Pepe Escobar yesterday

I pray Trump leaves Iran alone. Let's have no more illegal wars. I am sure he won't send in troops. If he did it would end in disaster for the USA.

"It took only a few days to unmask the massive propaganda campaign across NATOstan about “mass casualties” among Iran protesters.

"The – fake – figures came from the Center for Human Rights in Iran, located in, where else, New York, and financed by the CIA-infested National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington and other assorted disinformation entities.

"The list of reasons for urgent regime change in Iran though remains off the charts, featuring, among others, these four key elements:

• Tehran must ditch the Axis of Resistance across West Asia supporting Palestine.

• Because Iran is at the privileged crossroads of trade/energy connectivity corridors in Eurasia, both its connections with the International North–South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) and China’s New Silk Roads (BRI) must be severed. That means blowing up from the inside organic intra-BRICS cooperation between Russia, Iran, India and China.
• As over 90% of Iranian oil exports go to China – and are settled in yuan – that’s a serious threat to the petrodollar: the ultimate anathema. That’s where in Empire of Permanent Strikes terms, Iran aligns with Venezuela. It’s our – petrodollar – way or the highway.
• The staying power of the never-ending dream of an Iran under the Shah remix – complete with a Shah-style SAVAK secret police; cozy Mossad ties to rein in those Arab barbarians; and a sprawling CIA-run net of surveillance hubs targeting both Russia and China."