Israel Bombs Iran for Middle East “Stability”

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM, 16 Jun 2025

Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service

13 Jun 2025 – Israel began bombing Iran today. In addition to the nuclear and military facilities, Israel bombed the homes of the Iranian military officials and nuclear and military experts. Israel says that it will continue the bombings for many days. It is likely a strategy to weaken Iran’s military power by repeatedly bombing and destroying military personnel and facilities.

2. Iran has not developed nuclear weapons, and is only being falsely accused by the United States, Europe, and Israel. Iran’s nuclear facilities are for civilian purposes, such as producing medical isotopes. Therefore, they are nuclear facilities, not nuclear facilities. The main target of Israel’s air strikes is Iran’s military assets, and the air strikes on nuclear facilities are part of a false accusation drama that is merely symbolic. (The Iranian nuclear issue continues to be distorted/歪曲続くイラン核問題）[IAEA chief acknowledges Iran has no nuclear weapons, says will visit Tehran in coming weeks] [Maps show where Israel attacked Iran, sites of Iranian nuclear program]
3. Israel continued pinpoint bombing Lebanon in November and December last year, killing most of the leaders of the powerful Iranian Shiite militia Hezbollah and destroying much of its arsenal. Hezbollah was destroyed, and Lebanon changed from an anti-Israel to a neutral (pro-American) country. The Israeli attack on Iran this time seems to have the same purpose as the attack on Hezbollah. (Trump makes peace with Iran/イランと和解するトランプ)
4. Israel destroyed Hezbollah last year, but it is unlikely to destroy Iran this time. The Trump administration of the United States is trying to make peace with Iran by concluding a nuclear agreement. Israel did not bomb to interfere with Trump and Iran’s reconciliation. Before Iran is forgiven by the United States, the sanctions will be lifted, and it returns to being a strong country, Israel intends to destroy Iran’s military assets with air strikes to weaken it, so that even if Iran becomes strong, it will not stand up to Israel. That is the purpose of the air strikes this time. (Trump Will Allow Iran To Enrich Uranium In ‘Acceptable’ Nuke Deal Proposal）
5. Iran is likely to retaliate against Israel within the next few days. “Iran and Israel will repeatedly launch retaliatory attacks on each other, and the Middle East will turn into a major war…” Such a scenario is often discussed, but it is probably not true. Iran and Israel have repeatedly launched retaliatory attacks on each other since last year, but each time, the attacks have tapered off, in the opposite direction to a major war or mutual destruction. (Cold Peace Between Iran and Israel/イランとイスラエルの冷たい和平）
6. Since the summer of 2023, when Trump’s reelection was virtually certain, Israel has freely borrowed US intelligence and rapidly strengthened its hegemony and military power in the Middle East. Israel has used that power to launch the Gaza War to eliminate Palestine and to destroy Iran and its affiliated forces. (Hezbollah in Lebanon and Assad in Syria). (The new Syrian government is an Israeli puppet./シリア新政権はイスラエルの傀儡）
7. Israel has bombed Iran many times, but Iran has been left to its own devices to a certain extent. The rise of Israel is part of the multipolarization of the world order (the dismantling of US hegemony), and Russia, China, the US, and Saudi Arabia all acknowledge this. It will not work if Iran alone refuses or resists. That is why, since last year, even when Iran attacks it, it only retaliates to a minimum extent to maintain the dignity and face of the nation, and has tolerated Israel’s tyranny to a large extent. (Hezbollah and Iran lose/ヒズボラやイランの負け）
8. At the end of last year, the Syrian Assad regime, which was under Iran’s control, was overthrown by the Israeli puppet Al-Qaeda-affiliated group HTS, but far from taking revenge on Israel, Iran is approaching the new Syrian regime of Israeli puppet HTS (Sha’a’a). Iran is tacitly accepting Israel’s expansion of hegemony in the Middle East. In that sense, it is predicted that Iran will only retaliate perfunctorily this time as well (although it may be exaggerated and reported as a great counterattack). （Iran struggling for relevance in post-Assad Syria）
9. If Iran was serious about opposing Israel, it would have stepped up its support before its affiliates Hezbollah and Assad were crushed, leading to a major Middle East war (and the Iranian regime would have collapsed). Iran did not choose that path, instead choosing to live in a new Middle East system in which Israel’s hegemony expands and the hegemony of the United States and Europe declines in return. （The Taliban Is Back In The International Spotlight）
