Trump's killing of Soleimani finally
blows up the fake Russiagate narrative
By Neil Clark
January 03, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Trump’s ordered assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, head of the
Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds force,
not only means a dangerous escalation of
tensions with Iran, but also ends
fiction that Russia was controlling him.
Just imagine….. If Iran’s President
Rouhani had authorised a New Year drone
strike on General Mark Milley, the
Chairman of the United States Joint
Chiefs of Staff, as he was being driven
to the airport in Canada.
Would anyone
even be suggesting that the attack was
done in ‘self-defense’? But that’s
exactly the line we’re being fed now
about the killing of Qasem Soleimani.
The undeniable truth is that for all
his posthumous neocon demonization as
the most evil man on the planet, the
silver-haired Soleimani played a key
role in the defeat of the barbaric
death-cult ISIS and other al-Qaeda
affiliates in the Middle East. He helped
mastermind secular,
Christian-protecting, Syria’s
against-the-odds survival in the face of
a ferocious onslaught by some of the
most powerful countries in the world,
who unleashed an alphabet soup of
jihadist proxies and death squads to try
and achieve a violent ‘regime change’.
Soleimani’s reward for fighting the
groups that have targeted western
civilians around the globe- including
American citizens on 9-11, and British
tourists in Tunisia in 2015, was to be
blown up right at the start of 2020.
Remind me again, who are the terrorists
here?
The airwaves are full of talk about
the likelihood of a war on Iran, but the
fact is that hostilities have already
started. Trump provocatively pulled out
of the Iranian nuclear deal, boasted
that his new sanctions on Iran were ‘the
highest ever imposed on a country,’ and
now has ordered the killing of a man
regarded by many as the most powerful
figure in the country. Soleimani
threatened US forces in Iraq we are
told, by means of a justification. But
what are US forces doing in Iraq in the
first place?
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We’re meant to forget that
they came there at the head of an
illegal invasion force in 2003 which was
supposed to be about getting rid of
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction which
didn‘t actually exist. What right did
the US and its allies have to invade
Iraq seventeen years ago? Absolutely
none, under international law. But Iraqi WMDs was not the only deception. Far
from it.
We’ve been told (ad nauseum) the past few
years that Donald Trump was under the
control of Putin. That he was a de facto
Russian agent. A marionette of Moscow.
At least now, not even the most credulous
inhabitant of planet Earth will believe that
one. Iran is a key Middle Eastern ally of
Russia, an important strategic partner. By
assassinating Soleimani and putting us on a
military collision course with Tehran, Trump
is not only menacing the Islamic Republic,
he is poking the Russian bear in the chest,
back and face too. Today’s events, for
anyone who still had any doubts, shows that
the foreign country which have the greatest
influence in US politics is not Russia, but
Israel (and after Israel, Saudi Arabia).
The killing of Soleimani — and the strong
likelihood of Iranian retaliation against US
targets, makes no sense from a US viewpoint,
but it makes plenty of sense from an Israeli
one. The Iranian general has had his card
marked for a long time by Tel Aviv. The
Jerusalem Post
notes that the Quds supremo „was a
key part of Iran’s support for Hezbollah
during the 2006 war with Israel“. He
also stressed Iran’s continuing support for
the Palestinians.
If you were a staunch Zionist there’s
probably no one in the world you’d want out
of the way more than Soleimani. But here’s a
great truth which is rarely if ever spoken
in US public discourse, or indeed in
Britain: Israel’s priorities (smashing the
Iran-Syrian-Hezbollah axis- and eliminating
leading figures from those
countries/movements), actually weakens the
broader fight against radical Islamist
terror groups. If a ‘War on Terror’ was
really being fought, you wouldn’t be droning
those who have done the most to defeat ISIS
and al-Qaeda, would you? But that’s what
Donald Trump is doing. All the time liberals
were getting into a strop over non-existent
‘Russian interference,’ Israel and its lobby
were pushing for tougher action against
Iran, the strongest regional foe of ISIS and
al-Qaeda.
In November 2011, Trump went on Twitter
to ‘predict’ that President Obama would
start a war with Iran to get re-elected.
But Obama didn’t. Not only that, but the
Obama administration twice
discouraged Israel from going ahead with
plans to kill Soleimani when they had the
opportunity. Trump is undoubtedly the most
pro-Israel President America has ever had.
That means the dangers of a major
conflagration breaking out in 2020 are
greatly increased, for all the pre-election
rhetoric about ending Middle Eastern wars.
Neil Clark is a journalist, writer,
broadcaster and blogger. He tweets on
politics and world affairs @NeilClark66
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