{"id":67782,"date":"2024-04-30T19:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67782"},"modified":"2024-04-30T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:15:31","slug":"will-israel-do-the-dirty-work-for-us-towards-military-escalation-theater-iran-near-term-tirannt-the-war-on-iran-is-no-longer-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67782","title":{"rendered":"Will Israel \u201cDo the Dirty Work for Us\u201d? Towards Military Escalation? \u201cTheater Iran Near Term (TIRANNT)\u201d? The War on Iran is No Longer On Hold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-winks-israel-bites-the-escalation-scenario-the-war-on-iran-is-on-hold\/5624691\">Will Israel \u201cDo the Dirty Work for Us\u201d? Towards Military Escalation? \u201cTheater Iran Near Term (TIRANNT)\u201d? The War on Iran is No Longer On Hold?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iran-400x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iran-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iran-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iran.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Author\u2019s Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In recent developments, in response to Israel\u2019s bombing of Iran\u2019s Consulate in Damascus, according to media reports:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Iran has launched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/iran-strikes-israeli-targets-rcna147407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"4\">more than 300<\/a>\u00a0cruise and ballistic missiles and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/iran-strikes-israeli-targets-rcna147407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"5\">\u00a0drones<\/a>\u00a0at Israel, IDF officials said, a retaliatory attack weeks after an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/live-blog\/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-idf-withdraws-al-shifa-hospital-gaza-rcna145802#rcrd37989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">Israeli strike<\/a>\u00a0on the Iranian consular building in Syria killed two of Tehran\u2019s top commanders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere were explosions visible in the air over Jerusalem as air sirens rang throughout the country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIran said that after tonight\u2019s attack, the \u201cmatter can be deemed concluded\u201d unless there is more violence.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDoing the Dirty Work For Us\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The fundamental question is whether this retaliatory attack will lead to escalation, including an Israeli counter-attack on Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In this regard, Israel is largely serving the strategic interests of \u00a0the U.S. acting on behalf of Washington.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The dirty work concept is embedded in U.S foreign policy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Let your allies do the Dirty Work for You<\/strong>. The Israeli attack against the Iran Consulate in Damas was conducted in consultation with Washington.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The geopolitical and strategic implications as well as the probability of a retaliation by Iran had been carefully\u00a0analyzed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Let\u2019s be under no illusions. The use of nuclear weapons by Israel in response to Iran\u2019s retaliation is being discussed behind closed doors both in Tel Aviv and in Washington.\u00a0<\/i><i>That does not mean that it is contemplated as an option.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It is worth noting that at\u00a0the outset of Bush\u2019s Second Term,\u00a0<strong>Vice President\u00a0Dick Cheney\u00a0dropped a bombshell, hinting, that Israel would, so to speak:\u00a0be doing the dirty work for us (paraphrase)\u00a0<\/strong>without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them \u201cto do it\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Israel \u201cDo the Dirty Work for Us\u201d? Towards Military Escalation? \u201cTheater Iran Near Term (TIRANNT)\u201d? The War on Iran is No Longer On Hold? Author\u2019s Update In recent developments, in response to Israel\u2019s bombing of Iran\u2019s Consulate in Damascus, according to media reports: Iran has launched\u00a0more than 300\u00a0cruise and ballistic missiles and\u00a0drones\u00a0at Israel, IDF [&hellip;]<\/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":[6110,441,1049,8104,862],"class_list":["post-67782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-global-research","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-prof-michel-chossudovsky","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67782","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=67782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67783,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67782\/revisions\/67783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}