{"id":123011,"date":"2019-05-22T17:19:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123011"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:19:04","slug":"nsa-bolton-conspires-with-israel-to-trigger-war-with-iran-based-on-false-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123011","title":{"rendered":"NSA Bolton Conspires With Israel to Trigger War with Iran Based on False Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do Iranian \u2018Threats\u2019 Signal Organized U.S.-Israel Subterfuge?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The intel they’ve provided is thin, the origins murky and suspect—haven’t we heard this story before?<\/h3>\n

By GARETH PORTER
\nThe American Conservative<\/p>\n

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U.S. National Security Advisor, Ambassador John Bolton meets The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu for dinner at the Prime Minister\u2019s Residence, in Jerusalem, August 2018. (U.S. Embassy\/public domain)<\/p><\/div>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s national security team has been leaking \u201cintelligence\u201d about Iranian threats for a week now in an attempt to justify escalating tensions, including moving American air attack assets to the Persian Gulf. But a closer look suggests that National Security Advisor John Bolton and other senior officials are trying to pull off an intelligence deception comparable to the fraudulent pretense for war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also credible evidence that Israel could be playing a key role in this subterfuge.<\/p>\n

This deception has served to defend not only a U.S. military buildup in the region, but an expansion of the possible contingencies that could be used to justify military confrontation. In Bolton\u2019s White House\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0on May 5, he said the deployment of assets to the Gulf would \u201csend a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.\u201d<\/p>\n

But public claims by the White House about Iran don\u2019t reflect \u201cintelligence\u201d in any technical sense of the word. No one has cited a single piece of hard evidence that justifies these claims of threats, let alone any that are \u201cnew,\u201d as press leaks have suggested. All of them appear to be deliberate and gross distortions of actual facts. Thus do they parallel the\u00a0infamous aluminum tubes<\/a>\u00a0of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, which were presented as proof of an incipient Iraqi nuclear weapons program, despite the fact that technical analysis had shown that they couldn\u2019t have been used for that purpose.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on May 15 that Pentagon and intelligence officials had cited three \u201cIranian actions\u201d that had supposedly \u201ctriggered alarms\u201d:<\/p>\n