NO WAR ON IRAN
Originally posted on January 14, 2020
Over the past week and a half, the United States has assassinated General Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s top ranking military official WHO WAS IN IRAQ TO HELP EASE TENSIONS BETWEEN IRAQ AND SAUDI ARABIA, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq. The same day they attempted to assassinate Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander in Iran’s elite Quds Force who has been active in Yemen ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST.
Iran responded to this with a targeted attack on a military base in Iraq, avoiding casualties thanks to Iran’s prior warning to Iraq that it was about to strike, but completely wiping out the base itself.
On the same day this happened, Iran mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian commercial airplane, killing everyone on board. It has since apologized and arrested the operator responsible for this. Contrast this with GEORGE H.W. BUSH’S RESPONSE to the revelation that THE U.S. SHOT DOWN IRAN AIR FLIGHT 655 IN 1988, stating “I won’t apologize for the United States, I don’t care what the facts are.” Shooting down civilian planes is not an Uncommon tactic for the U.S., as seen in the CIA’S ROLE IN SHOOTING DOWN FIFTEEN CIVILIAN PLANES IN PERU as part of the War on Drugs between 1995 and 2001.
The US has been angling for war with Iran for decades, and it’s important to understand both the history of Iran as a nation and the history of US imperialism and British colonialism that has been at play in the region, so I’ve decided to compile a list of resources similar to what I did to provide context for the Venezuelan coup.
— Greg Shupak’s EXCELLENT ARTICLE on Canada’s role in the U.S.’s ongoing aggression against Iran before the assassination of Suleimani, which also serves to counter many of the justifications on offer as to why the U.S. was right to assassinate Suleimani such as unsubstantiated claims that Iran was responsible for the downing of a US drone, or attacks on Saudi oil tankers
— Rania Khalek’s IN DEPTH INTERVIEW with Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi
— Two excellent interviews with Sina Rahmani of THE EAST IS A PODCAST in which he discusses Suleimani and Iran in depth, via DISTRICT SENTINEL and THE RED NATION PODCAST
— The Empire Files INTERVIEW WITH DAN KOVALIK about his book The Plot To Attack Iran
— Delete Your Account INTERVIEW WITH NIMA SHIRAZI, media analyst and host of CITATIONS NEEDED
— CONTEXT FOR THE ROLE SULEIMANI PLAYED WITHIN IRAQ’S MILITARY and its recent history, which is why the claim that Suleimani was a terrorist who
— THE WEEK’S ACCOUNTING of the crimes of which Iran has been accused, of which the U.S. is itself guilty
— “No, Iran didn’t exit the nuclear deal. And no, its nuclear announcement is not revenge for Suleimani.” via BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
— “IRANIANS DETEST SULEIMANI” vlogger works as lobbyist for former Libyan CIA asset working to gain US support for his side of the Libyan civil war which US created conditions for
— Tech platforms such as Facebook are CENSORING PRO-IRAN/PRO-SULEIMANI POSTS to comply with US sanctions on Iran
I’ll continue to update this list as I take the time to compile more.
