The ongoing conflict in Syria has always been a proxy conflict aimed at Iran,
as well as nearby Russia, and more distant China. As far back as 2007, two-time
Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh warned in his 9-page New Yorker report "The
Redirection Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the
war on terrorism?," that a region-wide sectarian war was being engineered by
the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel - all of whom were working in concert even in
2007, to build the foundation of a sectarian militant army.
The report would cite various serving and former US officials who warned that
the extremists the West was backing were "preparing for cataclysmic
conflict."
In retrospect, considering the emergence of the so-called
"Islamic State" (ISIS), Hersh's warning has turned out to be prophetic. The
destabilization of Syria and Lebanon were noted in particular as prerequisites
for a coming war with Iran. Confirming this would be the lengthy policy treatise
published by the Brookings Institution in 2009 titled, "Which Path to
Persia?"
In it, it is openly discussed that regime change for the purpose
of establishing regional hegemony is the only goal of the United States and its
regional partners, with attempts to frame the conflict with Iran as an issue of
"national security" and "global stability" serving as mere
canards.
Throughout the document, US policymakers admit that negotiations
with Iran over its nuclear program are merely one of several pretexts being used
to foster political subversion from within and justify war from beyond Iran's
borders.
More importantly, Brookings details explicitly how the US will
wage war on Iran, through Israel, in order to maintain plausible deniability. It
states specifically under a chapter titled, "Allowing
or Encouraging an Israeli Military Strike," that:
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