Provoking WWIII: Israel Attacks Iran & Demands American Support

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Provoking WWIII: Israel Attacks Iran & Demands American Support

- A Radical Dispatch

1) Israel Attacks Iran to Subvert Peace

Israel under PM Netanyahu has attacked Iran, arguing that Iran was “days” away from developing nuclear weapons.

Netanyahu has been using this same, tired language for decades now. It is but a thinly veiled case for yet more catastrophic never ending wars and Israeli regime change operations in the Middle East. Here is Netanyahu decades ago making the same claim.

Israeli PM Netanyahu: “If you take away the Soviet Union and its chief proxy, the PLO, international terrorism would collapse. If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the regime. Obviously, we'd like to see a regime change, at least I would, in Iran, just as I would like to see in Iraq. The question now is a practical question. What is the best place to proceed? It's not a question of whether Iraq's regime should be taken out, but when should it be taken out? It's not a question of whether you'd like to see a regime change in Iran, but how do it...”

Questioner: “Are there any other nations that you would recommend that the United States launch preemptive attacks upon at this point?”

Israeli PM Netanyahu: “The answer is categorically yes. The two nations that are vying, competing with each other, who will be the first to achieve nuclear weapons is Iraq and Iran. But a third nation, by the way, is Libya as well. Libya is trying very rapidly to build an atomic bomb capability. So you have here now three nations. All stand together to stop Iran's march of conquest, subjugation and terror. I know that no matter on which side of the aisle you sit, you stand with Israel.”

As we will explain below, Netanyahu timed the launch of these attacks in order to scupper ongoing nuclear peace talks between Trump and Iran.

In launching war to subvert peace, Netanyahu has form. Even former Israeli PM Yair Lapid has now claimed that Netanyahu facilitated the October 7th terrorist attacks by funding Hamas.

For October 7th this was done by Netanyahu to subvert the peace by interrupting Saudi Arabia’s plan to sign up to the Abraham peace accords.

Prior to that even, Israel and the CIA under Obama (as revealed by Wikileaks, and as Trump himself publicly stated on video during his 2016 campaign) were facilitating ISIS in Syria to destabilise Assad’s pro-Iranian regime.

We blew the whistle on this dirty ‘great game’ in 2023.

These latest attacks on Iran by Israel are no different. Netanyahu seeks to destroy the chances of a US brokered nuclear deal with Iran. This is why he briefed media that Trump supported him over these attacks. It was to divide the Americans and Iranians. It worked. As soon as the attacks were launched, Iran cancelled last Sunday’s scheduled nuclear peace talks with the US.

Times of Israel reports 14th June 2025:

We commented on Netanyahu’s habit of subverting peace by provoking war on this week’s WARRIOR CREED.

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“The last time he did this was on October the 7th when he facilitated the Hamas terrorist operation. Yes, it was a Hamas terrorist operation that Netanyahu and his Likudnik Zionist network facilitated. That has all come out since. Even Israel's former prime minister has also said that this is what Netanyahu was doing. He was funding, facilitating the funding of Hamas and turning a blind eye to October 7th so that he could use it as a pretext to occupy Gaza. Why? Because Saudi Arabia was just about to sign up to the Abraham Accords. And the Saudis withdrew from the Abraham Accords as soon as Netanyahu started his war on Gaza. And the Iranians have withdrawn from the nuclear negotiations with Trump as soon as Netanyahu started his war on Iran. The pattern becomes clear. Netanyahu is provoking war to circumvent the peace. That is what's going on here. It is a failing plan and it will fail. Netanyahu will not succeed. He does not have long left.”

2) Beware False Flags

The playbook is by now familiar. Israel provokes a war and then facilitates false flag operations, and blames the other side, in order to goad the US into joining that war. This is the context in which pro-Israel online influence operative Laura Loomer’s headline generation below should be seen.

Newsweek reports 13th June 2025:

“Several prominent Make America Great Again (MAGA) figures, such as Laura Loomer, have posted online warnings about unverified, potential ‘jihadi sleeper cells’ they claim could be activated in response to Israel's attacks on Iran. There is no evidence that the American public is at risk.”

We have provided a translation.

It was the same goading of MAGA that Ms Loomer engaged in the week prior by encouraging President Trump to overreact and send in Peter Thiels’ Palantir-made, AI military drone targeting tech to quell the LA riots.

This is the same AI military targeting tech that Palantir has already deployed on behalf of Israel in their ethnic cleansing of Gazans.

In last week’s Radical Dispatch we warned that Vice President JD Vance would also seek to goad Trump into an over-reaction on behalf of Palantir and Israel.

