A New Middle East "Made In Iran" Is About To Be Born

Ed.'s note: Strategic imperative: Iran's participation in China's B&RI. By assassinating Iran's Major General Qasem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), this will expedite America out of the region which is the long term strategic plan. It's likely this "tactical" killing was designed to further force America out of the Middle East opening the region further for Israel, Russian, Iranian and Chinese cooperation. And it is likely at the highest levels of diplomacy between these countries they are all in on the strategic efforts for China's B&RI with Israel at the center to build the technological infrastructure. The short term tactical chess moves (the "great game") we're seeing are terribly confusing, but if the larger strategic view is taken, we can see this is all related to the expansion of Israel's greater interests (see "Reclaiming the Narrative: How to Combat Israel's Misuse of 'Antisemitism'" on how Israel defuses criticism of its long term strategic plans) in the region including cooperation with Iran.

News update for 9 January 2019: Brendon O'Connell- Iran-Israel Conflict is a Charade

News update for 8 January 2019: Trump, at Israel's Request, Assassinated the General Most Responsible for Destroying ISIS
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Source: ELIJAH J. MAGNIER

09/01/2020 | by Elijah J Magnier

It would be inaccurate to say the US will leave the Middle East. However, it is certain that the assassination of one single man – the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani – is diminishing US influence significantly. This could not have happened without the (in) direct help of US President Donald Trump.

Trump is doing everything possible to undermine and degrade US hegemony in the world. He doesn't need any help in this endeavour, but his advisors and cabinet members share his talent for mismanaging foreign policy and national security affairs. With this bad advice US relations around the world, and particularly in the Middle East, have been run as if by a businessman, used to negotiating and intimidating with little subtlety and altogether lacking diplomatic skills.

Every time Iran needs help, President Trump rushes headlong to boost its image in the world, particularly among the "Axis of the Resistance" and above all in relation to China and Russia. These two countries will now only strengthen their relationship with Iran, the country that has effectively and publicly challenged the strongest country in the world.

Targeting a base with thousands of officers and soldiers from hundreds of kilometres away and deliberately avoiding human casualties shows incredible self-confidence in Iran's manufacture of their own missiles. Iran has shown the strength and technical ability to bomb the most powerful US base in Iraq with precision missiles and has now twice shown mercy by not killing US servicemen.

The first time was in June 2019 when Iran declined to down a US spy plane carrying 38-officers that had violated Iranian space during the "Tanker's war". The second time was yesterday when Iran deliberately chose not to bomb human targets at the Ayn al-Assad base hosting in Iraq, home to thousands of US, British, Canadian, Norwegian, Belgian and Dutch officers. Iran used precision missiles to hit specific military objectives avoiding human casualties, by contrast with Trump's decision to assassinate an Iraqi commander (Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes) and an Iranian general and diplomat on a mission of peace (Sardar Qassem Soleimani).

The Iranian hit on the Ayn al-Assad military base exposed the weakness of the most sophisticated radar and interception missiles in the US arsenal. President Trump has long bragged about these tools like the "best in the world". But the US defence system at the Iraqi-US base in al-Anbar (west of Iraq) was incapable of intercepting one of the 13 ballistic missiles launched. The consequences of this single act are devastating both to the US armament industry and to US foreign policy in the Middle East.

This strike has shown US allies in the region that the hundreds of billions of dollars they have invested in US weapons are an insufficient defence against Iran. These countries now recognize they have no real deterrence against an Iranian attack. This realisation will push the traditional enemies of Iran in the Middle East to bypass their differences and take the road to Tehran to regain good ties with the "Islamic Republic". It should not be excluded that many countries would be tempted to buy Iranian precision missiles that must be much cheaper than the expensive US manufactured ones.

President Trump also sent a wrong signal when he announced: "The US doesn't need Middle Eastern oil". This statement has been taken by many Middle Eastern leaders as indicating the US government's lack of appetite to defend their interests since many of these regimes base their yearly budget on oil income.

Please go to ELIJAH J. MAGNIER to read the entire article.
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This is the end of the American empire:

America, An Empire on its Last Leg: To be Kicked Out from the Middle East?

Short "intermission" of sorts with a few (apparently needed) explanations

IRAN: Soleimani Was Pompeo's Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Axis Of Resistance Sas How It Will Avenge Qassem Soleimani

Secret intelligence & 'highly likelys': How media created narrative around Tehran jet crash to blame Iran, Russia and Trump


A good read on this entire mess related to Iran, Israel and Israel7s proxy state America:

Clausewitz, Trump and Soleimani


US military canon fodder is really what this article is saying:

America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History


Who really shot down the Boeing Ukrainian Flight 752 aircraft in Iran? There were six nuclear scientists aboard that aircraft.

NEW INFO: PLANE LIKELY DOWNED BY ISRAEL OR U.S. AFTER ALL, WITH STEALTH LAUNCHED AIR TO AIR MISSILE