Finian Cunningham – Strategic Review Jan 4, 2025
Protesters at Tehran University December 31, 2017. Click to enlarge
The signs are that Iran is going to face intensified hostility from the U.S. over the next year for regime change.
The sudden fall of Syria and the isolation of Hezbollah in Lebanon – Iran’s regional allies – have made Tehran look vulnerable.
Anti-Iran hawks in the U.S. are cock-a-hoop about the prospect of regime change in Tehran.
The recent death of Jimmy Carter at the age of 100 puts in perspective how great a prize the Islamic Republic represents for Washington’s imperial desires. Carter was disparaged as the American president who lost Iran in 1979 as a crucial client state for U.S. power in the Middle East.
For over four decades, American imperialist power has sought to topple the Islamic Republic and return the Persian nation to the U.S. global fold.
Though, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented last month, American “regime change experiments” in Iran have been a failure.
Now, however, there is renewed enthusiasm in Washington for the Persian prize.
The lust for regime change in Tehran has peaked with the dramatic fall of President al-Assad in Syria.
American lawmakers and Iranian exiles are publicly calling for the new Trump administration to get back to its maximum pressure campaign on Tehran because they believe there is “a perfect moment” for regime change.
During Donald Trump’s first White House (2017-2021), he revoked the Iranian nuclear deal of the Obama administration and ramped up economic sanctions in what was referred to as a policy of “maximum pressure.”
A growing chorus of Republicans and Democrats are urging the United States to seize the opportunity of a perceived weakened Iran to overthrow the clerical rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
At a recent forum in Washington, it was reported that speaker after speaker brayed for regime change in Tehran. For years, such a desire had been dulled with U.S. failure and the formidableness of the Islamic Republic.
“We have an obligation to stand together with allies in making sure this regime’s suppression will come to an end,” said Democratic Senator Cory Booker.
“Iran is projecting only weakness,” declared Jeanne Shaheen, another Democratic Senator.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz sounded vindicated over his long-time anti-Iran stance: “I have, for a long time, been willing to call quite unequivocally for regime change in Iran… The ayatollah will fall, the mullahs will fall, and we will see free and democratic elections in Iran. Change is coming, and it’s coming very soon.”
James Jones, a former White House national security adviser, said: “The tectonic shift in the Syrian government… should mean to the people of Iran that change is in fact possible in the Middle East.”
The Islamic Revolution in 1979 deposed Shah Pahlavi, an ardent American client. The revolution and the hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran was a horrible blow to Washington’s global image. The Shah had been brought to power by the U.S.-British coup in 1953 and for 26 years, the dictatorial monarch ruled with an iron fist as a loyal and massive buyer of American weaponry and supplier of oil profits.
The overthrow of the Shah put Iran in the crosshairs for regime change. The Americans prompted the Iraq-Iran War between 1980 and 1988. The new Islamic rulers were subjected to crippling economic sanctions, which were eased in 2015 with the signing of the Iran nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration. By then, the U.S. was trying a softer policy of regime change and limited engagement.
Trump abandoned that policy, reverting to a more hostile one. Trump ordered the assassination of Iran’s top military commander Major General Qassem Soleimani on January 3, 2020.
Trump can be expected to make Iran his foreign policy goal during the first year of his second administration beginning on January 20.
There is a giddy sense that the U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen has fatally weakened the Islamic Republic.
During his election campaign, Trump endorsed Israeli plans to attack Iran’s nuclear sites militarily.
Trump will be tempted that Iran could be an early success for his political legacy. To overthrow the Iranian government and replace it with a pro-U.S. regime would be the prize of the century for the American imperial ego.
There is also the imperative of geo-strategy. Russia, China and Iran have emerged as an important alternative geopolitical axis that is perceived as a threat to U.S. global power and the American dollar hegemony. Iran appears to be the weakest link among the opposing bloc, known as the BRICS.