Radical Media reports June 12th 2025:

True to form, just as Israel launched their latest attack, Vance hinted at war for American troops.

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US Vice President JD Vance: “And so to our soldiers, we're so proud of you. And let me tell you that the way that we honour and respect you is, number one, we never ask you to go to war unless you absolutely have to. And number two, when we do ask you to go to war, we give you the weapons and the support needed to kick the hell out of the enemy and come back home safely.”

Our response remains the same. Vance is not a friend to MAGA.

He is the Paypal mafia’s man on the inside, which is exactly why Elon Musk endorsed him in his bungled attempted insurrection against Trump.

Radical Media reports 12th June 2025:

These war provocateurs seriously underestimate Iran’s preparedness for war, while glossing over the limits of American power and its ability to bring effective change.

US Colonel Douglas MacGregor brings a dose of reality to those itching for more war.

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Commentator: “And it showed that Iran was completely powerless to do anything about it. I mean, what nation on the planet can have their embassy destroyed in another country, and to have an assassination in their capital city on an inauguration, and not go to war with somebody, yet that's exactly what Iran didn't do because they don't have the power to do it, so that should tell you…”

US Colonel Douglas MacGregor (Retd.): “Wait a minute, wait a minute, that's a fundamentally false statement..false false false. They don't have the power to go to war? You haven't looked carefully at Iran. Iran's arsenal of missiles is enormous. It could flatten Israel in a day. They have the power to go to war. They have chosen repeatedly to avoid war. And I've said this a thousand times. No one in the Middle East is interested in a war except Israel and the United States. That's it. There's no one else in the region that wants a war. Everyone is going to go to great lengths to avoid a war not because of Israel, but because of us. The Iranians don't want to go to war with us. The Iranians have been trying for 30 years to change their relationship with the United States, to build a rapport economically, socially, politically with the United States. So don't make the mistake of assuming because someone has opted not to do something, they can’t. The real question at this stage is, what's the incentive for them to continue to do nothing. Particularly, when they're told that the only way they can satisfy us potentially, based upon Mr. Netanyahu's demands, is to turn themselves into Libya and we all know what happened in Libya…don't assume this weakness. I mean, people said the same things about the Russians. You know, the Russians went through years of humiliation at our hands as we advanced NATO further and further east, and continued to treat the Russians as though they were irrelevant and created all sorts of utterly false reasons to embargo them and hurt them and harm them particularly under Biden and his predecessors, none of this is new. Does that mean that the Russians don't have the power to go to war against us or anybody else? Well, obviously the answer is no, they have the power. They have not wanted to go to war. It strikes me right now that if you look at the rest of the world the only two powers in the world today that don't seem to appreciate the catastrophic consequences of a real war, are the United States and Israel.”

The war hawks also suffer from delusions of Israeli righteousness and moral superiority.

*Correction: instead of “Khomeini”, this should read “Khamenei”. Though the words would equally apply to Khomeini too.

Aside from the usual suspects seeking to fuel war, some noises for war do appear to be emanating from the White House itself.

However, this and other such bellicose statements seemingly from Trump’s social media accounts should be read as typical online bluster by Trump, in an attempt to bring Iran back to the negotiating table. These are not policy positions but public negotiating plays.

President Trump will not be joining Netanyahu’s war, and the remainder of this Radical Dispatch will highlight why.

3) Netanyahu Demands American Support But Trump is Not ‘Israel First’:

The reality is that Netanyahu’s plan has been transparent all along.

Netanyahu’s desire to subvert peace with war has been seen by our colleagues at the highest levels of US national security.

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Broadcaster: “You have spent your life in intelligence. You were a briefer of President Trump on his daily brief..you didn't work for him, you weren't a political appointee, but you were a career…government employee, for a very long time working on issues of intelligence. So just on the intelligence part alone, Beth, what are you seeing that we're not seeing, when you hear about this operation?”

Beth Sanner, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence: “Well, it's really similar in many ways, I think, to Ukraine's spiderweb operation that we just saw a couple weeks ago, where you know, this was planned for, as Jamie was saying, for years. Some of it may be for months, but the Israelis were on the ground. They're on the ground now from what we can see on X. And they emplaced things there. They used automation. They used high tech. But they also used really just intense, intense human operations combined with this military power in order to blind the Israelis...the Iranians and take out their air defences. But I think that the other point that I really want to make here is that the timing of this, the fact that they were planning this for years, and the fact that Netanyahu saw potentially the window closing with a potential U.S. deal meant that he needed to pull the trigger, or throw this operation away. And so when he talks about a preemptive attack, I actually think he was preempting our negotiated solution as much as he was anything the Iranians were doing.”

