‘Israel pushing US to attack Iran’

Published time: January 12, 2012 11:18
Edited time: January 12, 2012 22:58
A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security team is seen on stage as Netanyahu speaks at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington (Reuters / Jason Reed)

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has said the threat of a US military attack against Iran, heavily supported by the US Israeli lobby, is escalating.

Patrushev, who served as Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB from 1999 to 2008, believes the United States may get itself involved in yet another war, at least partially due to Israeli influence.

"There is a likelihood of a military conflict escalation, to which the Americans are being pushed by Israel," he said in an interview with Interfax.

Americans who identify themselves as Jewish (but not necessarily religiously) are estimated at 6,489,000 (2.2% of the population) according to the US Census Bureau. Yet despite these modest numbers, Israel enjoys what could be described as disproportionate influence in US politics due to lobbying groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Some researchers argue that the US decision to invade Iraq, for example, was largely motivated by pressure from these pro-Israeli groups.

“There is little doubt that Israel and the Lobby were key factors in shaping the decision for war,” argue John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in a working paper published by the London Review of Books. “Without the Lobby’s efforts, the United States would have been far less likely to have gone to war in March 2003.”

More recently, the Republican Jewish Coalition declined to invite Texas Congressman Ron Paul – a top Republican contender to run against US President Barack Obama in November – to its presidential candidates’ forum, citing his "misguided and extreme views."

Paul is a strong advocate for auditing the Federal Reserve, as well as ending America’s preoccupation with occupying foreign countries. He has also gone on the record as saying he would not support an attack on Iran, the only Republican candidate to make such a promise.

Paul told Iowa voters that he was against launching a preemptive strike on Iran because “they don’t threaten our national security.”

“If some other country thought they had to go to war with (Iran), that is their business,” he said, adding there is no proof Iran is building a nuclear weapon.

Despite the US mainstream media’s tendency to ignore Ron Paul, his “bring home the troops” message has found a receptive audience in the US, as many Americans are tired of watching their tax dollars fly out the window to fight foreign wars. Yet the US military juggernaut continues.

Just as the Bush administration's “democracy-building” rhetoric got Washington deeply involved in Iraq, Patrushev says the new occupants of the White House are looking to turn Iran into a “loyal partner.”

"At the moment, the US views Iran as its main problem,” he said. “They are seeking to turn Tehran, their enemy, into a loyal partner, and for that purpose to change the ruling regime there by any means.”

Russia, China, India and a number of other countries are making efforts to resolve the Iranian problem peacefully and amicably.

“The result of these efforts has so far been insignificant because neither the US, nor Iran, seem very keen on it, albeit for various reasons," the Security Council secretary says.

Various strategies – some obvious, others not – are being employed to end the showdown without resorting to violence.

“Economic sanctions are being applied, as is massive support for opposition forces, which can conduct a colored revolution there," noted the Russian Security Council secretary.

"Unfortunately, tensions around Iran are not easing," Patrushev concluded.

Comments (49)

A.Oscar 24.12.2012 20:46

  The main problem rising from the Jews major banks which provided with the money to USA: which US are broken; for that matter the idea will be the same like the last first and Second World War, also was paid by the same people. Inclusive why Israel having more than one hundred nuclear bombs, a such small country which already proved not strong enough to stand on by themselves. In one way or another: Israel also having major problems, to defend themselves too. The last little wars against Hezbollah and the Palestine’s which without any army was forced to stop invading, but also afraid this time to go in, because Palestine’s was prepare this time to create major problems with anti-tank weapons supplied from Iran. They are just a barking little dog without enough power at this time now, and depended on USA too. We need peace and fix economical and environmental too.  

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Anna2020 24.03.2012 20:16

Why push US before attacking? Can they attack by themselves?
Oh no, they need co-attacker in case something& nbsp;goes wrong then
US would be the escaping GOAT right?
I as many people around the globe are praying that Iran have surprise for them!

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nobliss 17.02.2012 15:43

As I have made clear in my articles, one way Kremlin leaders likely hope to sidestep appearing responsible for launching a nuclear war is by provoking the West into throwing the first major punches of world war three. This is why NATO has been lured into the Balkans and why supposedly "former" Russian puppet states like North Korea and Iraq have been gradually pushing toward the brink of renewed conflicts with the West. As I have been emphasizing in my global war articles, either prior to or as part of drawing the West into major conflicts at these flashpoints, Moscow is planning to stage a right-wing coup, possibly involving Vladimir Zhirinovsky's bogus rise to power. Since such a coup will be attributed to the failure of Western-style reform in Russia (possibly on top of Western military action against Russian allies-of-old like the Serbs?), the subsequent world war will be blamed on the West's failure to support Russia, the general shortcomings of Western democracy and Western imperiali st military aggression. All in all, by staging a right-wing coup in Russia and drawing the West into major conflicts with historical Russian allies like the Serbs, North Korea and Iraq, an ideal scenario is created in which Moscow can unleash a global nuclear war and have it appear to be the West's own fault. As a key part of the above strategy to reverse the blame for the coming war on to the West, Kremlin military planners are likely hoping to provoke Israel into launching the first nuclear blow of world war three. As explained toward the end of my articles "A Global War?" and "Global War Alert", with the U.S. and NATO forces tied-up in conflicts on the Korean Peninsula and in the Balkans, the way will be opened for Russia's "Last Dash to the South" (the title of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's supposed autobiography) and an Arab onslaught against Israel since the Western powers will be unable to defend the Middle East and protect Israel like occurred during the Arab surprise attack on the Jewish state in 1973. Thus, Israel will be forced to resort to its "Samson Option" of nuclear retaliation again st the Arabs and Russia in the face of being overrun. (Notably , a chemical and/or biological missile attack against Israel by Saddam Hussein, backed by a new Russian dictator like Vladimir Zhirinov sky, may even be sufficient to elicit an Israel nuclear strike against Russia.)

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