It's not about nuclear weapons. Like Iraq, Iran is being demonised for daring to, supposedly, develop nuclear weapons.
Hey the lie worked before, why not use the same one....
"Washington (PRWEB) January 26, 2006 -- Author and historian Webster
Griffin Tarpley warned today that the Bush administration is in the
advanced stages of planning for a catastrophic nuclear sneak attack
on Iran. The goal, said Tarpley, would be incidentally to disable
Iran's nuclear capacity, but mainly to prevent the opening -- timed
to coincide with the Iranian New Year on March 20 -- of the first
non-dollar international oil market since 1944.
"A few nuclear bombs in Iranian hands hardly add up to a strategic
threat to the United States," said Tarpley. "But the new Iranian
euro-based oil market or oil bourse as it is called has the potential
to oust the dollar as the world's reserve currency, causing central
banks to shift a trillion dollars or more in reserves into the euro
and other destinations. That would spell immediate doom for the US
stock price bubble and real estate bubble as hot money streamed out
of this country. It would cut Wall Street and London out of a myriad
of lucrative transactions, and deprive the US-UK combine of their
ability to interfere in access to other people's oil," he added.
The Iranian oil bourse would be the first euro-based oil market in
the recent history of the world where sellers and buyers of oil could
come together for spot and futures transactions independent of the
dollar, thus outside US control and without Wall Street skimming off
a hefty part of the profits. Today's privileged position for the
dollar is "obsolete and removed from reality," Tarpley asserted.
"The 213-point drop in the Dow last Friday on reports that Iran was
shifting funds out of Europe is the merest hint of what may be
coming," Tarpley noted. "If the Iranian oil bourse opens, the
colossal instability to the dollar, the stock market, and the US
banking system will very likely be revealed rather quickly."
The current system allows the US to export unlimited supplies of
dollar bills to buy goods abroad, resulting in a yearly trade deficit
of $700 billion and counting. Americans should not feel threatened by
the inevitable crisis of this system, Tarpley pointed out, since the
unique US privilege of importing without producing, as world dumping
ground and buyer of last resort, has cut the US standard of living in
half since 1970, creating a low-wage economy. It is time for the US
once again to earn foreign exchange by producing exports which will
mean jobs and prosperity here.
"A rational way out would be to rebuild the world monetary system
around fixed parities among the dollar, the euro, and the yen as
equal participants, with gold settlement and a credit mechanism to
expand exports of capital goods. This would avoid a new general war."
"As for 'Helicopter Ben' Bernanke, the incoming Federal Reserve boss,
he is clearly getting ready to gin up the printing presses to print
an avalanche of paper dollars if the Chinese and Japanese demand cash
for their plummeting US Treasury bonds in the near future -- what
economists call monetization of the debt. The Fed will soon stop
publishing the M3 data series on the money supply, which is the one
that would reveal a monetization of debt. Bernanke seems to have
Weimar-style hyperinflation written all over him," Tarpley commented.
"The lunatic neocon war plan for Iran is doomed to failure, just as
their Iraq adventure was," Tarpley concluded. "If attacked, there is
every indication Iran would cut the world oil aorta at the Straits of
Hormuz, fire off missiles at Israel and other targets, and unleash
Iraqi Shiites and Iranian volunteers around Basra. The position of
the US and especially the UK forces there would soon become
extraordinarily critical. If Russians and Chinese were killed in the
raids, the stage would be set for larger confrontation. All of this
would guarantee endless war and economic ruin for the US and the
dollar. Why not avoid this incalculable folly by calling right now
for a new Bretton Woods international monetary conference, which
would be welcomed by the world community as a whole?"
Webster G. Tarpley is an experienced political expert based near
Washington DC. He is the author of "George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography" (1992), "Surviving the Cataclysm" (1999) a study of the
world financial crisis, and "9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA"
(second edition 2006), the first work to tie 9/11 to the neocon
"flight forward" into military expansionism in an attempt to shore up
the dollar. The revised edition also covers the war drive against Iran.
Tarpley's 1992 Bush biography was the first to document the Bush
family's support of Hitler. Investors who followed his 1999 advice to
buy gold in "Surviving the Cataclysm" have doubled their money now.
His "Who Killed Aldo Moro" (1978) was the first to expose the Red
Brigades as "synthetic terror" assets of the neofascist P2 lodge."
From Behind the mad rush to bomb Iran
