By Kevin Barrett, VT Editor
Trump is being led by the nose. The neocons are dragging him into war with Iran. Such a war would likely blow up the Middle East, cost thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars, and ruin Trump’s re-election chances. In a worst case scenario, it could turn into World War III.
There is zero chance the Iranians will back down. Their role model is Imam Hussein. They are not afraid of dying for a just cause. And what cause could be more just than defending ones own country from an aggressor?
There is only one off-ramp from the road to war: some sort of breakthrough event that would change the dynamic. That won’t happen while Pompeo and Bolton are in the picture.
So Trump needs to fire Pompeo and Bolton and go to Tehran. (He won’t be invited under any other circumstances.)
As soon as he fires Pompeo and Bolton, and repudiates their insane list of demands for complete Iranian surrender, Trump will get a call from the Supreme Leader’s office: “You are cordially invited to visit Tehran and participate in our Victory over DAESH celebration.” From the moment he touches down at Imam Khomeini International Airport Trump will get the VIP treatment. (Iranians are incredibly hospitable—the VIP facilities at that airport are one of the highlights of my annual visits.)
Trump will plump down his rotund posterior in the plushest seat of the fanciest limousine in Iran. He will be given a ride to the Supreme Leader’s office. From there the two of them, with Rouhani and Zarif in the back seat, will ride in the vanguard of the Victory over DAESH parade. Millions of Iranians will line the streets and cheer, acknowledging Trump’s contribution to the war on DAESH. “We understand and appreciate the fact that you opposed the Obama Deep State’s clandestine support of DAESH, and that you helped us finish off their bogus ‘caliphate,'” the Iranian leaders will tell Trump.
Back in the Leader’s office, Trump will agree to immediate sanctions relief. In return, Iran will agree to a series of dialogues in which all issues dividing the two countries will be up for discussion. Both sides will agree that they eventually hope to put up an “Islamic Trump Tower” in Tehran (no gambling, alcohol, or floozies; Qur’ans and prayer rugs in every room, prayer rooms on every floor). Trump will be able to say: “That idiot Obama may have stopped the Iranians from getting nukes, but he couldn’t get them to the table to talk about their rockets, their support for Hezbollah, and stuff like that. Now that the Great and Terrible Trump is in town, they are willing to put EVERYTHING on the table. What a glorious victory! Heck, they even want a Trump Tower! I am truly the master of the Art of the Deal!”
As for the Iranians, they will tell their people: “We have to give the devil his due and admit that Trump was actually somewhat helpful in our struggle against DAESH…better than Obama, anyway. We are going to talk to him and explain our positions, point out where our red lines are and why, and basically just keep talking as long as the sanctions are off.”
Just like the Trump-Kim “negotiations,” the Trump-Iran talks won’t have to actually achieve anything. As long as Trump can thump his chest, say he has scared the other side to the negotiating table, and insist that a really good deal is in the works, he will be happy.
The Zionists and their lackeys like Pompeo and Bolton will be furious. Sheldon Adelson will cancel his planned $100 million contribution to Trump’s reelection campaign. A disgraced and shamefaced Jared Kushner will stop whispering to his Chabad gangster friends that he is the Messiah. Bibi Netanyahu will have a heart attack and keel over dead. Few will miss him.
The Likudniks will fume and scheme and seek payback. But at least Trump will have a chance in hell of being reelected, which is more than he’ll have if he’s dumb enough to keep sleepwalking into a catastrophic war on Iran.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN).
He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
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Just trying to imagine how this all could possibly end well. It isn’t easy. If you have a better idea, please share it!
Ask the banxters if they would aloow this to happen until Iran has no Central Banking system and stays out of the interest-on-credits system
There is a reason that Iran stores its long-range missiles on huge trucks in the strange deep mountain helicopter hangars with the bent exits built by the Shahanshah’s engineers and the Israeli war planners know very well why, since they were designed that way by Tzahal (צה”ל) strategists with other purposes in other times.
The Persians are indeed the most perfect hosts, but be beware: They might be like the Greeks carrying the nicest gifts or like Kretans telling you no one lie there on their island.
By the way rafiq-e-Kevín: Aren’t You amiss when writing there will be no wine for our gratest US president in Tehrân? (And especially in Shimrân) I seem to remember local Armenians, fire worshipers and Christians there are excempt from the prohibitions against Shiraz wines and ab-e-joe (Buff tho’ banished and Budwiser too!)– and also Jews. Not so — any longer?
I have some very close friends that live in Iran and some that live here. I love my Iranian friends very much and I love their families too. They are so kind and generous and very hospitable doing taa’rof offerings often. I just hope that all this sabre rattling is just that, sabre rattling. Good idea Kevin but as we say in our country “yeeeah…naaah”. The people thst have their hands up T-rumps rump controlling him wont allow that to happen anytime soon. Such a shame because the Iranians are such really nice people
Look out for civilian planes falling over Iranian skies, as the game is well known for american-israeli war provocateurs. They will try to isolate Iran step by step, first lifting nuclear deal from EU signatories, then gradually other false flags will be administered. It is sure thing that countries like Qatar, Bahrain and other Gulf dwarves cannot survive war on Iran, and it is highly doubtful that Israel or Saudi Arabia could too. Before going to war with Iran the Royal Geographical Society must seriously rethink the map drawings after such war, the kind of stuff Europe endured in the 1940s.
Thank you Kevin, for putting a really good idea out into the universe. Hopefully Trump will seize the opportunity to make himself look great and fire Bolton and Pompeo and try and make a deal with Iran. For those of you who are disgusted with Trump, we would have been way worse off if Hilary Clinton had gotten in. I look at peoples actions as well as their words, and in my mind, there is no doubt whatsoever that Trump’s words are way, way worse than his actions.
We are half way through the 3rd year of Trump’s presidency and so far, there aren’t any new wars. In the third year of Obama’s presidency we had the Arab Spring, a major escalation in the Middle East, and in Syria in particular. And things got a lot worse with Libya in 2012 followed by the emergence of the Islamic State early in Obama’s 2nd term.
I disagree with all of the zionist crap that Trump has promoted, but telling Israel that they are entitled to the Golan Heights in Syria was so outrageous that I have to wonder if that was a deliberate ‘kiss of death’ for Israel. Trump is not stupid.
Trump is so despised by almost all of the mainstream news media, that I sometimes think that maybe he is doing something right. Where were these so-called watch dogs when Bush Junior got appointed president
in December of 2000? These deep state owned Media lap-dogs are not to be trusted.
Sorry, but you have it all wrong. Trump IS stupid, very much so, that is one of the reasons he was chosen to be president – a moron makes a good puppet. Things would not have been worse under Hilary, not by a long shot, she is not under Israeli influence and that is why she had to be stopped from becoming POTUS – she would have bitterly opposed Israel’s agenda, there would have been no move of the US embassy to Jerusalem, no support for Israeli attacks on Gaza, no support for Israel’s Daesh proxy war in Syria, no gifting of the Golan, she would not have done what Netanyahu wanted and they couldn’t coerce her because, despite all the fake anti-Clinton BS, they simply don’t have any compromising material to blackmail her with, that made her dangerous.
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