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A History in 4 Psy-Ops: Has Iran ALWAYS Been a Member of the Club?

Kit Knightly

When the war with Iran officially began on Saturday, I annoyed quite a few people by replying to James Delingpole on twtter with this comment:

I stand by it. In fact I can amplify it.

There’s ample evidence to show we’re already living in the post-nation age, and this was made explicitly clear by the Covid “pandemic”.  Iran’s vital, early role in the Covid operation is one of the facts that most strongly requires us to be cautious about the current war narrative , but it’s a development that likely predates that era-defining psy-op.

In fact, I would argue that an examination of the recent history of Iran shows that they have consistently taken part in psy-ops and media narratives, and that this demonstrates collusion with Western governments and indeed the globalist factions therein.

Starting with the birth of the current regime itself…

1. Installation of Ayatollah


Everyone is (or should be) familiar with Operation Ajax, the 1953 joint MI6-CIA coup d’etat in Iran that removed the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, allegedly to prevent the nationalization of Iran’s oil reserves. The resulting government was an absolute monarchy under Shah Reza Pahlavi.

Less discussed is the CIA’s clear and obvious involvement in the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

For example, after being exiled from Iran by the Shah in 1978, Khomeini was provided safe haven in France. The reasons for this are not clear, but it is known that the Carter administration had a lot of communication with Khomeini during his time as a guest of the French government. Again, the reasons for this communication are nowhere clearly stated.

We know the former Shah himself claimed in his memoirs that the US and UK had been opposed to his government since his 1973 nationalisation of Iranian oil, and subsequent price increase (let’s remember the previous government had allegedly been removed to prevent a similar attempt at nationalisation).

Whether we entirely believe the Shah or not, we also know that by late 1978, the US ambassador to Iran was cabling DC that the Shah was “doomed”, and by early January ’79 US generals were flying out to Iran to discuss a potential coup with the Iranian military and putting them in contact with Khomeini’s second in command.

The Shah’s government ended within weeks.

This is all documented.

The potential motivations for this could be discussed at length, but there’s no denying that there was at least some Western involvement in the installation of the current regime.

2. Hostage crisis


No sooner had the new Iranian government been helped into power than they were taking part in an international “crisis”. In November 1979 an armed group invaded the US embassy in Iran and took over 50 hostages.

One supposed reason for this was the US opposition to the new Revolutionary Government in Iran and support of the Shah, but we know this isn’t true. The US helped replace the Shah, and nobody would have known this more than Khomeini and his top lieutenants.

What the “crisis” actually did was convince the people of Iran that their new government would stand up to America, whilst undermining Carter’s presidency in the US to the point he lost the 1980 election by a landslide.

The “October Surprise” theory argues that US government insiders actually deliberately delayed the release of the hostages in order to rig the election by proxy. Former Texas governor John Connelly was known to be travelling the Middle East at the time spreading this message.

The hostages were eventually released mere minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in.

I’m sure some will say this was all a coincidence.

3. Iran-Contra Affair


Up until 1979, all of Iran’s weaponry was bought from the United States. Following the Hostage Crisis, President Carter put an arms embargo on Iran for “supporting terrorism” which was sustained by his successor, Ronald Reagan.

However, Washington insiders have never been fans of not selling weapons to anyone, ever. They argued that an embargo would only drive Iran closer to the USSR, and immediately sought ways to covertly continue arms sales to Iran by circumventing the embargo.

Interesting isn’t it how paper thin the veneer of ideological opposition can turn out to be once subjected to examination. Some might wonder if all the contemporary “evil terrorists” and  “Great Satan” rhetoric was much more than geopolitical theatre of a particularly gaudy kind.

By 1985, the Reagan administration had been illegally supplying weapons to Iran for four years, both directly and by “washing” the sales via Israel (and, incidentally, selling weapons to BOTH sides of the Iran-Iraq war).

At the same time, the US was covertly supporting the anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua in their guerrilla war against the Socialist FSLN government. This support was illegal under US law thanks to the Boland Amendments.

The Iran Contra affair was an evolution of the Iranian arms deals, a covert operation spearheaded by Colonel Oliver North, where weapons were illegally sold to Iran, and the profits from these sales were in turn used to fund rebels in Nicaragua. This was totally illegal, and technically high treason.

The scandal broke in 1987, resulting in years-long Congressional hearings and – eventually – dozens of criminal charges. Of the 11 men convicted of wrongdoing in the Iran-Contra affair, only one ever spent any time in prison, and almost all had the convictions overturned on appeal, or received presidential pardons from George Bush Sr in 1991.

Oliver North went on to run for political office and have a successful career in the media, working as a television host and publishing over a dozen books. Not bad, considering he was supposedly a traitor who committed high treason.

It’s reasonable to ask – does this sound like something that would happen if Iran was really a deadly opponent of the American government?

Why would the American government sell weapons to a regime they truly believed to be a threat to their very existence?

And why would a man who committed treason in arming an enemy receive such a light sentence and be allowed to flourish afterwards?

It’s almost as if no one really thought it mattered very much isn’t it?

At very least we are seeing the paper thin veneer again, and the undeniable fact that other mostly unspoken interests united these alleged enemy states above and beyond the rhetoric and propaganda.

4. Covid

The Covid “Pandemic” is the grand-daddy of all psy-ops, exceeding most of its predecessors in both complexity of execution and scope of its aims.

And the Iranian government was in it up to its eyeballs.

Iran was one of the first countries, alongside Italy, to feel the brunt of Covid outside China. Indeed, their endorsement of the pandemic narrative was used by some in the alt media as evidence the pandemic must be real, because Iran would never cooperate with a globalist psy-op.

But cooperate they did. To the max. They worked closely with the World Health Organization, according to WHO’s official report:

WHO and its partners provided critical support to Iran to overcome these challenges and scale up the response to COVID-19, which resulted in mobilizing more than 130 million vaccine doses and capacity to conduct genomic sequencing analysis of 7700 viral samples.

Iran imposed lockdowns, made masks compulsory and enacted vaccine mandates just like everyone else. They also applied for a $5 billion Covid loan from the IMF.

While real global outsiders were standing up for their nation’s interests and “dying suddenly” for their trouble, Iran was happily playing along. Making the lives of ordinary Iranians shorter and sadder, and making a lot of money for their elites doing it.

Conclusion

The evidence shows unambiguously that the current Iranian regime has a history of cooperating with Western, pro-globalist powers,  to the detriment of its own people and to the mutual interest of the political class on both sides – and that MUST call anything and everything they do into question.

Including this war.

We live in an age of fake binaries and “lesser evils”, why wouldn’t that system of thought control be applied to warfare?

We are told to think in simple labels – Muslims vs Christians. Human Rights vs Sharia Law. Democracy vs Theocracy. Regime changers vs national sovereignty. Anti-establishment rebels vs Imperial oil hunters.

But we know from past experience that these simplicities are used to conceal sometimes deep, convoluted and very different realities of convergent interest and obedience to narratives.

And we know that this war has already assisted with some fundamentals of the “great reset” agenda, which is probably the biggest current threat to humanity.

Is that all this war is about? No, probably not. There are probably many narratives being pursued and many interest groups seeking to benefit, and even cynically waged wars can produce chaos and unlooked-for outcomes. We can assume any murdered Iranian leaders didn’t intend to end up dead for example, though it would be naïve to assume the power structure won’t willingly sacrifice even a few of its own sometimes.

Orwell understood the mutual interests of the ruling elites in promoting war, and in controlling its outcome. He understood that the way it’s sold to the “proles” is not the way it’s viewed by those organising and benefitting from it.

Even while this war is warring, Iran is still promoting the Covid lies, still on board with the globalist programs, still working on their own Central Bank Digital Currency, still building their digital identity infrastructure.

We need to remember that and we need to develop a more sophisticated way of understanding – and opposing – the new post-covid war narratives.

We’re not living in 2003 anymore. We know the globalist endgame, and it’s neither American Hegemony nor an Islamic Caliphate. Rather, it is a program of digital control of money, food and travel that limits human freedom.

A program both sides of this war endorse.

