(On 26 January 2009 Sanjay Augustine wrote this article in his blog Sanjay Augustine and this article is published here now because he still believes that though the threat of a US initiated war with Iran has been significantly downplayed, the threat still exists and will persist as Israel is now run by neo-fascists.
Iran has always been an essential chess piece for expanding US influence in the Middle East and the world due to its extremely strategic location and its huge oil reserves which can be used to amass tremendous leverage against rising powers as well as maintaining the status of the dollar as the world’s preeminent currency. But since the backfiring of the US plan to support the Ayatollah, the prospect of invasion goes back to 1979. Under the Bush Administration tensions with Iran have been heightened greatly. Ever since 2
003, the Bush Administration has been working hard on these war plans against Iran. These include the drawing of plans for a massive aerial assault against Iran and a massive invasion led by the US marines and the Army staged from the Persian Gulf and Azerbaijan and possibly Iraq and Afghanistan. The reason: Iran is a ‘rogue nation’ that is pursuing nucle
ar weapons, its President threatening Israel with its destruction and supporting terrorism ‘from Iraq to Chechnya’. Nevertheless the idea of war against Iran is now extremely foolish and will produce disastrous consequences for US soft and hard power projection in the world.