Trump seems to be prioritizing making a peace settlement in Ukraine with Russia. Part of that calculation is incentivized by freeing up U.S. resources to target Iran.
Last year, the imperialist Atlantic Council published an article headlined: “The United States needs a new Iran policy – and it involves regime change, but not the traditional kind”.
The Atlantic Council article advocated intensified economic and political pressure on Iran and internal destabilization by the covert backing of Iranian opposition groups. We can expect a turbo-charged color revolution in Iran, with Western media amplifying public protests against the authorities. Also recommended by the Atlantic Council: “Propaganda efforts to drive a wedge between Russia and Iran, as well as undermine its support by the rank-and-file within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and military, would also help weaken the regime.”
The year ahead is shaping up for a mammoth effort by the U.S. to target Iran.
Suddenly, the U.S. imperial regime-change machine has found the driving seat again after years of sputtering failure in Iran and Syria. The victory of CIA proxies in Syria to finally overthrow Assad is producing a rush to do the same in Iran. That prize seemed out of reach for too long. A new American president and a new Middle East configuration have brought Iran back into the crosshairs for regime change with an intoxicating vengeance.
can we please have some regime change here in the UK ?
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Wes Streeting to scrap over a million ‘pointless’ hospital appointments
Story by Camilla Turner, Laura DWes Streeting has vowed to scrap more than a million “pointless” NHS hospital appointments as he seeks to cut waiting lists.
Primary targeting is the elderly
The Health Secretary said that “waste of time” hospital check-ups could be scrapped, which would free up consultants to carry out more operations.
Officials say that around half of these routine check-ups could be phased out by making greater use of smart watches and wearable tech to monitor patients’ blood pressure levels remotely.
wes streeting is a jew, us british could not be in politics in israel so why is here allowed to here ? Nico X tell us
As usual all the Trump stuff is turning out to be fools gold.
Embassy shift Golan tripe….the daughters marriage to a top jew.
Ways back the French gave refuge to the first Ayatollah and allowed him to return to Iran etc.
People have short memories it seems.
Will the REAL Trump be revealed before he leaves office?.
There seems to be some BS floating around about Trump supporting free speech in Britain……maybe?.
Britain is in serious trouble right now with the GDP falling year on year???.
Is this Ickes….”create the problem provide the solution” strategy??.
“Iran is back in the U.S. crosshairs”
If U$$A is getting it dumb fat flabby a$$ handed to it by the Hooties…
SOMETHING tells me Iran can sleep soundly at night,.. 😏
Was Syria that important for Iran’s survival? Iran is vital to Russia and China. On the other hand a failure for the United States could be a crushing blow for its plans in the Middle East and its ongoing plans to destabilise Putin in Russia. The worst scenario for the US is the loss of its ability to project its power both in the Middle East and throughout the world. The US US a naval power. If Iran has developed a missile to sink aircraft carriers in one strike, then that would be the end of US hegemony. Aircraft carriers are vital to a naval battle group. With their loss there is no battle group and therefore no ability to protect power. The loss would be serious situation for the US as a world power.
Trump promised to stop wars not make his own elsewhere. He and the US deserve major blowback if he makes war on Iran. He claimed bone spurs meant he couldn’t fight when he was of age to go to the front, and to put other people in the front line now when they refused to go never seems to shame these people. It’s astonishing to think America’s hard-core warhawks were once its hard-core draft dodgers.
Only problem is Iran is governed by Donmeh–thus everything is being coordinated between Israel & Iran. Oh sure, they’ll make it look real i.e., the Jew-Donmeh actors governing Iran will participate in some staged ‘war’ & will possibly be ‘overthrown’; but in reality they’ll simply be safely escorted to Israel after fulfilling their contract similar to Qadaffi or Saddam.. You get the picture? Or as some Israeli-Jew confessed in 60 Minutes interview the ‘Pager Plot’: ‘The world is our stage. We make like Truman Show. Everything is controlled by us behind the scenes.”
