{"id":188662,"date":"2019-05-21T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188662"},"modified":"2019-05-28T07:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:33:17","slug":"irgc-commander-america-afraid-of-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188662","title":{"rendered":"IRGC Commander: America \u201cAfraid\u201d of War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Introduction \u2013 May 20, 2019<\/h1>\n<h5>The Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander\u2019s claim that the U.S. is \u201cafraid\u201d of war with Iran is more than mere bravado. Elements in the U.S. military would be stupid if they weren&#8217;t at least hesitant about launching a military strike on Iran. For if that did indeed happen the consequences could be potentially catastrophic.<\/h5>\n<h5>Iran has spent the past two decades preparing for such an eventuality so if conflict does erupt the U.S. will face a better prepared and far more formidable adversary than Saddam\u2019s Iraq. U.S. military commanders know this, as do Iraq War veterans like Tulsi Gabbard, (quoted below).<\/h5>\n<h5>The only people who seem unable to grasp this are National Security advisor John Bolton and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, both of whom will be far removed from the frontlines should conflict erupt.<\/h5>\n<h5>Getting bogged down in another unwinnable war, while it is still trying to extricate itself from Afghanistan is the last thing the U.S. military needs, all the more so while Vietnam is still within living memory. Combined, these episodes would set the seal on America\u2019s poor reputation as a military power.<\/h5>\n<h5>Moreover, ordinary Americans don\u2019t want another U.S. military campaign overseas. That\u2019s one of the main reasons they voted for Trump in the first place and as late as January 2019 he still seemed ready to make good on that pledge.<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.Likewise, do not want the Kurds to provoke Turkey. Russia, Iran and Syria have been the biggest beneficiaries of the long term U.S. policy of destroying ISIS in Syria &#8211; natural enemies. We also benefit but it is now time to bring our troops back home. Stop the ENDLESS WARS!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1084586625672376322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h5>However, recent developments have now raised questions about whether Trump will indeed fulfil that promise? Or whether will he betray the voters who put him in the Oval Office with yet another war?<\/h5>\n<h5>The U.S. does indeed seem to be preparing for some sort of military strike although possibly not directly on Iran itself. That\u2019s because it would need to deploy a far larger force than is currently deployed. Rather, we suspect that the U.S. is preparing to launch limited military strikes on Iranian proxies in the region, such as Hezbollah forces in Syria, on Iranian backed Houthi fighters in Yemen and various IRGC forces in the gulf.<\/h5>\n<h5>The trouble is that while the U.S. military may be planning to deliver limited strikes, things could easily escalate into a much wider conflict.<\/h5>\n<h5>Of course this is exactly what Trump\u2019s Zionist backers and advisors want. Even as Trump himself says he wants to avoid war his decisions, guided by Bolton and Pompeo, are making wider conflict much more likely. Ed.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">IRGC Commander: America \u201cAfraid\u201d of War with Iran<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">David Millward \u2013 The Daily Telegraph.co.uk May 20, 2019<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_89774\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Brig.-Gen.-Hossein-Salami.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89774\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Brig.-Gen.-Hossein-Salami.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US is &#8220;afraid&#8221; of war with Iran, the head of Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard said as <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/05\/18\/irans-revolutionary-guard-jabbing-us-without-provoking-full\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>tensions between Tehran and Washington intensified over the weekend<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Major General Hossein Salami told the Iranian state news agency, IRNA, that the country does not want war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The difference between us and them is that they are afraid of war and don&#8217;t have the will for it,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">His remarks came against a backdrop of increased volatility in the region, with the US sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf to counter an unspecified threat from Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Major General\u00a0Salami&#8217;s comments were dismissed by the US president on Twitter. &#8220;If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!&#8221; Mr Trump tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US Federal Aviation Administration has urged commercial aircraft to exercise caution when flying over the Persian Gulf, warning they ran the risk of being &#8220;misidentified&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A similar misunderstanding in 1988 led to an American warship bringing down an Iran Air flight, killing all 290 people on board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iraq, meanwhile, has condemned as &#8220;political&#8221; a decision by US energy giant ExxonMobil to evacuate staff from a southern oil field after Washington ordered personnel to quit its Baghdad embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Saudi Arabia responded to the escalating crisis by calling for a Gulf summit, \u00a0adding that while the country did not want war it would defend itself if hostilities erupted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not want a war in the region nor does it seek that,&#8221; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;It will do what it can to prevent this war and at the same time it reaffirms that in the event the other side chooses war, the kingdom will respond with all force and determination, and it will defend itself and its interests.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In Washington Donald Trump has emerged as a dove within his own administration, telling his acting defence secretary, Patrick Shanahan, that he wants to avoid an armed conflict erupting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It has put the US president at odds with <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/05\/14\/analysis-john-bolton-foreign-policy-hawk-spotlight-tensions\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>John Bolton, his national security adviser and a long-standing foreign policy hawk, who has made little secret of his desire for regime change in Tehran<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has also sought to lower the temperature by asking European allies to intervene with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Washington&#8217;s stance on Iran has put it at odds with European allies, notably after <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/donald-trump-announces-decision-iran-nuclear-deal-live-updates\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>it withdrew from the nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Over the weekend Tulsi Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran and Democratic presidential candidate, rounded on Mr Trump and Mr Pompeo accusing them of leading the country into a war with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;He says he doesn&#8217;t want it, but the actions of him and his administration, people like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, tell us a very different story,&#8221; she said on ABC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;They are setting the stage for a war with Iran that would prove to be far more costly, far more devastating and dangerous than anything that we saw in the Iraq war.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/05\/19\/us-afraid-war-iran-claims-head-revolutionary-guard\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While U.S. hawks urge striking Iran \u2013 while they are safely ensconced far from the fighting \u2013 U.S. commanders know it could have catastrophic consequences  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188666,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188662\/revisions\/188666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}