christopher Black is an international criminal lawyer based in Toronto. He is known for a number of high-profile war crimes cases and recently published his novel “Beneath the Clouds. He writes essays on international law, politics and world events.NTS Notes: I do agree with Christopher Black's assessment here, and I do want to point out once again that the real driving force behind this planned destruction of Iran is of course the psychos in Israel that want Iran thoroughly destroyed and/or subdued to give their psychotic state its full hegemony over the entire Middle East...I must also point out that all of this bullshit propaganda that we always hear about Iran is exactly that.. Bullshit.... For we have the following lies about Iran that are always coming out of the Jew spew media and our criminal governments:(a) "Iran is a terrorist nation" - Pure baloney for the reality is that Iran has been working diligently with other nations to squash any "terrorist organizations" and has been one of the nations that has basically stopped the US led "ISIS" from infiltrating and causing havoc within its own borders....(b) "Iran wants Israel destroyed" - Pure baloney, for the former Iranian President Ahmadinejad was purposely misquoted (no shock here) by the criminal Jewish run media for his speeches against Israel, and the correct terminology was that the Iranians wanted the leadership of Israel defeated, and NOT the state destroyed. The liars in the Jew spew media have always been filling gullible people with this bullshit for the last decade and a half without telling the real truth...(c) "Iran is a threat to the Middle East" - Pure baloney, for the Iranians have NOT launched a war of aggression against any of its neighbours for over two centuries! The so called Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1989 was in fact a war launched by Iraq and supported by the US against Iran. Iran has in fact worked with the Syrians and other nations in trying to remove US run terrorist cells and to help stabilize nations that have been under attack by US/Israeli interests....(d) "Iranians hate Jews" - Not true at all, for people are not being told that Iran has in fact a very strong and very free and successful Jewish community that has full rights to religious freedoms. In fact, the Jews in Iran have NO interests in ever leaving Iran in spite of the bullshit propaganda put out by the Jew spew media and the US/Israel...(e) "Iranian citizens are impoverished and brutalized by their government" - This sad and stupid statement always being banged into gullible minds is absolutely pure baloney... Iran is in fact a very modern society and a very modern nation where the people have very high standards of living... In fact, Iran has turned into a technological and scientific marvel where the people are well educated and have a lot of freedoms where in a lot of cases the Iranian people's freedoms exceed those in so called western societies. It is only through the illegal US "embargo" that is still on Iran that some materials for the nations' massive manufacturing and industrial capacities is curtailed...There, 5 prime examples of the bullshit that the liars in the Jew spew media continue to harp into gullible people about Iran.... The truth is of course all of that bullshit propaganda is nothing more than the present weapon of choice to try to get gullible people to somehow go along with the planned attack to destroy that innocent nation...Yes, the countdown to war against Iran is on once again.... It is my hope that people do see the real truths about Iran and exactly why the psychos in the US and Israel want that nation destroyed..... I will continue to bring forward those real truths here at this blog in the hope that people take the facts and help stop this impending act of criminal aggression against another innocent nation..More to comeNTS