US attack on Iranian passenger plane to bait Iran into war

By Myles Hoenig

An image grab from a video shows two fighter jets seen from an Iranian passenger plane after it was intercepted by US F-15 warplanes while flying over Syria last week. (file photo)

The US has been wanting to go to war with Iran since their point man, the Shah, was overthrown in Iran in 1979. It didn’t matter that it was an Islamic revolution. The takeover itself of the American embassy was a catalyst for the American people to get behind anti-Iranian sentiment with the war establishment. The ubiquitous nature of metallic ribbons on cars today supporting one cause or another originated with people putting the yellow ribbon on their tree to remember the American spies left behind in the embassy.

The Shah represented American interest in the region. A strong supporter of the US and its allies in the Middle East, it served as a stable source of petroleum. His brutality was incidental to those in Washington. When the Revolution occurred, the US seemingly lost this connection, not that the new government was adverse to maintaining some form of relationship. Many of the leaders, religious or secular, were educated in Europe and the US and being a capitalist nation guided by religion, they knew not to cut off a buyer so easily. The new government in Iran was anti-Zionist and anti-Saudi, another major source of petroleum for the US, which in itself played a major role in the US’s direction. Needless to say that the US has been coveting Iranian oil since it did overthrow Prime Minister Mosaddegh in 1953.

Over the decades tensions have turned a likely hot war into a cold war, much like between the US and Russia. During the Iran-Iraq war the US supported the brutal Saddam regime. Diplomatically, the US took aim at countries, like Iran, that supported Hezbollah. But tensions eased a bit under the Obama administration with a recognition that the only way to have some kind of stability in the region is to bring Iran and European powers into an agreement that focused on the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons/power program, as the US saw it.

For whatever reason, the Trump administration has been using Iran as his boogeyman, itching for a war. It began early in his administration when he pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear deal. Since then he has been targeting Iranian interests and military positions in Syria, openly murdered General Soleimani, and now in an openly hostile manner, attacked an Iranian passenger plane. This is not the first time as it blew out of the sky Iran Air Flight 655 a month before the end of the Iran-Iraq War, again, with the US supporting Iraq. On this flight, many were injured and one passenger died. This is a war crime and what’s surprising is that it was so blatant. As today police are being filmed brutalizing and murdering black Americans, it is fortunate that people on the plane filmed this aggressive action by the US.

This action should not be surprising. This is the United States. This is what it does. It is a violent, warmongering nation. They already blew one Iranian airbus out of the sky. They will do anything they can to instigate a war with Iran. Iran is not suicidal but it does have the right to defend itself and we all need to hold American warmongers to account and not allow them to follow through on their plans to re-colonize Iran by replacing an Islamic government with an agent totally subservient to them. Let the Iranian people decide their fate, not the US foreign policy establishment.

US warplanes harassed Iran civilian plane two times in 6 minutes: Informed sources to Press TV

Informed sources tell Press TV that US warplanes harass an Iranian passenger plane two times in six minutes.

Myles Hoenig is a political analyst in Baltimore, Maryland. He ran for Congress in 2016 as a Green Party candidate. He recorded this article for Press TV website.