Iran – Once Upon a Time …….
Peter Koenig –
Once upon a time, there were…. honest people, ethical people, and humane people – populating the world, some of them even in the West. Today these attributes are largely gone.
Nowadays, Once Upon a Time, remains just the beginning of many fairy tales. What we are living these days, and are ever faster advancing in, is a real-time fairy tale of evil, as a Cult driven by Zionism, worldwide, so confusing, aided by Artificial Intelligence (AI), that we do no longer know what is real and what is false.
The world, especially the western world, is run by a Dark Cult, that must tell us what they are up to, to be successful in their diabolical endeavors for humanity. Lately, almost every movie coming out of Hollywood, being part of the Dark Cult, is what is called predictive planning. At present several such movies are on western screens. Two of them are “La Grazia” de Paolo Sorrentino, and “The Drama”, by Kristoffer Borgli.
The first one depicts an aging, Catholic President of Italy in his final six months, as he faces moral dilemmas: Signing a euthanasia law and granting pardons to two murderers, and the second one, a seemingly perfect couple whose relationship unravels just before their wedding when the bride confesses, she once planned – but did not execute – a school shooting in her youth.
Are we to expect in the near future more legalized euthanasia killings and more school shootings?
Stories to distract from reality abound. The war in Iran is such a story. For sure any wise President would not have gone to war with Iran – Iran, with an independent financial system, BRICS member, part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a 90 million-people-power on its own, with support from mighty Eastern countries.
International and national laws are thrown overboard like rotten cabbage. The United Nations has become a meaningless, powerless vassal organization, swallowing billions, if not trillions, of worldwide tax-payers money – bowing to the “mighty” West, or Zionist-controlled United States. Why? – Because of the political pressure – if not blackmail – sweetened by the money power of the worthless, backed-by-nothing, US-Dollar.
Trump, wisdom notwithstanding, made believe, he did not want to go to war with Iran. His high-level military and political advisers warned him. Even Marco Rubio said going to war with Iran was one of the worst decisions. He then softened the blow, because after all, he is (still) one of Trump’s favored advisors on foreign affairs, and the one that is with fervor and absolute conviction behind the “Donroe Plan”- i.e., Monroe Doctrine 2.0, dominating, again, the South American backyard.
Everything is so confusing and yet, so connected, and so clearly laid out before our nose. Yet, we are unable to see the obvious.
Trump was very likely blackmailed by Netanyahu, when his “friend” Bibi showed up with the Epstein files at Mar-a-Lago for Trump’s extravagant, billionaire-style 2026 New Year’s Party. The Name Trump appears apparently more than 3,000 times in the files. And who knows in what connection. Trump must know to accept such a “blackmail” deal, from which he hardly can get out again.
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In the meantime, the war rages on, non-stop, despite a ceasefire declared by the US and Iran.
Just before the ceasefire, the US President in rage, wrote on his Truth Social: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the fucking strait, crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
This sounds like a dying beast, lashing around itself, killing and pulling with it in its grave as many people and countries as possible – but the beast’s demise is imminent.
Close to Trump’s extended deadline for Iran to act on opening the Strait of Hormuz until 6 April 2026, a Pakistan brokered two-week ceasefire was proposed – and accepted by President Trump. On the surface one might interpret his as a US strategy to get out of this Zionist-Israeli instigated war.
On 8 April 2026, an US-Iran agreed two-week ceasefire was declared, despite Iran’s in other times for Trump unacceptable conditions. During this truce, “negotiations” – or call it “regroupings” – were to take place. On 9 April, less than 24 hours after the declared ceasefire, Israel, with the pretext not having been consulted and not agreeing to the temporary cessation of hostilities, broke it by mass bombarding Lebanon, especially southern Lebanon, and Beirut. Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) say it was the most intensive assault on Lebanon in the past few years. The destruction of culture and history is horrendous, and the death count is still ongoing.
Iran has publicly stated that Israeli strikes in Lebanon, constitute a blatant violation of the ceasefire, even though those strikes were not in Iranian territory. On the other hand, the US and Israel maintain that they did not break the ceasefire, because the agreement only covered direct US–Iran and Israel–Iran fighting, not Israel’s actions in Lebanon.
