‘FT’: Iran obsession suggests ‘western policy is driven by Israel’

The other day I asked why David Sanger of the New York Times is so focused on Iranian nuclear program and not North Korean nukes. The Financial Times raises the same question. Gideon Rachman:

Yet it is Iran’s non-existent nukes that continue to obsess the west. Diplomats have spent so long trying to stop Iran that I get the impression they no longer even ask themselves why it is such a high priority. Press them, and you will get explanations about the dangers of a Middle Eastern arms race and Iran’s regional ambitions.

Interestingly, few seem to take seriously the idea that Israel often evokes – that Iran might actually commit nuclear genocide.

Western concerns are valid. But, in themselves, they do not seem compelling enough to explain the desperate focus on Iran. The main reason the Iranian dossier is so urgent seems to be the fear that Israel will soon attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, provoking a wider war. American and European diplomats are reluctant to put it quite that directly, since this carries the uncomfortable implication that western policy is driven by Israel. But when people say “time is running out” over Iran, it is the prospect of an Israeli attack they are usually thinking about. 

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these “journalists” need to drop the pretense – they are educated and know full-well that the whole Iran gambit is about israel’s regional power – once again with the blood and treasure of the U.S. as the mechanism – israel allows its own citizens and businesses to continue to trade with Iran! … yet the international sanctions preclude others from such trade as a means to “punish” Iran … that is the money part of it … the whole situation is a farce – any respectable journalistic organization would publish a map with the multitude of U.S. and other Western bases that encircle Iran which show clearly the country is safely contained

European attitude is lead by a strange mixture of State submission and people ignorance. I mean, people don’t even know what’s up, as it happened for Iraq, politicians sell cheap their souls, minds and stuff. As a rule.

One shouldn’t be a genius, anyway, to understand. By the way I don’t think it’s a matter of nukes, it takes just a glimpse at the map.
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Clinton just added China and Singapore to the list of countries with the waiver on oil imports exempting them from sanctions and cutting their banks off from the US banking system, 20 countries in all now including India, Iran now has most of its biggest customers still on board, not that China with its billion and a quarter population would allow its vital energy and foreign policy be dictated to by 7 million Israelis, through the US congress, the sanctions will fail, what then?

It is ridiculous beyond reason, this intense focus on Iran by the US, which has a history of attacking Iran in various ways and who’s military bases and navy surround Iranian borders while US drones fly in or very near Iranian space and US cyberattacks on Iran continue, while draconian economic sanctions are held against the Iranian people, the Iranian central bank to be targeted directly tomorrow.