Israel–US war on Iran leaves India a silent spectator
Another war has broken out. Israel is the provocateur. The United States is the executioner.
Israel has convinced President Donald Trump that Iran has, or has nearly completed developing, nuclear weapons and has laid out plans to threaten the United States. However, The Wall Street Journal has reported that U.S. officials with access to classified information have flat-out denied the alleged threats as unsubstantiated. Yet, Mr Trump has launched a full-scale war against Iran in partnership with Israel.
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The alleged threat of Iran’s nuclear weapons is of the piece with the canard that Iraq had ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that President Bush used to invade Iraq (2003). It is also like the canard that Muammar al-Gaddafi had planned a massacre of civilians in Libya that President Obama propagated to justify the U.S. intervention to ‘prevent a humanitarian crisis’ (2011). Mr Trump re-invented the Monroe Doctrine to bring about a ‘regime change’ in Venezuela (2026) and has expanded the doctrine to........
