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Backs Iran over Trump, against US allies Israel, Saudi Arabia

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Pro

• Iran  
• Pompeo’s ‘Blame Iran First’ Propaganda siding with Iran over US
• Averting a Disastrous War with Iran  dumbest, most reckless, illegal acts in the history of U.S. foreign policy.
• Trump Is Responsible “Maximum pressure” is what has brought us to the verge of Iran war
• Ronald Unz (was head before he was fired) 
• Russia  
• American Trade Sanctions Start to Bite getting tough on Russia and Iran are hurting trade.

Anti 

• Saudi Arabia  Pompeo Shamefully Covers for the Saudis Again
• Trump Is Responsible “Maximum pressure” is what has brought us to the verge of Iran war

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Pompeo’s ‘Blame Iran First’ Propaganda | The American Conservative is on iran side?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/pompeos-blame-iran-first-propaganda/

Daniel Larison

Among the many other misleading and questionable claims Pompeo made earlier this week when he gave a statement about the recent tanker attacks, the Secretary of State absurdly accused Iran of being behind an attack against U.S. forces in Kabul that had been claimed by the Taliban:

The secretary’s vague allegation of Iranian involvement in the Kabul attack surprised regional experts and a former U.S. diplomat, who said it would be unusual for Iran to launch an attack inside the Afghan capital. When asked to clarify the accusation that Iran was somehow linked to the attack in Kabul, the State Department declined to comment.

 administration’s credibility is in the toilet because of false and ridiculous accusations like this one. The false claim that Iran was behind the attack in Kabul is of a piece with the administration’s propaganda efforts to tie Iran to anything and everything that goes wrong in the wider region. If Yemenis are starving because of U.S.-backed Saudi coalition bombing, blockade, and economic war, Pompeo will say that Iran is responsible for it. If there is a random rocket attack in Iraq, Pompeo automatically blames Iran. If the Houthis launch an attack inside Saudi Arabia as part of the ongoing war on Yemen that has been raging for four years, Pompeo treats this as an attack from Iran when the simpler story of Yemeni retaliation makes much more sense. Now we’re supposed to believe that the Taliban is just Iran’s cat’s paw when our forces have been fighting the Taliban for almost 18 years straight. The administration is looking for any excuse to escalate tensions, and they will use any incident anywhere in the region and try to shoehorn it into their anti-Iranian narrative.

Pompeo has also been trying very hard to tie Iran to Al Qaeda in order to provide a pretext for using the 2001 AUMF to apply to military action against Iran.