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Albert
Albert
Mar 15, 2026 7:38 PM

The problem with nuanced & informed perspectives like is that ‘Nothing is real – everything is staged” crowd concludes the whole thing is a fabrication. See “Lights, Camera, Iran:  The Winners and Losers of a Prepackaged War” by Morgan. The truth is, even bright people sometimes display an astonishing lack of commonsense.

olimits
olimits
Mar 15, 2026 7:08 AM

The Covid “Pandemic” is the grand-daddy of all psy-ops, exceeding most of its predecessors in both complexity of execution and scope of its aims.
And the Iranian government was in it up to its eyeballs.

kryptonite

Weegies
Weegies
Mar 14, 2026 7:02 PM

The videos I have watched convince me of one thing.
The whole thing looks very fake.
The fact isntreal banned journalists before 10/7 (but allows the fake influencers like the 7k wall-licker who get a tour of what to say).

I do believe Trump and co will turn that fake holyland into a overpriced Lasvegas Disney theme park for Christians.

Tesco Shopping Trolley
Tesco Shopping Trolley
Mar 14, 2026 9:20 AM

So far as I can see actual hard evidence of what’s going on in this war is almost nonexistent, all we get given is rumours and statements from both sides that contradict each other and sometimes themselves. What’s going on? I haven’t a bloody clue. I don’t believe war propaganda from anyone and there isn’t much else.

What happened to war reporting on the ground? Cameras and journalists showing us what’s going on? Why isn’t there more videos from ordinary people on their phones? There’s something just not right about it all.

As to Iran being in on it, I think most countries are in on it more or less. All the top brass get ruch out of war and they’re all following the big plan like with the scamdemic.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 7:10 AM

How many 77th comment here regularly? I think it’s quite a lot. They aren’t very good at hiding it or the fact they know each other or are one person in several skins. Their antagonism to the real people leaks out like poison. The fact they cluster here is a testament to how close to the target OG is I suppose.

Tesco Shopping Trolley
Tesco Shopping Trolley
Mar 14, 2026 9:00 AM
Reply to  Robber Baron

Let’s be honest, the the only people voting this down are going to be 77thers aren’t they, so each downvote just confirms they’re here and how many of them there are! 🤣🤣

valkrie
valkrie
Mar 13, 2026 11:08 PM

Arguing over the obvious.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 7:53 AM
Reply to  valkrie

They’re not arguing, and very little of it is obvious.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 13, 2026 8:01 PM

These bases that English forces co-use were both struck by Iran on Wednesday night.
“Brigadier Guy Foden, assistant chief of staff for operations at Permanent Joint

Headquarters (PJHQ), said: “Erbil and Baghdad were both struck a number of times last night with increasing coordination.”

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 7:03 AM

My first thought when I see bulletins such as this is – how can we verify it? The answer is usually “we can’t”, and indeed oftentimes there are counter-claims refuting the initial claim. Rarely do we get solid photographic or video or even eye-witness evidence to confirm or deny either claim.

This has been the way of war since at least 2022. Further back there was often if not always some form of confirmation by virtue of film or photographs or numerous witnesses, now increasingly all we have is stories which we either believe or don’t.

It troubles me there is more film of the Somme in 1915 than there is of the battles in recent wars.

collins
collins
Mar 13, 2026 6:43 PM

You could redeem yourselves and do the exact same article….

A History in 4 Psy-Ops: Has USrael ALWAYS Been a Member of the Club?

You wouldn’t dare.

Chlamydia Tealeaf
Chlamydia Tealeaf
Mar 13, 2026 7:03 PM
Reply to  collins

Guess what, I just did a search for “Israel” and found all the articles OG “did not dare” to write about them. So fuck off you whiny twat.

https://off-guardian.org/category/israel/

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 7:04 AM
Reply to  collins

Of course Israel is a member of the club. That isn’t even in doubt so no point in writing an article about it.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 13, 2026 4:05 PM

Lets not forget Iran is a UN founding member – one wonders what UNESCO would say – if say Iran bombed the Eiffel Tower, or the Statue of Liberty or the Coliseum in Rome, or London’s Tower Bridge, would UNESCO be silent then, I very much doubt it.

“UNESCO seemingly has nothing to say while US-Israeli forces bomb UNESCO World Heritage sites across Iran”

tinas
tinas
Mar 16, 2026 8:30 PM

You do know there are Freemason lodges in Iran and there are Freemason lodges in Israel.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 13, 2026 2:10 PM

The religious war nut Pete Hegseth – has given an unbelievable stet of the illegal war on Iran speech, claiming that Iran’s military is on its last legs, and that the last thing any IRGC personnel see on bombers is the Star of David and the Stars&Stripes.

Probably what the zealot/warhawk Hegseth means – is that they’ve ran out of schools and hospitals to bomb, at last count it was 16 hospitals and I think 60 schools bombed.

Of course, the fact that both Israel and the US are withholding info on damage to their staging posts, that all but surround Iran on Satrap soil, says a lot to me, and then there’s the below.

“Satellite imaging firms Planet Labs and Maxar Technologies have both paused the release of footage from the region. Planet Labs, whose images revealed damage to bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar, said that it would place a 14-day delay on new images to “prevent adversarial actors endangering the safety of allied and NATO-partner personnel.” 

The Gulf monarchies have taken a more draconian approach, with the UAE threatening fines and jail time for anyone sharing videos of Iranian attacks, and Bahraini prosecutors reportedly seeking the death penalty for recording a video of a malfunctioning US Patriot air defense system hitting a residential area and allegedly killing more than 30 civilians. “

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 13, 2026 3:39 PM

BBC verify are also a bit peeved at the delay in the Planet satellite footage. It being one of their main sources of ‘verification’.

The UAE is just interested in boosting its own tourism, which reports of imminent missiles dropping don’t generally tend to promote.

Edwige
Edwige
Mar 13, 2026 8:28 AM

“I am not supporting “war.” In this case of Iran, regime change is necessary, just as it was with regime change in Germany post WW2. The United States has a right to defend itself from serious national security threats; and as a woman, I do not think that anyone serious can be an apologist for a regime that enslaves half the population and that tortures and murders its own people en masse.”

That’s Naomi Wolf, heroic anti-vaxxer, fearless truth-teller and not at all a prime example of the official alternative media.

1) “Regime change” is against international law and yet the West is supposedly upholding a rules-based order. How exactly is it justified for a nation with the Epstein ruling class to decide how other countries are governed? Notice how she implies Iran is somehow equivalent to Nazi Germany, the eternal bugaboo.
2) How exactly is Iran a national security threat to the US? It isn’t.
3) Is the USA right to bomb any country that’s insufficiently feminist? Feminism is a disaster for women and humanity generally. The current rulers of the West don’t believe in an essential female nature for anyone who’s missed the trans- agenda of the last decade.
4) Murdering its own people = resisting yet another attempt at a colour revolution.

As a woman…. as a Rhodes Scholar would be more pertinent….

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 13, 2026 5:15 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Hear, hear yes!

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 6:56 AM
Reply to  Edwige

What an appalling human being

woolee
woolee
Mar 15, 2026 5:17 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Naomi Wolf graduated from Yale in 1984 and was a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford University. 
a breeding ground for operatives it seems.

I was shocked she said that.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2026 6:58 AM

X is a psyop. The ones apparently on your side lure you in with an apparently pro-Palestinian piece which then sets up the pro-Israel drones and we’re back to the beginning again.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 13, 2026 2:52 AM

See it on the positive side. When some people leave and some equipment and houses be destroyed, there are more money to our wallet. I look at it the positive way!

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 13, 2026 4:14 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

As does Trump. So what if oil prices go up and the Strait of Hormuz is blocked and a few ships get sunk?

The US is self-sufficient and has a recent regime-change in Venezuela to supply any additional oil required. We’ll ship you some overpriced LNG if you really need it.

Besides we’ve already bought off the main opposition in dropping Russian sanctions.

Stubborn UK of course would rather see its own citizens suffer financially rather than buying cheap Russian oil and admitting the country went politically astray.

So life couldn’t be better. Think positive

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 13, 2026 5:12 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

If oil prices goes up you buy oil shares. If ships sink, you short your Lloyd shares.
Venezuela oil is not that easy. US refinery has to be build and US systems has to be adapted first.
The other citizens are not our problem, but the government’s problem  😅 .

valkrie
valkrie
Mar 13, 2026 11:11 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

The US is self-sufficient and has a recent regime-change in Venezuela to supply any additional oil required.

