Iran’s Grand Plan to End U.S. Presence in the Middle East

[Stalin]

The war that began on February 28 can realistically be deemed to be the formal opening of World War III because what is at issue are the terms on which the entire world will be able to buy oil and gas. Can they buy this energy from exporters in currencies other than the dollar, headed by Russia and Iran (and until recently, Venezuela)? Will the present U.S. demand to control of the international oil trade require oil-exporting countries to price it in dollars, and indeed to recycle their export earnings and national savings into investments in U.S. government securities, bonds and stocks?


That recycling of petrodollars has been the basis of America’s financialization and weaponization of the world’s oil trade, and its imperial strategy of isolating countries that resist adherence to the U.S. ruler-based order (no real rules, but simply U.S. ad hoc demands). So what is at issue is not only the U.S. military presence in the Middle East – along with its two proxy armies, Israel and ISIS/al Qaeda jihadists. And the U.S. and Israeli pretense that it is about Iran having atomic weapons of mass destruction is as fictitious an accusation as that levied against Iraq in 2003. What is at issue is ending the Middle East’s economic alliances with the United States and whether its oil-export earnings will continue to be accumulated in dollars as the buttress of the U.S. balance of payments to help pay for its military bases throughout the world.


Iran has announced that it will fight until it achieves three aims to prevent future wars. First and foremost, the United States must withdraw from al its military bases in the Middle East. Iran already has destroyed the backbone of radar warning systems and anti-aircraft and missile defense sites in Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, preventing them from guiding U.S. or Israeli missile attacks or attacking Iran. Arab countries have bases or U.S. installations will be bombed if they are not abandoned.


The next two Iranian demands seem to far-reaching that they seem unthinkable to the West. Arab OPEC countries must end their close economic ties to the United States, starting with the U.S. data centers operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. And they not only must stop pricing their oil and gas in U.S. dollars, but disinvest in their existing petrodollars holdings of the U.S. investments that have been subsidizing the U.S. balance of payments since the 1974 agreements that made to gain U.S. permission to quadruple their oil-export prices.

more at https://michael-hudson.com/2026/03/irans-challenge-rewire-the-region/

comrade stalin
moscow

 

[mark francis]

The war that began on February 28 can realistically be deemed to be the formal opening of World War III because what is at issue are the terms on which the entire world will be able to buy oil and gas. Can they buy this energy from exporters in currencies other than the dollar, headed by Russia and Iran (and until recently, Venezuela)? Will the present U.S. demand to control of the international oil trade require oil-exporting countries to price it in dollars, and indeed to recycle their export earnings and national savings into investments in U.S. government securities, bonds and stocks?


That recycling of petrodollars has been the basis of America’s financialization and weaponization of the world’s oil trade, and its imperial strategy of isolating countries that resist adherence to the U.S. ruler-based order (no real rules, but simply U.S. ad hoc demands). So what is at issue is not only the U.S. military presence in the Middle East – along with its two proxy armies, Israel and ISIS/al Qaeda jihadists. And the U.S. and Israeli pretense that it is about Iran having atomic weapons of mass destruction is as fictitious an accusation as that levied against Iraq in 2003. What is at issue is ending the Middle East’s economic alliances with the United States and whether its oil-export earnings will continue to be accumulated in dollars as the buttress of the U.S. balance of payments to help pay for its military bases throughout the world.


Iran has announced that it will fight until it achieves three aims to prevent future wars. First and foremost, the United States must withdraw from al its military bases in the Middle East. Iran already has destroyed the backbone of radar warning systems and anti-aircraft and missile defense sites in Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, preventing them from guiding U.S. or Israeli missile attacks or attacking Iran. Arab countries have bases or U.S. installations will be bombed if they are not abandoned.


The next two Iranian demands seem to far-reaching that they seem unthinkable to the West. Arab OPEC countries must end their close economic ties to the United States, starting with the U.S. data centers operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. And they not only must stop pricing their oil and gas in U.S. dollars, but disinvest in their existing petrodollars holdings of the U.S. investments that have been subsidizing the U.S. balance of payments since the 1974 agreements that made to gain U.S. permission to quadruple their oil-export prices.

more at https://michael-hudson.com/2026/03/irans-challenge-rewire-the-region/

comrade stalin
moscow

Good people settled the war against Hitler in WW2, and it will likely take good people to settle the war against tribal barbarian Muslim savages in WW3.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

Good people settled the war against Hitler in WW2, and it will likely take good people to settle the war against tribal barbarian Muslim savages in WW3.

Shitshizpants and Kegsbreath are barbarian savages. The world will be a better place when they are enjoying dirt bath.

 

[mark francis]

Shitshizpants and Kegsbreath are barbarian savages. The world will be a better place when they are enjoying dirt bath.