Who is right, and who is wrong? – To the public at large it is confusing a best.
Is this real, or is it part of a deadly game, where the actors are everywhere, and you and me, are spectators and actors at once, as we allow it to happen, with Aw, or even with a nod. No interference, no thinking, other than watching and lock-stepping along, like zombies.
Further war escalation is already in the making, with Iranian retaliations potentially disastrous not only for Israel and the surrounding Gulf countries’ US bases, energy- and water desalination installations, but for the entire world. Clearly, Iran may now again close the Hormuz Strait, plus, likely, the narrow waterway that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, between Yemen and Djibouti, the Bab‑el‑Mandeb Strait. With Yemen a close ally of Iran, closing of this narrow water way is the next logical step.
What that would mean for the world economy, we can but speculate. Economists speak of a recession worse than that of 1928 into the 1930s. Such a situation of skyrocketing inflation due to exorbitant fuel and energy prices, unemployment, may bring extreme poverty, dispossessions of properties, homelessness, despair, and death. At the same time, such conditions may be seeds for widespread civil wars.
Again, is this part of a Big Game, were the Big and Powerful Actors work together towards the endgame of a massively reduced population and a One World Order, a One World Government, a One World Health System, a digital One Currency Economy – and total control of every remaining citizen, dulled by 5G and 6G electromagnetic waves (EMW) into an obedient zombie state?
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Pause for reflection. Who might also be interested in this war, in all the wars, especially in the Middle East / Western Asia, and who might be behind the Epstein files? – Epstein having been a Mossad agent, and who says Mossad, says also MI6 and CIA.
Could it be the City of London, an enclave in the UK, not belonging to London, nor to the UK, like the Vatican in Rome – in fact they are “sister cities”? – The City of London is run officially by Free Masonry, in reality by Ashkenazi Zionists – nameless, of course – those who designed the Federal Reserve as the mother of the Ponzi scheme we are living today… with a dominating dollar that is “commanded” by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in Basle, Switzerland, the very private bank that never really was meant to “settle” the German war debt after WWI, but to finance via the FED (yes, the privately-owned FED), also called the US Central Bank, Hitler’s WWII against the then Soviet Union.
Today, this also City of London-controlled BIS is called the Central Bank of all Central Banks, as it surveys the monetary policies of more than 90% of central banks around the globe, including China and Russia, but NOT Iran; and controls about 97% of all the tradable currencies floating around the world, of which more than 60% are in US-Dollars, or US-Dollar denominated assets.
It is true, the US dollar has been weakened during the past two decades or so, as OPEC has started trading hydrocarbons in other currencies than the US dollar, Iran too, and so did Venezuela. This means overall, the demand for and importance of the dollar as reserve and trading currency is falling rapidly and needs to be restored, to keep the world’s largest Ponzi-scheme ever alive as long as possible, as the riches of the City of London depend largely on the dollar – which, after all the City of London created.
See the connection?
Of course, this is all sheer speculation. No evidence, only circumstantial suspicion.
President Trump has already managed “convincing” Venezuela’s new “temporary” leadership into trading their petrol and gas again in US dollars – and if the Trump Administration manages getting Iran to do so – and out of fear the Saudis still in charge of OPEC, think about doing so too – then the dollar may most likely regain in value and at least recover part of its strength. That is supposedly the intention.
Human trader and child-abuser Epstein, his after-life legacy, is doing many behind-the-scene rulers, including the City of London, a great favor. Isn’t it hilarious how everything connects?
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Regardless of how the conflict between the United States and Iran formally concludes, its symbolism is already unmistakable. Iran, an ancient civilization, since about 530 BC, a remarkable continuity, has never ceased to exist as a unified political entity. One of the oldest continuous states in human history, has emerged as the final obstacle to the project of Zionist-American global dominance.
The Zionist-controlled United States, is among the youngest major nations – barely 250 years old – her history is ten times shorter than that of Persia. That alone tells us something about the direction in which the world is moving (RT – 8 April 2026).
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.