The United States holds massive, world-leading oil reserves and is the world’s top oil producer, driven by technological innovations in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Major fields in the Permian Basin (TX/NM), Bakken Formation (ND/MT), and the Gulf of Mexico, along with extensive shale deposits, keep production at record levels. American Oil & Gas Reporter

Key Oil Regions & Resources:

  • Permian Basin (Texas/New Mexico): America’s most productive region, with reserves estimated around 46 billion barrels.
  • Bakken Formation (North Dakota/Montana): A crucial shale oil region with 7.4 billion barrels of recoverable reserves.
Rikkardo
Rikkardo
Mar 14, 2026 9:55 PM
Reply to  valkrie

Art Berman in discussion with Nate Hagens is convincingly explaining, that the stop gap solution fracking for countering peak-energy is coming to an end.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 12, 2026 9:46 PM

The TV news is all about skyrocketing fuel prices because of the “uncertain” international situation. How convenient for some. And here’s a take on how this regrettably lucrative position may be extended indefinitely whilst “the other side” takes the blame:

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/2032053639565492555

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 13, 2026 2:45 AM
Reply to  George Mc

Its the 1984 model. Endless war against Oceania, and endless problems.

Chlamydia Tealeaf
Chlamydia Tealeaf
Mar 12, 2026 7:58 PM

On Sep 11 2001 someone destroyed three large buildings in downtown Manhattan, killing 3,000 people in the process.

People who think governments wouldn’t connive at destruction on their own soil presumably think the US government can’t have known about 9/11 in advance and certainly can’t have done the deed themselves – right?

Likewise covid must have been real I guess because no government would ever force millions of its own people into bankruptcy, crash its own economy or murder innocents with toxic sludge unless they had a good reason – right?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 13, 2026 2:47 AM

I thought your suspicion sounded right……..until I saw your name. No, you cannot cure chlamydia with Tea leaves.

Chlamydia Tealeaf
Chlamydia Tealeaf
Mar 13, 2026 6:37 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

hehe – thanks I needed a little laugh. I like you Erik.

Weegies
Weegies
Mar 13, 2026 6:23 AM

killing 3,000 people in the process.

No one died as it was a drill.

Footage of Tom Canavan who was buried alive when the first tower fell on 9/11. He began crawling and digging upwards out of the rubble and eventually got to safety.

https://x.com/i/status/1824568701687099710

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 7:14 AM
Reply to  Weegies

Rather missing the point aren’t you

Weegies
Weegies
Mar 14, 2026 6:50 PM
Reply to  Robber Baron

Pointing the out the obvious floor.

if you use lies like killing 3,000 to get your point across then your point look ridiculous
which it does.

Watchers of Woke media does induce this.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 12, 2026 7:21 PM

Trump’s been briefed about Iranian sleeper cells in the USA, so let the false flag ops begin as your rights will take a big hit afterwards.

https://nitter.poast.org/_TruthZone_/status/2031929959527129183#m

Observe
Observe
Mar 12, 2026 10:47 PM

Genuine question – Don’t you think it possible that attacks by influenced individuals/groups or agents of a foreign nation can actually happen against citizens/targets of other nations? I wish people would at least be more open to that reality than asserting similar to ‘what comes next is a false flag’.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 13, 2026 10:31 AM
Reply to  Observe
Observe
Observe
Mar 13, 2026 11:25 AM

Sigh. So, no then. You believe all attacks are directed conspiracy because directed conspiracy attacks exist. All attacks are false flag attacks, is a seriously illogical position.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 13, 2026 1:51 PM
Reply to  Observe

“Genuine question – Don’t you think it possible that attacks by influenced individuals/groups or agents of a foreign nation can actually happen against citizens/targets of other nations?”

You asked the above and I said *YES* – but I also provided links to show how false flag attacks work.

Which parts don’t you understand?

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 7:25 AM
Reply to  Observe

Can you name an alleged terrorist attack that has actually benefitted the terrorists or fatally harmed the supposed target government?

I’m always struck by the fact these terrorists always seem to make weak gestures or attack helpless civilians, which either does little serious damage to infrastructure or ends up knocking down buildings planned for destruction anyway, all of which makes them look like shits and their target government look like heroes.

Can you name any exceptions to this?

I suppose the very few occasions when the people in government were directly attacked might be more likely to be genuine? Except even then rarely end up dead in large numbers the way ordinary civilians seem to.

Why do terrorists not try to use kompromat or leak inside info about the corruption in the govts they’re allegedly opposing? Why don’t they run PR campaigns to shame those govts or make them look bad?

Why always random rather pointless violence that simply makes the terrorists themselves look bad?

It’s a an interesting question to be sure.

fathom
fathom
Mar 12, 2026 5:56 PM

I fathom a small break for Easter, An armistice, or temporary cease fire, to celebrate Freedom 250 – United States On July 4, 2026, (opening after the 1st lockdown during covid)America will celebrate 250 years of independence.The Midterms and Locals need a form of certainty.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 13, 2026 4:00 PM
Reply to  fathom

An armistice/cease-fire sounds good, even though 250 years isn’t that impressive in the big scheme of things.

It may help to give the US some degree of respect for nations with thousands of years of prior history more than its own..

And help to divert any inclination to obliterate every library and object of culture that other nations have treasured over thousands of years. All helping to curb the ‘Philistine within’.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 12, 2026 5:33 PM

Well, well, well, when Russia invaded Ukraine the western media couldn’t stop reporting that it was illegally attacking Ukraine – fast forward to today and the Corporate Controlled Media- very rarely if at all, says that the US and Israeli illegally attacked Iran.

Observe
Observe
Mar 12, 2026 10:38 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/trump-administration-illegal-war-iran-experts

It would be more accurate to say the MSM ‘left’ highlight the legality issues, and the MSM ‘right’ want Iran wiped off the map by any means necessary. Plus ça change…

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 13, 2026 1:52 PM
Reply to  Observe

Sounds about right.

viber
viber
Mar 12, 2026 3:31 PM

The Covid anniversary period – then this kicks off.
During Ramadan, Lent. Purim and the build up to the equinox
engineered for maximum outrage targeting every demographic.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 12, 2026 3:46 PM
Reply to  viber

To some extent. Though of course difficult to engineer any blood moons, planetary alignments, such as Jupiter, Mars/the moon/Jupiter being in the Constellation of Leo [aka Judah].

Where are the Magi when you need them?

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 12, 2026 3:23 PM

What do we think true or not so true? Afterall the American’s and the Zionists like to cover up their, military incidents and their losses.

“The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet:

“On March 12, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) experienced a fire that originated in the ship’s main laundry spaces. The cause of the fire was not combat-related and is contained.

There is no damage to the ship’s propulsion plant, and the aircraft carrier remains fully operational.””

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 12, 2026 4:09 PM

Not majorly significant imho given all the other ships on fire or at the bottom of the ocean (crew included)

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 12, 2026 5:38 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

It is if it a missile strike – passed off as a laundry fire.

Rosy
Rosy
Mar 12, 2026 2:09 PM

All wars are banker wars, be they US bankers or Iranian, no difference, just like all the banks are part of the global bankster network.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 12, 2026 4:12 PM
Reply to  Rosy

Maybe then the bankers should just fight the bankers and the common people just watch from the sidelines

valkrie
valkrie
Mar 13, 2026 11:12 PM
Reply to  Rosy

Banker dont need wars as they have there own fake money and printers.

Blood.

Bonno aRay
Bonno aRay
Mar 12, 2026 1:51 PM

It’s so boring and predictable.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 12, 2026 4:12 PM
Reply to  Bonno aRay

What do you predict?

fathom
fathom
Mar 12, 2026 5:58 PM
Reply to  Bonno aRay

Got everyone glued to the screens.

Jamie Turner Blanco
Jamie Turner Blanco
Mar 12, 2026 1:08 PM

Great article. Just too many questions left unanswered imho. Mainstream and alternative media seem to be telling the same story but differing in who to blame. It never seems to occur to anyone to question the basics. Why do the US and Israel look like cartoon villains? why was the Strait of Hormuz “closed” by insurers before much action even happened? Who is getting rich? Not me for sure, and probably not any of the people reading this.

