Finian Cunningham: War Plan Iran: Dispelling the Lies!

Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf: The year 2012 may become known as a watershed for humanity, the year when mankind was precipitated into a global conflagration involving nuclear weapons. The signs are indeed grimly ominous as formidable military forces converge on the Persian Gulf in the long-running stand-off between the United States and Iran. On side with the US are its European allies in NATO, primarily Britain, Washington's Middle East client states: Israel and the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf, all bristling with weapons of mass destruction. Recent naval exercises by Ira in the Strait of Hormuz have also displayed a fierce arsenal of missiles and military capability, and Iran has strategic alliances with Russia and China, both of whom will not stand idly by if their Persian partner is attacked. The conflict between the US-led powers and Iran has wider ramifications. It is part and parcel of Washington's bid to engineer the social and political upheavals across the Arab world in order to redraw the region in its strategic interests. It is no coincidence that fresh from NATO's conquest of , and regime change in Libya, the focus has quickly shifted to Syria, a key regional ally of Iran. As Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out "the road to Tehran goes through Damascus". Regime change in Syria would serve to isolate Iran. Subjugating Iran and returning it to Western tutelage is the prize that Washington and its allies have been seeking for the past 33 years, ever since their client the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was deposed by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.