March 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—On March 25, as news of the potential deployment was beginning to circulate on social media. Dennis Kucinich posted an article warning Trump against going to war with Iran. “The Trump Administration, after the series of heady airstrikes against Yemen, is at this moment being beseeched by Netanyahu and his associates to prepare for a seemingly consequence-free nuclear strike against Iran, completing the trifecta of Netanyahu’s long-standing dream,” he writes.
Kucinich recounts a 2002 Congressional hearing, during which Netanyahu exhorted the U.S. to attack Iran, Iraq and Libya. “I spoke to Mr. Netanyahu outside the hearing room and asked him that, if he was so convinced those countries were a threat, why didn’t Israel commence the attacks?” ‘Oh no,’ he responded. ‘We need you to do it,’” he reports.
Kucinich continues: “Recently, President Trump said he would love a deal to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, ‘I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them.’ At the same time, U.S. B-52 bombers, capable of delivering nuclear bunker-busting bombs, were engaged in joint exercises with the Israeli Air Force, in preparation for a potential strike at Iran’s underground nuclear sites.
“These joint maneuvers were reminiscent of the cooperation and interoperability exercises that took place between the U.K. and French forces in preparation for a real-world offensive against Libya in 2011.
“Ayatollah Khamenei replied ‘…threats will get them (the Americans) nowhere,’ and refused talks under such conditions as ‘deceptive.’ Iranian Brigadier General Kiumars Heidari added, for emphasis, ‘Iran is ready to crush its enemies if it makes mistakes.’”
“The dialectic of conflict is escalating.
“It was not in America’s interest then, nor is it now, to go to war with Iran, a nation of 90 million people, a technologically advanced society, with nearly a million-person army.
“President Trump should not be misled. War with Iran would be the end of his presidency.” Kucinich then warns the resultant disruption of the oil markets would translate into $7-$10 a gallon gasoline at the pumps in the U.S., causing mass economic dislocation and financial shocks.
“Now contemplate this concatenation: War with Iran, reciprocal high tariffs, massive cuts in the federal workforce and domestic federal spending and you have an economy in a tailspin, with high inflation, rising unemployment, falling consumer spending, leading to an economic contraction requiring a system of government intervention which is currently being dismantled. Then there is the permanent restructuring of the tax code to accelerate wealth upwards. These conditions create political combustibility.
“In the end, Iran will never crush Donald Trump. The U.S. will crush itself trying to wipe out Iran.”
“The economic effects of war with Iran could spell the end, not only of the viability of the Trump Presidency, but of the Republican House and Senate, a political turnaround the likes of which has not been seen in American politics since the 1932 sweep led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal,” Kucinich adds—though without noting that there is no FDR-like figure in the Democratic Party today.
Kucinich concludes hopefully: “One could imagine Trump, considering his own and America’s interests, could call Netanyahu and say, ‘Bibi, we are friends ‘til the end. This is the end.’”