Edwige
Edwige
Mar 12, 2026 12:14 PM

Oh, how he cares….
https://dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/children-killed-school-graveyard-wartime-iran
….so much about children missing their Rockefeller brainwashing just because there’s a war on and, even more, that there isn’t a supranational court to protect the poor wee bairns from bombs…. not being vaccinated hard enough…. climate change…. the inability to change gender at the age of three….

Edwige
Edwige
Mar 12, 2026 12:04 PM

Quite a trend of fake populists realising that they really can’t carry on supporting such an unpopular war and retain what little credibility they have:
https://www.politico.eu/article/giorgia-meloni-turns-against-war-in-iran/

Bit late though.

Chlamydia Tealeaf
Chlamydia Tealeaf
Mar 12, 2026 12:43 PM
Reply to  Edwige

That’s one way of looking at it, another way would be to see this war as one the US and Israel were always supposed to wage nastily and incompetently and to lose – thus expediting the long-planned transfer of the ’empire’ (or globalist rule) further east.

valkrie
valkrie
Mar 13, 2026 11:21 PM

 (or globalist rule) further east.??

globalist rule new HQ is costa rico..

Chlamydia here’s some penicillin…

The Cayman Islands, The Isle of Man, Bermuda, City of London.

The Royal houses, Priestclass like lower echelons diplomats dont adhered to borders and have different passports system.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 14, 2026 7:29 AM

I agree with the second way of looking at. Not a fan of your name though.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 12, 2026 10:26 AM

Should I be surprised by this from the UN, after all the shit and lack of action from them on the genocide in Gaza, probably not.

“The United Nations Security Council just passed Resolution 2817 demanding that Iran stop defending itself from US and Israeli attacks.”

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 12, 2026 4:02 PM

China and Russia notably abstaining, or playing the long game, depending on perspective. At least looking beyond the point where the US video game ends

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 12, 2026 8:15 AM

The content on X pretty much seems to back up OffG’s interpretation. Constant unrelenting provocation, jeering, stirring it up. I admit I’ve joined in. And then sometimes get ignored, sometimes get bogged down in back and forward bickering until it fizzles out. And end up feeling – Well, so what?

hexcate
hexcate
Mar 12, 2026 9:00 AM
Reply to  George Mc

What is more is likely you getting banned or (comment censored) for saying ISL got USA into starting it or pointing out Iran has not started any war’s,

Mister Anderson
Mister Anderson
Mar 12, 2026 7:02 PM
Reply to  hexcate

Didn’t they start a war with the US when they stormed the embassy and kidnapped embassy workers and held them for over 400 days? It’s my understanding that embassy property is sovereign soil. Am I wrong?

Weegies
Weegies
Mar 14, 2026 7:09 PM

Julian assange what say differently.

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 12, 2026 7:31 AM

FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: AlertThe warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office told ABC News: “The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is actively working with state, local and federal security officials to protect our communities.”

I assume this is garbage?
https://abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns-iran-aspired-attack-california-drones-retaliation/story?id=130973820

Probably not the real abc, right? Or is it a set up for a false flag?

Chlamydia Tealeaf
Chlamydia Tealeaf
Mar 12, 2026 12:45 PM
Reply to  Penelope

“Probably not the real abc, right?”

Sorry, what?

But yes, it almost certainly is a set up for a prospective false flag, one that may or may not come to fruition.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 12, 2026 4:57 PM
Reply to  Penelope

More than plausible. After all how many million-dollar missiles capable of shooting down a drone constructed in a California local garage does the State typically have on standby? It only taking one presumably to reak irreversible damage

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 11, 2026 10:18 PM

A Teheran bank was hit, killing staff. Iran’s response: a warning that civilians shdn’t approach w/in 1 mile of any bank connected w US. That is, not just Israel, but banks thruout the MidEast.

Al Jazeera’s reporting this as an official Iranian pronouncement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/11/iran-declares-us-israeli-economic-banking-interests-in-region-as-targets

Others are saying the attack can be a missile, or a “Wiper”/cyber attack that destroys the records.

The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency released a list of offices and infrastructure run by top US companies with Israeli links whose technology has been used for military applications, describing them as “Iran’s new targets”, said Al Jazeera’s Maziar Motamedi, reporting from Tehran
“As the scope of the regional war expands to infrastructure war, the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets expands,” the agency said.

nocebo
nocebo
Mar 11, 2026 7:24 PM

Thanks for this. I follow Iain Davis’s Telegram and I was noting he puts “war” in scare quotes. Looking for more perspectives like that I found a woman on Substack making very good analysis of the strangely convenient fact that so much missile damage in Israel seems to be in areas scheduled for demolition. She points out Hamas have been apparently shelling a ghost town for more than a year.

I don’t know what to make of this but I don’t see how we can ignore it and keep on taking the war as it is presented in any media. I appreciate the fact you remind us of Iran’s history of cooperation with the empire. Put this and the article I talk about above and it starts to give a very disturbing and weird picture.

Brianborou.
Brianborou.
Mar 12, 2026 1:11 PM
Reply to  nocebo

Does this include the Haifa port/ powerstations around Israel / Mossad HQ and the Israeli airforce bases plus Ben Gurion international airport etc ?

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 12, 2026 5:45 PM
Reply to  Brianborou.

Agreed, Brianborou. And how about Netanyahu’s offices and the largest oil refinery? Those aren’t scheduled for demolition either.

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 12, 2026 6:18 PM
Reply to  Penelope

This is another example with the ” they are all in together” acolytes, they post without cross referencing.

Tesco Shopping Trolley
Tesco Shopping Trolley
Mar 14, 2026 9:08 AM
Reply to  brianborou

Just because one commenter mentions an article that says a bunch of condemned buildings were bombed doesn’t mean everyone who is sceptical of this war agrees with that or that only condemned buildings are being bombed. And come to that we don’t even have any proof Netanyahu’s office or the oil refinery even was bombed, it’s just rumours like most of the stuff. Apparently we don’t have reporters or cameras on the ground any more

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 14, 2026 10:31 PM

Alas, talk is cheap and proof is in demand. To quote

“..I found a woman on Substack making very good analysis of the strangely convenient fact that so much missile damage in Israel seems to be in areas scheduled for demolition..”

nocebo
 Mar 11, 2026 7:24 PM

And the evidence for this is….

Exactly, zilch, nichts, nada as usual !

fathom
fathom
Mar 11, 2026 7:17 PM

 Rather, it is a program of digital control of money, food and travel that limits human freedom.

Like being poor and paying tax and over priced rent and bills.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Mar 11, 2026 5:09 PM

I found this on the internet:

Opposing “Both Sides” In This War Is Crazy Imperialist Nonsense, And Other Notes

People tell me, “It’s possible to oppose this war AND oppose the Iranian regime. You can denounce BOTH.”

Sure you can. But you shouldn’t.

You should not do this. You should not be a pro bono Pentagon propagandist in the middle of a US war of immense consequence. You should not do the hasbarists’ job for them. Make them do their own job themselves.

This war already has a huge number of propagandists screaming “REGIME BAD” at the top of their lungs in order to ensure that the slaughter continues. You don’t need to add your voice to the chorus, and you shouldn’t. You should not help them manufacture consent for more human butchery. You should be using your voice solely and exclusively to end the butchery your government and its allies are inflicting on human beings.

Big Al
Big Al
Mar 11, 2026 6:35 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

You’ve been accused of being me (seriously, see well below) and vice versa, so I’ll reply to me, a bit sarcastically. The problem with that line of thinking is that the company line on this site is that they’re ALL in it together and that the so called war in Iran is fake and there actually aren’t any missiles being fired or destruction of things. So evidently there is nothing to oppose except the so called Great Reset/New World Order/One World Government. Certainly not Greater you know what.

Big Al
Big Al
Mar 12, 2026 10:09 PM
Reply to  Big Al

This placed has been infiltrated and it looks like controlled by zionists.

Karma Kameleon
Karma Kameleon
Mar 11, 2026 6:42 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

Is that the same Caitlin Johnstone that went along with the entire covid 19 psyop?

Aloysius
Aloysius
Mar 12, 2026 3:15 AM
Reply to  Karma Kameleon

So what. What she says is right.

Chlamydia Tealeaf
Chlamydia Tealeaf
Mar 12, 2026 12:49 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

So what? So what if she outed herself as a limited hangout/moral coward? You still think we should value her opinions?

