While the Islamic Republic has used low tech weapons like truck bombs to commit terrorist atrocities against its enemies worldwide since the 1980's horror parade in West Beirut, it would be...
Trump has demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender”. If Iran complies, will it soon also have to surrender access to its vast fossil fuel reserves to American and British corporate interests? Those corporations, and perhaps also Israel’s government, know there still is much to be accessed, or effectively appropriated, from the long-demonized nation of Iran.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution's expulsion of major Western nations was in large part due to British and American companies exploiting Iran's plentiful fossil fuel. The expulsion may have been a big-profit-losing lesson learned by the energy-corporation heads, one that they, via intense lobbyist influence over the relevant governments in Washington D.C. and London, would resist reoccurring anywhere.
The 2003-11 U.S./British invasion and prolonged occupation of Iraq may also have been partly motivated by such Western insatiable corporate greed. According to AI Overview, “some [U.S.] companies did secure lucrative contracts for oil services and exploration in Iraq following the war.” Also, “British oil companies, particularly BP, significantly benefited from the Iraq War by gaining access to and exploiting Iraq's vast oil reserves.”
There has been a predictable American-UK proclivity for sanctioning Iran, its officials and even their allies since the Revolution, resulting in, among other negative impacts, reduced oil production revenue by the long-demonized nation. It would be understandable if those corporate fossil-fuel interests would like Iran’s government to fall thus (re)enabling their access to Iran’s resources.
It may be that, if the relevant oil-company heads were/are in fact against Iran's post-Revolution government(s), then so were/are their related Western governments and, via general mainstream news-media support, national collective citizenry.
.... Incredibly, many faithfully-following fans of Donald (Gimme’a Blow Job) Trump — including some Canadians (WTF?!) — STILL admire him as some sort of genius that resists/challenges the Deep State (etcetera).
And there's “the swamp” that Trump claims he'll drain — although he himself is a part of it. Since the Trump administration kowtowed to big fossil fuel, mostly via the recklessly significant loosening of environmental protections, he, far from genuinely trying to “drain the swamp”, actually wallowed in it.
A revelatory review (by Geoff Olson, 01/10/2018) of the book The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil and the Attack on U.S. Democracy notes that the book's author describes big oil CEOs and lobbyists in the U.S. as being a notably large part of the American Deep State. Therefore, it would be a large part of the national Capitol’s swamp that Trump claims has corrupted D.C. and, ergo, was supposedly seeking to destroy him and his presidency. ... If Trump does end up boding well for the world, it will have been accidental. How could it not be?
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“This notion of a supranational deep state does not seem to be far-fetched to me, though I remain agnostic about rumors involving the [Trump administration's] Offal Office. I certainly don’t buy the alt-right notion that Trump is playing 'four-dimensional chess' against the deep state. The six-time bankruptee would probably lose at checkers to a nine-year old and tweet that he whipped Garry Kasparov.” (Geoff Olson, “A Deep State of Confusion”)
Trump has demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender”. If Iran complies, will it soon also have to surrender access to its vast fossil fuel reserves to American and British corporate interests? Those corporations, and perhaps also Israel’s government, know there still is much to be accessed, or effectively appropriated, from the long-demonized nation of Iran.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution's expulsion of major Western nations was in large part due to British and American companies exploiting Iran's plentiful fossil fuel. The expulsion may have been a big-profit-losing lesson learned by the energy-corporation heads, one that they, via intense lobbyist influence over the relevant governments in Washington D.C. and London, would resist reoccurring anywhere.
The 2003-11 U.S./British invasion and prolonged occupation of Iraq may also have been partly motivated by such Western insatiable corporate greed. According to AI Overview, “some [U.S.] companies did secure lucrative contracts for oil services and exploration in Iraq following the war.” Also, “British oil companies, particularly BP, significantly benefited from the Iraq War by gaining access to and exploiting Iraq's vast oil reserves.”
There has been a predictable American-UK proclivity for sanctioning Iran, its officials and even their allies since the Revolution, resulting in, among other negative impacts, reduced oil production revenue by the long-demonized nation. It would be understandable if those corporate fossil-fuel interests would like Iran’s government to fall thus (re)enabling their access to Iran’s resources.
It may be that, if the relevant oil-company heads were/are in fact against Iran's post-Revolution government(s), then so were/are their related Western governments and, via general mainstream news-media support, national collective citizenry.
.... Incredibly, many faithfully-following fans of Donald (Gimme’a Blow Job) Trump — including some Canadians (WTF?!) — STILL admire him as some sort of genius that resists/challenges the Deep State (etcetera).
And there's “the swamp” that Trump claims he'll drain — although he himself is a part of it. Since the Trump administration kowtowed to big fossil fuel, mostly via the recklessly significant loosening of environmental protections, he, far from genuinely trying to “drain the swamp”, actually wallowed in it.
A revelatory review (by Geoff Olson, 01/10/2018) of the book The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil and the Attack on U.S. Democracy notes that the book's author describes big oil CEOs and lobbyists in the U.S. as being a notably large part of the American Deep State. Therefore, it would be a large part of the national Capitol’s swamp that Trump claims has corrupted D.C. and, ergo, was supposedly seeking to destroy him and his presidency. ... If Trump does end up boding well for the world, it will have been accidental. How could it not be?
.
“This notion of a supranational deep state does not seem to be far-fetched to me, though I remain agnostic about rumors involving the [Trump administration's] Offal Office. I certainly don’t buy the alt-right notion that Trump is playing 'four-dimensional chess' against the deep state. The six-time bankruptee would probably lose at checkers to a nine-year old and tweet that he whipped Garry Kasparov.” (Geoff Olson, “A Deep State of Confusion”)