Just like Nico X has been saying all along.
looks like they want to start wwiii
Funny how Russia did nothing to stop Israel/Usrael from taking over Syria. Putintards still struggling to explain why their eurasian gangster ghoul did nothing. Its like they’re all following some higher secret screenplay resulting in greater Jewish hegemony.
America,,, the Pakleds of the Earth
Anyone that thought Trump was a “peacenik” wasn’t paying attention. His 2016 goal was to build a massive military that can bully any country into submission. He now wants Canada and Greenland to give better access to threatening Russia through greater border contact.
Iran is a “threat”, as is Venezuela, because the US does not control the oil. “Drill baby drill” is meaningless, as shale and other oils are not refined in the US, they are exported. The oil in Iran and Venezuela can be refined in the US.
Trump is a danger, but not for the idiotic “threat to our democracy” reason. The threat to democracy is the threat to another country’s democracy.
Ever after we reveal to the goy morons the truth– that we rule the world ‘behind the scenes like Truman Show’ on ’60 Minutes’ TV show, the morons still don’t believe it & continue with their NATO vs. BRICS idiocy.
Why? Both the US and Israel make enemies of foreign nations in order to support the US-Israeli MIC’s so that they can conquer them and loot their resources. The US has replaced the UK as the leading pirate nation of the globe with Americans wanting a fake media so that they can turn a blind eye to their crimes and atrocities committed in both their proxy and their open wars. Meanwhile, at home the globe-hopping US-Israeli deep states sow division. They also sow turmoil to keep the people so off balance that they have no solid footing to examine and restrain their nations’ foreign policies.
The people in the US and in Israel sit back and watch the MSM propaganda, thinking it is plus to their own nations that finally Assad has been deposed, but they have no knowledge as to really why, and they have no concerns that Syria is being divided up with US-Israeli-funded and trained ISIS brigades going around killing Syrian loyalists. Americans also generally turn a blind eye to Gaza as if the slaughter is none of their business. Meanwhile within the US, even the justice system has become so politicized, polarized and openly corrupted that it is as if two huge criminal gangs running the nation are at each others’ throats. Graft, bribes, pay-for-play, insider trading, influence peddling, blackmail, and intimidation have become so open in the conduct of the ruling class against any opposition that they are not really illegal anymore.
Americans tend to eliminate crimes simply by making the crimes legal. Such was the case for abortion. Such is the case for all of the high crimes of the elites these days. Such is the case with shop lifting in California. Having no real moral authority from a higher power to support their laws, the criminal activity becomes legal and a part of the “new normal”. Such is the case with organized crime which has become totally ingrained and legitimatized in the American culture, with even the narcotics and child trafficking trades now completely institutionalized.
The government agencies created to stop crime, instead simply control and “try” to regulate it. If they were to stop the “illegal” drug trade, which they could. the enforcement agencies would be out of business. The FDA in controlling the “legal” drug trade is so corrupt with the bribes from the drug companies that it is no different from the FBI supposedly working to stop drug trafficking. They were there mainly to suppress the new competition coming into the US and harming the business of the “made” organizations, all of which have become a “respected” part of the US establishment and culture.
Most of the clean people who are not involved for any of the illicit benefits lack the power to do anything. However, most people are in fact very content to turn a blind eye to all of it, as long as their lives are not disrupted. It is as if they don’t really want to know what is going on, thinking perhaps that if they do they will be at odds with the ruling elites and become vulnerable. So they go along to get along, recognizing that the most ruthless and corrupt, the greatest liars and cheats, are in fact the ruling class, and the only way to remain safe is not step on their toes or get in their way.
Some begin looking for a kind of higher power, or the light from some moral authority to provide leadership and a basis for reform, such as myself. It is so very amusing that some people even look to the Vatican to provide that leadership. Philip Giraldi in the TTS post yesterday entitled “The Pope Should Go to Gaza”, describes his past work in the CIA in destabilizing nations and paying off insurrection organizations as if such conduct in the US is the acceptable day-to-day routine of the average CIA agent, and what most Americans fully expect that organization to do on their behalf in all foreign relations, indicating very clearly that Americans ideologically really do not have any moral limits when it comes to harming others to suit their own ends. That is, it appears that the entire nation is completely submerged in depravity.