I’d rather make up my own mind without her help thanks very much

Rosy
Rosy
Mar 12, 2026 2:14 PM

I used to really like her, was shocked when she just exposed herself as controlled op don’t follow her or ever read her since.

Tesco Shopping Trolley
Tesco Shopping Trolley
Mar 14, 2026 9:11 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

Yeah and Hitler was also right sometimes, but we don’t bloody look to him as a good bloke to have on side. I haven’t even looked at her stuff or George “shill” Galloway’s since they outed themselves over covid.

Weegies
Weegies
Mar 14, 2026 7:15 PM
Reply to  Karma Kameleon

 Caitlin Johnstone that went along with the entire covid 19 psyop?

Why do the other get a free pass from you lot.

Neil olivers.Sir Desmond Swayne and Andrew Bridgen, sir Christopher chope who appeared on UK column.
to many to mention but the ones I mention got a free pass on this site.
You even said Boris and both Trump was lie to by his team about covid.

receipts in the search bar.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 11, 2026 1:11 PM

For non-partisan clearsightedness and for the sheer guts required to air unpopular facts Off Guardian has few equals.

Most alternative media is stuck in fruitless debates that merely involve cheering on the propaganda from one side or the other. So few seem capable of seeing the bigger picture or the greater game. Thank you.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 11, 2026 11:51 AM

As the war on Gaza symbolizes a war on ‘hamas’ (= ‘sin’ in Hebrew) so the war on Iran is symbolic of a war on ‘Haman’ (note the phonetic similarity to ‘hamas’, as well as to ‘Khameni’). Haman the genocidal enemy of God’s people in former Susa, Persia (modern-day Shush, west Iran).

Haman, great enemy of the Hebrews, as recorded in the Book of Esther. An ‘Agagite’, descendant of Agag and hence descended from Amalek.

The war on Iran beginning two days (Feb 28, 2026) before the Festival of Purim (March 2+), which commemorates the events of the Book of Esther. Haman is booed and his name worn on the soles of shoes to be trodden upon.

In terms of former regime change in Susa/Persia, Mordecai proved successor to Haman, in becoming Prime Minister. He was of the tribe of Benjamin (though not of course surnamed Netanyahu). By contrast, Iran would thus far appear to have just replaced one ‘Haman’ (Khameni?) with another (his son).

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther%201&version=NIV

fathom
fathom
Mar 12, 2026 5:59 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

How does the story end?

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 13, 2026 9:39 AM
Reply to  fathom

With a fair bit of bloodshed, unfortunately. 75,800 of the Hebrews’ enemies killed alone. Likely a significant proportion of the population in those days (~470 BC or so). And then peace I think for a few centuries until the time of the Maccabees.

The Hebrews struck pre-emptively with the aid of the authorities, killing the sons of Haman too.

The Greek version of Esther is fascinating, since it opens with a dream of Mordecai, involving two large dragons that fight each other with all the nations of the world involved in the conflict. A large river also playing a key role in the dream (cf the Strait of Hormuz).

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=esther%201&version=NABRE

But history is generally said to rhyme rather than to repeat, so who knows how the modern story will end

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 11, 2026 10:35 AM

I bet they did, now they’ll pay a heavy price for it, as will we financially.

“New York Times, quoting US sources:

“The Trump administration and its advisors made a mistake in estimating Iran’s reaction to the war and its impact on the oil market.””

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 11, 2026 1:12 PM

It’s quite naive to believe anyone in the ruling echelons will be paying any price for this “war”.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 13, 2026 7:15 PM
Reply to  Robber Baron

No its the masses that pay for it -the ruling echelons just lie and coordinate it.#

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Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 11, 2026 10:29 AM

Could Iran strike Italy, like it has the Gulf Satraps?

” Italian PM Giorgia Meloni: “We are supplying the Gulf countries with air defense systems””

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 11, 2026 9:26 PM

Only Telegram has this ‘info’.

More uncertain news there:  A preliminary U.S. military investigation found that a Tomahawk missile mistakenly struck an Iranian elementary school on February 28, killing at least 175 people, most of them children.

The strike occurred because outdated targeting data had identified the building as part of a nearby Iranian naval base.

— The New York Times | @thewarreporterr

At least they admit US did it. “…because of outdated data”. Between a million of sick excuses……

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 11, 2026 9:20 AM

Excellent analysis!

hexcate
hexcate
Mar 12, 2026 9:02 AM
Reply to  Bernard

Better analysis if they stopped saying Trump maynot be in the club.

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 12, 2026 11:38 AM
Reply to  hexcate

I don’t think OG do say that. One reason I value them is their non-partisan approach, they will equally criticise all sides it seem to me.

hexcate
hexcate
Mar 12, 2026 1:18 PM
Reply to  Bernard

I don’t think OG do say that. 

1001% did.

non-partisan approach

non- approach you mean.

they will equally criticise all sides it seem to me.

Show us a article since this situation has happened where they criticise ISL -Trump Usa.
or did a article saying  ISL -Trump Usa is in the club.

You cant.

Fake downvotes or fake pro confirmation bias comments dont make it true.

Rosy
Rosy
Mar 12, 2026 2:07 PM
Reply to  hexcate

Are you saying OG are pro-America? 😂😂😂 They were called Russian bots because they are so anti-empire. They were pro-Corbyn back in the day. A lot of us that were old lefties see things a bit different after covid and I’m not as prepared to see Russia and Iran as the good guys as I once was because of what they did to their working people. Now I don’t see much to choose between them all and I’m damned if I’m going to take a side in their bloody banker wars. I side with the 99% of the world against the I% who exploit us, be they US elites or Iranian elites. Fuck them and fuck their wars and good for OG for seeing through all the BS.

Weegies
Weegies
Mar 14, 2026 7:22 PM
Reply to  Rosy

from what I understand that according to Catherine fits and Kit.
IMA panel March 13-

Trump was lied to. Trump was give bad advise

OG is being pro-America and Pro pending and Pro fucking stupid if there that naive to think this in 2026 which they do.

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 11, 2026 5:18 AM

Source of reports that Iran is mining Strait of Hormuz is US intell. Think it’s true? I can see more benefit to the agenda of TPTB than to Iran. And we know for sure that the US govt is for that.

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 10, 2026 7:59 PM

The argument has been made that the war is phoney; that if it were real the power & water infrastructure of Iran & Israel wd have been hit.

However, in the past attacks on Iran have not been all-out, so Iran may have chosen a more limited response until she sees how serious this attack will be. And Israel CANNOT strike Iran’s infrastructure because they would suffer the same.

War is not necessarily all-out, especially it may avoid citizen targets, like water, no?

Anyway, I think US has recently struck an Iranian desalination plant:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/middle-east/iran-why-us-attack-qeshm-water-desalination-plant-sets-dangerous-precedent-risking-millions-of-lives-article-153783447

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 11, 2026 1:31 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Yes, wars may not be all-out and they may avoid civilian targets, but in what sense then are they real wars? If both sides can agree to limit their engagement then why can’t they agree to have no engagement at all? If it’s not an all-out struggle for survival what is it?

I read today for example that the US admin have stipulated their aims are not to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability or to achieve regime change. Which begs the question, what are their aims then?

Surely it’s reasonable to consider the possibility that the result is the aim? In this case, more fear, more division, an excuse for hiking energy prices, an excuse for increased cost of living, food shortages, more surveillance (to counter terrorist threats). All coincidentally the very things also being advanced in pursuit of Agenda 2030, which all sides in this “conflict” are signed up to implement.

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 12, 2026 4:55 AM
Reply to  Robber Baron

Think that it’s a fib that Israel’s main oil refinery was destroyed? I think there’ve been lots of military actions that confined themselves, especially initially, to military targets.

I need evidence to believe that damage is only to unused or decrepit areas. Absent evidence I don’t think so.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
Mar 12, 2026 7:08 AM
Reply to  Penelope

I didn’t say the damage is limited to unused or decrepit areas. You said “war is not necessarily all-out”, I was merely agreeing with you and asking what the aim of such limited wars would be.

America went in to this allegedly to “defend” itself against an alleged nuclear attack from Iran. An obviously preposterous narrative that the US admin has now apparently gone back on by saying it has no intention of destroying US nuclear capability.

