The U.S. and Israel are teeing up the Middle East biggest prize: Iran, which is in something approaching an alliance with Russia and China. Should be interesting. From Lorenzo Maria Pacini at strategic-culture.su:
To whom the control of Pentalasia will go, will probably go the control of the entire Rimland.
Essential regional planning for balance
As we have seen, Iran’s strategic importance cannot be overestimated. The so-called ‘sanctions of the international community’ actually have the effect of pushing Iran into the arms of China, Russia, Turkey, and India (who ignore the sanctions), and represent nothing more than Atlanticist fears that Iran will be able to rebuild its former sphere of influence, get along well with Europe, and stabilise vast land areas that harbour vital routes that can play an important role away from the Atlanticist-dominated sea routes.
Washington’s paranoid reactions against Iran have always been aimed at a number of objectives, which we discuss below.
Protect, destabilise, surround
– To protect the state of Israel from Iran as an economic, energy and general geopolitical rival. In the words of US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Barak Hussein Obama, ‘Israel’s security is sacrosanct’, consistent with the will of the American Zionist lobby.
– Destabilise all Iranian borders and prevent Iran from connecting territorially with Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, India, Russia and China, especially through energy projects (oil and gas pipelines, etc.). As an ‘intermediate empire’ between the Roman and Chinese empires, the Persians have always needed ports on the Mediterranean and routes to East Asia to prosper. Atlanticism must counter this by preventing, for example, the consolidation of projects such as the IPI pipeline.
– Surrounding Iran with a ring of Atlanticist military bases (Iraq, the Emirates, Bahrain, Afghanistan) and Atlanticist satellite states (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia), as well as massing troops around the country to exert pressure and perhaps force it to defend itself, which would serve as a pretext to attack it militarily. The United Arab Emirates seems to be the country where this concentration of troops will be strongest, with several US facilities (drone base, naval base, CIA intelligence centre and training complex of the private military company Academi – formerly Blackwater/Xe Services). Azerbaijan also serves as a proxy for Israel in the region. Together with the Taliban office in Qatar and other facilities, an infrastructure is being formed in the Gulf for recruiting, training and financing jihadist mercenaries to do the dirty work for Atlanticism in Syria, Pakistan, Chechnya, Libya, Somalia, the Maghreb and wherever else it is needed.