10. If Iran accepts Israel’s expansion of Middle East hegemony and is a “good boy,” Trump will lift the sanctions against Iran. Iran will be allowed to act freely in the international community and will be able to rise again in a multipolar world. Relations with Israel will also be stable with a cold peace. Recently, the Taliban government in Afghanistan has been increasing its intimacy with China, Russia, and India, and Iran is also involved in this movement. This symbolizes the rise of Iran. Iran is becoming one of the regional hegemons in the Middle East, along with Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. As the preliminary step, Israel intends to bomb Iran to weaken it so that it is not too strong for Israel, and Trump will lift the sanctions against Iran. （Another one bites the dust: Iran hawks disappearing from admin）
11. It is often speculated that “Trump opposed the bombing of Iran, but Netanyahu overruled the opposition and carried out the bombing on his own. The relationship between the US and Israel has deteriorated.” However, this conjecture is also wrong. Trump (secretly) promotes the multipolarization of the world order, so he does not try to control the Middle East, but supports Israel’s expansion of Middle East hegemony purely (for Israel, not for the US). The Middle East no longer belongs to the US (or the UK or France), but to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey (or Iran). Israel can do as it pleases. Trump is a multipolar person (i.e. hegemony renouncer), so he thinks as such. （The Vance Doctrine）
12. The US military will continue to be stationed in Syria. Some people may say that this is evidence that Trump is clinging to Middle East hegemony. However, that is not the case. Trump will keep US troops in Syria (halving the number of troops to 1,000) at the request of the Syrian HTS Sha’aa regime (a puppet of Israel). Trump himself wants to withdraw his troops from Syria, but he will keep them there because it is Israel’s wish. He will be allowed to withdraw them after a few years when Syria stabilizes. Trump will fulfill the wishes of Israel, which has become one of the hegemonic powers in the Middle East because he is a promoter of the multipolarization of the world order, as mentioned above. （Saudi Arabia Urges Iran to Reach Nuclear Deal With US or Risk Israeli Attack）
13. In order to stabilize the Middle East in its own way, Israel bombed Iran, massacred and starved hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza, and destroyed Assad and Hezbollah. If Israel was willing, it could overthrow the governments of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, but it has decided not to go that far (for now). Saudi Arabia’s dictatorial crown prince MbS, for example, doesn’t want to be overthrown like Assad, so he speaks his support for Palestine only in words and condones Israel’s massacres in Gaza. （Huckabee slams French push for Palestinian state: ‘Carve it out of the French Riviera’）
14. There is the argument, “If Israel overthrows and massacres the enemy forces as much as Israel wants, the situation will be ‘stabilized.’” However, “That’s wrong,” say the “citizens” of Europe, America, and Japan (somehow).  It is certainly “wrong” to ignore human rights (according to the traditional values ​​of liberal British hegemony). But that is the world of the future. The “citizens” can only sulk, like Greta Thunberg (under the umbrella of British intelligence) who was stopped by Israel when she tried to go to Gaza by boat and forcibly deported. Without even acknowledging the fraudulent theory of human-made causes, they quietly leave the issue of global warming, scream that Israel, the massacre perpetrator, is outrageous, and sulk because things aren’t going well.   [Greta Thunberg Intercepted on Aid Boat as Israel Deports Activists]

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Original author: After graduating from university, Sakai Tanaka started working at the Kyodo News  Agency in 1986. From 1997 he joined Microsoft Network (MSN) and in 1999, due to change of policy at Microsoft, he became an independent journalist. Tanaka has published more than twenty books on international affairs, some translated and published in China, South Korea and Taiwan. He studied at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001 and in 2005 was invited to serve as a senior researcher at the Royal Faisal Institute in Saudi Arabia. Website: tanakanews.com

Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. Having worked as researcher, development program/project officer, legal protection/humanitarian assistance officer, human rights monitor-negotiator, managing-editor, and more, he prefers a peaceful and prudent life.  His previous work experiences, including those in war zones and war-torn zones, constantly remind him of the invaluableness of peace.

Translation: Satoshi Ashikaga – Google Translate

Original in Japanese: 中東安定のためにイスラエルがイランを空爆

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