I don’t see how. They’re the ones with the most to lose. This seems like an easy bluff to call. Iran is calling it. The question is–why aren’t others?

and a huge gestapo-like bureaucracy created at home.

fine legacy for our “security” for years to come.

and you “progressives” were active enablers of this, with your lies and disinformation.

not a word about any of that in your article.

The above quote does NOT exist in the Hersh piece. You invented it. This is the snippet in the piece containing discussion of “high value targets”:

“Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed.”

Thus, it’s clear that the “high value targets” refers to cross-border pursuit of persons thought to be responsible for attacking the US military, etc. IN IRAQ, and NOT to assassination of selected Iranian officials as is suggested in YOUR wording. And, I’m sure that your wording is not accidental, it’s par for the course for the “progressives” to use any means necessary, including lying, disinformation, distortion to “prove” your points and get “points” from your base — it’s all about fame and fortune and truth be damned.

And this is why we have this malignant administration and why we’ll never have change in this country. because people like you subvert the truth to your own ends. you could care less about change and about iran and about this world, it’s all cynically arranged to suit you.

First off, Persia was UNIFIED in 625 BC, but its constituent parts date from much earlier. Secondly, Iran (Persia) has been colonized (occupied) SEVERAL times in its history: by Alexander the Great in 333 BC (reunification of Persia didn’t occur for 700 years after that defeat); it was part of the Arab Umayyad Caliphate for almost 200 years until 822AD. In the 1200s AD, there were repeated conquests by Genghis Khan and other Mongols and Turco-Mongols. Maybe Iran was never “colonized” in the “modern” era, though half of it was taken by Russia and Britain in 18-19th centuries and all of it was occupied in WW2 .

So, murky play with facts.

The Israeli and the United States Governments, both with powerful nuclear arsenals and self-righteous pretensions to have the right to attack anyone anywhere over perceived threats to “National Security”, have made it clear that they want to attack Iran on the grounds that Iran is a serious nuclear and regional threat.

Iran has never even invaded anybody in its entire modern history, its supreme leader continues to issues Fatwas against the use of nuclear weapons, and the IAEA has yet to find any evidence of a viable nuclear weapons program. On top of that, America’s own intelligence agencies recently said as much too, that there is no evidence of an active nuclear weapons program.

Meanwhile, American people continue leading their ‘American Dream’ lives while being led to their own destruction along a road paved with celebrity trivialities and banal stories of nothingness that passes for news in their country. Never has it been more true the age old saying, “For those who do not learn history they are doomed to repeat it.”