The Fix: The Real Cause of the Iran War

The stated pretext is absurd. Here's why the US really attacked.

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And so it happened. On Saturday evening, President Donald Trump announced that American forces bombed several Iranian nuclear sites.

For the past week, Israel has been carrying out its own airstrikes in the country, targeting nuclear facilities, assassinating regime figures, and destroying apartment buildings.

The ostensible purpose of Israel’s attacks was to damage Iran’s nuclear program and enlist America's help in doing so. It might well have succeeded, too.

But a closer look suggests that this was not the intention after all. If the goal was to undermine Tehran’s nuclear capabilities, for example, why the need to obliterate civilian apartment complexes?

Not only that, but there is no evidence that Iran was any closer to developing a nuclear weapon yesterday than it was one year, two years, or three years ago. In fact, it has been on the cusp of acquiring such a weapon for the past sixteen years—which is another way of saying that it was not on the cusp of doing anything.

Iran could build a nuclear weapon if it wanted to. It could have built one as far back as 2009 had it been so inclined. And yet, it did not.

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So ludicrous are the rationales put forth by the war’s proponents, and so disastrous the potential consequences, that two things are clear.

First, the people who have been urging a US attack are full of shit.

Second, the only ones who stand to benefit are Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom the war serves as a personal vanity project and legal defense tactic, and the various warlords who would emerge in the wake of the Iranian regime's collapse.

How do I know this, you ask? Let's take a look.

Would any of these myriad disasters further the national interests of America or Israel? The question answers itself.