So I ask again, if both sides can agree to limit destruction and preserve infrastructure, could they not also agree to NO destruction at all? There is no strategic gain in limited bombing intended to preserve your enemy’s infrastructure, as both Ukraine and Russia have been doing since 2022. Wars are not won that way. They will either drag on forever or be ended by yet another agreement.

So, what is the net gain? What function are such mutually agreed wars aimed at preserving the infrastructure of both sides actually serving?

Why, profit of course. Fortunes were made from four years of utterly pointless trench warfare in 1914-18, a war that was eventually halted by mutual agreement and could have been halted at any time but was not because there were interests on both sides that benefitted.

Arms manufacturers, dealers in scarcities, raw materials producers and crazy wealthy ideologues with policies to implement all benefit from such limited states of war.

hexcate
hexcate
Mar 12, 2026 9:09 AM
Reply to  Robber Baron

America?? (israell dont you mean) went in to this allegedly to “defend” itself against an alleged nuclear attack from Iran. ?

America and israell has not even been mentioned in any of the titles.

and being pro USA and Pro Isreal gets comments allowed and giving a different viewpoint gets one banned.

 Fortunes were made from four years of utterly pointless trench warfare in 1914-18, 

this was real then?

There is clearly different levels to this membership of the club and going by deleted comments/videos we can see why.

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 12, 2026 11:57 AM
Reply to  Robber Baron

Robber Baron, excuse me for misinterpreting you. We are all guessing, but my take on the Iran attack is broader than other people’s: I’m an old lady and have been aware since 1962-63 of the plan of secret societies/billionaires/megalomaniacs to rule the world.

When Israel was still being stabilized as a new country it was well-known among conspiracy “theorists” like me that the purpose of Israel was to destabilize the Middle East. As part of this agenda elements of the Jewish religion have been weaponized to make Israel so insanely expansionist. TPTB have been quite successful in using the nation of Israel as their tool, not least because they’ve been successful at placing the worst people into the leadership.

Many of the actions of most countries are controlled by a combination of the psychological and of the necessity to trade, which can be cut off at any time thru “sanctioning” them– cutting them off from access to financial/trade structures. If you then add leaders chosen & financially supported, you have a description of the MEANS by which a pretty high degree of control is achieved.

We know the overall PURPOSE of such control as TPTB possess is tyrannical global rule. So our remaining question, according to this analysis is merely, “How can the attack on Iran forward their global rule?”

It may be that it simply creates so much chaos & economic ruin globally that they can use for their usual presentation of a “Solution” to the problem they’ve created. It certainly will distract vas numbers of people who may have been thinking coherently about how to stop the further empowerment of TPTB.

I think most interpretations that rely on State actors, are incomplete.
And profit is only the means to power, which is the main goal of TPTB.
Trump I think is not really an actor, but only a puppet.

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 12, 2026 6:28 PM
Reply to  Robber Baron

“.. in what sense then are they real wars? If both sides can agree to limit their engagement ..”

Overview of Rules of Engagement in Medieval European Wars
The rules of engagement during medieval European wars were influenced by social, political, and military factors. These rules were not formalized but were generally understood within the context of chivalry and warfare.

Chivalric Code
Key Principles

  • Honor and Valor: Combatants were expected to fight bravely and uphold their honor.
  • Respect for Nobility: Duels and battles often involved knights and nobles, who were bound by a code of conduct that emphasized respect for opponents.
  • Surrender and Mercy: Captured knights could expect to be treated with respect, and ransom was often negotiated.

How Were Medieval Battles Fought? A Guide to Medieval Warfare | TheCollector

Observe
Observe
Mar 12, 2026 10:08 PM
Reply to  Robber Baron

I don’t understand this position. Limiting attacks or responses in war is not ‘an agreement’. It’s awareness of strategic limitation and risk.

US/Israel could destroy every desalination plant that Iran has and cause collapse in the country. How would this help in keeping Iranian civilians on-side? What would happen when Iran then attacks multiple desalination plants in other countries in the ME? They lose all the support they need there. Chaos. No one gains by just going all out in war if there are wider concerns/impacts to consider. The only time this would happen is as last resort when everyone has gone too far and there are few, if any, options left.

I’ve used desalination plants as examples but you can apply the same strategic logic to many aspects of this conflict and others.

Strategic actions and cautious attack/defence is NOT proof of an agreement to have a semi-war!

gerf
gerf
Mar 10, 2026 7:57 PM

I have yet to see any convincing videos of this war happening.
The USA Department of War, neocon mentality with its religious Jesus quotes,
Then they want to theme as it as beginning of endtimes, just as Nostradamus predicted, etc., Albert pike etc with Russia& China nearly joining the war, with the fake US collapsing, and the Anti-Christ arising. Your christian alt media telling you to buy more guns and prepping gear, buy gold and silver and make sure you have the bunker fully stocked and dont forget toilet rolls.

This is a money grab on the taxpayer again and Zion don doing his duty.

Observe
Observe
Mar 10, 2026 9:33 PM
Reply to  gerf

We can never know unless actually in the warzones if what we see is manipulated, real or not. But there are a thousand vids out there of bombs falling all over Tehran, Lebanon and others. What is clear in this war, in my experience compared to others, is that there is a major censorship campaign on videos of bombs falling on Israel or US allied countries in the ME.

I’ve never seen it so one sided before and there’s a lot of chatter about the censoring of Iran’s attacks. There are videos (some appearing to show some pretty scary action of missiles striking in Tel Aviv as they are missed by the Dome defences; but they are not as prevalent as would be expected given the munitions being flung that way and reports of damage. And as I say, they may well be AI videos and I have some casual experience with just how real AI video is now even at public level. So who knows.. Confusion and doubt are weapons.

If you want to try to view some of the stuff unseen in MSM/online generally, then you need to visit ‘enemy’ sites, RT news (Russia), Iran News.. Telegram channels and some pretty dodgy borderline sites that also show much more graphic imagery of all sorts of badness.

“The first casualty when war comes is truth” – attributed to numerous folk.

Brianberou
Brianberou
Mar 11, 2026 9:12 AM
Reply to  Observe

The line strung out by the “ they are all in it together “ acolytes is :deny a war is actually taking place, deny the consequences of the war taking place . When faced with concrete evidence that it is taking place and consequences from it are severe , is to either down play it or ignore it. Eg the Special Military operation in Ukraine .

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 11, 2026 10:30 AM
Reply to  Brianberou

Yes, a few people are saying the war is not taking place, but the article does not claim that, nor do most people who take a sceptical view of the supposed aims. Reminding us that the war is helping along Agenda 2030 and both sides are signed up to that agenda does not equate with saying no bombs are falling and no people are dying.

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 11, 2026 3:06 PM
Reply to  Bernard

If you wind the clock back to the beginning of the SMO, you will find that was precisely the view being pushed here.

Moreover, if you read some of the recent past articles on here, again, you will find it is the line being pushed here.

It is important to remember who and from where the wars over the last couple of decades, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan etc are being thrusted from.

Lets, not forget the same groupings have published papers from their think tanks in recent years outlying step step the tactics and strategy they will employ. Eg

Which_Path_to_Persia.pdf

Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 12, 2026 7:25 AM
Reply to  brianborou

I’ve been reading OG since 2020, don’t recall ever seeing an article saying any war was not happening, as in no bombs dropping. Can you indicate where they said that?

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 12, 2026 9:00 AM
Reply to  Bernard

Let’s talk about…War with Iran

Is there any reason to believe this war is more real than other recent wars?

Let’s talk about…War with Iran – OffGuardian

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 12, 2026 11:52 AM
Reply to  brianborou

But they have made it perfectly clear that they don’t mean people are not dying or no destruction is taking place! I think you are being over-literal. The fact the war is being fought by two sides who both have signed for agenda 2030 must put a question over the deeper geopolitical motives, especially when the war advances so much of this agenda.

I would say the war is not real in the sense of its intentions, and this is regardless of whether we believe the allegations of the bombs only striking already condemned buildings. I do not necessarily believe that without more evidence, and OG has not said anything about that so far as I know.

Brianborou.
Brianborou.
Mar 12, 2026 1:21 PM
Reply to  Bernard

They implied the SMO is fake and the Iran- US/ Israeli war is fake. Hence why they use the title Fake war.

Moreover, they argued that the casualties in the SMO were fake and gave article space to people who actually argued this point.

