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Michael Hudson’s opinion of the empire’s perfidity.

The Ayatollah was killed while leading a meeting to discuss Iran’s agreement to cede its enriched uranium stock

My interpretation is that according to the report by the Omani referee, Iran had agreed to much more stringent restrictions on enriched uranium than the earlier pact had called for.
The Ayatollah called his fellow religious leaders to discuss how much Iran could give up in order to prevent war by ceding control of its enriched uranium.
The U.S. military saw that here was a great chance to kill many of the leading decision makers all together was killed while leading a meeting to discuss the terms of Iran’s agreement.
Any such agreement was precisely what the US and Israel could not accept, because peace would have prevented their plans to consolidate and weaponize their control over Middle Eastern oil, its transportation and the investment of its oil export revenues.
This truly is perfidy that will go down in history. The U.S. attack was to preventIranian moves to peace, and enable Trump to continue his false claim that Iran had refused to give up its desire to have its own atom bomb.
In sum, the attack showed that there was nothing that Iran could concede that would be accepted to the long-standing U.S. drive to control Middle Eastern oil, and to use Israel and ISIS/Al Qaeda as its two allied client armies there. Both parties, like the Iranian Nazis, were driven by ethnic and religious hatred of their designated enemies.
It will be interesting to see how many of Trump’s associates made big bets that oil prices would soar when markets open on Monday. U.S. oil companies will make a killing. China and other oil importers will suffer. U.S. financial speculators also will make a killing off their suffering to the extent that it is reflected in their stock and bond market and exchange rates.
Will Congress and the financial regulators investigate? The markets were not expecting war – and in fact were vastly underestimating its risks on Friday.
For the rest of the world, the financial crisis (to say nothing of the moral outrage) will define the next decade of international political and economic restructuring.

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Seems like an accurate assessment to me.

Posted by: Lantern Dude | Mar 1 2026 15:24 utc | 198

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‘Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away’ — Rep Thomas Massie

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This is obviously a big part of why this is happening.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 1 2026 15:19 utc | 193

BREAKING: Yesterday, the U.S. reached out to Iran through Italy, suggestingna ceasefire; Tehran ‘rejected the idea outright’ – Yedioth Ahronoth MES

BREAKING:

🇮🇷🇦🇪 Iran has started striking oil rigs

An Iranian Shahed-136 drone targeted an Emirati oil rig in the Persian Gulf pic.twitter.com/dAwD37tOKq

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) March 1, 2026

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US, ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN, START REGIONAL WAR; IRAN RETALIATES AGAINST ISRAEL, US BASES IN BAHRAIN, SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR. UPDATE: ISRAEL TV REPORTS IRAN BLOCKS STRAIT OF HORMUZ