Not only is Netanyahu’s plan failing, and will fail, but also he had specifically been warned against proceeding with it, by President Trump himself.

Journalist: “Did you warn Prime Minister Netanyahu against taking some sort of actions that could disrupt the talks there in a phone call last week?”

President Trump: “Well, I'd like to be honest. Yes, I did. Next question, please. I did. Senate Republicans want to push... It's not a warning. I said, I don't think it's appropriate.”

Journalist: “What exactly did you tell him?”

President Trump: “I just said, I don't think it's appropriate. We're having very good discussions with him. And I said, I don't think it's appropriate right now. Because if we can settle it with a very strong document, very strong, with inspections and no trust. I don't trust anybody. I don't trust anybody. So no trust. I want it very strong where we can go in with inspectors. We can take whatever we want. We can blow up whatever we want, but nobody getting killed. We can blow up a lab, but nobody's going to be in the lab as opposed to everybody being in the lab and blowing it up, right? Two ways of doing it. Yeah, I told him this would be inappropriate to do right now because we're very close to a solution. Now, that could change at any moment. Could change with a phone call. But right now, I think they want to make a deal. And if we can make a deal, save a lot of lives.”

Now that Netanyahu has launched his long-planned attack, he has been disappointed by being unable to force America to come to his aid while Iranian reciprocal attacks rain in on Tel Aviv.

Axios reports 14th June 2025:

Netanyahu’s entire plan rested on being able to declare success, but without American support there is no way he is able to do that.

How long can Israel hold out? Netanyahu’s trap seems to have been sprung on himself.

Times of Israel reports 15th June 2025:

The ongoing US posture has been to ease tensions, rather than escalate.

Primarily, the US is rightfully concerned that what would unfold after the removal of the Ayatollah’s could be far worse than what they currently contain.

And though Trump has been careful to maintain his unpredictable public image by rightly refusing to be drawn in on his plans.

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Journalist: “Please answer questions about whether you are moving closer, or you believe the US is moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities. Where's your mindset on that?”

President Trump: “I can't say that, right? You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that question. Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component? And what time exactly, Sir? Sir, would you strike it? Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch? I mean, you don't know that I'm gonna even do it. You don't know. I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm gonna do. I can tell you this, that Iran's got a lot of trouble. And they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you negotiate? I said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine. You would have had a country. It's very sad to watch this...”

It is already very clear that under Trump the US will not be joining the war. As a result, the definition of victory will eventually have to become: ‘getting Iran back to the negotiating table after they’ve agreed to no nuclear weapons’, which is where they were already before Netanyahu launched this war and sought to scupper matters.

In fact, Trump has publicly stated that his aim is to strike a deal, which after talking to Putin he still thinks is possible.

ABC reports 15th June 2025:

“President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States is not involved in Israel's military strikes against Iran, but ‘it's possible we could get involved.’…In an interview with ABC News' Rachel Scott, Trump declined to comment on whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a personal plea for the U.S. to get more involved. ‘We're not involved in it. It's possible we could get involved. But we are not at this moment involved,’ the president said. Trump also shared that he had a lengthy call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday to discuss, in large part, the conflict in the Middle East. The president told ABC News he would be ‘open’ to Putin's idea to serve as a mediator between Iran and Israel. ‘I would be open to it. [Putin] is ready. He called me about it. We had a long talk about it. We talked about this more than his situation. This is something I believe is going to get resolved,’ Trump stated.”

Let’s not forget that this is the same Trump who built his base campaigning to expose the WMD lie that was used by President GW Bush and his neo-conservatives to invade Iraq. Trump is well aware of this dirty game.

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Israeli PM Netanyahu: “..Saddam is seeking and is working and is advancing towards the development of nuclear weapons. No question whatsoever.”

President Trump: “They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none, and they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.”

Israeli PM Netanyahu: “No question whatsoever.”

President Trump: “Look, bottom line, there were no weapons of mass destruction. They said there are weapons of mass destruction.”

Israeli PM Netanyahu: “If you take out Saddam, I guarantee that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.”

President Trump: “Going into Iraq may have been the worst decision anybody has made, any president has made in the history of this country. That's how bad it is, okay?..We should have never been in Iraq.”

Israeli PM Netanyahu: “I guarantee you, no question whatsoever.”

Trump knows that the only way forward is to end all the wars, and to eventually cut a deal.