Biden's vision of a progressive military leader:



Traditional American image of respectable military leadership:

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

The failure of this war will not be due to the ability of the US military. It will be the fault of Shitshizpants an his loathsome MAGA cult.

At some point, a truly responsible general simply should refuse to obey the wino in charge of the DOD, and tell Shitshizpants and Kegsbreat to go f*ck themselves. That is what a true patriot needs to do.

 

[mark francis]

The failure of this war will not be due to the ability of the US military. It will be the fault of Shitshizpants an his loathsome MAGA cult.

At some point, a truly responsible general simply should refuse to obey the wino in charge of the DOD, and tell Shitshizpants and Kegsbreat to go f*ck themselves. That is what a true patriot needs to do.

Democrats: Where have all their military leaders gone now that we need them?

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

This stupid war has resulted in the destruction of Israel, and it is so bad that all reports of how bad are censored.

Netanyahu's genocide against the Gazans is being repaid.

And no, Jesus ain't a-comin'.
Not now, not ever.

 

[Phoenix68]

Good people settled the war against Hitler in WW2, and it will likely take good people to settle the war against tribal barbarian Muslim savages in WW3.

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I'd say your people have already done enough damage.
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VICTIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
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The White-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities
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[mark francis]

This stupid war has resulted in the destruction of Israel, and it is so bad that all reports of how bad are censored.

Netanyahu's genocide against the Gazans is being repaid.

And no, Jesus ain't a-comin'.
Not now, not ever.

Muslims and Arabs have been trying to annihilate all Jews since before they joined forces with Hitler in WW2 for the same purpose.

 

[Stalin]

Let me introduce you to a new word..

pogrom

Significant pogroms in the Russian Empire included the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom (1881), Kishinev pogrom (1903), Kiev pogrom (1905), and Białystok pogrom (1906). After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, several pogroms occurred amidst the power struggles in Eastern Europe, including the Lwów pogrom (1918) and Kiev pogroms (1919).The most significant pogrom which occurred in Nazi Germany was the 1938 Kristallnacht. At least 91 Jews were killed, a further thirty thousand arrested and subsequently incarcerated in concentration camps, Notorious pogroms of World War II included the 1941 Farhud in Iraq, the July 1941 Iași pogrom in Romania – in which over 13,200 Jews were killed – as well as the Jedwabne pogrom in German-occupied Poland. Post-World War II pogroms included the 1945 Tripoli pogrom, the 1946 Kielce pogrom, the 1947 Aleppo pogrom, and the 1955 Istanbul pogrom.

This type of violence has also occurred to other ethnic and religious minorities. Examples include the 1984 Sikh massacre in which 3,000 Sikhs were killed and the 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Indian Muslims

christians have killed far more jews than muslims

your assertions are bogus

the crusaders expelled the jews from jerusalem..saladin let them back in

comrade stalin
moscow

 

[Phoenix68]

Let me introduce you to a new word..

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No, thanks
Your current copy / paste tsunamis are overbearing, enough.
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[Phoenix68]

Muslims and Arabs have been trying to annihilate all Jews since before they joined forces with Hitler in WW2 for the same purpose.

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Oh, gee....another White-wing "absolute"....void of any-and-all verifiable facts; aka a fuckin' lie.
Congratulations.
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[Gabriel_Bell]

Muslims and Arabs have been trying to annihilate all Jews since before they joined forces with Hitler in WW2 for the same purpose.

They opposed being run of the land where they had lived for many generations. There was never any plan to annihilate Jews, just to prevent them from taking over the land where they had lived for generations. Christian Palestinians also opposed the Zionists. Zionism is colonialism.

 

[Phoenix68]

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"The Middle East, the home of ancient civilizations and holy lands — and war. The crises of the Middle East seem to defy understanding or solution.
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The history of the region does suggest answers, however. In the Middle East, politics and the incessant drumbeat of war, ultimately have everything to do with a substance more valuable than gold: Oil.

The modern problems in the region result not from ancient hostilities but from the actions of modern governments on behalf of big business. To understand what’s going on in the Middle East today, we need to go back only a hundred years.
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A century ago, the map looked much different. There was no Iraq, no Jordan, no Israel, no Lebanon. The Ottoman Empire, stretching from the Balkans to North Africa, enveloped much of the region."

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"The British government had promised the same country to two nations.
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At the war’s end, private interests hopeful of exploiting the region’s oil urged their governments to ignore war-time promises to Arab leaders. A variety of small, divided Arab states would be much easier to maneuver into oil deals than a large, independent Arab republic.
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The new states needed boundaries."

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[mark francis]

They opposed being run of the land where they had lived for many generations. There was never any plan to annihilate Jews, just to prevent them from taking over the land where they had lived for generations. Christian Palestinians also opposed the Zionists. Zionism is colonialism.

The nation of Israel has owned land in Palestine for thousands of years. The nation of Palestine has existed for only a few decades and have been trying to steal Jewish lands the whole time.