Iran and its people are at one of the most critical junctures in their history since the revolution in 1979 overthrew the US’s most powerful puppet in the region.

Its problems are many. Foreign involvement and over-reach in Iraq and Syria.  The country has been under sanctions for nearly 40 years. Yet the current sanctions are the most crippling which the country has faced, not just on Iran, but others who trade with them to isolate it.  They are having a devastating effect on the people including the medical sanctions.

Then there are the protests in Lebanon, Iraq, and even inside Iran. Whilst there are genuine expressions of people’s frustrations, there is no doubt they are being incited, organized by outside powers.

Having weakened Iran, the US wanted to create the grounds for attacks which it hoped would have led to the people of Iran turning against the regime. This is what was in the pipeline last week. It may still happen.

Yet all of this was predictable.  In early 2002, I wrote a paper outlining the strategy of the so-called US  “War on Terror”, both in terms of global policies and wars. In it I produced a map of those movements and countries that would be targeted.  So far each one has been correct.  The last country listed to be targeted and its government changed, in my paper was Iran. There have been other movements which emerged such as during the Arab spring which were not foreseen, which have also been quashed for the time being.

The War on Terror is actually a war to maintain the existing  world order and status quo, including that in the Muslim world. The war on terror is no more than an attempt to squash any independent political expression in the Muslim world. Whether it be a movement or a state, regardless of sect or national ethnic origins.

States are not just destroyed by wars, but also by politics. The US did the same to the Soviet Union and Communism, and has tried to apply more or less the same strategy to the Muslim world.

It will fail because Islam is not a Godless Communism.