He has restated this intention repeatedly since Israel started these attacks.

President Trump: “Well, I hope there's going to be a deal. I think it's time for a deal, and we'll see what happens. But sometimes they have to fight it out, but we're going to see what happens. I think there's a good chance there'll be a deal.”

This is the same Trump who has made it a hallmark policy of his second term to specifically avoid ‘foreign interventionism’ and any new wars abroad, as per his keynote speech in Saudi Arabia only last month.

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President Trump in Saudi Arabia: “And it's crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come from Western interventionalists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop. Kabul, Baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies your own way. It's really incredible what you've done. In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.”

This core Trump administration policy has not changed. Much of what is said outside of this core Trump policy position - such as in his social media posts - is simply said in the fog of war, as a negotiating tactic. Reading between the lines clearly allows for a divergence in US and Israeli stances. This has been clear even from the beginning of this month.

Yes Trump has long been opposed to weapons-grade Uranium enrichment by Iran, that’s no secret, but he believes he can achieve this aim without resorting to war.

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President Trump: “He said I was going back home to make a ceasefire. Not a ceasefire. We're long beyond ceasefire. And I said, why do you say that? Why would you say ceasefire? It's a bad term to use. Because a ceasefire means like everything's going swimmingly. We'll take a little time off. It's not. We're not looking for a ceasefire. We're looking for a total, complete victory. Again, you know what the victory is. No nuclear weapon. So I thought it was a very badly worded statement by him. And obviously I let him know that.”

That’s fine. But ‘no nuclear weapon’ is not Netanyahu’s’ aim. Netanyahu’s aim is all-out war and regime change. Trump will achieve his aim. Netanyahu will not.

4) Netanyahu Overplayed His Hand:

Sitting alongside MAGA stalwart Steve Bannon, and as one of the most influential MAGA news hosts, Tucker Carlson has gone so far as to declare that if Trump were to join Netanyahu’s war, it would end his presidency.

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Tucker Carlson: “I actually really love Trump. He's a deeply humane, kind person. And I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my country is going to be further weakened by this. I think we're going to see the end of American empire, obviously. Other nations would like to see that. And this is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end, I believe, Trump's presidency and effectively end it. And so that's why I'm saying this.”

Using such language against Israeli interests has hitherto been unprecedented for mainstream right wing US pundits. The rules of the game have changed. This time, against war.

Carlson and Bannon have been joined by another mainstream MAGA voice, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) who put out a powerful anti-war missive.

Representative Greene recently appeared on former Representative Matt Gaetz’s show via OAN to make the same point.

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Matt Gaetz: “You have been a voice of reason and America First policy. Tell us how you see this conflict between Israel and Iran.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Green: “Matt, I see it just as you do, and you laid that out so well. That's the America First message, but it's also the truth that the American people have woken up to. We've watched for decades propaganda news. I'll call out Fox News and the New York Post. They're known to be the neocon network news. We have propaganda news on our side, just like the left does. And the American people have been brainwashed into believing that America has to engage in these foreign wars in order for us to survive. And it's absolutely not true. Prime Minister Netanyahu said, I saw on video, he said today that America first is America dead. And that sounds like a threat to me. And I completely completely disagree with him on that. In order for America to not be dead, it's to stay America first. And this is what the American people want. It is not anti-Semitic to say that we do not want to go to war against Iran or any other country. That is not anti-Semitic at all. It's actually rational, it's sane, and it's loving to people all over the world. A Middle Eastern war will pull America back 20 years, just like you showed in your intro for your show. It's exactly the lies that we were told after 9/11, and many people know it's not true. So I'm completely opposed to this war. Of course, we don't want to see the people in Israel bombed, but they're only being bombed because Israel attacked Iran first. And that's the truth that we need to be talking about. And Matt, I want to add on one more thing that I think is incredibly important because Fox News and all these other news stations are not talking about it. Last week on Thursday, they held a vote in the Knesset and Netanyahu only won by two votes because the polling is showing that if an election was held today, he would lose. What he's doing is not popular among the people in Israel. They are tired of war. They are so devastated after October 7th, but they are tired of war. And that vote happened last Thursday. And then Friday, Israel attacked Iran. That's why the bombs are falling. And it seems very political. And you and I have seen those types of things before.”

Bannon, Carlson and Greene carry the MAGA case with them. The few war hawks around trump, such as Secretary of State Rubio do not - and have never - carried the base.

It is as we have been saying, Netanyahu increasingly stands isolated, having overplayed his hand.

Radical Media reports 21st May 2025:

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