Commentary:
Flashback:
– George Galloway: The Case Against War With Iran (Must-Listen!!!) (YouTube):
‘Iran Hasn’t Invaded Another Country In More Than 300 Years.’
– 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:
– Albert Pike Predicted Three World Wars In 1871
WORLD WAR 3 anyone?
– China To Protect Iran Even If It Means World War III
See also:
The war has already started …
– Ron Paul: Sanctions Against Iran Are an ‘Act of War’:
… Ron Paul told voters in Iowa that western sanctions against Iran are “acts of war” that are likely to lead to an actual war.
… and Ron Paul said this even BEFORE Obama has frozen (stolen) all Iranian assets:
– President Obama Freezes All Iranian Assets In The US (Video)
– 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
AND NOW SWIFT has cut off Iran from the entire financial system. Which is another act of war.
– With The Enterprise Just 4 Days Away From Arrival, A SWIFT Cut Off Of Iran (ZeroHedge, Mar 15, 2012):
Update: as we hit print, we see headlines that the UK will cooperate with the US on bilateral agreement to release oil stocks. Crude down big on the news, which is merely an advance move ahead of almost inevitable war with Iran, simply to make the spike more palatable.
The push to get Iran to do something terminally irrational (now that USS Enterprise in its final tour of duty is almost on location just off the side of CVN-70 Lincoln and CVN-72 Vinson in the Arabian Sea, where the US will shortly have not one, not two, but three aircraft carriers) is now in its final stretch. As AP reported earlier, Iran has been now entirely cut off from the global financial system, as that anchor of international financial transactions, SWIFT, has just taken Iran off the grid. This leaves Iran with just three options for international trade: making gold into a fully convertible currency, barter, or exchanging Rials for Renminbi and other local currencies.
From the AP:
The SWIFT global financial transaction service said Thursday that it was cutting ties with Iranian banks that are subject to European Union sanctions aimed at discouraging the country from developing nuclear weapons.
The action effectively enforces EU sanction because the world’s financial transactions are impossible without using SWIFT, and it will go a long way toward isolating Iran financially.
The company’s name stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. It is a banking hub crucial to oil, financial transactions and other trades.
In a statement, SWIFT said the EU decision “prohibits companies such as SWIFT to continue to provide specialized financial messaging services to EU-sanctioned banks.”
“Disconnecting banks is an extraordinary and unprecedented step for SWIFT,” Lazaro Campos, chief executive of SWIFT, said. “It is a direct result of international and multilateral action to intensify financial sanctions against Iran.”
In other words: Iran, please do your worst. And just to make it easier, the US has now stacked an entire armada of easy targets in close vicinity, which not even a naive fool can mistake anymore for prewar preparations.
Here is what the naval picture in the Arabian Sea looked like most recently, where courtesy of Stratfor we can see that not only is CVN-65 full steam ahead to its final date with history somewhere off the shores of Iran, but that LHD8 Makin Island crossed the Straits of Hormuz recently. Just because.
Virtually the entire non-parked naval fleet will be in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf in the next 4-6 days, where 3 aircraft carriers and one big-deck amphibious warfare ship are just waiting for the order.
More on Iran:
– George Galloway: Iran Is Not A Punching Bag (Video)
– Former US Ambassador: ‘Israeli Spies Warn Against Military Strike On Iran’ (Video)
– US Offers Israel Advanced Weaponry In Return For Not Attacking Iran THIS YEAR
– Senior Israeli Official: Netanyahu Considers Missiles On Tel Aviv Preferable To Nukes In Iran
– Ron Paul On CNN : ‘I Think Sanctions Give Iran Motivation To Want A Nuclear Weapon’ (Video)
– U.S. And Israel Have Prepared Military Options To Attack Iran
– General McCaffrey Briefs NBC Execs On War With Iran
– FOX News: ‘US Has Moral Authority To Annihilate Iran Because They’re Evil’ (Video)
– John Bolton’s One Trick Pony: Iran’s Imaginary Nuke
– 10 Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
– Israeli Military Deploys Missile Interceptor System ‘Iron Dome’ Tel Aviv
– Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: 44 US Military Bases Surrounding Iran: Will Iran Be Attacked?
– Iran Says Israel Attacked Its Own Embassies (Jerusalem Post)
– President Obama Freezes All Iranian Assets In The US (Video)
– 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