This point of view was implied time and time again by putting the noun War in inverted commas.

There has been numerous videos/ articles from independent journalists ie Patrick Lancaster, Eva Barlett etc on the ground at the frontline to verify that it is a real and bloody war.

Observe
Observe
Mar 11, 2026 9:04 PM
Reply to  Brianberou

Re the ‘SMO’ particularly – I think much of the ‘this isn’t real’ stuff comes as a side effect of the very real propaganda on all sides that hugely overstate or understate what is happening depending on the subject – military assets used and in use, number of casualties, gains or losses of land, impact on either country, detail of targets hit and much more. When people see there is clear propaganda at work – yet forget that’s what war is always shrouded in – they find it easy to jump to ‘it’s fake’. The onus should be on them to prove it, but they never can.

Anyone with a reasonable amount of web savvy can see on both sides there is conflict, horrific deaths, war crimes and a sort of half-war of drones and open fields and very few large-scale battles that one might associate with images of wars from the past. I think people expect that if it was real then Putin would just send over his best missiles and destroy all of Kyiv; without thinking about how that would be immensely counter productive to the apparent aims.

Same with Iran – there’s a cautious approach to the bombing and targets so that a global economic meltdown is avoided. No-one anywhere in power and connected to the global system wants that. It’s not rocket science. Pardon the pun.

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 11, 2026 10:27 AM
Reply to  Observe

There is barely any video of destruction on either side frankly.

Big Al
Big Al
Mar 11, 2026 8:05 PM
Reply to  brianborou

Ya, and they barely killed those 160 school children.

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 11, 2026 10:45 PM
Reply to  Big Al

Yes, very true.

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 12, 2026 11:59 AM
Reply to  brianborou

I have seen those same 6 or 8 images of destruction in Tel Aviv recycled so many times! It’s really not very much considering almost everyone has a phone now with on board camera. The videos I can’t comment on as they don’t really show destruction and many would doubtless argue they could be AI or cgi.

I’m not saying there are no bombs falling though. It was just a comment on the lack of photographic evidence. There seems to be even less of the bombing in Tehran. Many people have said it was carpet bombed, which is tragic, but we don’t really have any photos of it.

Brianborou.
Brianborou.
Mar 12, 2026 1:28 PM
Reply to  Bernard

” I have seen those images…”
Any evidence that they are not true ?

Don’t forget the Zionist apartheid regime has very strict censorship laws a mandatory 5 year prison sentence for anyone posting videos/images of the destruction being inflicted on it.

By the way why do you think so many Israelis tried to escape Israel last time and the regime prevented by force from them leaving the country if the damage was minimal.

Observe
Observe
Mar 10, 2026 3:54 PM

There’s a lot of people tying themselves in knots in response to the article over whether or not Iran – or others – are/were part of a wider conspiracy re Covid/Vaccines or the War. Let me try to inject some clarity about the way power may operate, as I think it’ll highlight how there doesn’t need to be foreknowledge of a conspiracy for a nation government to fall into lockstep with the conspiracy out of necessity.

There is overwhelming evidence of a globally-oriented elite who own or control transnational capital – their economic interests, professional networks, and political influence operate primarily at the global rather than national level. They can be identified as the senior execs of multinational corporations and global financial institutions, leaders of transnational policy-planning bodies – WEF, WTO, IMF, World Bank – and allied political, legal, and cultural institutions/agents.

When this elite, the core of the globalist systems of power, move toward a set of goals (it’s never one thing!) – it looks like this – Example: Covid – if you believe the conspiracy:
Lockdowns > slowing of economic output, realignment and efficiency introduction, flexibility, accelerated investments in digital and automation, enormous extraction of wealth from bottom up, implementation of control and surveillance measures, and many more changes that benefit, reinforce and enhance the global power structure.

When these epoch defining moves are made, any nation connected to the global system MUST act in lockstep or suffer and be left behind. Not only from an economic perspective. There is a real danger to the stability of the government of a nation if the population – heavily influenced as it is by the co-ordinated global marketing campaign of the conspiracy; dancing nurses, images of people dropping like flies, ever increasing stats of the spread and impact of a new and deadly virus – sees that their government isn’t taking action to protect them. They will rebel. Out of fear, panic. So, the government does what it knows it must do to maintain itself – it plays the game, it buys the vaccines and it takes the opportunity to reinforce it’s control, power and wealth by implementing the same measures as everyone else.

A government does not need to have even known about the conspiracy. It, like all of us, is swept up by the scale and impact and it reacts to protect itself. And like us, it may be suspicious of the truth of the virus, of the vaccines, but it is powerless to act against the conspiracy and instead acts where it has power to act, within it’s own nation against it’s own people. And it benefits it to do so.

The above is also applicable for a nation in war or other significant global-impacting events. If the net benefit is to play along, even partially, even temporarily and reluctantly, then play along it will. Maintaining power is all that matters and bargains/compromise with the global cabal will be made accordingly.

I believe this is a reasonable, logical lens to look through when thinking about how we should perceive events, actors and motivations – as opposed to ‘they’re all in it together’. They sort of are – in the sense that power supports power because there are mutual benefits – but they also sort of aren’t, because there’s a greater power than that of a nation’s government. The Transnational Corporate Class.

I should add for those less convinced by conspiracy – even if there were no conspiracy and the Covid pandemic was as real as real can be, the same rules and actions of nation states and their self-protective instinct would still apply in the direction of global power. In other words, if the world is moving a certain way, they will move with it to avoid being economically left behind or to prevent loss of power.

If you’re interested in this sort of thing, I highly recommend: “Towards A Global Ruling Class? Globalization and the Transnational Capitalist Class” – WILLIAM I. ROBINSON and JERRY HARRIS. Published in Science & Society, Vol. 64, No. 1, Spring 2000, 11–5411

The Transnational Capitalist Class has come a very long way since this was published!

PDF copy here:
https://tyap.net/mediaf/robbinson_harris_capitalist_class.pdf

Observe
Observe
Mar 10, 2026 4:06 PM
Reply to  Observe

*The Transnational Corporate Capitalist Class

Rosy
Rosy
Mar 12, 2026 2:27 PM
Reply to  Observe

You’re saying there’s a big incentive for every government to go along with the big financial institutions, and I agree. But more than that if they don’t go along they get revolutioned out of office and replaced. So now we have every government in the world more or less who is playing by the same play book, which is why covid happened the way it did. Wars are just another psy op then. The financial institutions decide who goes to war, for how long and who wins, if anyone does, and they decide what gets destroyed and what gets saved, and then the governments just do their bidding as in covid?

Observe
Observe
Mar 12, 2026 9:50 PM
Reply to  Rosy

I’d suggest the first half of your comment is a reasonable position – that the global financial architecture means that no one nation can really fight the tide of transnational interests without facing self-harm or external pressure of conflict or economic sanctions. But I’m not convinced we can then leap to ‘all wars are psy-ops’. All wars have psychological operations within them to influence both enemy and cilvilians – but the reasons for war are more likely to be one or more of: resources, power gain, ideological differences, collective security, humanitarian intervention and more. Though perhaps it’s reasonable to say that not all stated aims will be the true aims and lines are certainly obsured or blurred intentionally.

I’d say also that nations may enter conflict with each other independently for any of the reasons stated above, but if that conflict risks a wider impact with the potential to destabilise the global system, they will likely face strong, combined pressure to cool their actions.

Darren
Darren
Mar 10, 2026 10:10 AM

Nail > Head.

It would also seem that all the missiles are falling at coordinates in Israel that have been earmarked for redevelopment for years. Probably the same on the Iranian side.

The entire world is a stage and we are always being played.

Peace.

gerf
gerf
Mar 10, 2026 7:31 PM
Reply to  Darren

fake war
?

Penelope
Penelope
Mar 10, 2026 8:03 PM
Reply to  Darren

Evidence?

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 11, 2026 10:32 AM
Reply to  Penelope

I believe the source is this article that I found shared already on this article

https://morganc000.substack.com/p/lights-camera-iran

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 12, 2026 9:09 AM
Reply to  Bernard

From said article.

” Because it did not look like a war. ..

..The footage looked like a Star Wars movie. I mean that literally. There were explosions everywhere, and like, lasers…and you are sitting there watching it thinking — what the shit?…Something is off here. Because it did not look like a war…”

Lights, Camera, Iran – Morgan

Her evidence for this is zero.

