Met de benoemingen van John Bolton, een gewetenloze
psychopaat en zijn collega psychopaat Pompeo, kan je gerust
stellen dat Trump een oorlogskabinet heeft gevormd, zo betoogt Robert
Mackey terecht. Op 23 maart jl. publiceerde hij een
artikel op The Intercept, over de benoeming van Bolton.
Hierin vertelt Mackey o.a. dat Bolton aan
gevluchte Iraniërs in de VS heeft beloofd dat voor 2019 Iran een
andere regime zal hebben (een door de VS gewenst regime, zoals je begrijpt….) en hij dan feest komt vieren in
Teheran……..
Naast psychopaat is deze misdadiger ook nog eens
ongelofelijk dom immers in Irak is er nog steeds geen vrede, ondanks
de meer dan achterlijke vaststelling van zijne domme hufterigheid en oorlogsmisdadiger Bush
dat de ‘mission accomplished’ was, is het in feite nog steeds oorlog
in Irak, een oorlog die intussen aan dik meer dan 1,5 miljoen mensen het leven heeft gekost……….
Hoe denkt topidioot Bolton dan Iran in
een jaar tijd te kunnen verslaan? Iran heeft een uitermate goed
getraind leger, dit i.t.t. tot het leger dat Saddam Hoessein in Irak
ter beschikking stond….. Kernraketten gebruiken tegen Iran staat zo te horen niet op de
verlanglijst van Bolton, daar hij zelf feest wil vieren in Teheran, al zal het me niet verbazen als Bolton denkt dat een zwaar radioactief besmet gebied binnen een paar maanden ‘schoon waait’. Voorts zijn er nog de nieuwe tactische kernwapens van de VS, kernwapens die op het slagveld gebruikt moeten gaan
worden en daar alleen ‘een beperkt gebied’ zwaar radioactief besmet zouden maken……..
Dan is er nog de vraag wat Rusland en
China zullen doen, als de VS een oorlog tegen Iran begint (met
de kans dat de VS ook een tweede front opent op Noord-Korea), gezien de
troepenopbouw her en der…….
The
Intercept
ROBERT
MACKEY
Here’s
John Bolton Promising Regime Change in Iran by the End of 2018
March
23 2018, 8:38 p.m.
AMONG
THOSE MOST alarmed
by President Donald Trump’s selection of John
Bolton as
his new national security adviser on Thursday were supporters of the
Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 international agreement that curbed
Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for a partial lifting of
economic sanctions.
Rob
Malley, who coordinated Middle East policy in the Obama
administration, observed that Bolton’s appointment, along with the
nomination of Iran deal critic Mike Pompeo as secretary of state,
seemed to signal that the agreement would most likely be “dead
and buried”
within months. Trita Parsi, leader of the National Iranian American
Council wrote
on Twitter:
“People, let this be very clear: The appointment of Bolton is
essentially a declaration of war with Iran. With Pompeo and Bolton,
Trump is assembling a WAR CABINET.”
Their
alarm was understandable. Bolton, who made his name as a belligerent
member of George W. Bush’s State Department and a Fox News
contributor, has not only demanded that
the Trump administration withdraw from the nuclear deal, he also
previously advocated bombing
Iran instead.
Bolton has spent the better part of a decade calling
for the
United States to help overthrow the
theocratic government in Tehran and hand power to a cult-like group
of Iranian exiles with no real support inside the country.
Withdrawing from the Iran #NuclearDeal should be a top @realDonaldTrump administration priority.
Just
eight months ago, at a Paris gathering, Bolton told members of the
Iranian exile group, known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, MEK, or People’s
Mujahedeen, that the Trump administration should embrace their goal
of immediate regime change in Iran and recognize their group as a
“viable” alternative.
“The
outcome of the president’s policy review should be to determine
that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution will not last until
its 40th birthday,” Bolton
said.
(The 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution will be on February
11, 2019.) “The declared policy of the United States should be the
overthrow of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran,” Bolton added. “The
behavior and the objectives of the regime are not going to change
and, therefore, the only solution is to change the regime itself.”
As
the Iranian expatriate journalist Bahman Kalbasi noted, Bolton
concluded his address to the exiles with a rousing promise: “And
that’s why, before 2019, we here will celebrate in Tehran!”
#JohnBolton 8 months ago among MEK supporters tells them they will overthrow #Iran’s regime and celebrate in #Tehran with Bolton himself present, “before 2019”
To
understand how extraordinary it is that the man about to become the
president’s most senior national security official made this
promise to the MEK, it is important to know that, until recently, the
Iranian dissidents had spent three decades trying to achieve their
aims through violence, including terrorist attacks.
After
members of the MEK helped foment the 1979 revolution, in part
by killing
American civilians working
in Tehran, the group then lost a bitter struggle for power to the
Islamists led by the revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini. With its leadership forced to flee Iran in 1981, the MEK’s
members set up a government-in-exile in France and established a
military base in Iraq, where they were given arms and training by
Saddam Hussein, as part of a strategy to destabilize the government
in Tehran that he was at war with.
In
recent years, as The
Intercept has reported,
the MEK has poured millions of dollars into reinventing itself as a
moderate political group ready to take power in Iran if
Western-backed regime change ever takes place. To that end,
it lobbied
successfully to
be removed from the State Department’s list
of foreign terrorist organizations in
2012. The Iranian exiles achieved this over the apparent opposition
of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in part by paying a
long list of former U.S. officials hefty
speaking fees of between $10,000 to $50,000 for hymns of praise like
the one Bolton delivered last July.
