{"id":199087,"date":"2019-12-10T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199087"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:21:46","slug":"the-u-s-campaign-to-weaken-irans-axis-of-resistance-is-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199087","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Campaign To Weaken Iran&#8217;s &#8216;Axis Of Resistance&#8217; Is Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Moon of Alabama \u2013 Dec 9, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo was indicted for several crimes we <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2019\/11\/netanyahoo-indicted-for-bribery-fraud-and-breach-of-trust-becomes-more-dangerous.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>predicted<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that he would become more dangerous:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Netanyahoo will fight tooth and nail to gain and keep immunity. He will try to delegitimize the judicative and he will use any available trick to stay in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That makes him even more dangerous than he usually is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He might even decide to do <em>something<\/em>, like starting a big war, to prevent his removal from power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Lebanon, Syria and Iran must watch out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Now the former MI6 agent and diplomat Alastair Crooke <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/12\/09\/preparing-stage-flawed-prospectus-for-war-time-with-iran\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>detects a new Israeli attempt<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to instigate a war on Iran:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThis is a historic opportunity\u201d, whispered one of Netanyahu\u2019s insiders into <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/12\/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-donald-trump-benny-gantz-coalition.html\">Ben Caspit<\/a><\/strong><\/span> (a leading Israeli journalist)\u2019s ear this week: ..<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What sort of history might that be? Why six months? Well, Caspit points up: \u201cNetanyahu\u2019s people, headed by minister Yuval Steinitz clearly state that a widespread war is likely to erupt in the next six months between Iran and its adversaries in the region, including Israel\u201d. And the new Defence Minister, Bennett, threatens Iran on an almost daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cPerhaps Netanyahu simply needs a war with Iran in order to survive politically,\u201d one of the Blue and White leaders told Caspit: \u201cThat is scary and dangerous \u2026\u201d .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There nothing new with that one might say. Netanyahoo has for years plotted to instigate a U.S. war on Iran. But there was so far no reason for the U.S. to wage one. War needs a narrative, a story than can be sold to the people who will have to pay for it. Crooke sees a possible one in the recent riots in Iran and elsewhere:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Well, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/iran\/.premium-iran-s-middle-east-empire-of-anarchy-can-t-survive-1.8219564\">here it is<\/a><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cFor a long time it looked like the spread of Iranian influence across the Middle East was unstoppable. Now, the entire Iran-hegemony enterprise is at risk. Protests have been going on in Iraq and Lebanon for weeks, bringing their economies to a near standstill, and forcing their Iran-approved prime ministers to step down. There\u2019s no end in sight to the protests \u2026\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And hence, the Israeli push \u2013 led by the newly-appointed Defence Minister, Bennet, that now \u2013 precisely \u2013 is the moment for the US to act against Iran. This is the narrative for war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So the idea is that the current turmoils in the &#8216;axis of resistance&#8217; countries &#8211; Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran &#8211; has weakened Iran so much that it can be attacked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/images9\/axisofresistance2-s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But a look at each of those countries shows that it is doubtful that the narrative is true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2019\/12\/the-us-campaign-to-weaken-irans-axis-of-resistance-is-failing.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>The U.S. Campaign To Weaken Iran&#8217;s &#8216;Axis Of Resistance&#8217; Is Failing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon of Alabama explains why Netanyahu is pushing for war with Iran within \u201cthe next six months\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"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":[61,51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199087","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199089,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199087\/revisions\/199089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}