Der Angriff auf den Iran ist einfach eine sich wiederholende Geschichte – dieselben Akteure, dieselben Gründe

(Submission Statement)

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In 2003 the US and the UK, under George W Bush and Tony Blair, respectively, invaded Iraq on a barrage of security and humanitarian claims.

Nine years, one-million Iraqi civilian deaths and $6-trillion later, those claims were exposed as bogus.

The primary assertion that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein possessed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction was based on fabricated “intelligence”.

Ignoring official UN International Atomic Energy Agency reports, and cheered on by the Western mainstream media, Bush insisted Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction “within 45 minutes”, and was purchasing “yellowcake” uranium from Niger, brandishing documents later proven to be crude forgeries.

As former prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu championed the cause, repeatedly labelling Hussein an “existential threat”, “a ticking time-bomb, weeks away from a nuclear arsenal”.

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In 2011 came the same script, same main actor, different theatre.

Netanyahu, now prime minister, together with US president Barack Obama, branded Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi a regional dictator, incessantly portraying him as leading a rogue state with — you guessed it — weapons of mass destruction.

The accusations escalated — Gaddafi was preparing genocide in Benghazi; he was force-feeding his troops Viagra to commit mass rape; he was slaughtering his own people.

Libya, too, would emerge stable and prosperous, insisted Obama.

The results were strikingly familiar — invasion of a sovereign nation, decapitation of its leader, theft of its natural resources, state destabilisation, economic collapse, infrastructure ruin, and the massacre of hundreds of thousands.

Today, Iraq and Libya are shadows of their former selves.

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On Saturday, February 28 2026, Israel and the US launched “pre-emptive strikes” against Iran.

Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump claim Iran is developing — you guessed it, again — nuclear weapons, uranium enrichment and long-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the US and its allies.

Recognise the script? And the actors?

It is astonishing how many seemingly sensible people are taking on this narrative that Iran

– Has not been arming proxies and terrorists for decades.
– Has not been oppressive and Theocractic.
– Is not interested in obtaining a nuclear weapon
– Has not recently killed 10s of thousands of its own citizens
– Has not actively been working to exporting extremism and violence to its neighboring countries
– Has not Openly been anti West and actively working against western interests for decades.

None of this is information is reliant on trusting the word of intelligence agencies. Its all public, Its all available. Its been agreed upon universally up until two minutes ago. The Iranian regime has talked about a lot of this very openly and publicly many times over the decades. For example there state TV recently threatened its citizens to not go out in protest or there will be a repeat of January…. It is just not a conspiracy or secret how bad and detrimental to global stability and peace this regime has been.

It reminds me of the start of the Gaza war when up until then News agencies had reported on the use of civilian infrastructure like Hospitals and UN bases, or kindergartens. There were documentaries from 20 years ago showing armed Hamas members in the corridors. The UN making public apologies in 2011 for allowing Hamas to store missiles etc.

But then suddenly come October 7th everyone seemingly and collectively got amnesia….

It is so strange, what is the cause? Is it just that this „Anti Western“ – „Anti Empire“ narrative has been so entrenched in modern thought that it is causing so many people to drown in confirmation bias and struggle to grapple with this information and fitting into their world view?