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 12, 2026 12:01 PM
Reply to  brianborou

I agree she does not produce much evidence, I would certainly like someone to follow up and either debunk or confirm this claim. Truly damning if true.

Brianborou.
Brianborou.
Mar 12, 2026 1:32 PM
Reply to  Bernard

It appears by this line that anyone can post whatever they want and the same arguments could be used.

Therefore, they shouldn’t post articles unless they have researched it with hard concrete factual evidence to substantiate their claims.

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 11, 2026 3:33 PM
Reply to  Darren

” It would also seem that all the missiles are falling at coordinates ..”

Blackouts In Israel? After Haifa Strike, Netanyahu Fears Food Shortage & Power Crisis Amid Iran War – YouTube

Edwige
Edwige
Mar 10, 2026 9:52 AM
posthumous
posthumous
Mar 10, 2026 2:43 AM

All rulers wanna do is rule.

Antonym
Antonym
Mar 10, 2026 1:03 AM

Next episode of Kit: “North Korea was and is in cahoots with The Club”. Kim’s woke daughter will show you.

In one way it is true: all of us feeble Homo sapiens are manipulated by invisible lower astral /vital/ occult forces – BUT including The human Club.

Spoiler: the higher forces have shifted gear the last half century and use all tools and fools around.

Non invisible to the “third” eye: get into that pattern and you’ll see.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Mar 9, 2026 10:45 PM

Trump suggesting that lasers are gonna shoot down all drones/missiles in the future. Saving on the typical cost of doing so as typically 10-15 times the cost of the threat.

Minesweepers to remove all the mines in the Strait of Hormuz. All for China’s benefit apparently. Simultaneously removing sanctions on Russia’s oil/gas. Courting the main potential opponents.

Beware of Greeks bearing oil?

theobalt
theobalt
Mar 10, 2026 1:51 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

The oil crisis is global. Barel was past 100$ sunday night, but financial manipulation brought it back below 90$. Quickly they will take into oil reserves. A temporary measure. Trump also claims that the war is almost over, which helped stabelizing the market. But after that, shit show. In California the price at the pump on average reached 5.20$ per gal., and one station in LA was at 8$

We are experiencing the largest disruption of global oil supply ever (20%). The last record was 10% in the 50’s.

Trump paralelly talks about securing the Strait, which means land combat. Not exactly war almost over.

If that war extends too long… nukes.

I can’t imagine an oil crisis that would be “just fine”. This civilisation is built on oil. Watch the petrol.

theobalt
theobalt
Mar 9, 2026 8:36 PM

heobalt
Mar 9, 2026 8:19 PM
Pending…

Here’s an interesting quote on Judaism by Dustin Hoffman…. Jews obviously are polarized. I’d add to that the numerous protests against Israel by acidic Jews rabbis

https://x.com/shahid_siddiqui/status/1797169746485416019?s=20

Jtk2
Jtk2
Mar 10, 2026 10:28 AM
Reply to  theobalt

I like ice cream and ponies.

theobalt
theobalt
Mar 10, 2026 11:18 AM
Reply to  Jtk2

Me too. Alergic to both though

theobalt
theobalt
Mar 10, 2026 11:18 AM
Reply to  Jtk2

Rain man? That the reference?

Jtk2
Jtk2
Mar 11, 2026 2:19 PM
Reply to  theobalt

The reference is that after being blocked for a month over my pro-Israel comments, I figured I’d play it safe and only express an opinion no one at OG could possibly object to. Ice cream and ponies seemed like a safe start.

Jtk2
Jtk2
Mar 11, 2026 2:43 PM
Reply to  theobalt

Yes. Exactly.

Barbara Mckenzie
Barbara Mckenzie
Mar 9, 2026 4:36 PM

China was a big player in the Covid scam. Both Iran and Syria needed to stay onside with China, if only for the UN veto, which could be a reason why they went along with the scam. There’s a nice picture of Bashar al Assad standing in a huge crowd in Damascus, and he’s the only one masked.

So are you saying that “Syria” even then was part of the Cabal, as “Iran” is now?

Thom's Exiled Brain
Thom's Exiled Brain
Mar 10, 2026 11:45 AM

I think Syria was pulled in at a relatively late date. Assad looks about as close to a real opponent of globalism that you are likely to get. But even he couldn’t be totally free of compromise, that’s the nature of the globalist beast. Once big players like US, EU, UK, Russia, China are on board it’s pretty much impossible for “little” nation states to offer real resistance.

And of course Assad is gone now and we can be sure the replacement is a lot more cooperative.

Iran is a whole different thing though. Nothing about Iran has ever really fit the ” anti-American” narrative once you look below the surface. Like NK and Israel they look like a state set up to create useful polarized geopolitical narratives.

Bernard
Bernard
Mar 12, 2026 12:04 PM

i always liked Assad and thought of him as quite genuine. But then I used to like Putin also, and it looks as if that was a mistake!

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Mar 9, 2026 4:19 PM

Looks like the little cokehead is all in on this one – Le Hexagon has a large Muslim population, will there be a backlash at Macron’s decision to do the below, or two – will there be a false flag event in France – that will be blamed on Iranian sleeper cells in France – which will lead to stricter laws, and possibly digital ID for everyone – this scenario could also play out in the USA and the British isles.

“French president Macron has announced that France will be deploying eight warships, an aircraft carrier, and two helicopter carriers in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Strait of Hormuz against Iran.”

BTW.

The new ayatollah – the son of the old one, owns a £100 million mansion in an up market part of London – no moves have been made to confiscate it.

Big Al
Big Al
Mar 9, 2026 4:11 PM

Kind of hilarious actually. Like an old Cheech and Chong skit.

“They’re ALL in on it, man!”
“No, man, they’re not ALL in on it”.
“Yes they are, man! Iran is in on the war against itself”
“No they aren’t, that’s ridiculous, why would they kill their own people?”.
“Because they’re all globalists man, and China and Russia are all in the same club as the U.S and Britain, everything is FAKE!”
“No, that’s bullshit, man, they’re just doing some of the same shit, man”
“Yes, they are and you’re an idiot for not believing it, man!”
“No, man, you’re an idiot for believing it”
“No way!”
“No way!”
“OK, see you next article, man”

aloysius
aloysius
Mar 9, 2026 5:23 PM
Reply to  Big Al

This is brilliant! Genius! Absolutely smack dab right on the money.

Thom's Exiled Brain
Thom's Exiled Brain
Mar 10, 2026 11:46 AM
Reply to  aloysius

This is so obviously you talking to yourself and voting for yourself it’s hilarious.

Big Al
Big Al
Mar 10, 2026 2:16 PM

Talking to “himself”? Are you insinuating he is me? Hmm. No wonder.

Thom's Exiled Brain
Thom's Exiled Brain
Mar 11, 2026 8:23 AM
Reply to  Big Al

I’m not insinuating it, I’m saying it. It’s so obvious the way “he” follows you around the thread telling you how clever you are. No one real would do that. It’s sad really.

Big Al
Big Al
Mar 11, 2026 2:40 PM

Well, fuck off then. He ain’t me, idiot. It appears we’re just a couple people who agree with each other a bit. If this is how you go about your CT, then that explains it.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Mar 12, 2026 6:16 PM
Reply to  Big Al

Tell him to fuck off again for me.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 9, 2026 6:37 PM
Reply to  Big Al

So the only thing you can do is criticizing to neighbour man with a raised finger.
You are not better than all of us, because there is equal shit on both side of the fence!
Equal equality man.

brianborou
brianborou
Mar 10, 2026 12:23 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Spot on !

theobalt
theobalt
Mar 10, 2026 11:25 AM
Reply to  Big Al

I know you were going for satyre but that reads like just one of your posts…

Big Al
Big Al
Mar 10, 2026 2:37 PM
Reply to  theobalt

Ya, I’m broken fucking record at this point theo. I admit it.

theobalt
theobalt
Mar 10, 2026 3:24 PM
Reply to  Big Al

A lot of people are not taking current events well. As usual I bottle it while looking cool… I also get all kinds of digestive problems. But, I try to stay true to myself.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Mar 12, 2026 12:08 PM
Reply to  Big Al

You are awesome man, I could not agree with you more