Deceptions Employed to Justify War Against Iraq Reemerge as Argument for Conflict with Iran
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Former CIA operative Larry Johnson chimed in:
The New Nuclear Threat
This tactic was employed back in 2002/2003 to stir up justification for an attack on Iraq, which the U.S. insisted had weapons of mass destruction. We now know it was a lie
We're seeing a similar approach today, only this time Iran is being falsely accused of enriching uranium to build a bomb. The Iraq WMD lie, similar to the current smear campaign against Iran, serves one purpose... justify military action in order to achieve regime change.
I've previously shown the current IAEA operation aimed at pinning Iran over some alleged nuclear contamination that was discovered more than two decades ago.
During the build-up to the 2003 war on Iraq, there was another lie that infamously served to 'justify' the attack.
It was alleged that Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein was in league with al-Qaeda, [the infamous al-CIA-da] terrorist group that originated in Pakistan to combat the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda was accused of committing attacks in the U.S. on 9/11 2001. [9/11 was a controlled demolition, with no planes actually used. The planes were CGI] Associating Iraq, which had clashed with al-Qaeda-inspired groups, with al-Qaeda itself was the second most popular lie used to justify the U.S. war on Iraq.
It's no surprise then that a similar narrative is now suddenly being constructed with respect to Iran.
David Ignatius, the unofficial CIA mouthpiece at the Washington Post, was told to publish the following [nonsense] (archived):
Who could these "former U.S. counterterrorism officials" be? Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, or other notorious liars?
Saif al-Adel, supposedly the never-acknowledged leader of Al-Qaeda, has been rumored to be in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Iran since 2001. He was even once said to have been under house arrest and later exchanged for Iranian hostages held by al-Qaeda in Yemen.
For over two decades, Shia Iran has combated the Sunni al-Qaeda wherever it could. Its operations against Sunni extremist groups in Iraq and Syria were largely wars against al-Qaeda-affiliated forces. In Yemen, Iran is allied with the Houthis who are fighting against U.S.-supported al-Qaeda-aligned groups in the south of the country. A similar situation exists in Lebanon where Iran-supported Hizbullah forces have been at odds with al-Qaeda-aligned radicals for years.
To claim that Iran is now somehow in cahoots with Saif al-Adel, an alleged but never-acknowledged leader of an allegedly more or less defunct al-Qaeda, borders on lunacy.
David Ignatius is a well-read 'opinion leader'. That he was told to peddle these nonsensical claims is a sign for others to pick up on them.
Now we can anticipate lots of other second-rate opinion writers to come up with similar tales.
It's like the attempt to associate Iran with weapons of mass destruction, a narrative that will be utilized to further escalate the current regime change war on Iran.
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Original Article: https://www.thelowdown.info/2025/06/15/lies-used-to-justify-war-on-iraq-get-reused-to-wage-war-on-iran/
- The recent accusations against Iran of enriching uranium to build a bomb seem to follow a pattern similar to the justification for the war on Iraq, where articles, politics, war-and-conflicts, and general news were used to spin a narrative.
- The ongoing IAEA operation and the smear campaign against Iran in various news outlets, including articles, politics, and general news, serve one purpose: to justify military action in order to achieve regime change, as seen in the case of Iraq.
