YouTube Added: 06.02.2012
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The United States has escalated tensions with Iran once again, this after President Obama called for a freeze of all Iranian assets held in the US. The executive order signed on Monday was in reaction to what the US is calling “deceptive practices” by Iran. Israel has also joined in by stepping up threats against Iran, and US Secretary Defense Leon Panetta has acknowledged Israel may attack Iran in the next 90 days. Vijay Prashad, director of International Studies at Trinity College, takes a deeper look on the escalated possibility of war.
Flashback:
– George Galloway: The Case Against War With Iran (Must-Listen!!!)
‘Iran Hasn’t Invaded Another Country In More Than 300 Years.’
More on Iran:
– Commander-In-Thief Obama Signs Executive Order Freezing Iran Assets In US (Video)
– Former Member Of The Russian Joint Chiefs Of Staff: Russia Is Ready to Defend Iran and Syria
– Iran, Gold and Oil – The Next Banksters War
– Destination Persian Gulf? Nuclear Submarine USS Annapolis And USS Momsen Enter Red Sea
– Pentagon Sends Commando ‘Mothership’ To Middle East
– EU Iran Oil Embargo Sanctions ‘Unprecedented’, Freezes Iranian Central Bank Assets
– Lawmaker: Closing Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s right
– US, Britain And France Send Warships Through Strait Of Hormuz
– EU Foreign Ministers Agree On Iranian Oil Embargo – Europe Is Shooting Itself In The Foot
– India Joins Asian Dollar Exclusion Zone, Will Transact With Iran In Rupees
– Satanist Takes Credit for Upcoming War With Iran (WW III)
– ‘Iran Signs Own Death Warrant’ (Veterans Today)
– CNN: US Funds Iran Nuclear Program (Video)
– Iran Is Not Our Enemy (Video)
– The Real Target … US Wants To ‘Close Down The Central Bank Of Iran’: Senior U.S. Official
– Iran, Russia Replace US Dollar With National Currencies In Trade Exchanges
– Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: Iran Not Building Nuclear Bombs Yet
– US Analysts: Iran’s Nuclear Fuel Rod Isn’t Military Threat (Bloomberg, Jan. 4, 2012)
– Thousands Of US Troops To Be Deployed In Israel, Joined By US Aircraft Carrier
– Obama And Netanayu Push For Attack On Iran (Video)
– American Investigative Journalist: CIA, Mossad Made Up Fairytale Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda
– Royal Navy Sends Its Mightiest Warship To Take On Iran
– Ron Paul: Sanctions Against Iran Are an ‘Act of War’:
Unwilling to back down from the growing criticism that his foreign policy would be “dangerous,” Ron Paul told voters in Iowa that western sanctions against Iran are “acts of war” that are likely to lead to an actual war.
Paul said that Iran would be justified in responding to sanctions by blocking the Straits of Hormuz, adding that the country blocking the strategically important strait is “so logical” since they have no other recourse.
He then compared the situation to China blocking off the Gulf of Mexico to trade.
– Interview With James Morris From ‘America-Hijacked.com’: Israel Pushing US Towards War With Iran
– ‘US Deploys Troops In Israel For Iran War’
– Rachel Maddow: Ron Paul Is The Only Presidential Candidate That Doesn’t Want To Start Another War!
Effectively, the measures will force companies and financial institutions throughout the world to choose between the United States and Iran as their business partner.
– Rick Santorum Wants To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Facilities (= WW III) (NBC Video)
– CFR’s Foreign Affairs: ‘Time To Attack Iran’ (= WW III)
– Adrian Salbuchi: Imperial Overdrive: Red Alert Over Iran
– China To Protect Iran Even If It Means World War III
Flashback:
– Heads Of Mossad And Shin Bet May Have Leaked Plans For Attack On Iran, PM Netanyahu Orders An Investigation (Guardian, Nov. 3, 2011):
… the main suspects are the former heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, respectively Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.Netanyahu is said to believe that the two, Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin, wanted to torpedo plans being drawn up by him and Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to hit Iranian nuclear sites.
In January the recently retired Dagan, a hawk when he was running the Mossad, called an attack on Iran “the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard“.
“The stupidest idea I’ve ever heard“ = WW III: