Iran’s Hero Has Fallen, Leaving the World a More Dangerous Place

What a coincidence? I’m guessing this didn’t have anything to do with the urgent need to get a regime change into action?

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country’s south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country’s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions.
The announcement by Hassan Rouhani comes as Iran faces crushing American sanctions after the U.S. pulled out of its nuclear deal with world powers last year.
Rouhani made the announcement in a speech in the desert city of Yazd. He said the field was located in Iran’s southern Khuzestan province, home to its crucial oil industry.
Some 53 billion barrels would be added to Iran’s proven reserves of roughly 150 billion, he said.
“I am telling the White House that in the days when you sanctioned the sale of Iranian oil and pressured our nation, the country’s dear workers and engineers were able to discover 53 billion barrels of oil in a big field,” Rouhani said.
Oil reserves refer to crude that’s economically feasible to extract. Figures can vary wildly by country due to differing standards, though it remains a yardstick of comparison among oil-producing nations.

Iran currently has the world’s fourth-largest proven deposits of crude oil and the world’s second-largest deposits of natural gas. It shares a massive offshore field in the Persian Gulf with Qatar.
The new oil field could become Iran’s second-largest field after one containing 65 billion barrels in Ahvaz. The field is 2,400 square kilometers (925 square miles), with the deposit some 80 meters (260 feet) deep, Rouhani said.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/iran-says-it-has-discovered-massive-new-oil-field-2019-11-10

And just to keep the pressure on… Another Lockerbie?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

The MO never changes????

Slightly off topic… Iran admitted to accidentily have shot down the Ukrainian plane

See https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/iranian-armed-forces-say-they-inadvertently-shot-down-the-ukrainian-plane.html#more

A commenter reports

‘The only way to validate your world view is to make predictions and then see if they come true.

Those who predicted that that the Trump assassination of Soleimani would lead to WWIII were clearly wrong and need to re-evaluate their world view.

Those who thought that the Ukraine 737 wasn’t shot down by Iran need to re-evaluate their world view as well.

It’s OK to be wrong. It’s not OK, or at least not scientific to continue to rationalize your world view when it had been proven incorrect.’

I agree. It may be too early to say if the Trump assassination of Soleimani caused WWIII, but shouldn’t we be more skeptical towards ourselves?

All this guess work, from experts in the mainstream and alternative media and from those BTL shows that we actually know nothing about issues that might cause WWIII. That is far more problematic than acknowledging in whether you were right in making your risky prediction.

This is absolute nonsense…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/10/xr-extinction-rebellion-listed-extremist-ideology-police-prevent-scheme-guidance

It’s like the Borg are going completely psycho.

This is because they have absolutely nothing to offer to the people they rule over.

Just another interpretation of the term, “proxies”. The national militaries, siding with the Benighted States in its various atrocities are proxies, of course, but supposed leaders like Trudeau, BoJo, Bliar, Merkel… these are also proxies for the stupid Trumps and Bushes, the evil Obombers and Clintons…, as of course, are the sell-outs who called themselves journalists and pseudo-historians of the past century.
There is no democracy without an objectively informed electorate…. there is no democracy.

The Government of the United States of America & Israel were stopped in their tracks March 10th 2008.
What you are evidencing today is merely their collective incompetence to ringfence the Western Empire and control it from on high in D.C..

NATO is anachronism, bankrupt, and mismanaged. Insolvency starts slowly at first, and then it manifests all of a sudden into Chapter 11. Furthermore, the USA is $23 trillion in debt and cannot repay foreign creditors even if they wanted to.

Americans, and their military cowards, only know how to be thugs, & bullies. They are not intelligent enough to read a book, and they lack foresight because of that.

The world only needs to worry about containing the out-of-order Americans as they have nowhere to run or hide, and they are flat busted damn broke too.

People of the world need to understand how to give the Government of the United States of America the middle finger whilst practicing excommunication of all of their propaganda & Psyops.

Americans are enmeshed in mass hysteria due to de-Americanization & de-dollarization across the world. It is of no surprise that officialdom in the USA trots out their text book Psychopath generals to undergird USA nationalist psychopathy as a policy tool.

USA thugsterism is what cowards do when they have lost gambits for control.

People of the world need not worry about the American gangsters or their MIC thugs as they were structurally taken down in 08 and they have nowhere to run or hide today.

Signed, the executive management

MOU

It was striking to see Trump flanked by generals and not sitting in the “civilian setting” of the Oval Office like all his previous predecessors announcing the onset of a fresh new military debacle. The Pentagon knew that serious authoritarian figures were needed to prop up the image of the Orange Idiot

The assassination of General Qassem Suleimani and the subsequent limited retaliation achieved the objective of heightening the crisis between the US and Iran. Trump’s first bombastic remarks were threats about Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, yet nothing was said about initiating a new and revised Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to prevent it from happening. In fact, Trump seized the opportunity to once again mock the Iran Nuclear Deal as he’s done so many times during campaign rallies.

The situation throughout the Middle East will remain permanently on edge in a “Crisis foreign policy” mode. The most obvious contradiction is that loudmouth irrational Trump is the neocons “ticket” for dragging the US into an all-out war with Iran, but because Trump is so buffoonish he’s incapable of persuading the public to accept another misadventure–and that’s why things are in a stalemate.

What’s next down the road –a series of additional concocted crises, more sophisticated propaganda, and of course the “imperialists desire” for a fresh new political voice appearing more genuine, rational, and
convincing.

The mobilization of antiwar protests are NOW imperative! Without a strong antiwar/working-class resistance we’ll all be dragged into a devastating world war annihilating billions.

Fighting the Empire anywhere in the world has to have a starting point, in the middle east there are two

Fighting the Empire anywhere in the world has to have a starting point, in the middle east there are two
conflicting blocks, the ‘arc of resistance’ Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Houthis, and Lebanon added to this group could be added Russia and China. They are opposed by the ‘arc of terror’ US/NATO, Israel [the Apartheid state], Saudi Arabia [the Terrorist supporting, head chopper state] and some other Gulfies. How to defeat the ‘arc of terror’ has to approached methodically, 1/ The US/NATO etc cannot be reasoned with because they think [as Chairman Mao did that [“Power grows out the barrel of a gun”]. Of course today power also grows out of control of the financial system controlled for now by the ‘West’ that is where the Russians and Chinese come in. The ‘arc of resistance is under various forms of attack by the ‘arc of terror’, in the case of Iraq and Syria they are physically occupied and sanctioned territories, Iran and Yemen are under attack and sanctioned and Lebanon is under financial attack, the ‘arc of terror will not attack Lebanon or Iran militarily because they have large inventories of accurate missiles. In the case of Israel Hezbollah alone can destroy Metropolitan Tel Aviv, all the ports, Dimona nuclear plant and off shore gas rigs. How else can the resistance fight back?
What drove the US out of Iraq the first time was a simple device called an explosively formed projectile [EFP] it consisted of a steel pipe [or even a piece of PVC waste pipe packed with high explosive with a disk of copper at the end, this was placed at the side of roads frequented by US army patrols, they could easily be disguised as rocks or other common features of the landscape, Initially they were set off by electronic means i.e. a cell phone, garage door opener or other such device. The US spent billions and asked Government research laboratories and universities to counter this phenomenon, they succeeded at first when convoys were headed by a vehicle bristling with antennae, the Iraqis were one step ahead of them, they started using a piece of string to detonate the simple device, game over. An EFP is unstoppable and can destroy the latest tanks penetrating from front and out the rear destroying everything inside [US personnel on the scene of such an attack called the unfortunate victims of the EFP’s ‘crispy critters’. On detonation the disk is propelled thus…. EFP 20 cm (8 inches) in diameter can throw a 3 kg (7 lbs) copper slug at Mach 6, or 2,000 meters per second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator See also https://www.stratfor.com/imminent_spread_efps
The ‘arc of terror’ have these very weak points, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulfies are terrified of their infrastructure, including oil fields and export terminals being destroyed, when they are destroyed the Kings and Princes are destroyed. Since Yemen is at war with Saudi Arabia [the weakest point] it is imperative they are supported by other members of the resistance, by supplying them with accurate missiles and the logistics of supplying them [deniability etc, although Iran is blamed in all circumstances]. Iran can also surround other enemies [Israel] and supply them with same. As has been proven Iranian and Hezbollah missiles when fired in numbers cannot be stopped, see also Professor Theodore A Postol. https://thebulletin.org/2014/07/the-evidence-that-shows-iron-dome-is-not-working/ the Explosively Formed Projectiles cannot be stopped, this is the only way to deal with the Empire.

The United States, and to a slightly lesser extent its NATO vassals, is little more than a protection racket being carried out by a mafia-zionist clique. Operating outside of International Law these neo-barbarians are a threat to the whole planet. Anyone who stands up to them is likely to ‘get whacked’ to use the mafia vernacular. The objective is a criminal world empire with the great bloodsucker living off the labour of the rest of humanity. The famous Egyptian Marxist, Samir Amin, summed up this situation as follows:

”The US economy lives as a parasite off its partners in the global system, with virtually no national savings of its own. The world produces whilst America consumes. The advantage of the US is as a predator whose deficit is covered by what others by what others agree and others are forced to contribute. Washington uses various means to make up for its deficiencies; for example the repeated of the principles of liberalism, arms exports and the hunting down of oil super-profits (which involves wars in central Asia, Iraq, Iran). But the fact is that the bulk of the American deficit (on current account) is covered by capital inputs by Europe and Japan, China and the global South, rich oil-producing countries and their comprador classes from all regions, including the poorest in the Third World, to which should be added the debt-service levy which is imposed on nearly every country in the periphery of the global system. The American super-power depends from day to day on the flow of capital that sustains the pararsitism of its economy and society. The vulnerability of the United States represents a serious danger for Washington’s project.” (Samir Amin – Beyond US Hegemony p.12)

When Nixon took the US of the gold standard in 1971 its essential parasitism was established and has been maintained by the conversion of the world’s surplus dollars into IOUs called US Treasury Bonds. (See Amin above). Of course these financial securities are never going to be repaid but they enable to the US to extract imperial tribute and economic rent and live beyond its means being financed to the world’s surplus countries. The world’s trade surpluses are therefore matched by the US’s trade deficits. But the world is not only being forced to take US Treasuries because they can do little else with their surplus dollar build-up. The US is therefore able to run a structural trade-deficit due to its threats and military wars of regime change and colonisation around the world.

Moreover, these capital inputs from the rest of the world are not only servicing internal and external US economic deficits – trade deficit and budget deficit – but they enable the US to carry on with its long-term geo-strategy of permanent wars,regime change and colonisation of the rest of the world. In particular the US uses the wealth which has been confiscated from the rest of the world – including Russia and China – to surround and threaten any states which do not want to be part of the US Anglo-Zionist empire. Neat trick! But hardly new, just a routine protection racket.

Will the rest of the world wake up to this con game – a game of which they are most certainly aware – I wish I knew the answer.

I suppose Washington still claims it wants a democratic, secular government in Iran. The starting point in assessing the “sincerity” of this claim should be the CIA/MI6 orchestrated coup which saw the overthrow of the secular nationalist government of Dr Mossadegh in 1953. They got rid of what they now say they want and installed a brutal dictatorship under the Shah. Mossadegh’s government was predictably ‘red-baited’ because it nationalised the oil industry and wanted to charge a market price for oil. I’m told the BBC Persian language service was involved in this. If true – unsurprising.