Supposedly Giraldi is somewhat now reformed from that way thinking and acting, and thinks that the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza is just too over the top. Not to criticize him, but in his article there is the underlying presumption that the US on its own, does not have the moral cojones to override its military and economic support of Israel, which is most likely absolutely true.
However, looking to the present Pope for moral leadership at this time is the same as looking to our courts for justice, or to Washington DC for honor and virtue. The Vatican and the Pope are simply no longer independent from the same money power which runs the West, the US. and Israel. The mission and authority of this Pope unfortunately does not come from God. It comes from the globalist establishment busy rolling out a global centralized currency, centralized powers over health and education, centralized military powers, and a world religion (a New World Order religion), in which this Pope has been busy playing down the centrality and kingship of Christ, which ironically is the only real authority he could possibly have with respect to any moral matters. He is as compromised and corrupt as any American politician simply because he is as morally pragmatic as they are, casting a blind eye to all of the massive deceptions waged on the people of the world to usher in their new order – including: the CO2 global warming fraud, the Covid plandemic, and the forced toxic vaccine policies of our governments to gain absolute control over our lives. The Pope will only take the world stage for peace in the ME or the Ukraine on cue from his globalist overlords and only if by doing so it will serve the globalist agendas for more centralized controls. They first have to psyche people up with a real and substantial fear of a WWIII and a nuclear holocaust, before he will be allowed to have any real influence, or to open his mouth against the genocide.
The globalists are only one of the leading criminal gangs running the US and the rest of the West, including the Vatican, Wall Street, and the City of London. Then there is this other major criminal gang which which is also a money-power-controlled construct, and it is the mega corporate business establishment which uses the US military, money, and various satellite nations to obliterate their competition. Both leading criminal gangs, the globalist one and the more nationalist ones have engineered things such that those are the only real alternatives for us to choose from, and that is exactly what the money-power wants, because it controls all of the major gangs in our crime-land nations. It wants to use globalism and the totally corrupt US and other pragmatic and corrupt powers simply to centralized more and more wealth and power into its control.
As the truth on every issue of relevance to us ought to be distributed wide and far and to everyone, and lying to us by the authorities a serious crime, only then will decency, faith, and freedom have a chance, and all of the organized and institutionalized crimes be crushed, with the money power being locked up and restrained from its evils and abuses of power.
no victory for the u.s imperial but a slow burn to oblivion
@TheyRLying
Excellent post!
And “Yes!” i must say that, for a supposed ex ‘CIA Spook’, Giraldi doesn’t know sh!t from shinola if he thinks that the Velociraptor in the Vatican gives a “flying” fck about anything other than giving his “blessing” to the Kosher-Certified Agenda..
Remember Jimmy Carter and Iran? Remember how Iran took hostages and would of released them if the USA would agree to 3 simple demands: Jimmy Carter, an unrepentant Evangelical LUNATIC and ZIONIST WHORE would not negotiate, he tried to use force to release hostages which ended in total failure.
” Carter ordered the U.S. military to attempt a rescue mission – Operation Eagle Claw – using warships that included USS Nimitz and USS Coral Sea, which were patrolling the waters near Iran. The failed attempt on April 24, 1980, resulted in the death of one Iranian civilian and the accidental deaths of eight American servicemen after one of the helicopters crashed into a transport aircraft. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigned his position following the failure. In September 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, beginning the Iran–Iraq War. ”
Biden is another raging Zionist LUNATIC, the polar OPPOSAME as Carter. Biden is a Satanist and Carter a born again Evangelical and like Biden – both Israeli loving whores. Biden could do something stupid, or he will not and let Trump do something stupid. Since the ousting of the Shah, Iran has won again and again, Iran is a modern military power, and a far cry from the revolution days of 1979.
