The U.S.-Israel war on Iran, sold as “liberation,” aims to force unconditional submission and fragment the country. With Trump distracted and Netanyahu emboldened, 90 million Iranians face potential civil war—not freedom.
On Saturday, as President Donald Trump announced that the United States had launched a major attack on Iran, the Israeli military declared that the joint US-Israeli attack had targeted “dozens of military targets” in Iran.
Trump said the operation was intended to devastate Iran’s military, eliminate its nuclear programme and bring about a change in its government.
Meanwhile, massive explosions were reported in Tehran, while residents said they were seeing smoke rising from districts believed to house senior Iranian officials.
As the world wakes up to this news and sits at the receiving end of multiple propaganda outlets trying to spin the news in one way or another, here are the four militant factors at work with the fate of more than 90 million human beings at stake.
A vicious aggression
The first factor is the unleashed power of the US military with Trump, an unhinged commander-in-chief eager and willing to distract attention from his domestic (Epstein files), regional (adventurism in Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland) and global (China and Russia) fiascos.
He habitually lied when he staged a false negotiation with the Iranians to buy time to have enough military buildup to strike Iran effectively.
In the US, this is a widely unpopular war waged on Iran. The singular task of the corporate media, led by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, is now to sell this war as “preemptive”.
They will fool no one.
The second factor is the Islamic Republic itself, which faced nationwide protests in December and early January rooted in the deep economic crisis Iran has experienced for decades.
These economic troubles are due to two complementary factors: internal state corruption and incompetence, and crippling external sanctions imposed by the US.
At stake, however, is the fragile and vulnerable lives of 90 million human beings trapped inside their own homeland.
A devastating battlefield of civil war and ethnic fragmentation of the country is in the offing. The Gulf region and beyond are now the theatre of this vicious and senseless aggression.
Israel: the killing machine
The third factor is Israel, the most lethal killing machine in the region, fresh from its merciless slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians, military strikes against Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran back in June 2025.
Israel has multiple interests in this latest round of its relentless warmongering: distract attention from the global condemnation of its genocide and crimes against humanity in Palestine, and expand its garrison state to gobble up the entirety of Palestine and parts of Lebanon and Syria and perhaps farther.
The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has just given it the green light to conquer the entire Middle East.
Equally important on Israel’s agenda is the fragmentation of Iran into ethnic enclaves.
Israel will not be satisfied with the total fragmentation and destruction of Iran. Turkey and Pakistan are also on its targeted radar.
The fourth factor is the delusional fascism of the remnant of the Pahlavi dynasty and their thugs and comprador intellectuals, led by Reza Pahlavi, who dream of reclaiming power almost half a century after Iranians put an end to their corrupt rule.
The Pahlavis have little to no popular base of their own in Iran. Their fascistic thuggeries and their alliance with Israeli murderous warmongering are their signature trademarks on this battlefield.
These four forces will now dominate the news and seek to persuade the world that theirs is the just cause.
Enslaving Iranians
They will all be lying to the world through their teeth. The New York Times and the BBC will be the mouthpiece of the US, Israel and their European allies.
The wild terrains of the internet will now become the battlefield of the Pahlavi bots and trolls.
Not a single word coming out of any of these propaganda machineries will be trustworthy.
The world’s attention must be focused on the lives and survival of 90 million human beings, the inheritors of a vast civilisation now at the mercy of a cruel and unrelenting fate.
The US-Israel war on Iran is not to liberate Iranians from their rulers. It is to entrap and slave them into unconditional submission to their colonial and imperial conquest of the entire region.
The Pahlavis are willing and vulgar puppets, helping them achieve this nefarious end.
The attack aims to cause civil war in Iran on the model of Syria and Libya, with millions forced to flee their country and the entire map of Iranian culture and civilisation wiped from the face of the earth.
Trump does not have the stamina for a prolonged war. Israel has a much longer game to play to achieve its nightmare of Greater Israel.
Disregard the propaganda noise coming at you from left and right. Focus your attention on the 90 million-plus human beings trapped inside a web of deceit, unleashed violence and murderous mayhem.
May the goodwill of the decent people around the globe protect Iran and Iranians.