I urge you to read the letter from the Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian to the “people of the United States of America”. Even if you are not a US citizen, you should read it, because we will all – every one of us – suffer one way or another in the months and years to come as a result of this latest US war of aggression, often referred to as a “war of choice”.

The potential consequences of an attack against Iran were known also to intelligence agencies and military experts all over the world, also in the USA. Many have wondered how President Trump could embark on such a foolhardy enterprise; many even question his sanity.

However, from the perspective of the 1%, there were very sane reasons to start this war:

  • There is reason to suspect it is a last-ditch attempt to reassert US global hegemony (and maintain the dollar as the global reserve currency) in order to prevent the collapse of the ponzi scheme that is the exponentially growing US debt.
  • US hegemony is definitely not something US warmongers and multi-billionaires in both parties are ready to relinquish, even if they fail to recognise the dire state of the US dollar. In the showdown they long for with China, Iran would be a serious obstacle. This war should not come as a surprise to anybody who has been following the egregious foreign policy of the USA ever since the heyday of the Dulles brothers, cf. General Wesley Clark quoting an unnamed general in 2007, “we’re going to conquer seven countries in five years, culminating with Iran“.
  • And yes, there is also the iniquitous Zionist perspective referred to in the Iranian president’s letter.

You won’t find the letter in the N.Y. Times, which only has a condescending article about it. The Associated Press News hadn’t even mentioned it this morning, as far as I could see. The “free press” in the USA is not delivering a letter to the intended recipient, the “people of the United States of America”. SHAME.

You will find it in the Indian press, however, and in the that of Singapore, which is the source I am referring you to.

Letter from Masoud Pezeshkian to the “people of the United States of America”.