It is my opinion that Iran will be instrumental in the downfall of the United States – an event coming soon, probably under Trump, but Biden still has 3 weeks to really f-ck things up.
Have you noticed the chaos of Trump’s first term is repeating? Trump hired Elon Musk who is going around stirring up the pot, getting involved in UK and German politics. Elon, the world’s biggest EV subsidy grifter, is telling off the status quo. A clown show of the highest order. CHAOS.
I’ve got my money on the Brandon Biggs prophecy, Amerika crashes immediately when Trump is inaugurated. The Greater Depression lasts 4 years, Amerika is no longer the hegemon in Asia, Amerika never recovers to it’s former glory.
If Brandon Biggs is right or not we shall soon find out.
TRUMP WILL PRESIDE OVER THE CRASH AND DEATH OF THE ZIONIST WORLD EMPIRE. THE ZIONIST SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IS ABOUT TO BE GREATLY REDUCED TO THE NEW WORLD ONLY, UK, AND WESTERN EUROPE.
IN 2025-6 EXPECT BRICS TO GAIN DOMINANCE IN ASIA AND MUCH OF AFRICA, EVEN SOUTH AMERICA.
BIBI AND HIS TRUMP ATTACK DOG WILL NOT PREVAIL IN SYRIA OR IRAN, MAYBE NOT EVEN IN GAZA. THE ENTIRE TRUMP PRESIDENCY WILL BE DOMINATED BY ECONOMIC DEPRESSION, TARIFFS, THREATS, WAR ON ISRAEL.
The only US ally in favour of the United States attacking Iran would be Israel. What does that tell me…
Israel is no ally of the United States.
Who knows, maybe the United States would not remain united if it did.
I mean it’s not really united at this time right now.
Perhaps ZOG believes a black-eye and a busted nose might unite the indispensable and exceptional United States of America as the country’s wealth and treasure goes down the drain, along with planet earth.
What kind of a president is Trump going to be. If he fights wars for Israel he is going to be disastrous.
Can someone tell me is there a bird flu scamdemic soon coming?
January 6, 2025 the Bird Flu Hoax already started in late 2024.
This will be MUCH worse that the Covid Hoax. Death Injection
2 will be MUCH more deadly, and much faster. The Covid Hoax was
only a warm up for what is coming. Vaccine passports, more lockdowns,
more severe lockdowns, no travel, food shortages, higher food prices,
and things we don’t even know about. Brother Nathanael at realjewnews.com
is always up on this. So is carnival barker Alex Jones surprisingly. GET
READY for the Bird Flu Hoax to take over.
probably one of the better alt news sites out there
@THOMAS PERENNIAL
THE AYATOLLAH WAS A CIA AGENT FROM BEGINNING .
and through jewish CIA he must have been also a Mossad agent .
When will people realize that the game plan is simple, which is to install a Rothschild controlled central bank? The so called terrorist states have all had the same thing in common. Their own country controlled Central Bank. It’s against Islamic law to charge or pay interest hence they have their own banking system for the people. The system of usury is what all free people have fought against. Witness South Africa and Libya as examples of regime change whereby the Rothschild Controlled Central Banks were installed after regime change occurred. The same thing with Ukraine prior to 2014. Lincoln and JFK were assassinated because they started the process of taking back their banking system. Do you see it now? Until all the central banks of the world are under Rothschild control there will be war and once it occurs then hell on earth is the result. Write this down now…. in a few weeks all of Syria’s gold reserves will be shipped out for “safekeeping” to either Israel or the US Federal Reserve. Just as happened with South Africa’s, Libya’s and Ukraine’s gold reserves. If Iran falls the same thing will happen and the West will cheer on not realizing they are cheering on their own slavery and demise which will be brought about by a One World Government. As the Rothschild Architect said: “GIVE me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” So said Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty in his quest for world domination. And thanks to the sheeple they are succeeding