War Drums Sound in London for Israeli Breakaway Ally Attack on Iran

April 20, 2010h (LPAC)—The British are waging a full-scale propaganda offensive on behalf of an Israeli breakaway ally attack on Iran, sometime soon. While the U.S. military continues to sound warnings against an Israeli or American military strike on Iran's so-called nuclear weapons program, the Rupert Murdoch media apparatus is on an all-out drive to create the conditions for just such strikes. In a series of editorials today, Murdoch's Times of London pushed for hard sanctions against Iran, including a total embargo on refined petroleum imports, an embargo that would completely devastate the conditions of life for the majority of Iranians. In a second editorial, the Times peddled the already widely discredited claim that Syria was smuggling Scud missiles into Hezbollah in Lebanon. "In a message, sent earlier this month, Israel made it clear that it now regards Hezbollah as a division of the Syrian army and that reprisals against Syria will be fast and devastating," the Times editorialized from Tel Aviv.

In the face of this all-out British war propaganda offensive, reminiscent of exactly the kind of yellow journalism that preceeded the U.S. and U.K. invasion of Iraq, JCS Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, over the weekend, spoke at Columbia University and voiced opposition to a near-term attack on Iran, warning that the two things that would totally destabilize the region would be an Iranian nuclear bomb and a military attack against Iran. Mullen warned against "unintended consequences" of such an attack, but Lyndon LaRouche responded by asking, "Why unintended? They are intended. Only someone who is frightened would say it is unintended. He knows they are intended, but Obama doesn't want anyone around him who tells the truth. Obama would be very angry if anyone told the truth."

Sources in the Persian Gulf confirm that there is widespread expectation of a new war before the end of the summer. Elaborate preparations are underway throughout the GCC countries, for damage control on such an Israeli strike on Iran, regardless or not of whether the United States steps in to bail out Israel once again. Among the preparations: accelerated construction of oil ports on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia to avoid the Straits of Hormuz choke-point, which would likely be shut by Iran in the event of an attack; other provisions for getting excess Saudi oil temporarily onto the world market, including pipeline routes out of the region through the U.A.E.; and Saudi crash efforts to complete a major hospital in Bahrain, in expectation of heavy casualties.