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7 Reasons to Doubt US Version of Gulf-of-Oman Incident<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given Pompeo\u2019s regime-change agenda for Iran, Caitlin Johnstone pours cold water over his version of events.
In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wasted no time scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, citing exactly zero evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high-degree of sophistication,\u201d Pompeo told the press in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe United States will defend its forces, interests, and stand with our partners and allies to safeguard global commerce and regional stability. And we call upon all nations threatened by Iran\u2019s provocative acts to join us in that endeavor,\u201d Pompeo concluded before hastily shambling off, taking exactly zero questions.
Here are seven reasons to be extremely skeptical of everything Pompeo said:
No. 1: Pompeo is a known liar, especially when it comes to Iran.<\/strong>
Pompeo has a well-established history of circulating blatant lies about Iran. He recently told an audience at Texas A&M University that when he was leading the CIA, \u201cWe lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses.\u201d
No. 2:<\/strong> The US empire is known to use lies and false flags to start wars.<\/strong>
The U.S.-centralized power alliance has an extensive and well-documented history of advancing preexisting military agendas using lies, false flags and psyops to make targeted governments appear to be the aggressors. This is such a well-established pattern that \u201cGulf of Tonkin\u201d briefly trended on Twitter after the Gulf of Oman incident. Any number of government agencies could have been involved from any number of the nations in this alliance, including the U.S., the U.K., Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Israel.
No. 3: John Bolton has openly endorsed lying to advance military agendas.<\/strong>
I wrote an article about this last month because the Trump administration had already begun rapidly escalating against Iran in ways that happen to align perfectly with the longtime agendas of Trump\u2019s psychopathic Iran hawk National security adviser. At that time people were so aware of the possibility that Bolton might involve himself in staging yet another Middle Eastern war based on lies that The Onion was already spoofing it.
On a December 2010 episode of Fox News\u2019 \u201cFreedom Watch,\u201d Bolton and the show\u2019s host Andrew Napolitano were debating about recent WikiLeaks publications, and naturally the subject of government secrecy came up.
\u201cNow I want to make the case for secrecy in government when it comes to the conduct of national security affairs, and possibly for deception where that\u2019s appropriate,\u201d Bolton said. \u201cYou know Winston Churchill said during World War Two that in wartime truth is so important it should be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.\u201d
\u201cDo you really believe that?\u201d asked an incredulous Napolitano.
\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Bolton replied.
\u201cYou would lie in order to preserve the truth?\u201d
\u201cIf I had to say something I knew was false to protect American national security, I would do it,\u201d Bolton answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Bolton \u2013 defender of Zion, promoter of MEK terrorism \u2013 fees revealed <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This would be the same John Bolton who has been paid exorbitant speaking fees by the pro-regime change MEK terror cult, promising the cult in a 2017 speech that they\u2019d be celebrating regime change in Tehran together before 2019. This would also be the same John Bolton who once threatened to murder an OPCW official\u2019s children if he didn\u2019t stop getting in the way of his Iraq war agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

No. 4: Using false flags to start a war with Iran is already an established idea in the DC swamp.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2012 at a forum for the Washington Institute of Near East Policy think tank, the group\u2019s Director of Research Patrick Clawson openly talked about the possibility of using a false flag to provoke a war with Iran, citing the various ways the U.S. has done exactly that with its previous wars.
\u201cI frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it\u2019s very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran,\u201d Clawson began.
\u201cWhich leads me to conclude that if in fact compromise is not coming, that the traditional way that America gets to war is what would be best for U.S. interests,\u201d Clawson added. \u201cSome people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into the war\u2026 you may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor. Some people might think that Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War One; you may recall we had to wait for the Lusitania episode. Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to get us into Vietnam; you may recall we had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode. We didn\u2019t go to war with Spain until the USS Maine exploded. And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel that he could call out the Army until Fort Sumter was attacked, which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing which the South Carolinians said would cause an attack.\u201d
\u201cSo if, in fact, the Iranians aren\u2019t going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war,\u201d Clawson continued. \u201cOne can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. I mentioned that explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean look people, Iranian submarines periodically go down. Some day, one of them might not come up. Who would know why? [Smattering of sociopathic laughter from the crowd.] We can do a variety of things, if we wish to increase the pressure (I\u2019m not advocating that) but I\u2019m just suggesting that this is not an either\/or proposition \u2014 just sanctions have to succeed or other things. We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier at that.\u201d
No. 5: The US State Department has already been running psyops to manipulate the public Iran narrative.<\/strong>
State Department officials admitted to congressional staff at a closed-door meeting on Monday that a $1.5 million troll farm had gone \u201cbeyond the scope of its mandate\u201d by aggressively smearing American critics of the Trump administration\u2019s Iran policy as propagandists for the Iranian government, according to a new report from The Independent. That \u201cmandate\u201d had reportedly consisted of \u201ccountering propaganda from Iran,\u201d also known as conducting anti-Iran propaganda.
\u201cCritics in Washington have gone further, saying that the programme resembled the type of troll farms used by autocratic regimes abroad,\u201d says The Independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne woman behind the harassment campaign, a longtime Iranian-American activist, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State Department over the years to promote \u2018freedom of expression and free access to information,\u2019\u201d the report reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

No. 6: The Gulf of Oman narrative makes no sense.<\/strong>
One of the ships damaged in the attacks was Japanese-owned, and the other was bound for Japan. This happened just as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran attempting to negotiate a de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran with Trump\u2019s blessing, and just after Iran had released a prisoner accused of conducting espionage for the U.S. in what many took to be a gesture of good faith.
Iran has been conducting itself with remarkable restraint in the face of relentless sanctions and provocations from the U.S. and its allies. It wouldn\u2019t make much sense for it to suddenly abandon that restraint with attacks on sea vessels, then rescue their crew, then deny perpetrating the attacks, during a time of diplomatic exchanges and while trying to preserve the nuclear deal with Europe. If Tehran did perpetrate the attacks in order to send a strong message to the Americans, it would have been a very mixed message sent in a very weird way with very odd timing.
No. 7: Even if Iran did perpetrate the attack, Pompeo would still be lying.<\/strong>
Pompeo\u2019s statement uses the words \u201cunprovoked\u201d twice and \u201cIran\u2019s provocative acts\u201d once, explicitly claiming that the U.S. empire was just minding its own business leaving Iran alone when it was attacked out of the blue by a violent aggressor. Sometimes the things put out by the U.S. State Department feel like they\u2019re conducting experiments on us, just to test the limits of our stupidity.
As noted in this article by Moon of Alabama and this discussion on the Ron Paul Liberty Report, the U.S. has been provoking Iran with extremely aggressive and steadily tightening sanctions, which means that even if Tehran is behind the attacks, it would not be the aggressor and the attacks would most certainly not have been \u201cunprovoked.\u201d Economic sanctions are an act of war; if China were to do to America\u2019s economy what America is doing to Iran\u2019s, the U.S. would be in a hot war with China immediately. It could technically be possible that Iran is pushing back on U.S. aggressions and provocations, albeit in a strange and neoconservatively convenient fashion.
Either way, we have seen exactly zero evidence supporting Pompeo\u2019s claims, so anyone you see hastening to blame Iran for the Gulf of Oman incident is either a war whore or a slobbering moron, or both. Knowing what we know about the U.S.-centralized empire and its pre-existing regime change agenda against Iran, there is no reason to believe Pompeo and many reasons not to.
By Caitlin Johnstone, CaitlinJohnstone.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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