Sir Richard Dearlove, the former Chief of MI6, who cooked both the intelligence to justify the murderous Iraq War in 2003 and to sink or get control of Donald Trump’s first administration, took to the British airwaves this past Sunday, June 15, to insist that the West must back Israel’s war against Iran—whose “ultimate aim,” he declared bluntly, is regime change, “to get rid of the Iranian regime.”
“Let’s be blunt,” he told GB News, “the disappearance of the Iranian regime would be strongly in our national interest.” His interview with LBC the same day was more elaborate, delivered with the Satanic steeliness characteristic of British intelligence.
This war was “inevitable … a crisis which has reached its head” after 20-25 years building towards it, Sir Richard told his host. He “predicts” an Israeli military victory (eventually); called regime change “a possible, credible outcome”; and declared that it “is in the interest of the European countries to see the Iranian regime disappear.” No friend of Trump’s, he asserted that while Trump may appear to be sitting on the fence, he has made his backing for Israel clear, and if Iranian proxies do attack an American base, the Israelis will be happy for American involvement. “We’re teetering on the brink of this happening,” he forecast.
Just how deeply is Sir Richard involved in preparing this war—and trapping the United States in it?
In a March 21, 2025 interview with the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle, he gleefully defended last year’s Mossad “pagers” assassination operation against Hezbollah, and slyly hints his own role in guiding Israeli terrorist operations. “The Iranian alliance to destabilize the Middle East and to reach out into more distant areas, has been very, very seriously disrupted and taken down,” he asserted, calling Israel’s booby-trapped pagers operation to kill Hezbollah leaders a “pretty remarkable achievement and very cleverly conceived,” he told Jewish Chronicle.
