Why the West Wants to Attack Iran and What this Attack will Achieve

With the calls for a war against Iran by the US presidential candidates and British government figures, and the ongoing “covert operations” against Iran it is time to ask the questions: (1) “What are the reasons for this war?” and (2) “What will be its consequences?”.

Before we consider these question we need to clarify who is “the West”. “The West” in the context of this article are the current governments of Israel, USA, and Britain, as well as the various “lobbies” and “pressure groups” controlling these governments. From now on we shall be referring to these groups of individuals as “Israel”, “USA” and “Britain”, as there are differences in the motivations of these groups.

The main motivation for a war against Iran comes from Israel, as it sees the present government of Iran as an “existential threat”, and wants to use the military might of the USA and Britain to replace the present Iranian government with a government that would be less “dangerous” for Israel.

The current government of the USA and the presidential candidates either have strong personal loyalty to Israel or heavily depend on financial support of pro‐Israel lobbies and pressure groups and for that reason are calling for, preparing for, or waging “covertly” a war against Iran. Also a war is seen by them as a “patriotic stance” which they hope will generate for them the popular support they need to retain, or to put themselves into, the government office.

While in Britain one can observe the same motivations as in the USA, there is also an additional specifically “British” motivation. One can hear from the members of the British establishment statements like: “It is good for us to wage wars, when we attack some scruffy country, people are afraid of us and respect us more”, or “Our military might lets us pull weight beyond our size”, or “we are interventionist”. It is this “nostalgic imperial hubris” that pushes members of the British establishment to “intervene” and to “throw around their weight” at any opportunity.

In case of the USA and Britain, in addition to these current “personal” motivations there is also an institutional factor — the “historical inertia” of the “Cold War” and “the Arms Race” of the past. The military, diplomatic and intelligence institutions of these countries have been moulded by these political phenomena of the past and they need an enemy to function in the ways which are natural for them. A war, cold or hot, gives them a sense of purpose, thus prolonging their life‐span. In conditions of permanent peace they risk withering away.

So, given the aims (1) of securing Israel and (2) of satisfying the psychological and material needs of the governing establishments of the USA and Britain, will a war against Iran achieve the desired by them results?

The consequences of a war against Iran will be as follows:

1. Scotland will become independent of the UK. The Iraq war has lead to the victory of the SNP. A war against Iran will have similar effect.


2. Welsh and Northern Ireland separatist tendencies will be strengthened. And so will the English desire to get rid of all the imperial burdens. Which will lead to eventual break up of whatever is left of the British Empire of old. Strengthening of these tendencies could be observed at the time of the Iraq war.


3. Israel and the USA will become “global pariahs”. The first decade of the “War on Terror” has already resulted in substantial increase in “anti‐Israeli” and “anti‐American” attitudes not only around the world, but even within the USA and Israel themselves.


4. The Global Influence of China and Russia, and other countries will greatly increase, at the expense of the “Western” influence. A movement in this direction could already be observed in the first decade of the War on Terror.


5. Islamic governments will be established in most countries which previously had been governed by secular “pro‐Western” regimes.


6. Today “the West” are seeking to provoke and exacerbate the “Sunni‐Shia” differences, so as to provoke a conflict between some Arab states and Iran. But the consistent “anti‐Western” policies of the present Iranian government have already earned that government much respect even among “Sunni” Muslims around the world. A war against Iran will lead to Sunni and Shia Muslims of Arab countries uniting against a common enemy — “the West”.


7. The “Anti‐Iran Arab US allies” will either become less stable, or could even be replaced by “anti‐Western Islamist” governments. Unless they choose to distance themselves from “the West”, as “the West” is unpopular among the people of their countries and will be still more so in the event of a war against Iran.


8. There will be significant spread of Islam among “ethnic Christians” not only in the USA and Europe, but around the world.


9. The Wars of the First Decade have already brought the West to the Verge of Bankruptcy. The Iran War will push the West over the Verge and into the Abyss of Bankruptcy.


10. The political establishments of the West have already been totally discredited in their own countries by the Wars of the First Decade. Thus, in Britain in spite of massive public disgust with the Blairite Labour Party, the Conservative opposition not only was not elected with a “landslide”, but could not get enough votes to form a government and had to form a coalition with the LibDem party. And, as neither of the mainstream parties in Britain and the USA have public trust, anti‐establishment opposition movements are beginning to emerge. A war against Iran will lead to growth of public support for these movements, leading to eventual loss of power by the present establishments and to drastic changes in the “Western Political Order”, similar to the demise of “Communism” in the former Soviet Union.

So, the results of a war against Iran will be the opposite of what the proponents of this war want to achieve. And this is regardless of whether the West “wins” or “loses” the war militarily — and even if Iran is “wiped off the face of the Earth” or “bombed into Stone Age”. But, of course, as the US military know, military results of wars are difficult to predict, and Iran is better prepared for war than Iraq or Afghanistan, so one can expect even some “unexpected military humiliations”, in addition to the usual “self‐inflicted” ones, as observed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Much of the above is already happening, and some of it would have happened anyway — wars or no wars. But some of it is the direct result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all of it has been speeded up by these wars, and a war against Iran will still further strengthen the present tendencies and lead them to their logical conclusion.

Then, why the Western Leaders cannot see the obvious? Why are they so stubbornly heading to their own demise?

Because the real danger to the West is not North Korean or the (non‐existent) Iranian Atomic bombs, and not even Al‐Qaida or any other movement. The real danger to the Western Political Establishment is that political establishment itself.

They want to dominate the rest of the World, and to impose on it thier own values, and they hope to achieve this by force of arms. But what are their values? Lawlessness, arrogance, dishonesty, depravity and corruption of every kind. They seek to deceive the rest of the world by their propaganda by talking about “Freedom”, “Democracy” and “Human Rights”, but it is only themselves who believe this propaganda, the rest of the world see the reality: lawless wars, genocidal brutality, and such “household” words as “Guantanamo” and “Abu Graib”, or the recently revealed atrocities against corpses of murdered Afghans, which make many Americans, Britons and Israelis being ashamed of being citizens of their own countries.

But to accept the Reality as it is (rather than as painted by their own propaganda) for “the West” is “humiliating” and “unpleasant”. And they, “the West”, are proud and pleasure‐seeking people. So, they will continue to live in the “pleasant” world of their dreams. And this is why they might attack Iran.

But, is there any other ways to save Israel than bombing Iran?

Israel is in danger because they have created a state in Palestine by displacing some of its previous residents in 1948, and then occupied militarily more of other people's land in 1967 and do not want to give it back.

A regime change in Iran will not make Israel safe, and not even “wiping Iran off the face of the Earth”.

The only permanent ways of resolving a conflict arising out of illegal seizure of other people's property is (1) returning it to the lawful owner, or (2) buying it from the lawful owner at a price the lawful owner would accept.

The cost of a war against Iran is likely to be higher than buying all of Palestine between the Sea and the Jordan River. And, as the Iran War is likely to bankrupt “the West”, today's opportunity to “resolve the conflict” by buying the land will be lost — as the bankrupt West will have no money left. And the Global Tide of Anti‐Westernism which will sweep the world in the aftermath of the Iran War could spell the end of the State of Israel as it is known today. It happened in Rhodesia, it happened in South Africa and in many other countries of Africa and Asia, which were once “solid Western possessions”.

And who in the West believed Ayatullah Ruhullah Khumeini when he predicted demise of the Soviet Union?

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