{"id":48507,"date":"2019-09-16T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T00:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48507"},"modified":"2019-09-16T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T00:59:00","slug":"why-would-iran-attack-the-saudis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48507","title":{"rendered":"Why Would Iran Attack the Saudis NOW?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why Would Iran Attack the Saudis NOW?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

U.S. officials claim<\/a> that the attacks against Saudi oil facilities were launched from Iranian soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are they right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have no idea at this point, as the U.S. government hasn\u2019t released any evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But given that the U.S. and 23 other countries have ADMITTED to carrying out false flag attacks before<\/a> \u2013 including \u2013 it\u2019s worth asking whether Iran or another country had more to gain from this attack \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, U.S. officials have admitted to twice carrying out false flag attacks intended to frame Iran<\/a> and justify regime change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950\u2032s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2) CIA agents and documents admit that the agency gave Iran plans for building nuclear weapons \u2026 so it could frame Iran for trying to build the bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And neocons have been planning on further regime change in Iran for more than 25 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it\u2019s worth questioning this, at least in the absence of real evidence.  This is especially true because \u2013 until a couple of days ago \u2013 it seemed like the U.S. and Iran were moving towards diplomatic talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Trump just fired the head \u201cbomb Iran\u201d cheerleader, John Bolton. So the odds of a peaceful solution to tensions with Iran seemed higher than they had been in years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why would the Iranians \u201ctorpedo\u201d the momentum towards diplomacy, and hand the U.S. a casus belli <\/em>on a silver platter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the Houthis have claimed responsibility<\/a> for the attack, while the Iranians have denied it<\/a>.    But the U.S. isn\u2019t paying any attention to their statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s possible it really was the Iranians \u2026 but given the history of fake \u201cjustifications\u201d for war (like Iraq<\/a>), it\u2019s worth asking questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Would Iran Attack the Saudis NOW? U.S. officials claim that the attacks against Saudi oil facilities were launched from Iranian soil. Are they right? We have no idea at this point, as the U.S. government hasn\u2019t released any evidence. But given that the U.S. and 23 other countries have ADMITTED to carrying out false flag attacks before \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3504,701,827,5510,901],"class_list":["post-48507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-houthis","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48508,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507\/revisions\/48508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}