But, according
to Ariane Tabatabai,
a Georgetown University scholar, the “cult-like dissident group”
— whose married members were reportedly forced
to divorce and take a vow of lifelong celibacy —
“has no viable chance of seizing power in Iran.”
If
the current government is not Iranians’ first choice for a
government, the MEK is not even their last — and for good reason.
The MEK supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. The
people’s discontent with the Iranian government at that time did
not translate into their supporting an external enemy that was firing
Scuds into Tehran, using chemical weapons and killing hundreds of
thousands of Iranians, including many civilians. Today, the MEK is
viewed negatively by most Iranians, who would prefer to maintain the
status quo than rush to the arms of what they consider a corrupt,
criminal cult.
Despite
such doubts that the MEK’s political wing, the National Council of
Resistance of Iran, is any more reliable than Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi
National Congress proved to be, spending lavishly on paid
endorsements has earned the group a bipartisan roster of Washington
politicians willing to sign up as supporters. At a
previous gala,
in 2016, Bolton was joined in singing the group’s praises by
another former U.N. ambassador, Bill
Richardson; a
former attorney general, Michael
Mukasey; the
former State Department spokesperson P.J.
Crowley; the
former Homeland Security adviser Frances
Townsend; the
former Rep. Patrick
Kennedy,
D-R.I.; and the former Vermont Gov. Howard
Dean.
That Paris gala was hosted by Linda
Chavez,
a former Reagan administration official.
At
a similar event this January, the backdrop behind former Speaker of
the House Newt Gingrich, as he praised MEK leader Maryam Rajavi, made
the aim of the group’s investment in American politicians clear.
Newt
Gingrich addressed a Paris conference of the Iranian exile group
known as the MEK in January.
Photo:
Sipa via AP Images
Unsurprisingly,
leading figures from among the exile group’s Washington
followers have expressed delight over Bolton’s impending elevation
to the White House
.@AmbJohnBolton has the right vision and great understanding of the whole region especially the threat from the Iranian regime and the need for a #FreeIran. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Congratulations to @AmbJohnBolton for the new post. Well deserved. twitter.com/orgiac/status/…
At
the group’s celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in Albania
on Tuesday, Rajavi was joined
on stage by
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City.
Mr. Giuliani reiterated that unlike other countries in the region, there is an alternative to the ruling regime in Iran. Thus, its overthrow will lead to peace and tranquillity in a region that has been severely threatened by the clerical regime.#Iran#IranProtests
Although
the official announcement from the White House was not made until
Thursday, Giuliani told the group, to loud applause, that Bolton “is
going to be President Trump’s national security adviser.”
In
case there was any doubt among the exiles that Bolton might not
advise Trump to overthrow Iran’s government, Giuliani assured them
that “if anything, John Bolton has become more determined that
there needs to be regime change in Iran, that the nuclear agreement
needs to be burned, and that you need to be in charge of that
country.”
Moments
later, Giuliani led the crowd in chanting “regime change.”
Despite
the fact that Trump ran for office as a critic of the decision to
invade Iraq, Bolton still refuses to call the preemptive attack a
mistake.
That
position stunned even Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, during an
interview two weeks ago. After Carlson pointed
out that
Bolton had called for regime change in Iraq, Libya, Iran, and Syria,
and the first of those had been “a disaster,” Bolton disagreed,
saying, “I think your analysis is simple-minded, frankly.”
“I
think the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, that military action, was a
resounding success,” Bolton told Carlson. The chaos that followed
in Iraq, he said, was caused by a poorly executed occupation that
ended too soon. On the bright side, Bolton said, the mistakes the
U.S. made in Iraq offered “lessons about what to do after a regime
is overthrown” in the future.
Top
Photo: At a 2017 celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in
Albania, Maryam Rajavi, the MEK leader and self-styled
president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, met
international supporters including John Bolton, second from left, a
former United StatesAmbassador
to the United Nations. Bolton was flanked by Pandeli Majko, a former
prime minister of Albania, far left, and David Muniz, the deputy
chief of the U.S. Embassy in Albania.
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Bij het tweede weergegeven Twitterbericht hoort een video die ik niet kan overnemen, hier de link naar het originele artikel.
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en: ‘Lt. General McInerney says Obama helped build ISIS with Weapons from Benghazi‘
en: ‘VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..‘
en: ‘Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël‘
en: ‘Iran, de protesten en wat de media je niet vertellen………‘
en: ‘Het verborgen motief achter de Israëlische agressie tegen Iran en Syrië‘
en: ‘Washington uit op oorlog met Iran……‘
en: ‘Oliemaatschappijen weigeren n.a.v. VS sancties de jet van Iraanse minister af te tanken‘
en: ‘Israël bezig met voorbereiding op meerdere fronten oorlog…….. (met hulp van de VS‘
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en: ‘Iran moet hangen en Iran-deal moet van tafel……. Israël speelt wolf in schaapskleren‘
en: ‘VS ambtenaren: Israël zoekt steun VS voor oorlog tegen Iran…….‘
en: ‘Netanyahu en Bolton stoken het vuur in het Midden-Oosten verder op: Iran moet en zal vallen…..‘
en: ‘VS ‘laat zien op vrede uit te zijn’ door dreiging Iran te vermorzelen……‘
en: ‘Iran: wanneer heeft dit land voor het laatst een ander land aangevallen? 200 jaar geleden…..‘
Mijn excuus voor de af en toe belabberde weergave.